Astronomers have discovered a hungry baby planet gobbling up material around an infant star located around 430 light-years from Earth. The planet has been given the suitably cute name WISPIT 2b. WISPIT 2b is estimated to be a gas giant around…
Deals: Amazon's $449 M3 iPad Air sale is back, plus save 20% at eBay
Save $150 on Apple’s current iPad Air, with sale prices dipping to as low as $449 today. Plus, save 20% on thousands of items on eBay. Grab the lowest prices of the year on Apple’s iPad Air. You can grab the…
CISA is warning of a worrying Git security flaw, so stay alert
CISA adds CVE-2025-48384 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Git patched it in July 2025, but there are also mitigations and workarounds Users should patch immediately, or face possible attack The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a…
Recent books from the MIT community
Data, Systems, and Society: Harness AI for Societal GoodBy Munther A. Dahleh, professor of EECS and founding director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and SocietyCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2025, $27.99 So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs—and May…
SpaceX’s Starship deploys its payload for the first time
SpaceX has successfully launched the Starship for its 10th test flight after it was delayed a couple of times due to weather conditions and other issues. This time, the company was able to achieve its objectives without the vehicle and its…
SpaceX’s giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight in stunning comeback (video)
SpaceX’s Starship megarocket took to the skies for the 10th time ever today (Aug. 26), on a bold test flight that marked a big bounceback from recent failures. Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, lifted off from SpaceX’s…