In 1839, the president of Harvard University invited William Bond to move into a house on campus and, by virtue of bringing along his own astronomical equipment, become the university’s first astronomer in residence. With public interest spurred by the 1835 passage of Halley’s Comet and the Comet of 1843, […]
Young Galaxy Cluster
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope takes us 4.4 billion years in the past with this July 3, 2026, image of a young galaxy cluster, MACS J0553.4-3342. The cluster is composed of two actively merging sub-clusters, roughly equal in mass. Each sub-cluster is anchored on an immensely bright and massive elliptical […]
An animated sci-fi rom-com wasn’t on our wish list, but we’ll be damned if ‘Not Alone’ doesn’t look sweet, stylish, and hilarious
It’s young rocket scientists in love and rowdy alien refugees when this animated adventure launches in 2027.
Gold Standard: Lord Drake Kustoms’ Award-Winning Harley-Davidson Softail ‘Babylon’
Francisco Alí Manén, the founder of Lord Drake Kustoms, took a far more adventur…
Illinois congressman presses Polymarket amid scrutiny over election marketing promotions and practices
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi is pressing prediction market platform Polymarket for answers about its marketing practices, arguing that paid influencer partnerships… Continue reading Illinois congressman presses Polymarket amid scrutiny over election marketing promotions and practices The post Illinois congressman presses Polymarket amid scrutiny over election marketing promotions and practices appeared first […]
Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.
Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer
OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last week the company released the latest version of its flagship LLM, GPT-5.6. OpenAI says that training it against GPT-Red made the model its most […]
Filing: Elon Musk quietly bought Jacksonville, FL-based APR Energy, which operates mobile gas and diesel turbines similar to those used in Colossus 2, for ~$1B (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
Fred Lambert / Electrek: Filing: Elon Musk quietly bought Jacksonville, FL-based APR Energy, which operates mobile gas and diesel turbines similar to those used in Colossus 2, for ~$1B — Elon Musk has quietly bought APR Energy, a Jacksonville-based company that operates a fleet of mobile gas and diesel turbines […]