Techtonic

In December 2025, about a month before the U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, President Trump had a secret meeting with Elon Musk, Time magazine reports. This was roughly seven months after Musk left his role in the Trump administration at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). During this meeting, Trump “spent […] More

Large, utility-scale battery installations are coming online quickly around the world. But there’s been some pushback from communities—especially population-dense ones like NYC—because of concerns about relatively rare but high-profile battery fires. “The number-one challenge that large-scale centralized energy storage providers have is the fact that their benefits are abstract and their costs are concrete,” said […] More

When Igor Dobrianskyi looks at a car dealership lot, he sees a wasted opportunity. “Millions and millions of used cars are sitting on parking lots, depreciating and losing value,” Dobrianskyi said in a recent interview, adding that there are 76,000 dealerships in the United States. “At the same time, there are people who need a […] More

That could make it valuable for neuroscientists studying the brain, says Sprague. “None of us can afford 40 hours of imaging for a new subject,” he says. “It’s something like $600 to $1,000 an hour.” Tools like this one could speed up research, he says. State of the art The encoder and decoder aren’t perfect. […] More

Alongside a redesigned Kindle lineup that features slimmer designs, zero bezels, and a lighter feel, Amazon announced a range of new accessories on Thursday. And one of them, a $34.99 remote called the Kindle Click, caught our eye. The Kindle Click is a compact Bluetooth remote designed to let readers turn pages without touching their […] More

The researchers hope the “mindreading” tool could reveal more about how the brain works. It could also help locked-in people communicate and, incredibly, maybe even allow scientists to recreate the content of dreams. But other scientists warn that a similar approach could reveal people’s inner thoughts and mental imagery, potentially without their consent. Here’s how […] More

Hollywood is increasingly turning to the internet for story ideas, with one of the latest being A24’s Backrooms from web series creator Kane Parsons. Now, studios are turning to the horror fiction site SCP Foundation and showing how dealing with that community can go right, and wrong.  On the “wrong” side, A24 recently ruffled feathers when […] More

A large review led by researchers at King’s College London has found that people who use cannabis are more likely both to commit violent acts and to experience violence themselves. Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) combined data from 63 studies involving more than 265,000 people. They analyzed the general population […] More

There is something beautiful about a function that does exactly what it needs to do. No unnecessary complexity. No giant abstraction. No mysterious chain of dependencies. No hundred-line explanation for a five-line idea. Just a small piece of code receiving something, doing something, and returning something useful. function add(a, b) { return a + b; […] More

Ravie LakshmananOct 01, 2026Artificial Intelligence / AI Safety Google on Wednesday announced its latest frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 4 Argon, that it said is being rolled out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program. “It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like […] More

Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of the AI coding startup Factory, said in a post on X on Wednesday that he fired VC Chris Degnan from his role as a board adviser. Grinberg alleges that Degnan shared confidential information with Factory’s biggest competitor, Cognition. Two hours after Grinberg’s post, Degnan announced on both X and […] More