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Measles continues raging in South Carolina; 99 new cases since Tuesday
9 January 2026 @ 10:34 pm
With so many exposures sites, officials can't figure out where people were infected.
Google: Don’t make “bite-sized” content for LLMs if you care about search rank
9 January 2026 @ 8:27 pm
Google says creating for people rather than robots is the best long-term strategy.
Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS
9 January 2026 @ 7:22 pm
Italy fines Cloudflare 14M euros for not blocking pirate sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS service.
US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers
9 January 2026 @ 6:46 pm
Crazy, but that's how it goes.
Is Orion’s heat shield really safe? New NASA chief conducts final review on eve of flight.
9 January 2026 @ 5:17 pm
"That level of openness and transparency is exactly what should be expected of NASA."
These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found
9 January 2026 @ 4:49 pm
Hunter-gatherers probably derived the poison from the milky bulb extract of a Boophone disticha plant.
X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing
9 January 2026 @ 4:46 pm
Faced with a ban in the United Kingdom, X pushes flawed fix to CSAM problem.
Rocket Report: A new super-heavy launch site in California; 2025 year in review
9 January 2026 @ 3:50 pm
SpaceX opened its 2026 launch campaign with a mission for the Italian government.
“Ungentrified” Craigslist may be the last real place on the Internet
9 January 2026 @ 2:56 pm
People still use Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects.
General Motors writes down $6 billion as domestic EV sales plans change
9 January 2026 @ 2:02 pm
Canceled contracts and scaled-back product plans turn out to be costly.