SpaceX's Starship explodes again while still on the ground(theregister.com)

14 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 5 comments

NASA's X-59 plane is aiming for a sonic thump, not a boom(theregister.com)

4 points by rntn 1 year ago | 2 comments

Driverless cars swerve traffic tickets in California even if they break the law(theregister.com)

29 points by beardyw 2 years ago | 33 comments

SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition(theregister.com)

122 points by beardyw 1 year ago | 119 comments

GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability(theregister.com)

423 points by richtr 7 months ago | 221 comments

The Register article on GitHub's recent string of outages and slowdowns affecting Actions, pull requests, notifications and Copilot, falling short of three nines.

NASA uses Mars Helicopter's SoC for rover navigation upgrade(theregister.com)

30 points by LorenDB 8 months ago | 10 comments

California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years(latimes.com)

420 points by thnaks 9 months ago | 215 comments

Los Angeles Times article reporting that California is free of all drought and abnormal dryness for the first time in 25 years, and explaining the turnaround.

The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran(cnn.com)

1103 points by lavp 8 months ago | 2393 comments

CNN news report that Israel launched a strike against Iran and declared a nationwide state of emergency.

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down(apnews.com)

462 points by geox 1 year ago | 253 comments

AP News article reporting that websites hosting major US climate reports, including the National Climate Assessment, have been taken down.

California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023(eff.org)

520 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 261 comments

EFF Deeplinks article reporting that California law enforcement agencies misused state databases more than 7,000 times in 2023.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission(cnn.com)

385 points by voxleone 1 year ago | 1020 comments

CNN article reporting that NASA's acting chief Sean Duffy suggested SpaceX could lose its moon lander contract, saying NASA won't wait for one company.