National Science Board eviscerated; Trump admin fires all 22 members
All 22 members of the National Science Board were terminated by the Trump administration via a terse email on Friday. The administration has provided no explanation...
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Volunteers Help NASA Astronauts Record Lunar Flashes
As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. At the...
Read moreAWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic & Meta partnership, AWS Lambda S3 Files, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI, and more (April 27, 2026)
Late March took me to Seattle for the Specialist Tech Conference, one of the most energizing gatherings of AWS specialists from around the world. It was...
Read moreWhat the 2026 State of Open Source report reveals about digital autonomy
Over the past few years, digital autonomy has moved beyond architecture discussions and into executive conversations. More CIOs and CTOs are revisiting a familiar question with...
Read moreNew AI data center in Utah will generate and consume more than twice the amount of power the entire state uses — Kevin O’Leary’s 9 Gigawatt Utah data center campus approved
Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority on Friday approved a development agreement for a hyperscale data center campus in Box Elder County.
Read morePCB prices have risen by up to 40% due to war in Iran, according to Reuters’ industry sources
More shortages, more price hikes, more of the same in 2026.
Read moreMass Effect: Andromeda actor says the game “was done dirty” by EA and “a very toxic atmosphere” online
It’s been over nine years since Mass Effect: Andromeda tried to kickstart a new era of BioWare’s original sci-fi RPG universe, an experiment that ended with...
Read moreAlleged would-be Trump assassin once made an “atomic fighting game”, which Steam have now yanked from sale
Valve have disabled purchases for a Steam game made by one 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California, who allegedly tried to shoot up the White...
Read moreHong Kong-set ‘bodycam FPS’ Better Than Dead gets a release date
A release date for body cam FPS Better Than Dead has been announced, as well as a new gameplay trailer packed with Hong Kong cinema-style action....
Read moreToyota has turned a car seat into a gaming chair and it’s $3,500
I don’t care, I want one. Where do I sign?
Read moreA Cosmic Survey Reveals the Universe’s Hidden Side
A team of scientists at the University of Virginia is using a telescope in Arizona to study cosmic structure and the result is the largest 3D...
Read moreThe Last of Us Part 2’s most shocking death was “controversial internally, too”, former Naughty Dog developer admits
There is one death in particular in The Last of Us Part 2 that many are still struggling to come to terms with, six years on...
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