THURSDAY, 09 APRIL 2026, 06:59
This week Artemis II’s four-astronaut crew broke Apollo 13’s distance record, becoming the humans to travel the farthest from Earth. Now on their way home, the team has experienced tech malfunctions, views like no other and moments of intense emotion, all in under 10 days. To find out about all the highs and lows of the mission, Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s science editor,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Drive: Farmers have been fighting John Deere for years over the right to repair their equipment, and this week, they finally reached a landmark settlement. While the agricultural manufacturing giant pointed out in a statement that this is no admission of wrongdoing, it agreed to pay $99 million into a fund for farms and individuals who participated...
The ruling was a setback for the artificial intelligence start-up in its battle with the Defense Department over the use of A.I. in warfare.
A $500,000 “Survivor”-style corporate retreat for 120 Plex employees in Honduras “turned into a week-long disaster involving illness, wild animals, armed guards, and employees stranded on a remote island,” reports the Daily Beast. The CEO was bedridden by E. coli, staff were collapsing in brutal heat during Navy SEAL-led drills, there were fire ant attacks, uncooked food, and failing utilities....
The AI company now faces conflicting rulings in its fight over how Claude can be used by the US military.
The FBI says (PDF) Iran-linked hackers disrupted internet-connected systems used by U.S. oil, gas, and water companies. Even with the recent two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States and Israel, hackers backing Tehran say they won’t end their retaliatory cyberattacks. The Hill reports: The report warned that similar companies across the country should be aware of an increased push...
A New York Times investigation by John Carreyrou claims a British cryptographer named Adam Back is the strongest circumstantial candidate yet for being Satoshi Nakamoto. The report citing overlaps in writing style, ideology, technical background, and old posts that outlined key parts of Bitcoin years before its launch. Carreyrou is a renowned investigative journalist and author, best known for...
Starting May 20th, Amazon will stop Kindle Store access for Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier. After that date, those devices will “no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new content.” Owners can still read content already on the device, but if an affected device is reset or deregistered after the cutoff, it can’t be re-registered. The Verge reports: The...
After weeks of disruption, a ceasefire is easing pressure on the Strait of Hormuz. But backlogs, infrastructure damage, and delayed supply mean the system won’t return to normal overnight.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for laden oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz (source paywalled; alternative source), as it seeks to retain control over passage through the key waterway during the two-week ceasefire. Hamid Hosseini, a spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical...
Muse Spark is Meta’s first model since its AI reboot, and the benchmarks suggest formidable performance.
In Lebanon, nearly 1 in 5 people has been displaced by Israeli attacks, leaving the government to manage a modern crisis without modern digital infrastructure.
Managing debt can feel overwhelming, especially when balances grow faster than your ability to pay them down. If you are struggling with multiple accounts, high interest rates, or missed payments, you have likely come across two common solutions: debt consolidation and debt settlement. While both aim to reduce financial stress, they work in very different […]
The AI system, trained on real military data, is meant to give soldiers mission-critical information.
Meta has launched Muse Spark, its first major AI model under Alexandr Wang’s leadership. The model was built over the past nine months and is being positioned as a significant step up from Llama 4. Axios reports: Muse Spark will power queries in the Meta AI app and Meta.ai website immediately, with plans to expand across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The model accepts voice, text and image...
This discount brings the price of the Apple Watch Ultra 3 with GPS and cellular down to just $700.
Microsoft has apparently terminated the account VeraCrypt uses to sign its Windows drivers and bootloader, leaving the encryption project unable to publish Windows updates and throwing future releases into doubt. VeraCrypt’s developer says Microsoft gave no clear explanation or warning for the move. “I didn’t receive any emails from Microsoft nor any prior warnings,” Mounir Idrassi, VeraCrypt’s...
Intel’s role in Elon Musk’s ambitious chip venture is still murky, raising questions about what the partnership actually entails—and whether it can work at all.
Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.
In an email to customers, Amazon announced that it would be ending service for Kindle devices older than the 2012 edition. Those devices will lose access to the Kindle Store.
The model, Muse Spark, performed better than Meta’s previous A.I. models but lags rivals on coding ability.