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  1. Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch

    SpaceX has again lost a Starship, after the seventh test flight of the spacecraft ended with a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”, but is nonetheless celebrating the mission as it ended with the second successful catch of its Super Heavy booster.…

  2. Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in

    Cisco and Nvidia have both recognized that as useful as today's AI may be, the technology can be equally unsafe and/or unreliable – and have delivered tools in an attempt to help address those weaknesses.…

  3. We'll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC

    General Motors on Thursday said that it has reached a settlement with the FTC "to address privacy concerns about our now-discontinued Smart Driver program."…

  4. Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows

    US President Joe Biden gave his final address to the nation on Wednesday, and said America was visibly sliding into an oligopoly aided by a flood of online disinformation.…

  5. Department of Transportation wants in on last-minute Biden administration action too

    The Department of Transportation has joined the flurry of last-minute actions by the Biden administration with a lawsuit accusing Southwest Airlines of operating chronically delayed flights. …


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Doris Lessing – The Sirian Experiments

 

Somtow Sucharitul – Starship & Haiku

 

S.P. Somtow – I Wake from a Dream of a Drowned Star City

 

Tricia Sullivan – Occupy Me

 

Iain Sinclair - Radon Daughters

 

Somtow Sucharitkul - The Throne of Madness

 

Lavie Tidhar - Central Station

 

Aliette de Bodard – In the Vanishers’ Palace

 

Sydney Padua - The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

 

Ken MacLeod - Cosmonaut Keep

 

Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow

 

Peter Watts - Blindsight

 

Ian Sales – Adrift on the Sea of Rains

 

Peter Watts – Maelstrom

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