Date of sighting: Oct 2, 2026Location of sighting: Snohomish, Washington, USASource: NUFORCThis orb was spotted coming over the Washington state mountains last week. The glowing…
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Records released by the National Security Agency to The Black Vault in September 2025, and now being published online by The Black Vault, provide additional…
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Enlarge (credit: Alex Schmidt / Getty Images) Oran Routh has had an eventful few weeks. In August, he moved into a two-bed, two-bath rental unit on the second floor of a building in Greensboro, North Carolina. On September 15, his father, Ryan Routh, was found in the bushes of the sixth hole of Trump International…
Enlarge / Cows being milked in Wisconsin on May 8, 2024. (credit: Getty | Matthew Ludak) The H5N1 bird flu appears to be stampeding through dairy farms in California, the country's largest milk producer. Over the weekend, the total number of confirmed infected cow herds stunningly doubled, going from 17 last Thursday to 34 Monday…
Enlarge (credit: andresr via Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outlined his vision for an AI-driven future of tech progress and global prosperity in a new personal blog post titled "The Intelligence Age." The essay paints a picture of human advancement accelerated by AI, with Altman suggesting that superintelligent AI could emerge within…
The Sarmat missile silo seen before last week's launch attempt. [credit: Maxar Technologies ] Late last week, Russia's military planned to launch a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on a test flight from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Imagery from commercial satellites captured over the weekend suggest the missile exploded before or during launch. This is at…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Five years ago, researchers made a grim discovery—a legitimate Android app in the Google Play market that was surreptitiously made malicious by a library the developers used to earn advertising revenue. With that, the app was infected with code that caused 100 million infected devices to connect to attacker-controlled servers and…
Enlarge (credit: Moor Studio | DigitalVision Vectors) Cloudflare announced new tools Monday that it claims will help end the era of endless AI scraping by giving all sites on its network the power to block bots in one click. That will help stop the firehose of unrestricted AI scraping, but, perhaps even more intriguing to…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Juj Winn) A pleasant female voice greets me over the phone. “Hi, I’m an assistant named Jasmine for Bodega,” the voice says. “How can I help?” “Do you have patio seating,” I ask. Jasmine sounds a little sad as she tells me that unfortunately, the San Francisco–based Vietnamese restaurant doesn't…
Enlarge (credit: Derek Berwin) Our planet is choking on plastics. Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are polypropylene—which is used for things such as food packaging and bumpers—and polyethylene, found in plastic bags, bottles, toys, and even mulch. Polypropylene and polyethylene can be recycled, but the process can…
Enlarge If the past five years of EU tech rules could take human form, they would embody Thierry Breton. The bombastic commissioner, with his swoop of white hair, became the public face of Brussels’ irritation with American tech giants, touring Silicon Valley last summer to personally remind the industry of looming regulatory deadlines. Combative and…
Enlarge / This photo of the International Space Station was captured by a crew member on a Soyuz spacecraft. (credit: NASA/Roscosmos) A little more than two years ago, Dmitry Rogozin, the bellicose former head of Russia's space agency, nearly brought the International Space Station partnership to its knees. During his tenure as director general of…
