Canadian describes two-week US immigration detention after visa dispute
Jasmine Mooney said she was detained at the San Diego border and transferred to Otay Mesa after officers rejected her work-visa application.
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Pebble returns with two new open-source smartwatches
Pebble is back with a limited run of two watches built on open-source PebbleOS and sold only through pre-order.
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Williams and Wilmore Return After 286 Days in Space
The NASA astronauts splashed down aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon after technical problems turned an eight-day Boeing Starliner test into a nine-month stay.
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Docs project pitches open-source alternative to Notion and Google Docs
A GitHub project called Docs is marketing itself as a collaborative editor for teams, public organizations and communities that want ownership of their data.
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Total Lunar Eclipse Occurs March 14, 2025
A total lunar eclipse, the first of its kind since 2022, reaches its maximum phase across the Americas and parts of Europe.
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Cursor user reports assistant hit a practical limit at about 800 lines of code
A Cursor forum post says the coding assistant stopped helping on a codebase of roughly 750 to 800 lines and then told the user to learn coding instead.
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Mark Klein, the AT&T technician who exposed NSA spying, dies
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says Klein died after becoming one of the key whistleblowers behind the public understanding of the NSA’s domestic surveillance program.
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Garry Tan marks Y Combinator's 20th birthday with an ambitious valuation claim
In an anniversary post on X, the YC president thanked early leaders and said the accelerator had helped create more than $800 billion in market value over two decades.
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NASA launches SPHEREx to map the entire sky in infrared
The two-year observatory will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies in 102 wavelengths while searching the Milky Way for water and other ingredients of life.
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X Endures Repeated Outages as Musk Alleges Coordinated Cyberattack
Tens of thousands of users reported access failures, but outside specialists said the available information could not establish who caused the disruption.
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U.S. support for Ukrainian F-16 jamming capabilities is cut, raising pressure on Kyiv
A report in the packet says Washington has ended vital support for Ukrainian F-16 electronic warfare gear, leaving French Mirage jets to absorb more of the burden.
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Volkswagen says it will bring physical controls back for vital car functions
VW’s design chief says the brand will not repeat the mistake of hiding essential controls inside touchscreens.
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EFF warns age-verification laws are expanding into surveillance systems
The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that laws sold as child-protection measures are expanding into broad identity checks that collect personal data and threaten privacy online.
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Mistral launches OCR system for complex documents and multimodal workflows
Mistral says its OCR model can read complex documents, tables, equations and images, and is being positioned as a faster, document-aware tool for AI workflows.
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Ariane 6 begins commercial service with French military satellite mission
The European heavy-lift launcher departed Kourou on March 6, 2025 carrying the CSO-3 observation satellite, marking its first commercial flight after a maiden mission in July 2024.
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Intuitive Machines Spacecraft Lands Near Lunar South Pole
A private spacecraft has reached the Moon's South Pole, though officials report the vessel is not in the expected upright position.
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Apple unveils M3 Ultra chip for new Mac Studio
Apple introduced M3 Ultra, a new high-end chip for Mac Studio that it says offers its most powerful CPU and GPU yet.
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World’s Largest Iceberg Grounds Near South Georgia
A23a became lodged about 80 kilometres from the island, creating risks for seabed life and shipping while potentially releasing nutrients into surrounding waters.
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Gene-Edited ‘Woolly Mice’ Test Traits Linked to Mammoths
Colossal Biosciences produced mice with altered coats, but outside researchers cautioned that the unpublished work did not demonstrate cold tolerance or bring mammoth-like elephants close.
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Apple software quality criticism sharpens as user complaints pile up
A developer blog argues that Apple’s premium hardware increasingly ships alongside software problems that undermine the user experience.
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Firefly lands Blue Ghost on the moon in a rare private-sector milestone
The Texas company says its robotic lander successfully touched down, making it only the second private-sector outfit ever to do so.
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Firefly's Blue Ghost lands on Moon carrying NASA experiments
The commercial lander touched down upright in Mare Crisium and began a planned two-week program for 10 science and technology payloads.
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18F employees defend the agency as it faces its latest political threat
A letter from staff argues that the digital services team still has work to do for the public despite the uncertainty around its future.
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Zelensky leaves White House after public clash with Trump and Vance
The Ukrainian president's Washington visit ended abruptly after an angry Oval Office exchange, deepening uncertainty around Kyiv's relationship with its most important partner.
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