California Successfully Tests ‘Virtual Power Plant’, Drawing Power From Batteries in 100,000 Homes Summary California’s largest utilities, led by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), ran a record test that switched…
KDE’s ‘Other’ Distro – KDE Linux – Now Available To Download In Pre-Alpha Summary KDE Linux is a new, experimental desktop distribution from the KDE project released as a pre-alpha…
Students Have Been Called to the Office — Or Arrested — for False Alarms from AI-Powered Surveillance Systems Summary US school districts increasingly deploy AI-driven monitoring tools (examples: Gaggle, Lightspeed…
Summary General Motors says a 2026 Chevy Silverado EV Work Truck managed a single-charge run of 1,059.2 miles over seven days on public roads near GM’s Milford Proving Ground and…
Spacecraft Designed That Could Carry 2,400 People on a 400-Year Trip to Alpha Centauri Summary Engineers entered a conceptual design — called Chrysalis — for a multi-generational starship that could…
Summary The ATOM Project (American Truly Open Models) is a newly launched campaign proposing a US-based AI lab to develop large, open-source AI models. Backed by a number of investors,…
Google Says Its AI-Based Bug Hunter Found 20 Security Vulnerabilities Summary Google announced that its LLM-based vulnerability researcher, Big Sleep, identified and reported 20 security flaws across popular open-source projects.…
Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17 For Being Late and ‘Garbage’ Summary Linus Torvalds rejected the RISC-V patch pull request for the Linux 6.17 merge window after it…
Summary After almost five months aboard the International Space Station, four astronauts returned to Earth aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule Endurance, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. The mission —…
‘Hour of Code’ Announces It’s Now Evolving Into ‘Hour of AI’ Summary Microsoft recently pledged $4 billion in cash and AI/cloud technology to boost AI education. At the launch event…
