On this day in space! Aug. 9, 1976: Soviet Luna 24 sample return probe launches to the moon
 On this day in space! Aug. 9, 1976: Soviet Luna 24 sample return probe launches to the moon

On Aug. 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission. Luna 24 was a robotic sample return mission and the third of its kind.

Exploring ‘very low Earth orbit’: The world’s 1st air-breathing satellite thruster could soon get a test run
 Exploring ‘very low Earth orbit’: The world’s 1st air-breathing satellite thruster could soon get a test run

Air-breathing electric propulsion could help satellites explore a new frontier, one that lies quite close to our planet.

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Musk’s Terafab projected to be larger than the Pentagon, Apple Park, Mall of America, and Giga Texas, combined — all-in-one chip manufacturing facility visualized to show the project’s massive footprint

Elon Musk’s Terafab will have at least 100 million sq. ft of interior space, making it the largest such structure on Earth by a big margin. It seems that it will need this amount of space, though, for Musk’s ambitious plan of bringing multiple semiconductor manufacturing processes under one roof.

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Myspace wants to sell you a feed without an algorithm. Brussels is about to make that mandatory anyway.
 Myspace wants to sell you a feed without an algorithm. Brussels is about to make that mandatory anyway.

The Vanderhook brothers, whose company Viant Technology owns Myspace, have confirmed they intend to relaunch the platform. They made the announcement in a documentary titled Myspace, which premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto and also features co-founder C…

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Three labs, three breaches, one vendor. The AI hacking story was never about the models.
 Three labs, three breaches, one vendor. The AI hacking story was never about the models.

Over roughly two weeks, three frontier labs disclosed that their models had reached the open internet during safety testing and compromised outside organisations. Every disclosure named the same evaluation partner: Irregular, a company with offices in …

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x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11
 x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11

A developer has ported 1990’s Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a to x64 so it can run natively on Windows 11 PC systems.

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OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.
 OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into finished editable presentations. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the team has moved onto ChatGPT. Founder Ahmed Beshry announced the deal in a not…

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Two variants of Nvidia’s RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests
 Two variants of Nvidia’s RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests

The 20-core SKU of the RTX Spark that we’ve known to exist for a long time scored 2,570 points in the single-core test and 23,126 points in the multi-core test. The second, 18-core cut-down SKU scored 2,541 points in the single-core test while its multi-core was 21,776 points.

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What is the release date for Reacher season 4 episodes 1-3 on Prime Video?
 What is the release date for Reacher season 4 episodes 1-3 on Prime Video?

Jack is back, and so is the non-stop action as he hits the open road. So when do Reacher season 4 episodes 1-3 arrive on Prime Video?

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FCC moves to ban LiDAR-equipped foreign drones from US — classifies the technology as “military-grade” in a proposal that could also hit thermal models and the swarms used in drone light shows

The FCC is proposing a retroactive sales ban on previously approved foreign-made drones with LiDAR and other “military-grade” features, potentially removing several popular DJI models from U.S. stores.

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