Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument

Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships.
Android can now securely migrate your logins between password managers

App support is slim right now, but Google says more are coming.
Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google

“Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.”
Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver”

The trick from Next Generation would be even more effective in real life.
Kimmel's ABC show won't air interview with Democrat because of Trump FCC threats

Talarico talk to be on YouTube to save ABC stations the hassle of dealing with FCC.
China’s drone supremacy shows in airlifting bodies and food after Nepal flood disaster

DJI drones that already supply Mount Everest camps assist Nepal’s flood relief.
The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When El…
Artemis II commander and pilot become NASA's first astronaut emeriti

“Artemis II is done.”
This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering

A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Re…
Powering AI is an architecture problem

On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first…