R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
Hamilton also coined the term “software engineering” and founded two successful software companies.
Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027
Free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes reduce to 64 days in February.
Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches
Mass surveillance gets stupider.
RFK Jr. unveils sweeping federal initiative to find evidence of vaccine injuries
“[T]he Trump-RFK Jr anti-vax agenda keeps getting more corrupt and dangerous.”
An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light
Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.
Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever
Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is.
Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year
“If this was easy, everybody else would be doing it.”
Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
Court filings reveal new details about Exxon’s decades of internal climate deliberations.
Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots
Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies.
A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist
Sen. Blanche Lincoln wrote law that let US ban sports-event contracts. She lobbies for the other side now.