Google is sending a refrigerator‑sized prototype satellite into low Earth orbit to test whether its custom AI chips can work in space. The launch — on a SpaceX Transporter‑18 rideshare — is the first real hardware test of Project Suncatcher. It will carry four Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and try to answer a simple question: More

Big tech has once again shown its talent for mixing clumsy automation with high-speed hypocrisy. A new Alex Gibney documentary about Elon Musk ran into an odd roadblock: paid trailer ads were blocked on major platforms — then, after a bit of publicity, some of those platforms quietly reversed course. The episode tells us more More

The USAID Office of Inspector General has just released two blunt investigative summaries that expose more than simple bookkeeping errors. They document schemes that stole and sold U.S. foreign aid medical supplies and, in one case, allegedly abused the very people aid was meant to protect. The result: formal debarments that bar those individuals and More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent New York Times interview stirred up the kind of headline that makes diplomats choke on their coffee. He said Ottawa had “prepared” for the unlikely, “extreme tail risk” of U.S. military action. That line is real. It deserves scrutiny — not hysteria, but not a shrug either. What Carney actually More

Federal agents hit a luxury downtown Los Angeles apartment and pulled more than 100 pounds of drugs, weapons, drug-making gear — and a baby alligator — out of a place neighbors probably thought was a high-end condo. The raid is being billed as another win for the Homeland Security Task Force, and for once the More

New data show a sharp pullback by banks and lenders from the slice of the market that includes many undocumented borrowers. Bloomberg summarized an analysis based on dv01 and Equifax Market Pulse data: loans to “no‑score” borrowers — a commonly used proxy for credit‑invisible and often undocumented people — plunged. That change tracks a clear More