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No one has ever developed a fully reusable orbital heat shield When you return from orbital velocity, you come in like a flaming meteor. You are a raging ball of fire. It is incredibly difficult to bu

Once AI starts making solving open problems in novel ways it won’t stop. We are entering the final stage of human solutions to open problems like this. Feels weird, doesn’t it? Today, we share a break

One great thing about spaceflight is that the scenic route is often the fastest path to where you’re going. Also great to see the Psyche spacecraft healthy and enjoying its journey to the 16 Psyche as

Elon Musk states his vision to democratize space travel by enabling broader human access to the Moon and Mars, framing this accessibility as necessary to ensure the long-term survival and continuation

Release notes for Grok Build will be published daily Bug fixes shipping for Grok Build (release notes will be available in the TUI itself) - Copy only path on ReadTool block - Redirect stderr to /dev/

SpaceX's development of a fully reusable Starship vehicle could significantly reduce launch costs and enable the scale of space infrastructure necessary for humanity to achieve Type I Kardashev civili

Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos has begun placing commercial advertising on space launch rockets amid declining revenues and the loss of foreign partners. Since the beginning of 2026, rocke

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: S. “Soma” Somasegar, who led Microsoft's Developer Division for 12 years as part of his 27-year tenure at the company before leaving in 2015, has died at age 59 — S. “Soma” Som

Jemima McEvoy / The Information: Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest 2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE — OpenAI cofo

Reuters: Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union reach a preliminary pay deal; the union says it has suspended a general strike and put the deal to a vote — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised 60M led by Thrive Capital at a 1B valuation — Socket, a cybersecurity startup that sells technol

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. This week's

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as Friday; the company plans to be ready to go public as early as September — The artificial-intelligence g

Elon Musk posted on X praising SpaceX's Starship as a work of art, likely expressing appreciation for the vehicle's design, engineering, or aesthetic qualities. The statement reflects Musk's perspecti

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stable Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs — Stability AI, the co

Starship aesthetic is unparalleled 'Cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see' Starship v3 is truly wild > 200+ feet (just the upper stage ship itself) > 220,000 lb payload capacity to low eart

Starship Rising These vehicles are the first of many – made possible by the tireless effort of SpaceX engineers and technicians – and are designed to enable the core revolutionary capabilities of Star

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue.

That is the goal NEWS: Elon Musk laid out SpaceX's core mission in precise terms during his Forbes interview, describing the specific test he uses to define a genuinely self-sustaining civilization be

Elon Musk commented positively on an all-black paint finish applied to a base or foundation of an unspecified product or structure. The post suggests aesthetic appreciation for the sleek appearance cr

Utah may host one of the world's most colossal data centers, despite stark warnings from experts and fierce public backlash. Earlier this month, commissioners in Box Elder County signed off on the Str

Figure AI livestreamed three F.03 humanoid robots sorting packages continuously starting May 14, 2026 , generating significant viral attention and becoming a benchmark demonstration for autonomous hum

The Summer of AI Research 2026 is now accepting applications! Work on an open science AI research project between July 13 and August 16. In this fully online event we invite people with little researc

The team, the team, the team!!!! These vehicles are the first of many – made possible by the tireless effort of SpaceX engineers and technicians – and are designed to enable the core revolutionary cap

The UK has fallen. UK authorities have accused little girls of being prostitutes, “co-conspirators” and willing accomplices in their own grooming and abuse. They have arrested a father for trying to r

There were massive international protests over George Floyd and those police involved were severely punished with long prison sentences, yet the police responsible here did not even lose their jobs! A

This (Antiqua et Nova) is an interesting read ahead of Magnifica Humanitas release https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html Anyone

This is far worse than George Floyd Because he is white, there will be no justice. 'I CAN'T BREATHE' The final words of Henry Nowak, a student, just 18 years have been revealed A Sikh had stabbed him

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This poor boy was running away from someone who stabbed him & stole his phone, but the police in the UK attacked him instead of his murderer! He wasn't a career criminal. He was a Russel group univers

three of the things we are most excited about: 1. AGI accelerating research 2. AGI accelerating companies 3. personal AGI accelerating everyone in achieving their goals today it was great to announce

Catie Edmondson / New York Times: Three precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs — A ser

Today, we’re sharing that a general-purpose internal @openai model achieved a breakthrough on one of the best-known combinatorial geometry problems. Less than 1 year ago frontier AI models were at IMO

The Trump administration has requested $1 billion from taxpayers for security additions on the White House campus, including for a new ballroom being constructed on the site of the former East Wing. T

Reuters: Ubisoft reports a record operating loss of $1.40B for the year to March and says sales in 2026-27 will fall by about 8% to 9%; UBI falls 6%+ — French videogame publisher Ubisoft warned on Wed

Lakebase, a Databricks solution, enables organizations to create integrated marketing campaigns by leveraging data lakehouse capabilities to unify customer data and reduce marketing costs. The platfor

'There's an app for that' was the promise of the App Store from the very beginning. The app that will get your phone to do the thing you want it to? It's just a few taps away. The tagline wasn't stric

Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia: Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI law, requiring companies to classify AI models by risk level, label deepfakes, and disclose chatbot use — HO CHI MINH CITY —

This post likely discusses evidence or observations of artificial intelligence being used to conduct psychological warfare operations, possibly referring to disinformation campaigns, coordinated inaut

Grok Build enables users to annotate specific areas within video frames and provide instructions for AI-assisted edits, streamlining video editing workflows. This feature allows creators to visually d

The Software Freedom Conservancy sued Vizio in October 2021 after the company refused to share complete source code for its Linux-based SmartCast TV operating system, which the nonprofit says violates

“You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great—and that’s what being a space-faring civilization is all about. It’s about believing in the future and thinking that the f

A trans couple shot up a mosque. Progressives have some challenging calculations ahead of themselves. TRANS TERROR: San Diego mosque shooting suspects identified as 17-year-old Cain Clark & 18-year-ol

Today, we’re announcing three new capabilities available in SageMaker Python SDK v3.8.0. In this post, we walk through each capability with code examples you can use to get started. For complete end-t

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: Analog Devices agrees to buy Empower Semiconductor, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for 1.5B in cash — The deal will help Analog Devices expand it

This Databricks resource explains how to use SQL alerts to automate the monitoring of data quality and key performance indicators (KPIs), enabling automated detection and notification of anomalies or