Floppy disks are aging out and so are the people who understand them. Here’s how one Cambridge project is rescuing that data before the hardware and know‑how disappear.

Trinity Photos Bring the First Atomic Explosion Into Sharp Focus

Splurging to keep a middling (at best) sports team while the city is already raising fees and taxes to cover shortfalls...yea, don't make a lick of sense. #pdx www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Splinterslimes are some of the first elites I implemented for the #pico8 Solitomb, and still one of my favorites! 🦠 Not very strong, but if you're not careful, they'll split and merge all over your dungeon floor 😅 #gamedev #indiegame

Archives once locked behind paleography skills are becoming queryable datasets thanks to general-use AI models.

Less than 20 percent of enterprises have upgraded to any #Wi-Fi standard from this decade. That means most corporate wireless networks were designed before large language models, #AI agents, or modern inference workloads existed.

Cool mail day

The laser inside your 4K Blu-Ray player is dim and unfocused. A newer kind, built from #photonic crystals, is so bright and directional it can beam data across a river with minimal hardware. A Glasgow company just showed it working in the real world for the first time.

I would say that a blanket belief that "AI makes you dumb" is itself a serious failure in critical thinking

Researchers have developed a prototype electronics-free smart contact lens that can track glaucoma in real time and deliver drugs in response. spectrum.ieee.org/smart-contac...

The first step in applying for federal funding under Republican Party rule is to make sure your grant is politically in line with ruling party ideology.

No money for USAID. No money for universal healthcare. No money for SNAP benefits. No money for public housing. No money for UBI. No money for public education. No money to fund the sciences. No money for USPS. Money for this absolute bullshit. If you’re not angry, you should be.

Datacenter infrasound is the WiFi conspiracy but for cool kids.

What a load of horse shit.

Andrew Deck of Nieman Lab ( @andrewdeck.bsky.social @niemanlab.org ) broke the story in February on publishers blocking the Wayback Machine. In a new interview on Marketplace, he challenges the narrative that web archives are responsible for AI scraping. Listen: www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...

Great video here. Transit is far safer than driving. It's just a fact. Shame that we've decided to tolerate traffic deaths as if they were nothing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g3U...

How Did An AI Agent Build a RISC V CPU Core In Just 12 Hours

Bipartisan bill targets Chinese ground robots like humanoids, dog-bots, crawlers for U.S. government use. But American robotics companies still source key parts from China. The drone ban showed what happens when you flip the switch too fast. Will robots be different? ieee.org/spectrum

This rather creepy photo is Artemis II’s heat shield underwater, as taken by the U.S. Navy. This is the first photo we have of the heat shield, and upon initial examination it doesn’t seem to have the char loss that Artemis I’s had.

UBI is worth doing in any event.

Milton Hershey had a personal obsession with Cuba, and in 1916, his company went all in on its investments there.

Francis Bacon argued that making things was a valid path to science.

It seems like the Venn diagram of people who say things like "we're better offline," and people who seem to know about literally everything published to the internet, ever...is just a circle.

"Games are both easier and harder than the real world. They’re easier because there are fewer levels of abstraction. They’re harder because games are much more diverse. The real world has the same physics everywhere."

Absolute authoritarian BS here.

Sharing this cool thing: A reader named Andrea (@pinkevyis.bsky.social) is reading one of our books every month! If you want to link up & discuss, you can join her book club on the Fable app. She's starting from the beginning with EarthBound. fable.co/club/boss-fi...

Boston Dynamics just gave Spot a high-level reasoning model from Google DeepMind. The most interesting part may be what the AI still can't do. https://spectrum.ieee.org/boston-dynamics-spot-google-deepmind?share_id=9376929

We're already about halfway done with our AGE OF EMPIRES launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gab... #retrogaming #realtimestrategy #aoe #ageofempires #videogames #pcgaming

What is the state of AI in 2026? The one big report that actually tries, and largely succeeds, in answering that question just dropped. #ai #llms

US models, China’s robots, soaring compute, and mixed public trust: the 2026 AI Index redraws the map of where AI is really headed.

The four humans who have traveled the furthest from Earth. (Via NASA.)

You have to build the AI agents to do the monitoring with checks & balances spectrum.ieee.org/ai-reliability #ai

This is a change no one is paying attention to yet. AI is going to bring changes to desktop PCs. I think the idea of having a GPU that does graphics + AI obviously won't hold long term. We're going to see AI inference cards become a thing.

Large physics models are starting to challenge traditional simulation in auto and aerospace design

Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand

Negotiations between the 7 states that share the Colorado River's water have collapsed twice, and the federal government is threatening to impose a plan. AI tools are making the tradeoffs impossible to ignore. https://spectrum.ieee.org/colorado-river-water-shortage?share_id=9346885

OK this is cool. The first time humans have seen the whole Mare Orientale on the far side of the Moon with their own eyes. See flic.kr/p/2s5HA2X 🧪🔭

Given how we use them, the team just refers to the solar arrays as selfie sticks.

EverQuest Legends introduces new video series that promises deep-dives into systems

Thank you @bossfightbooks.com 🙏 First giveaway I've ever won. I love their publications and every writer featured for how deeply and passionately they engage with games. So excited to read @kaittremblay.bsky.social's dive into Life is Strange. Here are some photos of my small collection. Ft. Frida

NASA's Artemis II mission has launched. Read about how it all came together. spectrum.ieee.org/artemis-ii-l...

Didn’t expect to be emotional about a rocket today, but that first reverse shot of the boosters falling back to earth moved me to tears. Humanity has made a mess of the hopes and expectations for the future I held as a kid, and it’s overwhelming to see us reaching for our grandest aspiration again

Oh wow, the shot of the core stage sep is gorgeous

Good: getting some external images from Orion. Bad: the crew is troubleshooting the toilet.

The 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 will now cost you $305(!!!) It launched in 2025 with an MSRP of just $120. So yea, about a 2.5x increase in price. #raspberrypi #consumertech #memoryshortage spectrum.ieee.org/ram-shortage...

Today is #Apple's 50-year anniversary, founded on April 1, 1976. Here's the story of how a small team of engineers designed Apple's first computer. spectrum.ieee.org/apple-macint...

Good.

Raspberry Pi is being forced to get inventive here…can we stop forcing them to get inventive?

After a spinal cord injury, Robert Woo spent 15 years helping engineers improve exoskeletons—from the inside.