AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots

by News Feed Editor | May 22, 2026 | Technology

In the latest sign of these AI-heavy times, the National Transportation Safety Board temporarily removed access to its docket system after discovering that voices of pilots who were killed in a UPS plane crash last year had been re-created using AI and were...

SpaceX launches Starship V3 for the first time, but loses booster on return

by News Feed Editor | May 22, 2026 | Technology

SpaceX has launched the upgraded third version of its Starship rocket for the first time, though the test launch did not go perfectly for Elon Musk’s spaceflight company. The 407-foot rocket — the most powerful ever built — lifted off from SpaceX’s company town...

Valid certificates, stolen accounts: how attackers broke npm’s last trust signal

by News Feed Editor | May 22, 2026 | Technology

On May 19, 633 malicious npm package versions passed Sigstore provenance verification. They were cleared by the system because the attacker had generated valid signing certificates from a compromised maintainer account.Sigstore worked exactly as designed: it verified...

Blue Origin cleared to fly New Glenn mega-rocket after April mishap

by News Feed Editor | May 22, 2026 | Technology

Blue Origin’s new mega-rocket, New Glenn, is no longer grounded. The company said Friday that the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the rocket to fly again after the upper stage failed to deliver a commercial payload during an April launch. Blue Origin...

Your AI agents need a terminal, not just a vector database

by News Feed Editor | May 22, 2026 | Technology

When agentic workflows fail, developers often assume the problem lies in the underlying model’s reasoning abilities. In reality, the limited information provided by the retrieval interface is often the primary limiting factor.Researchers at multiple universities...

Google goes for the glitter with disco-ball icons: ‘Are y’all sure you still want this?’

by News Feed Editor | May 22, 2026 | Technology

So bad, it’s good? Google on Friday joined in the disco ball icon fun taking place on home screens everywhere. After Spotify’s temporary new disco ball app icon, released to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary, drew extensive online backlash (and a bit of praise...