The situation with the fiscal year 2026 budget for the United States is, to put it politely, kind of a mess. The White House proposed a budget earlier this year with significant cuts for a number of agencies, including NASA. In the months since then, through the appropriations process, both the House and Senate have

Some time soon, perhaps next year, SpaceX will attempt to fly one of its enormous Starship rockets from low-Earth orbit back to its launch pad in South Texas. A successful return and catch at the launch tower would demonstrate a key capability underpinning Elon Musk’s hopes for a fully reusable rocket. In order for this

Two things about the Specialized Turbo Vado SL 2 6.0 Carbon are hard to fathom: One is how light and lithe it feels as an e-bike, even with the battery off; the other is how hard it is to recite its full name when other riders ask you about the bike at stop lights and

As businesses around the world have shifted their digital infrastructure over the last decade from self-hosted servers to the cloud, they’ve benefitted from the standardized, built-in security features of major cloud providers like Microsoft. But with so much riding on these systems, there can be potentially disastrous consequences at a massive scale if something goes

OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, can whip up eerily convincing clips that look like they’ve walked straight off Netflix, TikTok, or Twitch. But here’s the kicker: nobody outside OpenAI really knows what videos trained it, and the company isn’t talking. It makes you wonder, doesn’t it? If Sora can spit out a spot-on Wednesday scene or

Workday just raised the stakes in the AI agent race. The cloud-software firm is acquiring AI startup Sana for about $1.1 billion, part of a wider push into autonomous, finance- and HR-focused AI agents that can do everything from creating documents to automating recruiting workflows. CEO Carl Eschenbach said the strategy hinges on Workday’s clean,

Here’s a textured and personal dive into Lollipop.ai’s NSFW chat—I’m talking chat that flirts, teases, and sometimes sends a steamy pic mid-conversation. Expect some playful banter, uneven prose, and enough humanity to make you want to give it a real spin. What’s on offer feels more like cutting to the front of imagination lane than

Video speaks a thousand words; subtitles add a thousand viewers. If you’ve ever recorded a great piece to camera and thought, “wish I could ship this in Spanish, Hindi, and French by Friday,” you’re exactly who AI video translation was built for. Today’s tools auto-transcribe, translate, clone your voice, and even sync lips to the

SecretDesires.ai’s AI Hentai Girlfriend (in the anime style) doesn’t just draw a character—it unpacks a world. You’re not poking around static menus; you’re having a late-night heart-to-heart with your own digital fantasy. Here’s my on-the-fly take, quirks and all. Building your anime girlfriend? You’re in the driver’s seat. Pick the look—hair, outfit, expression—then layer on

The Rust release team has released Rust 1.90, an update of the popular memory-safe programming language that brings native support for workspace publishing to the Cargo package manager. Rust 1.90 also demotes the x86-64-apple-darwin target. The update was announced September 18. Developers who have Rust installed via rustup can update with the command rustup update stable.