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Rocket Report: SpaceX’s expansion at Vandenberg; India’s PSLV fails in flight

The Pentagon seems to be fed up with ULA’s rocket delays

In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”

HBO’s The Last of Us S2E6 recap: Look who’s back!

Google to give app devs access to Gemini Nano for on-device AI

Carnivorous crocodile-like monsters used to terrorize the Caribbean

Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly trial

Venus Aerospace flies its rotating detonation rocket engine for the first time

OpenAI adds GPT-4.1 to ChatGPT amid complaints over confusing model lineup

xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa

Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard

After back-to-back failures, SpaceX tests its fixes on the next Starship

Google introduces Advanced Protection mode for its most at-risk Android users

Microsoft shares its process (and discarded ideas) for redone Windows 11 Start menu

“Google wanted that”: Nextcloud decries Android permissions as “gatekeeping”

New pope chose his name based on AI’s threats to “human dignity”

Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water

The tinkerers who opened up a fancy coffee maker to AI brewing

The Last of Us episode 5 recap: There’s something in the air