China has Successfully Tested a New Rocket Engine, Three Engines were Fired Simultaneously China's plan for its first crewed lunar landing involves two Long March 10 launches from the Wenchang Space Launch Center. 06/18/2024 - 12:14 am | View Link
Playbook: Will Lewis has some explaining to do Last night’s blockbuster story from NYT’s Justin Scheck and Jo Becker unveiled new details about the Washington Post CEO’s entanglement in Fleet Street hacking tactics and his payment of large sums of ... 06/16/2024 - 5:40 am | View Link
Why the gradual death of the console exclusive makes business sense Consoles are not about to disappear, and neither are exclusives, not completely. But as games become increasingly mainstream, with an ever-rising number of multi-billion-dollar franchises, the need to ... 06/13/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
This TV movie from the 1980s helped change the course of the Cold War. Here’s how ‘The Day After’ got made Editor’s Note: The CNN Original Series “Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game” examines the tenuous global geopolitics during the Cold War through the lens of two notorious double agents: Oleg Gordievsky ... 06/9/2024 - 3:11 pm | View Link
In Today’s Issue From the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act to Europe’s Green Deal, Beijing’s “Made in China 2025” drive and Canberra’s ... I’m still trying to fix that wheel,” he continues, launching into his own story. 06/9/2024 - 1:01 pm | View Link
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Cases of illnesses linked to microdosing candies have more than doubled, with reports of seizures and the need for intubation, mechanical ventilation, and intensive care stays. But, there remains no recall of the products—microdosing chocolates, gummies, and candy cones by Diamond Shruumz—linked to the severe and life-threatening illnesses.
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PC gamers of a certain vintage will remember tales of Project Van Buren, a title that early '00s Interplay intended as the sequel to 1998's hit Fallout 2. Now, original Fallout producer Timothy Cain is sharing some behind-the-scenes details about how he contributed to the project's cancellation during a particularly difficult time for publisher Interplay.
Cain famously left Interplay during Fallout 2's development in the late '90s to help form short-lived RPG house Troika Games.
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In the urgent quest for a more sustainable global food system, livestock are a mixed blessing. On the one hand, by converting fibrous plants that people can’t eat into protein-rich meat and milk, grazing animals like cows and sheep are an important source of human food.
Enlarge / Ford Mustang Mach E electric vehicles are offered for sale at a dealership on June 5, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (credit: Scott Olson / Getty Images)
CDK Global touts itself as an all-in-one software-as-a-service solution that is "trusted by nearly 15,000 dealer locations." One connection, over an always-on VPN to CDK's data centers, gives a dealership customer relationship management (CRM) software, financing, inventory, and more back-office tools.
That all-in-one nature explains why people trying to buy cars, and especially those trying to sell them, have had a rough couple of days.
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A 911 vendor's malfunctioning firewall caused a statewide outage in the emergency calling system in Massachusetts on Tuesday afternoon, the state government said. A Massachusetts government press release issued yesterday said the state's 911 vendor, Comtech, "has advised State 911 that they have applied a technical solution to ensure that this does not happen again."
"A preliminary investigation conducted by the State 911 Department and Comtech determined that the outage was the result of a firewall, a safety feature that provides protection against cyberattacks and hacking," the announcement said.
Enlarge / Ilya Sutskever physically gestures as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on at Tel Aviv University on June 5, 2023. (credit: Getty Images)
On Wednesday, former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever announced he is forming a new company called Safe Superintelligence, Inc. (SSI) with the goal of safely building "superintelligence," which is a hypothetical form of artificial intelligence that surpasses human intelligence, possibly in the extreme.
"We will pursue safe superintelligence in a straight shot, with one focus, one goal, and one product," wrote Sutskever on X.