California creates $3,500 rebate for new electric vehicle buyers
At the end of last September, electric vehicle adoption in the US began to crater. That followed the abolition of the IRS clean vehicle tax credit as part of a series of …
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Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets
Yet fixing the bug won’t end the alleged theft of Apple trade secrets, the complaint said. The exchanges between Liu and Peng, as well as other evidence that Apple cited—including support for …
Solution to Feynman's reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to "silly sprinklers"
Watering your lawn in the summer can be both pragmatic and fun with so-called “silly sprinklers,” designed to create amusing loops and spirals of water jets. And there’s some fascinating physics at …
States sue to block Paramount/WBD merger that was approved by Trump admin
Paramount CEO David Ellison reportedly told Trump administration officials that he would make big changes at the Warner-owned CNN, a longtime target of President Trump’s wrath. Paramount previously won US approval to …
Tom Cruise is utterly transformed in Digger trailer
“The film needed Tom,” Iñárritu said via video at a Warner Bros. screening last week. “We wanted to work together since the beginning of the century. I admired him as an actor …
Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows
Smartphone shipments started to plateau a few years back, ending the days of guaranteed double-digit growth for any company that wanted to make phones. Fewer smartphone manufacturers exist today, and they’re facing …
Colorado will decide whether a "right to natural gas" is added to state constitution
Advance Colorado did not respond to requests for comment. However, in a report published in April, they argued that “burdensome” regulation places hidden costs on consumers and calls on the state to …
Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"
Last month, we passed along Modern Vintage Gamer’s (MVG) confident assertion that Doom is functionally impossible to run on the Neo Geo, owing to the console’s sprite-based display hardware and lack of …
A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.
Crew Dragon would seem to be the obvious answer for commercial space stations in the 2030s, but there are some questions. The first of these is availability. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell has …
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users. A well-phrased command …
Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models
See also Fei-Fei Li, the computer vision pioneer who co-founded World Labs, one of the new companies working on world models. In a Substack post late last year, she wrote: Today, leading …
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The real mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?
The same question drives both the plot of Moana and decades of archaeological research: Why, after centuries of relative stability, did Polynesian voyagers suddenly begin settling islands thousands of kilometers away across …
A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star's death
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Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement
The regulations would also allow the BLM to handle low-level violations of grazing regulations more informally, avoiding potentially unnecessary fights between ranchers and regulators; clean up sections of the code that may …
Quantum error correction can constantly recalibrate a processor
There are some obvious big picture issues that stand between us and useful quantum computing. Issues like whether we can make enough high-quality hardware qubits to connect into the error-corrected logical qubits …
Increased drone surveillance of illegal July 4th fireworks led to $100K fine
The Sacramento Fire Department issued 70 citations on July 4, totaling $300,000 in fines. But the department was also looking to assign additional citations on July 2 and July 3. Sylvia told …
China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it
The Long March 10B employs a different approach for recovery, combining an offshore vessel floating downrange with the catch technique somewhat like what SpaceX uses for Starship. Catching the rocket in this …