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SpaceX tries to convince FCC that Amazon put satellites into wrong altitude
2 April 2026 @ 8:32 pm
Amazon denies violation, says SpaceX caused conflict by lowering Starlink satellites.
Google Vids gets AI upgrade with Veo and Lyria models, directable AI avatars
2 April 2026 @ 7:58 pm
Google Vids brings together Google's most capable AI creation tools.
Male octopuses guided through mating by female hormones
2 April 2026 @ 7:48 pm
A receptor that's used to find prey is also activated by progesterone.
New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian
2 April 2026 @ 6:00 pm
Collection of fossils includes Ediacaran, Cambrian species, suggesting a transition.
New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
2 April 2026 @ 5:00 pm
Both GDDRHammer and GeForge hammer GPU memory in ways that compromise the CPU.
Renewables dominate 2025's newly installed generating capacity
2 April 2026 @ 5:00 pm
And solar power accounted for about three quarters of the renewables.
Google announces Gemma 4 open AI models, switches to Apache 2.0 license
2 April 2026 @ 4:01 pm
Gemma 4 brings the first major update to Google's open models in a year.
This Ford is the quickest production car at the Nürburgring, ever
2 April 2026 @ 4:00 pm
Only three race cars have ever gone quicker around this famous track.
Anthropic says its leak-focused DMCA effort unintentionally hit legit GitHub forks
2 April 2026 @ 3:40 pm
But the effort to stop the spread of leaked Claude Code client code is an uphill battle.
Why is NASA bothering to go back to the Moon if we've already been there?
2 April 2026 @ 2:46 pm
NASA has struggled to deal with the widespread sentiment that NASA has “been there, done that."