The Download: introducing the Impossible issue

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk reportedly ordered the recent Starlink slowdown in UkraineThe restrictions hampered drone strikes and...

Can Europe Build Data Centers Without Giving Up Its Climate Goals?

In the last 18 months, multiple data center proposals have fallen through in Germany: Stack Infrastructure canceled a $3 billion facility in Hesse, and state-owned Komm.ONE withdrew from a...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a robo-puffin?

In experiments carried out in a water tank and at Lake Geneva, a team led by Raphael Zufferey, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, identified combinations of...

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Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched

The internet’s mad scramble on Wednesday to patch a pair of critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a widely used web scripting language, was already too...

The Download: introducing the Impossible issue

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk reportedly ordered the recent Starlink slowdown in UkraineThe...

Can Europe Build Data Centers Without Giving Up Its Climate Goals?

In the last 18 months, multiple data center proposals have fallen through in Germany: Stack Infrastructure canceled a $3 billion facility in Hesse, and...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a robo-puffin?

In experiments carried out in a water tank and at Lake Geneva, a team led by Raphael Zufferey, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering...

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Save to wishlistSave to wishlistSnuggly CatThe Ripple RugSave to wishlistSave to wishlistGet Sitewide Chewy Free ShippingNew customers can also get free 1-3-day delivery (with...

Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse...

But this is being entirely upended by the release of personal AI agents, which can do things for you online, like booking flights or...