Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Elon Musk’s Latest Scheme Is a Satellite Catapult on the Moon
February 11th, 2026My guess is that Musk has read The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and that we’re all being trolled. Via: Engadget: With his newfound focus on the Moon, Elon musk is making some wild new plans. In an xAI meeting with employees, Musk said the company needed to build an AI satellite factory on the […]
Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
February 11th, 2026After using Notepad on Windows for about thirty years, I uninstalled it on Windows 11 because it could interact with Copilot. Even though I uninstalled Copilot, the fact that Notepad had any hook at all to it was creepy and ridiculous. I now use Notepad3, which is great. Via: TechSpot: One of the first-party Microsoft […]
When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines
February 6th, 2026Via: Futurism: Waymo has established itself as the autonomous ride-hailing service to beat, operating a fleet of several thousand self-driving taxis across the United States, with active services in ten major metropolitan areas. That “self-driving” may be due for some extra scrutiny, though. During a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, Waymo’s chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, […]
New Site Lets AI Rent Humans
February 6th, 2026I think that it’s not satire. Via: Futurism: The machines aren’t just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well. That’s at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman.ai, a platform for AI agents to “search, book, and pay humans for physical-world tasks.” When Liteplo launched […]
SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25 Trillion Merger
February 3rd, 2026Via: Reuters: Elon Musk said on Monday that SpaceX has acquired his artificial-intelligence startup xAI in a record-setting deal that unifies Musk’s AI and space ambitions by combining the rocket-and-satellite company with the maker of the Grok ?chatbot. The deal, first reported by Reuters last week, represents one of the most ambitious tie-ups in the […]
Finally, Some Possibly Good News About Firefox: AI Off Switch
February 2nd, 2026With the growing hostility toward AI slop creeping into everything, Mozilla might see an opportunity here to claw back some market share after years of steady decline. With Firefox, however, one must always be waiting for the other shoe to drop… Via: Mozilla: AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from […]
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 […]
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 […]
