Noor Al-Sibai

Historic Precedence A former NASA employee is sounding off on government short-sightedness — and, perhaps somewhat hyperbolically, comparing Congress to Rome. In an editorial for NASA Watch, former Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) proposal manager Jeff Nosanov compared the agency's recent layoffs, which affected eight percent of the lab's employees, to other "historic mistakes" made by fallen […]

Sun Gazing Last fall, NASA's Mars rover spotted a massive spot on the surface of the Sun — and now, that ginormous maw is looking directly at the Earth. First reported by SpaceWeather.com, the sunspot is expected to blast a coronal mass ejection (CME) out towards Earth and will be "not just a near miss, but […]

It's sportsball season in the US of A, and the National Basketball Association is being sued by pissed-off investors who lost billions over a cryptocurrency scam promoted by the Dallas Mavericks at the behest of its former owner, Mark Cuban. The new class action lawsuit, which was filed in the US District Court of Southern […]

Loose Lips After leaving the government last month, the Pentagon's former UFO chief has had multiple media hits revealing more than he likely could have while still in the military's employ — but this latest one, we must admit, is a doozy. In an interview with Politico, Sean Kirkpatrick, the former head of the Pentagon's All-domain […]

Elon Musk's Disney meltdown is continuing apace, and now, the billionaire is claiming that the media conglomerate has "institutionalized racism" at its heart. It's been a pretty huge week for Musk's Disney feud, which began last fall when Disney pulled its ads from X-formerly-Twitter alongside a host of other businesses over the unrelenting and unregulated […]

Rest Easy NASA's tiny Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has seen its last days of flight — but its friend, the Perseverance rover, hasn't said goodbye just yet. Originally published earlier this month by NASA, the grainy raw images of Ingenuity sitting sadly in the sand ripples of Mars' Neretva Vallis river valley, cleaned up images of […]

Vote Not Officials say they've identified the culprit behind an AI-generated robocall featuring a fake President Joe Biden telling people not to vote — and everyone's freaked out by the precedent it sets. In a press release, the New Hampshire Department of Justice said that the alleged perpetrator is one Walter Monk, a Texas man […]

Ice Wars New year, new missing submersible — and although this one doesn't have anyone on it, its loss is still a really big deal. In a press release, Sweden's University of Gothenburg announced that its robotic submersible, named "Ran" after the Norse goddess of the sea, has gone AWOL during its sophomore voyage underneath […]

Serious Stuff Things have gone from bad to worse for Voyager 1, which has been out of contact with Earth-bound mission control for months now — and there's no telling when it may come back online. In an interview with Ars Technica, Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd said the 46-year-old craft, which is currently careening some […]

Campaign Crazies After successfully winning reelection last November, Philadelphia's controversial sheriff has been forced to admit that several articles cited as positive press for her campaign were made up by AI. As the Philadelphia Inquirer reports, a spokesperson for Sheriff Rochelle Bilal's reelection effort confirmed that the dozens of articles found on the campaign's website had […]