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.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with GitHub's worst reliability month on record and the AI infrastructure pressure behind it. He also covers Warp going open source, Apple's Mac supply crunch, OpenAI's goblin tic, the first 1X humanoid factory in the US, Tesla's Semi finally hitting mass production, Chinese EVs with movie-projecting headlights, the final GPS III satellite, and a quantum researcher who won 1 Bitcoin.
1855 kicks off with a bombshell AP investigation revealing how Silicon Valley giants IBM, Intel, NVIDIA, Oracle, and more spent decades building China's surveillance state. Also covered, malicious Chrome extensions stealing credentials from 170+ sites, Microsoft's ambitious Rust migration plans, China's combat-ready humanoid robot, and Japan restarting the world's largest nuclear plant. -Want to be a Guest on a Podcast
Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company’s GitHub repositories in January 2024, The Times confirmed to BleepingComputer. As first seen by VX-Underground, the internal data was leaked on Thursday by an anonymous user who posted a torrent to a 273GB archive containing the
GitHub announced that it will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentications (2FA) by the end of 2023. This is part of GitHub’s platform-wide effort to secure the software ecosystem through improving account security. GitHub described their reasoning for requiring 2FA this way: The software supply chain starts with the
GitHub announced that they reinstated youtube-dl after receiving additional information about the project that enabled GitHub to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown. As a result, GitHub has created a developer-focused approach that requires specific steps that will be performed before any takedown claim is processed. TechCrunch reported that in October, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)