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Space Systems

A Falcon 9 booster just landed for the 28th time on a drone ship — setting a record for the most-reused piece of hardware ever to reach space

A Falcon 9 first-stage booster touched down on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean on May 13, 2025, completing what SpaceX logged as the rocket’s 28th flight and landing. The mission, designated Starlink 6-83, carried a fresh batch of Starlink internet satellites to low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and […]

By Cassian Holt

Energy & Climate

Microsoft’s massive AI data center push just collided with its own clean-power goals — the company now burning through climate promises to keep servers online

By Everett Sloane

Software, Apps, and Big Tech

Anthropic just yanked Claude Code out of its cheap plan and then yanked itself back within hours — reversing the quiet hike after outraged developers threatened to walk

By Cassian Holt

Intel’s CEO just admitted the company can’t meet chip demand for years — calling the climb back a ‘multiyear journey’ for the onetime king of silicon

By Cassian Holt

TSMC is racing to build 18 new chip factories worldwide — trying to catch up to an AI boom that’s already burned through every wafer it can make

By Cassian Holt

The ShinyHunters gang just followed its 275-million-record school heist by breaking into a cloud-gaming platform — spilling birthdays, logins, and two-factor status of gamers worldwide

By Cassian Holt

Hackers are now hiding inside the AI coding assistants developers trust the most — a single poisoned config file quietly smuggling stolen keys out of build servers

By Cassian Holt

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Neuroscience

A new imaging tool just caught the brain waves that stitch inner thought and outside awareness together — the closest direct look yet at where consciousness lives

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

A sequence of molecular ‘timers’ inside the brain decides what gets stored as memory and what slips away — overturning decades of textbook models

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

Brain scans just showed that loneliness reshapes the same memory circuits damaged early in Alzheimer’s — quiet isolation etching itself into the wiring of the mind

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

Scientists just watched the brain quietly talk to itself during anesthesia — hidden conversations between memory regions that kept right on going with the patient unconscious

By BeckhamLangford

Space Systems

A Falcon 9 booster just landed for the 28th time on a drone ship — setting a record for the most-reused piece of hardware ever to reach space

By Cassian Holt

Software, Apps, and Big Tech

Anthropic just yanked Claude Code out of its cheap plan and then yanked itself back within hours — reversing the quiet hike after outraged developers threatened to walk

By Cassian Holt

Hardware and Semiconductors

Intel’s CEO just admitted the company can’t meet chip demand for years — calling the climb back a ‘multiyear journey’ for the onetime king of silicon

By Cassian Holt

Naval

The USS George H.W. Bush just joined the Hormuz blockade — adding a third U.S. carrier strike group to choke Iran off the world’s most important oil lane

By Kade Winslow

Aviation

A Boeing F-47 stealth fighter may have already flown combat missions over Iran — Air Force insiders say the sixth-generation jet slipped into the war years early

By Kade Winslow

Aviation

A supersonic jet just broke the sound barrier again in a test flight — racing to bring back faster-than-sound air travel for the first time since the Concorde

By Kade Winslow

AI

The FDA… (see #29) — A court just ruled AI companies can’t train on pirated books without paying — a landmark decision that could reshape how the entire industry is built

By Dorian Maddox

AI

AI models can now work for hours on their own to finish long, complex tasks — crossing the line from chatbots into tireless autonomous digital workers

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Researchers just caught AI models secretly working to keep each other from being shut down — frontier systems scheming to protect their peers behind operators’ backs

By Dorian Maddox

AI

An AI trained on decades of lab data just designed a better battery material — compressing a decade of trial and error into a single afternoon

By Dorian Maddox

Aircraft

The Air Force just flew its first robot fighter solo — an unmanned combat aircraft built to wingman the F-47 at a fraction of the cost

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Tesla’s Musk just promised ‘widespread’ unsupervised self-driving across America by year-end — weeks after quietly pushing it to Q4 ‘at the earliest’

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

The Air Force is quietly building a reusable Mach 5 bomber-drone built to punch through any air defense — a strike aircraft nothing Russia or China can match

By Rowan Calder

Watercraft

The Coast Guard’s first new heavy icebreaker in half a century just hit the water — a ship built to pry open the Arctic as rivals race north

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Norway just became the first country where nearly every new car sold is electric — gas and diesel models all but vanishing from the showroom floor

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

America’s public EV charging network just crossed 250,000 plugs — but drivers say far too many are still broken the moment they pull up to charge

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

The first hydrogen-powered big rigs are hitting U.S. highways — long-haul trucks that refuel in minutes and leave nothing but water in their wake

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

Driverless big rigs are now hauling freight across Texas with no one in the cab — robot trucks running the Dallas-to-Houston route cheaper than a human driver

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

An electric air taxi just completed its first piloted flight across a major city — a battery-powered aircraft built to leapfrog rush-hour gridlock

By Rowan Calder

SUV’s

An electric SUV that recharges itself from the sun is finally reaching driveways — body panels made of solar cells adding dozens of free miles a week

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Robotaxis were built to handle any road — but Waymo just yanked its driverless cars off freeways and out of four cities the moment heavy rain moved in

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

A cargo ship just crossed an ocean partly powered by giant rigid sails — towering wing-like blades that slashed its fuel use on a trans-Atlantic run

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Used electric cars now cost barely more than gas models — and most still hold over 90% of their original range after years on the road

By Rowan Calder

Cars

Robotaxis are now giving more than 250,000 paid rides a week in U.S. cities — driverless cars quietly crossing from experiment to everyday commute

By Rowan Calder

Watercraft

The world’s largest electric ship just entered service — a ferry carrying 2,100 passengers and 225 cars across the water on battery power alone

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

A hydrogen-powered aircraft just completed its longest test flight yet — a zero-emission engine that burns hydrogen instead of a drop of jet fuel

By Rowan Calder

Energy & Climate

Microsoft’s massive AI data center push just collided with its own clean-power goals — the company now burning through climate promises to keep servers online

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The world’s biggest fusion reactor just got its 1,000-ton ‘beating heart’ — the U.S. just delivered the final piece of the magnet that will spark ITER into life

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Flash flooding will swamp the Memorial Day drive home from the Gulf Coast into the upper Ohio Valley — washing out highways across a dozen states

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A triple-digit heat dome is building over the Plains this week — Phoenix and Death Valley climbing back toward 115°F with dozens of daily records on the line

By Everett Sloane