04 May 2026
Portion of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a collision course with the moon
Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX will see a vehicle reach the moon much sooner and under much different circumstances than the company imagined. A portion of a Falcon 9 rocket is on a collision course with the moon after orbiting high above Earth for more than a year.
02 May 2026
Universities face funding threat as lawmakers target schools with ties to adversarial nations
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is moving to crack down on foreign influence in American education by targeting universities’ financial ties to adversarial nations. The package would ban federal funding to colleges that operate branch campuses in adversarial countries or accept research funding for sensitive fields like artificial intelligence, biotech, and quantum computing.
29 Apr 2026
OpenAI really really really wants GPT 5.5 to stop randomly talking about gremlins and goblins
OpenAI included a line in Codex's instructions restricting references to goblins, gremlins, trolls, and ogres. The line appears four times in the code, and has spawned scores of memes about 'goblin mode.'
27 Apr 2026
Micron and Sandisk continue rally as demand for memory expected to persist
The Micron Memory Japan K.K. booth at the Semicon Japan exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. Shares of memory companies Micron and Sandisk jumped on Monday, continuing their extended runs, after Melius Research said demand could remain high through the end of the decade. Memory companies are experiencing major gains from a global shortage for microchips to power artificial…
