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Reentry of NASA satellite will exceed the agency's own risk guidelines
10 March 2026 @ 11:01 pm
"Due to late-stage design changes, the potential risk of uncontrolled reentry increased."
FDA contradicts Trump admin, declines to approve generic drug for autism
10 March 2026 @ 10:12 pm
In the end, the FDA only approved the drug for a rare genetic condition with clearer data.
AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?
10 March 2026 @ 7:36 pm
Is it clean "reverse engineering" or just an LLM-filtered "derivative work"?
Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network
10 March 2026 @ 7:02 pm
The viral social network project was created with OpenClaw.
After complaints, Google will make it easier to disable gen AI search in Photos
10 March 2026 @ 6:37 pm
One toggle for "fast classic search."
Anthropic sues US over blacklisting; White House calls firm "radical left, woke"
10 March 2026 @ 6:26 pm
Anthropic says it was blacklisted for opposing autonomous weapons, mass surveillance.
Trump's divisive FDA vaccine regulator self-destructs, will exit agency (again)
10 March 2026 @ 5:58 pm
It's unclear what Prasad's FDA exit means, but some drug makers are happy to see him go.
NASA and SpaceX disagree about manual controls for lunar lander
10 March 2026 @ 5:48 pm
"NASA’s tracking of SpaceX’s manual control risk indicates a worsening trend."
Gemini burrows deeper into Google Workspace with revamped document creation and editing
10 March 2026 @ 4:01 pm
Gemini can now pull context from your files, emails, and more to create and edit documents.
Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns
10 March 2026 @ 2:05 pm
Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."