NASA is blowing stuff up to study the explosive potential of methalox rockets

SpaceX’s Starship rocket and its enormous booster are powered by 39 Raptors, while Blue Origin’s New Glenn and United Launch ...

RFK may replace entire panel of CDC vaccine advisors again, ally lets slip

A member of an influential federal vaccine advisory panel made a dramatic claim Thursday afternoon that the panel had been ...

Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack

Hackers have compromised virtually all versions of Aqua Security’s widely used Trivy vulnerability scanner in an ongoing supply chain attack that could have wide-ranging consequences for developers ...

Topic: request for proposal

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FCC lets Nexstar buy Tegna, creating Trump-approved broadcaster reaching 80% of US

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion purchase of Tegna, granting a waiver that lets the broadcast giant go way past the national limit on station ...

Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphone

Amazon is developing a new smartphone over a decade after discontinuing the Fire Phone, Reuters reported today, citing four anonymous “people familiar with the matter.” Reuters said the phone is ...

Topic: dr. betty birner

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Perseverance’s radar revealed ancient subsurface river delta on Mars

When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater in 2021, its primary mission was to scour the remnants of a dried-up Martian lakebed for signs of ancient life. Scientists have been focused on ...

There’s no sudden acceleration problem with Tesla, feds say

The last petition regarding Teslas and sudden unintended acceleration involved claims regarding a voltage spike in the car’s inverter. Not so here—Costas Lakafossis presented NHTSA with a lengthy ...

Rocket Report: Canada makes a major move, US Space Force says actually, let’s be hasty

Welcome to Edition 8.34 of the Rocket Report! The most important significant news this week, I believe, is the decision by Canada to make a serious investment in launch infrastructure at a spaceport ...

Major SteamOS update adds support for Steam Machine, even more third-party hardware

Valve’s Steam Machine desktop is currently in a state of involuntary limbo, driven by historically awful pricing and availability for memory and storage chips. AI data centers are absorbing much of ...

An early Indigenous site may not be early, but it doesn’t really matter

A landmark site in the peopling of the Americas is several thousand years younger than we thought. While that means very different things about the site itself, it doesn’t change the big picture as ...