In 2024, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of giant anaconda in South America. A National Geographic camera crew was on hand for the 2022 expedition that documented...
The oceans just keep getting hotter
Since 2018, a group of researchers from around the world has crunched the numbers on how much heat the world’s oceans are absorbing each year. In 2025, their measurements broke...
Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional.
Half the country has enacted age-verification laws to prevent minors from viewing porn. As age-verification laws continue to dismantle the adult industry—and determine the future of free speech on the...
SpaceX gets FCC permission to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites
T-Mobile is using Starlink in the US, and the satellite operator has partnerships with carriers overseas. With today’s FCC authorization, Starlink will be able to provide both fixed and mobile...
ESA considers righting the wrongs of Ariane 6 by turning it into a Franken-rocket
Bruno Le Maire, the former French finance minister, said in 2021 that the Ariane 6 was a “bad strategic choice.” More recently, in October of last year, the head of...
NASA orders “controlled medical evacuation” from the International Space Station
“The crew is highly trained, and they came to the aid of their colleague right away.” The International Space Station orbits 260 miles (420 kilometers) above the Earth. Credit: NASA...
Claude Codes
Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is so hot right now. The cool kids use it for everything. They definitely use it for coding, often letting it write all of their...
Measles continues raging in South Carolina; 99 new cases since Tuesday
The disease usually develops seven to 14 days after an exposure, but it can take up to 21 days (which is the length of quarantine). Once it develops, it’s marked...
Google: Don’t make “bite-sized” content for LLMs if you care about search rank
Signal in the noise Google only provides general SEO recommendations, leaving the Internet’s SEO experts to cast bones and read tea leaves to gauge how the search algorithm works. This...
Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS
The CCIA added that “the Piracy Shield raises a significant number of concerns which can inadvertently affect legitimate online services, primarily due to the potential for overblocking.” The letter said...
US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers
The three servicemen on the chopper were eventually charged in Sweet Grass County Court with trespassing. They all pleaded not guilty. This week, pilot Deni Draper changed his plea to...
Is Orion’s heat shield really safe? New NASA chief conducts final review on eve of flight.
“That level of openness and transparency is exactly what should be expected of NASA.” The Orion heat shield as seen after the Artemis I flight. Credit: NASA The Orion heat...
These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found
Poisoned arrows or darts have long been used by cultures all over the world for hunting or warfare. For example, there are recipes for poisoning projective weapons, and deploying them...
X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing
So far, US regulators have been quiet about Grok’s outputs, with the Justice Department generally promising to take all forms of CSAM seriously. On Friday, Democratic senators started shifting those...
Rocket Report: A new super-heavy launch site in California; 2025 year in review
SpaceX opened its 2026 launch campaign with a mission for the Italian government. A Chinese Long March 7 rocket carrying a cargo ship for China’s Tiangong space station soars into...
“Ungentrified” Craigslist may be the last real place on the Internet
People still use Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects. The writer and comedian Megan Koester got her first writing job, reviewing Internet pornography, from a...
General Motors writes down $6 billion as domestic EV sales plans change
Despite these costs, 2025 wasn’t a terrible year for the company. It managed to grow sales by 6 percent in the US, and in China, more than half of the...
Michigan man learns the hard way that “catch a cheater” spyware apps aren’t legal
Despite being repeatedly told that people were using his product to spy on others without their consent, Fleming helped them with tech support. A government investigator even opened up an...
Wi-Fi advocates get win from FCC with vote to allow higher-power devices
“This is important for Wi-Fi 7 as well as Wi-Fi 6,” Feld wrote today in response to the Carr plan. “But we need a real pipeline for more unlicensed spectrum....
High RAM prices mean record-setting profits for Samsung and other memory makers
Supply shortages and big price increases for RAM and storage have been a major drag for enthusiasts and PC builders in recent months. And while we haven’t yet seen large,...
