From bones to steel: Why ice skates were a terrible idea that worked
From figure skating to ice hockey, many of the most popular winter sports stem from a long history of people simply playing around on ice skates. Part of what makes…
January 2026
Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks
An open source AI assistant called Moltbot (formerly “Clawdbot”) recently crossed 69,000 stars on GitHub after a month, making it one of the fastest-growing AI projects of 2026. Created by…
Japan lost a 5-ton navigation satellite when it fell off a rocket during launch
If you’re in the space business long enough, you learn there are numerous ways a rocket can fail. I’ve written my share of stories about misbehaving rockets and the extensive…
Snow Buries the U.S. Interior and East
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Snow Buries the U.S…. Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human…
There’s a rash of scam spam coming from a real Microsoft address
There are reports that a legitimate Microsoft email address—which Microsoft explicitly says customers should add to their allow list—is delivering scam spam. The emails originate from no-reply-powerbi@microsoft.com, an address tied…
Amazon’s 180 internet satellites are already too bright. It wants 3,000 more.
Amazon is racing to catch up to Starlink in the battle for satellite internet dominance, and it’s creating problems for everyone else. Only 180 of the proposed 3,236 Amazon Leo…
Digg is back to take on Reddit, and you can use it now
Digg was one of the most popular websites of the 2000s. It brought millions of users together to share and discuss links from across the web, but lost most of…
NASA Launches Its Most Powerful, Efficient Supercomputer
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Athena, NASA’s newest supercomputer, is housed at the agency’s Modular Supercomputing Facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s…
Trade wars muzzle allied talks on Trump’s Golden Dome missile shield
Gen. Michael Guetlein, the senior officer in charge of the US military’s planned Golden Dome missile defense shield, has laid out an audacious schedule for deploying a network of space-based…
OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works
On Friday, OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin published a detailed technical breakdown of how the company’s Codex CLI coding agent works internally, offering developers insight into AI coding tools that can…