The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida
…By all accounts, the rocket was viewed as a major success for a company which, for so long, had seemed to plod along. New Glenn’s success catapulted the company to the…
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Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines
…Citizen lawsuits “serve as an essential backstop—and often a last resort—for communities when government regulators fail to hold polluters accountable,” the SELC said. “The provision was passed by Congress with…
Chrome's 4GB AI model isn't new, but you're not wrong for being confused
…Google tells Ars Technica the flags that determine whether or not Gemini Nano is installed on your machine are multifaceted and include (but are not limited to) your computer’s hardware, account…
Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines
…for Missing and Exploited Children regarding possession of child sex abuse material in an online account” that was linked to Grok. Importantly, the cops noted that Grok generated the harmful images from…
Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic’s anti-surveillance stance
…According to Shihipar, the code “was meant to prevent account abuse from unauthorized resellers and protect against distillation.” Regarding the former, The Washington Post found unauthorized retailers have sold access to free…
Android is getting a big AI overhaul in 2026
…These widgets appear mostly to be about displaying data from your account or around the web. For example, Google says you might want a widget that recommends meal plans on a set…
The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS
…This is a small number, and it’s not all SteamOS (Valve’s OS isn’t broken out, but Arch, the base distribution for SteamOS, accounts for about 0.33 of that…
Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water, and nobody noticed for months
…without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed,” Politico reported. QTS eventually paid about $150,000 for the…
$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
…Although data centers account for only about 3 percent of the county’s land area, they generate “almost half of its property-tax revenue—a projected $1.3 billion in 2026,” The…
The Fitbit Air is a good wearable weighed down by a chatty AI "coach"
…It knew when to take my schedule changes into account for its analysis of my data and when to stop. It follows instructions very well, in AI prompting parlance. But do you…