Archive for the 'Technology' Category
SpaceX: 1 Million Satellites For Orbital Data Center [???]
January 31st, 2026Via: PC Magazine: SpaceX is requesting to launch up to one million satellites to create a network of orbiting data centers around Earth. Late on Friday, the company filed the request with the Federal Communications Commission, describing the project as a “constellation of satellites with unprecedented computing capacity to power advanced artificial intelligence (‘AI’) models […]
Microsoft’s Windows 11 Mess Sending Users Back to Windows 10 and Windows 7
January 29th, 2026This is absolutely wild. I’ve started getting used to ZorinOS, just in case… Via: TweakTown: The data comes from Statcounter, which outlines that in October, 2025, Windows 11 held 58.18% market share, compared to Windows 10’s 41.17%, but then in November 2025, Windows 11 dropped down to 53.7%, compared to Windows 10’s 42.7%. While this […]
Tesla Ending Models S and X Production, Converting Factory Lines to Make Optimus Robots
January 28th, 2026Via: CNBC: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the automaker is ending production of its Model S and X vehicles, and will use the factory in Fremont, California, to build Optimus humanoid robots. “It’s time to basically bring the Model S and X programs to an end with an honorable discharge,” Musk said […]
Planned Obsolescence Documentary: The Light Bulb Conspiracy
January 28th, 2026Via: Documentary For Better World: Related: Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America by Giles Slade
AI Found 12 Vulnerabilities in SSL
January 27th, 2026If this was the case with OpenSSL… Via: AISLE: AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all 12 CVEs in the January 2026 coordinated release of OpenSSL, the open-source cryptographic library that underpins a substantial proportion of the world’s secure communications. Some of these vulnerabilities had persisted in OpenSSL code for decades, evading the notice of thousands of […]
“Scientists Use AI to Create a Virus Never Seen Before”
January 26th, 2026Via: Daily Mail: Lab–grown life has taken a major leap forward as scientists use AI to create a new virus that has never been seen before. The virus, dubbed Evo–?2147, was created by scientists from scratch using new technologies that could revolutionise the course of evolution. With just 11 genes, compared to the 200,000 in […]
LED Lighting (350-650nm) Undermines Human Visual Performance Unless Supplemented by Wider Spectra (400-1500nm+) Like Daylight
January 26th, 2026Via: Scientific Reports: Life evolved under broad spectrum sunlight, from ultraviolet to infrared (300–2500 nm). This spectrally balanced light sculpted life’s physiology and metabolism. But modern lighting has recently become dominated by restricted spectrum light emitting diodes (350–650 nm LEDs). Absence of longer wavelengths in LEDs and their short wavelength dominance impacts physiology, undermining normal […]
In Conversation with Andrew Bridgen: Digital ID, Excess Deaths & Political Silence
January 26th, 2026Via: Digby Furneaux:
Microsoft Gave FBI a Set of BitLocker Encryption Keys to Unlock Suspects’ Laptops
January 23rd, 2026Letting Microsoft hold copies of your Bitlocker keys is very convenient—for the police. Via: Forbes: Early last year, the FBI served Microsoft with a search warrant, asking it to provide recovery keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops. Federal investigators in Guam believed the devices held evidence that would help prove individuals handling […]
Scientists Mimicking the Big Bang Accidentally Turn Lead Into Gold
January 22nd, 2026Via: Independent: While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after the Big Bang, physicists working on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland incidentally produced small amounts of gold. Extremely small amounts, in fact: a total of […]
