It only took a brief drive in a Zeekr 7X to convince me: Chinese cars are now competitive and could be sold in the US tomorrow. The compact battery-electric crossover, a bestseller in Europe, is aimed directly at the Tesla Model Y with its five […]
Month: February 2026
Amazon rolls out Alexa Plus nationwide and launches a new free tier
Amazon has announced that its generative AI-powered digital assistant Alexa Plus is now available to all Prime members in the US via any Alexa-enabled device, Alexa.com, and the Alexa mobile app. If you don’t have Prime, you can access the assistant on a new free […]
So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it
Some semi-unhinged musings on where LLMs fit into my life—and how I’ll keep using them.
Russia’s Massive Drone-Missile Assault on Ukraine Strikes Cities as Peace Talks Loom – 2/4/2026, 4:24:28 PM
Top world news as of February 4, 2026, includes a massive Russian attack on Ukraine, ongoing Epstein files fallout in U.S. and U.K. politics, U.S. diplomatic meetings amid tensions, and the end of a U.S. government shutdown.[1][2][3] Conflicts and Military Developments Russia launched a major […]
NASA finally acknowledges the elephant in the room with the SLS rocket
“You know, you’re right, the flight rate—three years is a long time.”
Sen. Warren wants to know what Google Gemini’s built-in checkout means for user privacy
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pressing Google for more information about its plans to build a checkout feature into its Gemini AI chatbot. In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Warren expresses concerns that the integration could allow Google and retailers “to exploit sensitive […]
Russian spy satellites have intercepted EU communications satellites
Unencrypted European communications are being targeted by Moscow.
GitHub adds Claude and Codex AI coding agents
GitHub is making Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI’s Codex AI coding agents directly available inside GitHub today. A new public preview adds Claude and Codex to GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code, for users with a Copilot Pro Plus or Copilot Enterprise subscription. The […]
The 14-inch, ARM-based Asus Vivobook is half off today
I’m typically reluctant to recommend budget-friendly laptops, particularly ones that run Windows, because they suck, more often than not. That’s beginning to change, thanks in part to last year’s introduction of the Snapdragon X-series processors that offer solid performance and good x86 and x64 app […]
US-Iran Tensions Rise: US F-35 Downs Iranian Drone Near USS Abraham Lincoln – 2/4/2026, 8:29:26 AM
US-Iran Tensions Escalate: US President Donald Trump stated the US is negotiating with Iran “right now,” following a US F-35 fighter jet shooting down an Iranian Shahed 139 drone approaching the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea; US Central Command cited Iranian […]