Iran slowly reconnects to the global internet
Iran’s government has decided the nation should reconnect to the global internet. In the days after the USA and Israel […]
Month: May 2026
NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon
Within three years, NASA hopes to resume crewed Moon landings, but unlike their snapshot-happy, golfing Apollo predecessors, future Artemis astronauts […]
Anthropic cofounder hallucinates ghost in the machine after hearing the Pope speak about AI
OPINION In his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV warns against equating machine “intelligence” with human intelligence. “We must avoid […]
Alibaba gets Android 16 running on RISC-V
Alibaba’s research and development operation, DAMO Academy, has adapted Android 16 to run on its homebrew RISC-V silicon. A Monday […]
Cisco making SONiC available to all customers – not just hyperscalers
Cisco is close to allowing customers to run the SONiC network operating system on its flagship Nexus 9000 series datacenter […]
California may let Linux bypass age check
The kids are alright. Open source operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD may soon be exempt from California’s app and […]
Huawei’s chip law looks less like Moore and more like marketing
Huawei is touting a semiconductor advance – including something it calls the “Tau Scaling Law” as a successor to Moore’s […]
Starship shows it can deploy satellites, but Moon mission clock still ticks
SpaceX has successfully demonstrated that Starship will be just great at deploying Starlink satellites. But a return to the Moon […]
Microsoft wants safer C# without turning it into Rust
.NET product manager Richard Lander has written a lengthy post describing how the team intends to improve the memory safety […]
Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Blue Origin have revealed what went wrong on the third flight of New […]