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Juda B. Hur

A lifelong tech enthusiast who grew up in the ’70s and ’80s, witnessing the incredible evolution of technology firsthand. Passionate about Apple, Tesla, and just about anything that pushes the boundaries of innovation.

Markets

Rivian set a record as the R2 ramped. The $833M loss going around is old

Rivian had its best quarter yet as the R2 ramped up. The loss being shared as its third-quarter result is actually from the quarter before, and the cheaper R2 still has no date.

just now · 2 min

Rivian R2 electric SUV in Catalina Blue, exterior view

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scores 55% on Ironclad contract tasks

OpenAI trained its new model on contract work built with Ironclad. It beats the older model, but the speed gains are simulated and the tasks don't come from real customer deals.

20 min ago · 2 min

Space

Hubble's 1999 cold case points to a planet born from a dead star

A white dwarf's odd niobium signature, sitting unexplained in Hubble data since 1999, points to a gas giant that formed after its star died. It's still a candidate.

46 min ago · 4 min

Artist's concept of a gas giant planet in silhouette orbiting a small white dwarf star ringed by a thin disk of debris

Solar & Grid

8,547 European solar and wind farm controls found open online

Dutch researchers say it took hours to find the control panels and login pages. The study covered utility-scale parks, not home rooftops, but some of the lessons still apply at home.

1 hr ago · 2 min

Modat map of exposed solar and wind farm control systems across Europe

BreakingEVs

Volkswagen opens orders for its first electric GTI[1]

German orders open at €39,995 (~$44,700 USD), above May’s target of just under €39,000 (~$43,600 USD), with the same advertised core equipment.[1][2][4]

1 hr ago · 1 min

Mistral Large 4 will do the security work US AI models refuse

Mistral's trillion-parameter model trails the leaders by months, but it will help security teams pull apart real bugs that Claude and GPT-6 Astra won't touch.

1 hr ago · 2 min

Space

Artemis II crew's tablet notes show how 3 astronauts tallied Moon impacts

NASA released a crew screenshot marking faint impact flashes seen during April's eclipse, along with 800 gigabytes of Artemis II lunar science data.

1 hr ago · 2 min

Simulated view of the dark, eclipsed Moon with Artemis II crew's handwritten impact flash notes

Prime Day's power station deals end tonight. Check price history first

Amazon's fall sale closes just before midnight Pacific. Before you trust an 'up to 58% off' tag, Amazon's own AI shopping tool can show you a year of prices.

2 hr ago · 2 min

Two people standing in a kitchen with a portable power station supplying power to household devices

EVs

Hyundai's Ioniq 9 wins over families, but Kia's hybrid wins on price

Reviewers who loaded Hyundai's three-row EV with kids and luggage say it works. With the tax credit gone, up to $7,000 USD in rebates still leaves it well above Kia's Telluride Hybrid.

2 hr ago · 4 min

Front view of a 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 electric SUV on display at the 2025 New York International Auto Show

Apple quietly drops Intel Macs from Magic Mouse and Trackpad lists

The USB-C Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad pages now list only Apple silicon Macs, yet their stated requirement, macOS 15.1, still covers several Intel machines.

2 hr ago · 2 min

Apple Magic Mouse, the accessory whose compatibility list no longer includes Intel Macs

BreakingSpace

SpaceX’s Florida gas pipeline gets staff backing for service tariff

Regulatory staff backed a dedicated gas supply for SpaceX, with all proposed capacity reserved for the company and service charges negotiated privately.[1]

2 hr ago · 2 min

SpaceX launch pad buildings beside a grassy field at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

BreakingAI

Nvidia opens RTX Spark laptop preorders for local AI [1]

Developers get a portable Windows option for running AI on their own machines, with memory choices that deserve a close look.[2]

2 hr ago · 2 min

NVIDIA RTX Spark slim laptops and small desktops

BreakingMarkets

Tesla adds Model 3 and Model Y home backup with Powerwall 3

Eligible owners in the US and Puerto Rico can extend outage backup, using Powerwall 3 and a compatible home charger.

2 hr ago · 2 min

A Tesla plugged into a charger in a parking garage.

EVs

Europe needs 105,000 more bike mechanics, and e-bikes aren't the main reason

An industry report says the repair bench is holding back cycling in Europe. The shops and mechanics surveyed blame low pay first and bike complexity third.

12 hr ago · 2 min

EVs

Porsche's next Boxster will be electric-only. The 911 won't be

Porsche says the electric Boxster and Cayman reach full production in 2028. Its CEO also promises the 911 will never be electric, though hybrid 911s are still part of the plan.

13 hr ago · 2 min

Camouflaged electric Porsche 718 Boxster prototype spotted during testing

EVs

A year without the EV tax credit: carmaker discounts cover only part

The federal credit ended a year ago. Carmaker discounts shrank instead of growing, used EVs kept selling, and states offer a patchwork of rebates.

14 hr ago · 2 min

A row of colorful new cars parked at a car dealership lot under a bright blue sky

Tesla· EVs

Tesery's 'up to 30% off' coupons: the official code is worth 5%

Coupon sites are pushing big-discount codes for the Tesla accessory seller. The store's own autumn sale page lists one small code, and the better deals are on the price tags.

15 hr ago · 2 min

Interior of a Tesla Model Y Long Range showing the steering wheel, minimalist dashboard and center touchscreen

Battery

A battery separator forecast to 2035 leaves out China's giants

IndexBox expects steady growth in layered battery separators through 2035, but its Asia report gives two conflicting growth rates and its top ten makers list names no Chinese company.

15 hr ago · 6 min

Argonne lab worker aligns battery electrode sheets on a winder machine that rolls lithium-ion cell layers together

OpenAI unveils teen college planner as audit rates ChatGPT an Unacceptable Risk

OpenAI is pitching College Planner and new study tools to high schoolers. On the same day, a Common Sense Media audit said teen mode misses crisis signs and never alerted parents.

15 hr ago · 2 min

Young woman sitting on a bench using a laptop computer

Space

Curiosity's Mars dawn photo shows cliffs it hopes to reach in 2027

Six Mastcam frames show morning light on the yardangs of Mount Sharp. NASA says the layer "looks out of place," and it hopes to get the rover there in 2027.

16 hr ago · 2 min

Curiosity Mastcam sunrise panorama of Mars: blue-tinted foreground, sunlit wind-carved yardang cliffs on the horizon

Opinion

OpenAI's 722 AI math papers hand the checking bill to someone else

The papers were cheap for OpenAI to produce. Checking them takes months of expert time, and the people doing that work don't work for OpenAI.

16 hr ago · 5 min

Close-up of a man's hand holding chalk and underlining a mathematical formula on a chalkboard

Meta's Muse agent reaches the iPad a month after its iPhone launch

Meta's Muse, the AI agent that books tables, orders groceries and shops for you, now has a native iPad app in the US, about a month after it reached the iPhone.

16 hr ago · 2 min

Meta's Muse AI agent app shown on an iPad

Battery

AuroraCell's sodium-ion home battery skips lithium, but not the fine print

The Bulgarian firm claims 20,000 cycles and power delivery down to -40°C. It hasn't published a price, named its cell maker or allowed charging below freezing.

16 hr ago · 5 min

AuroraCell's 9.7 kWh sodium-ion chromium oxide residential battery

Apple Watch Series 12 is already $50 off, three weeks after launch

Amazon has cut prices on Apple's newest watches less than three weeks after they went on sale. The deal ends today, the best price only covers some colors, and last year's watch may be the smarter buy.

17 hr ago · 2 min

Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 shown side by side in a Prime Day deals graphic

Markets

Seagate fell 10% after a Toshiba plan not due until 2028

Toshiba's added capacity isn't due until early 2028, so it does nothing for this year's drive shortage. Analysts called the selloff an overreaction.

17 hr ago · 3 min

Oblique top view of a Seagate Exos X18 18TB high-capacity data center hard drive

Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts short prompt prices 90%, but bills fall less

Anthropic says a typical workload costs around 75% less to run than on Haiku 4.5, not 90% less. Some of its best benchmark scores were run at a setting most people won't use.

17 hr ago · 2 min

iOS 27.2 beta 3 is out, and Apple's new Siri languages are due in October

Apple's third iOS 27.2 developer build is mostly polish, and the update is due to bring Siri AI to French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish speakers in October.

17 hr ago · 2 min

EVs

California will pay up to $100,000 per fast charging port, with a plug catch

Grants can cover the full cost of a public fast charging port, up to $100,000 each, for builders ready to start. A plug rule may keep stations with only Tesla plugs out.

18 hr ago · 2 min

Row of Tesla Supercharger fast-charging stalls at Tesla's Oasis station in California

EVs

Regulators say Ford must pay for its new Michigan solar farm

Cold Creek is the first piece of Ford's record solar deal with DTE. State regulators require Ford's payments to cover the cost, but the clean-power goal has already slipped from 2025 to 2027.

20 hr ago · 2 min

Rows of utility-scale solar panels at DTE's Cold Creek solar park in Michigan

AI· Robotics

Boston Dynamics hands its robots to Alexa's former AI chief

Rohit Prasad spent 12 years building Alexa and Amazon's Nova models. He now runs the Hyundai-owned company that has promised Atlas humanoids for a Georgia plant by 2028.

21 hr ago · 2 min

Portrait of Rohit Prasad, Boston Dynamics' new chief executive and former head of Amazon's Alexa AI