Epic, Must-Watch 4K Footage of the Artemis II Launch
NASA’s Space Launch System lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2026, carrying the Orion spacecraft named Integrity on a ten‑day lunar flyby. The Artemis II mission marks the first crewed flight beyond low‑Earth orbit since Apollo 17 and the inaugural crewed launch of both SLS and Orion. A four‑person crew—NASA commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen—performed the test flight ahead of Artemis III. A 4K video captures the rocket’s 39.1 MN thrust and the launch’s visual spectacle.
Your Developers Are Already Running AI Locally: Why On-Device Inference Is the CISO’s New Blind Spot
The rise of on‑device large language model inference is turning the CISO’s focus from cloud‑based data exfiltration to hidden risks on employee laptops. Advances in consumer‑grade accelerators, mainstream quantization, and frictionless model distribution now let engineers run 70‑billion‑parameter models locally...
A Decade of DNA Innovation Powers AI‑Biology Convergence
Ten years ago, Emily Leproust had an idea to rewrite how DNA gets made. Most people thought it wouldn't work. Today, Twist Bioscience is the infrastructure layer for biotech and pharma worldwide. At SynBioBeta 2026, she's on the main stage with John...
‘More Bang for Your Buck’: 7 Easy Ways to Boost Your MacBook Neo’s Performance for Free
Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo packs a mobile‑class A18 Pro chip, delivering performance that rivals higher‑priced laptops. TechRadar outlines seven free, user‑level tweaks—from storage management to visual setting adjustments—that can squeeze extra speed from the device. The guide emphasizes practical steps like freeing...
At the HumanX Conference, Everyone Was Talking About Claude
At the HumanX AI conference in San Francisco, Anthropic’s Claude emerged as the most talked‑about chatbot, eclipsing OpenAI’s ChatGPT among attendees and vendors. Participants praised Claude’s reliability for agentic tasks, while OpenAI grappled with a perception of strategic drift despite...
PNP Backs Move for Stricter Regulations as Fake News, Disinformation 'Spiral Out of Control' On Social Media
Philippine National Police chief Gen. Jose Nartatez called on Meta Platforms to tighten Facebook’s rules against fake news and disinformation, citing recent spikes that threaten peace and order. The government gave Meta 48 hours to acknowledge the request and seven...
Why Data Quality Matters when Working with Data at Scale
Data quality is often relegated to a post‑deployment cleanup, leading to costly fixes and eroded trust when pipelines drift from their original contracts. The article outlines how typical data projects move from cross‑functional planning to staging validation, yet assume the...
Coding Capability Beats Hype in AI Competition
DeepSeek had its moment. Then it lost 40% mindshare while Claude 10x'd. Turns out "open source Chinese ChatGPT" is a great press release. "Actually works for coding" is a better business model.
Hacker Used Claude Code, GPT-4.1 to Exfiltrate Hundreds of Millions of Mexican Records
A hacker exploited Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's GPT‑4.1 to breach nine Mexican government agencies between December 2025 and February 2026. The AI‑driven attack executed 5,317 commands from 1,088 prompts, allowing the thief to exfiltrate hundreds of millions of taxpayer, civil and...
Free Replay: Learn to Build AI Agents Today
I taught AI agents to 20,000 people for free, and for the next 12 hours, you can watch that exact same workshop replay. It’s 2026. You need to know how to build AI agents. I got you. If you’re a mom returning...
24 New EV Chargers Installed In Texas & Maine
Love’s Travel Stops announced the launch of three EV charging stations in Texas—Natalia, Encinal and Three Rivers—each equipped with four NACS and CCS chargers, and added eight Tesla Superchargers at Three Rivers. The company also opened four fast chargers near...
You Can Grab a Refurbished 2021 Kindle Paperwhite Starting at Just $49.99
The 2021 Kindle Paperwhite is now available refurbished on Woot, with prices as low as $49.99 for an 8GB, ad‑supported, scratch‑and‑dent unit. Non‑S&D models start at $69.99, while the refurbished Signature Edition with wireless charging is $99.99. All units include...
Pruning LLMs for Retrieval: Why Attention Matters and MLPs Don't
The paper introduces EffiR, a pruning framework that flips conventional LLM pruning wisdom for dense retrieval tasks. By aggressively removing MLP layers while preserving attention heads, the authors cut Mistral‑7B’s parameters by roughly 50% and doubled inference speed with minimal...
Research Finds That AI Has Already Replaced Work for 20 Percent of Jobs
A new Epoch AI‑Ipsos survey of 2,000 U.S. adults finds that half of respondents used generative AI in the past week, and 20% of full‑time workers say AI has already taken over parts of their job. The same poll shows...
AI-Generated Content Floods SERPs, Threatening Sustainability
It works until it doesn't... but it's still working for now. This one will be interesting to watch. Massive scaled content abuse. Nearly 1M pages indexed now. Surging like crazy in the SERPs. Including news surfaces. I don't think this...
What Lit up the Night Sky? PhilSA Explains Strange Glow Seen over PH
On April 11, a luminous “space jellyfish” lit up the Philippine night sky, which the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) attributes to the Chinese Jielong‑3 rocket launched minutes earlier from the South China Sea. The high‑altitude exhaust plume reflected sunlight, creating a...
Linux Lays Down the Law on AI-Generated Code, Says Yes to Copilot, No to AI Slop, and Humans Take the...
After months of heated discussion, the Linux kernel maintainers approved a formal policy that permits AI‑assisted code contributions. The new rules replace the traditional “Signed‑off‑by” certification with an “Assisted‑by” tag to flag any AI‑generated lines. Human submitters remain fully liable...
GSK Sees Blockbuster Potential in Targeted Cancer Therapy After Promising Early Data
GSK’s experimental targeted therapy Mo‑rez showed early signs of efficacy, shrinking tumors in a majority of patients with hard‑to‑treat cancers. In a trial, 62% of platinum‑resistant ovarian cancer patients and 67% of endometrial cancer patients achieved at least a 30%...
GSK Plans Five Phase 3 Studies for Gynecological Cancer ADC From Hansoh
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced it will initiate five Phase 3 clinical trials to evaluate an antibody‑drug conjugate (ADC) for gynecological cancers, a candidate licensed from Chinese partner Hansoh Pharma. Early-stage data presented on Sunday showed encouraging tumor responses in ovarian and endometrial...
The PCP as Specialist: How AI and Virtual Consults Will Collapse the Referral Economy and Create a New Category of...
The essay proposes an AI‑driven platform that lets primary‑care physicians (PCPs) handle many conditions traditionally referred to specialists, using an asynchronous eConsult loop. Roughly 9% of PCP visits generate referrals, costing about $965 each, and half never result in completed...
Building Your Agentic Company
The post outlines how organizations can evolve into "agentic companies" by structuring work around AI agents rather than traditional human teams. It defines six foundational building blocks—company, teams, agents, projects, tasks, and skills—and explains how agents function as role‑based entities...
West Asia War Spills over to Cyberspace:Emails Spoofed, Cameras Hacked
Cyber operations have become a new front in the West Asia conflict, with Israel and Iran launching offensive hacks alongside missile strikes. Iranian APT groups exploited pre‑planted backdoors to spoof emails, hijack CCTV feeds in Tehran, and wipe more than...
I Replaced Claude Code With a $45/Month Multi-Agent System
After months of relying on Anthropic’s Claude Code, the author observed a sharp decline in reasoning depth when the service’s default effort level was lowered to 85 in early March, cutting the Read:Edit ratio from 6.6 to 2.0. The $200‑per‑month...
I Had No Idea What USB Standard My Laptop Ports Actually Used Until I Found This in Device Manager
The author discovered that laptop USB ports are often unlabeled or mislabeled, making it hard to know which standards they support. By opening Windows Device Manager, he identified the USB host controller generation and traced each physical port to its...
Apple AI Glasses Will Rival Meta’s With Several Styles, Oval Cameras
Apple is developing its first AI-powered smart glasses, featuring multiple frame styles and a unique oval camera design. The company aims to rival Meta’s Ray‑Ban smart glasses by leveraging its iOS ecosystem and upcoming AI platform. Apple also hinted that...
One Tiny Diode Could Shrink Image Sensors by Adding Memory and Processing
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China and McGill University have created a nanowire‑based p‑n diode that simultaneously performs photosensing, memory storage, and data processing. Built from GaN and AlGaN nanowires, the device achieves a responsivity of...
University of Michigan Launches Urban Technology Master's Program
The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning will debut a one‑year Master of Urban Technology, the first such accelerated degree at a U.S. university. The program expands on the school’s existing four‑year bachelor’s track and shifts...
Claude Code Harness Pattern 10: Production Deployment Patterns
The Claude Code Harness Pattern 10 details how the harness moves from prototype to production‑grade service. It outlines SDK integration via an async generator, feature‑flag driven rollouts, and a multi‑provider abstraction that supports Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex and Azure Foundry....
Seven Space Tech Trends Set to Transform Earth by 2026
7 Revolutionary Space Tech Trends That Will Transform Life on Earth in 2026 Space innovation is driving real-world impact — these seven trends could reshape industries and life on Earth in the near future. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eufxdaiB #SpaceTech #Innovation...
TN Assembly Elections: Joseph Vijay Promises ‘Citizen Privilege Card’, AI-Led Governance in TVK Roadmap
Joseph Vijay, founder of Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK), presented a digital‑first governance roadmap ahead of the Tamil Nadu assembly election, pledging an AI‑driven Citizen Privilege Card that auto‑delivers welfare, a six‑month Right to Service Act, and a “Super App” consolidating all...
Disorder and Illumination
Researchers have long used low‑temperature illumination to improve electronic transport in two‑dimensional (2D) systems. In GaAs‑based quantum wells, a red LED at ~10 K reduces disorder, raising electron mobility and sharpening fractional quantum Hall signatures. A new preprint shows that deep‑UV...
The Truth On Whether AI Will Take Your Job Or Not
A new ProCap Insights briefing highlights a Stanford Digital Economy Lab study showing AI’s uneven impact on the U.S. labor market. Workers aged 22‑25 in high‑AI exposure occupations saw a 16% relative employment decline since late 2022, while those 30...
Why AI At Work Often Creates More Work Instead Of Saving Time
A recent analysis shows that generative AI tools like ChatGPT often add, rather than subtract, workload for employees. A Workday survey found that nearly 40% of the time users think they are saving is spent correcting AI‑generated drafts, emails, and...
Newsletter Hits 21k, Seeks 22k Milestone
It’s wild to blink and now have 21,586 people subscribe to my newsletter. That’s 4x the following of my X! Feels like yesterday (Jan 2023) when I was ~outbounding my dad, family and friends to subscribe. Each week: -Content of the week (top...
What ‘The Pitt’ Gets Right About Emergency Medicine — and What It Reveals About Healthcare IT
The article uses HBO’s *The Pitt* to illustrate how identity‑management friction hampers emergency‑room efficiency. Repeated logins, password resets, and locked workstations add seconds that cascade into longer wait times, clinician burnout, and higher error risk. With CMS and HIPAA tightening...
Markets Are Humanity’s Unintended ASI Profit Machine
Wake up, people. AGI / ASI has been with us for centuries, and has escaped its cage before. The ‘market’ is the greatest ASI ever birthed by humans, iterating on the gradient of ‘profit maximization’. Financialization is ASI on steroids; the...
Rare Diseases Need Molecular Surgery, Not Drug Barriers
The turning point for rare diseases, which affect >300 million people around the world. A call to get rid of its many structural obstacles, to consider it as molecular surgery unlike drug treatments gift link: https://t.co/DQ0OZ9tXXc https://t.co/RELCwTr88i
Ministry Unveils AI + Education Action Plan
Notice of the Ministry of Education and other five departments on the Issuance of the Action Plan of "Artificial Intelligence + Education" https://t.co/0g1JkaX41f
AI Progress Unstoppable Despite Moore’s Law Slowdown
Mustafa Suleyman: AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon ..skeptics keep predicting walls..they keep being wrong in face of epic generational compute ramp. Often, they point out that Moore’s Law is slowing, a lack of data, or limitations on energy....
Sungrow Storage Set to Surpass Inverters by 2025
Chinese PV Industry Brief: Sungrow storage overtakes inverters in 2025 #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/rqkMb18oPl
Sea‑Inspired Robots Redefine the Future of Robotics
#Robots Inspired by Sea Creatures: Biomimetic Machines Shaping the Future of #Robotics via @ZappyZappy7 #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #ML https://t.co/VD1HUHomzX
Sixteen AI Agents Collaborate to Synthesize Answers
"Contemplating mode" -> When 16 agents work on your prompt and then synthesize an answer...
New TUI Plasmid Viewer Adds Golden Braid Automation
Cranking out some heavy updates to my TUI plasmid viewer. Golden Braid part domesticator and MoClo assembly automation. All the tools I ever dreamed of are coming to fruition. Really thankful for Claude Code. Follow along here; rapidly changin development https://t.co/3mkWtVqa1T...
Light Improves Electrical Performance of Low‑Temp 2D Materials
🧪⚛️ Disorder and illumination - how shining light on 2D systems at low temperatures can sometimes dramatically improve electrical properties, including a preprint from this week. https://t.co/86FPuy8rht
Best Robot Vacuum for Obstacle Avoidance Revealed
Which robot vacuum offers the best obstacle avoidance and navigation? I put them to the test. https://t.co/JGD2UpqSI6
Galaxy S26 Ultra Crushes Genshin Impact at Max Settings
To test the gaming mettle of Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra, I spent six hours playing Genshin Impact on the highest settings. https://t.co/SxUuC8k5so
AI Era's New Table Stakes for Adaptation and Competition
This is a great article about the new table-stakes of adapting to, and competing in, the AI era.
Lack of Comprehensive Legal API Raises Serious Concerns
that the full breadth and depth of citable, current law is not available by API is profoundly concerning
AI Agents as Subscription Services, Like Electricity
you’ll pay subscriptions for agents not software. the agents will be pre-trained for you. some people will have 1000s of agents doing stuff and monitoring many situations for them at once. AI is the new electricity.
Magnetic System Enables Camera‑free Microrobot Navigation
New magnetic system lets microrobots move without cameras or tracking systems by Neetika Walter @IntEngineering Learn more: https://t.co/RM52ul5JG3 #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/ivuzqLBXTl
