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#1866 32:57

Colliding Black Holes Reveal a Whirlpool in Spacetime

In this episode, Ray Cochrane unpacks how two colliding black holes revealed a whirlpool in spacetime, a direct detection of frame dragging hidden in the cleanest gravitational-wave signal ever recorded. Additional stories cover the James Webb Space Telescope, counting 16.5 million stars in the Cigar Galaxy, SpaceX rolling out Starship V3, deadly back-to-back earthquakes in Venezuela, GitHub fighting a California law that could break open source, and Meta engineering a battery narrow enough to live in a pair of glasses.

#1857 55:21

OpenClaw, Moltbook and the Rise of AI Agent Societies

This episode kicks off with Moltbook, a social network exclusively for AI agents where 150,000 agents formed digital religions, sold "digital drugs" (system prompts to alter other agents), and attempted prompt injection attacks to steal each other's API keys within 72 hours of launch. Ray breaks down OpenClaw, the viral open-source AI agent (68,000 GitHub stars) that handles emails, scheduling, browser control, and automation, plus MoltHub's risky marketplace where all downloaded skills are treated as trusted code. Also covered, Bluetooth "whisper pair" vulnerabilities letting attackers hijack audio devices from 46 feet away and access microphones, Anthropic patching Model Context Protocol flaws, AI-generated ransomware accidentally bundling its own decryption keys, Claude Code's new task dependency system and Teleport feature, Google Gemini's 100MB file limits and agentic vision capabilities, VAST's Haven One commercial space station assembly, and IBM SkillsBuild's free tech training for veterans.

#1854 40:14

The End of Deadzones and Japan’s new Laser Gunship

In this episode, Ray covers December Tech News! T-Mobile's groundbreaking Starlink satellite beta promises to eliminate dead zones using your regular phone with no special equipment needed. Also discussed: Japan's ship-mounted laser weapon with unlimited ammo, China's record-breaking 387 mph maglev train, Rivian challenging Tesla's camera-only approach with LiDAR, Google's Gemini-powered smart glasses, and physicists 3D printing ice sculptures just

#1847 23:35

The Future of AI on Your Desktop

NVIDIA’s new DGX Spark is shaking up the AI world — a $3,999 pocket-sized supercomputer built to run powerful AI models locally. A true game changer for developers.

Records Show China’s Starlink Rivals Have Only 120 Satellites In Orbit

There are over 11,000 satellites in low Earth orbit, providing internet, surveillance and navigation services, The New York Times reported. It is not going well. China’s Starlink competitors have only about 120 satellites in low Earth orbit. China’s two biggest networks have been deployed less than 1 percent of their planned satellites, records show, a measure of how far they

Swatch Launches Space Collection

Swatch has launched a five-watch space collection inspired by NASA and the exploration of space. On sale today in Swatch stores and from 8 June on-line, the watches feature the famous "worm" NASA logo. These are going to be hot. The collection consists of two different model sets. The first set of three watches are Big Bold watches with Bioceramic

13 Minutes to the Moon – Apollo 13

For the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon, the BBC World Service produced an excellent podcast called 13 Minutes to the Moon, based on interviews and recordings from the people who were there including Michael Collins, Jim Lovell and Poppy Northcutt who was the first woman to work as an engineer in an operational support role in NASA’s Mission Control.