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    “Fascists”: Elon Musk responds to proposed fines for disinformation on X

    Properly functioning democracies have been backed into a corner here. He's literally weaponizing disinformation and it's been so much more successful here in the US than I would've ever dreamed when I was a kid. It's absolutely wild to see some of the truly insane things people believe just...
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    Researchers still don’t know how 1.3 million Android streaming boxes were backdoored

    I don't want to yell at the tech community unfairly, but many understand this problem a lot better than their family members and friends. We/they have to get really serious about supply chain issues (somehow) with these cheap devices that everyone wants to buy and try to do better on educating...
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    Reported Dreamcast addict Tim Walz is now an unofficial Crazy Taxi character

    Really refreshing to see a story involving a political candidate and it’s just lighthearted fun hurting no one. Absolutely hilarious mod and I’m betting Walz is going to love it when he sees this.
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    SpaceX is beefing up its Starship launch pad to catch a 20-story-tall rocket

    Thank you so very much for taking the time to explain!
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    SpaceX is beefing up its Starship launch pad to catch a 20-story-tall rocket

    Forgive me, because I'm an amateur at best when it comes to space stuff, but I'm having trouble understanding the dynamics of catching this rocket. The arms that catch the rocket won't damage it? Does it literally grab the rocket while it's coming down just inches/feet from the ground? Or does...
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    After latest Starliner setback, will Boeing ever deliver on its crew contract?

    NASA leadership, and the engineers that said “No.” should be commended for this difficult decision. They had a ridiculous amount of weight pulling on them to use Starliner to get the crew home even with the unknown risk. I do hope that Boeing continues trying to make this spacecraft work...
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    Peloton announces $95 “used equipment activation fee”

    “I think paying $95 just to activate my $50/month subscription is a great value!”
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    31% of Republicans say vaccines are more dangerous than diseases they prevent

    It is so tiring to see the scientific method is now "whatever I feel like". I don't see how we can excise this level of derangement in our country. We celebrate and reward the loudest and dumbest people for their terribly ignorant proclamations of what they feel is true.
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    Dear Sydney: Why I find Google’s AI Olympics ad so disturbing

    The ones at the helm so badly want to replace the human in humanity.
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    Newly discovered ransomware uses BitLocker to encrypt victim data

    Edit: I'm removing my comment, but really surprised to see it get buried. Using BitLocker to hurt people just really isn't funny to me and you're wired wrong if you get your jollies from it. Even though I know what I'm doing, I'd never be so bold to think I could never be hit by ransomware as...
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    A week with the Chevy Blazer EV shows things to love—but also painful flaws

    I'm sure plenty of other people said this, but "no CarPlay" immediately took their vehicles off of our shopping list. We're definitely buying something EV in the next 6 months, and it almost certainly would've been Chevy until we saw that. My wife said "Hell no" when I asked her about it.
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    NASA exploration chief lays out next steps for Starship development

    Until this moment, I never realized they're trying to land Starship itself on the moon. I always assumed the only plan was some kind of Apollo shaped lander without putting any kind of deep thinking about it. So, we have Orion, Starship, and some other type of craft called Blue Moon meant to...
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    Glassdoor adding users’ real names, job info to profiles without consent

    I have a "absolutely the fuck not" list. Congratulations to Glassdoor for reserving their own spot!
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    Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court

    We were subverted by a religious fifth column
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    Unvaccinated Florida kids exposed to measles can skip quarantine, officials say

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    Secret military space programs can be a little less secret, Pentagon says

    Agreed. As someone that was once read in on a program when I was in the Air Force, I totally get the "seemingly small details can be appropriately classified" even if they don't seem to make sense. Occasionally you're able to know the "why this actually does makes sense" and you're unable to...
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    HP CEO: Blocking third-party ink from printers fights viruses

    Yes, it seems to be theoretically possible to find some buffer overflow you could use to your advantage with a custom cart. Is it ever going to happen without the resources of a nation-state actor? Almost certainly not even in the wildest scenario. I can think of a small handful of situations...
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    What happens when you trigger a car’s automated emergency stopping?

    I really turn into a gushing fanatic when I see this kind of technology out there helping humans. This is the stuff that gets me really hyped up. It is just so cool to me:)
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    Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

    What a legacy. His invention is absolutely critical in so many different things. I'd love to be able to leave a good mark like that on the world. Thank you, Dr. Mills.
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    NY midwife busted for giving 1.5K kids homeopathic pellets instead of vaccines

    She should've done a year or two in prison for this mess. I don't like the idea of people being locked up because of how we treat prisoners, but sometimes you need to do it. She put a lot of people at risk by falsifying those records. She needs to sit somewhere and reflect on that for a while...