Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has landed the booster of its New Glenn mega-rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean on just its second attempt — making it the second company to perform such a feat, following Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It’s an accomplishment that will help the new rocket system become an option to […]

OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios

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OpenMANET is an open-source project for building Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios on Wi-Fi HaLow (915 MHz) using Morse Micro chipsets. A MANET (Mobile Ad-Hoc Network) is a self-forming wireless mesh where each node connects directly without centralized infrastructure. This technology is especially useful in the civilian space for search and rescue, disaster response, airsoft events, […]

SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

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Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a harmful space. That’s why today, Kagi Search introduces the first community-driven system to detect and downrank deceptive AI-generated text, images, and video inside search results. It’s 2025, and the internet we loved […]

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

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We recently argued that an inflection point had been reached in cybersecurity: a point at which AI models had become genuinely useful for cybersecurity operations, both for good and for ill. This was based on systematic evaluations showing cyber capabilities doubling in six months; we’d also been tracking real-world cyberattacks, observing how malicious actors were […]

Rust in Android: move fast and fix things

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Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yields durable and compounding gains. This year we look at how this approach isn’t just fixing things, but helping us move faster. The 2025 data continues to validate the approach, […]

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation

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You may not have heard about new AI image generation models as much lately, but that doesn’t mean that innovation in the field has stagnated: it’s quite the opposite. FLUX.1-dev immediately overshadowed the famous Stable Diffusion line of image generation models, while leading AI labs have released models such as Seedream, Ideogram, and Qwen-Image. Google […]

Rand Paul: Congress bill destroys hemp farmer livelihoods

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In true Washington swamp fashion, this hemp ban is not being debated on its own. Once again, Congress created a crisis, then conveniently used the crisis to jam through new laws without debate. Rand Paul  |  Opinion contributor Show Caption Hide Caption What’s in the shutdown deal to reopen the government? Congress passed a funding […]

The Monks in the Casino

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“Saint Jerome in His Study,” Albrecht Dürer German 1514 I want to tell you about two young men. First, there is “Spishak,” the online pseudonym of a 28-year-old living at his parents’ home in Los Angeles. Spishak considers himself a pornosexual, which is exactly what it sounds like. He is a virgin whose carnal relations […]