LOS ANGELES — Three years ago, environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in the Santa Clarita Valley. Few imagined the calamity that would follow.

Somehow the landfill’s pollution control system introduced oxygen below, causing decades-old waste to rapidly decompose, generating intense heat...Read more

One malfunctioning valve has been identified as the reason why Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a test that destroyed much of the company’s launch pad in Cape Canaveral.

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp gave an update on the company’s investigation to the May 28 incident that resulted in a massive fireball that destroyed the rocket...Read more

When a wildfire is headed your way, evacuating may sound straightforward: Gather your belongings, get in the car and leave.

In reality, it is one of the most complex decisions a person can face.

Fast-moving fires, shifting winds, heavy smoke and limited escape routes can quickly turn an orderly evacuation into gridlock. In ...Read more

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Illinois — Tens of thousands of gallons of fluid spilled from the open pit, urged on by heavy spring rains and unencumbered by an emergency pump disabled by a power failure.

The toxic mix of oil and an underground water called brine, several times saltier than the ocean, poured into a ditch along Petrolia Lane and crept ...Read more

A 19-year-old fisherman was bitten on the leg by a beaver in Cunningham Falls State Park in Frederick County on Wednesday morning, a Maryland Department of Natural Resources spokesperson said.

This is the second beaver attack at Cunningham Falls in the past two weeks. The incident occurred in the South Beach Day Use area of the park at about 9:...Read more

The U.S. government’s top information security official warned that computer systems nationwide need to bolster their defenses to meet the growing threat of cyberattacks powered by artificial intelligence.

During remarks Wednesday, Acting Federal Chief Information Security Officer Michael Duffy said that the government and private-sector ...Read more

SEATTLE -- Jeff Bezos filed plans Monday to sell nearly $4.1 billion in Amazon stock as shares hit a new all-time high.

Since stepping down as Amazon’s CEO in 2021, the company’s founder has been selling off tens of billions of dollars’ worth of Amazon stock. The sales are part of prearranged trading plans, which are meant to shield ...Read more

Part of a SpaceX rocket, about the size of a school bus, is believed to have collided with the moon, independent scientists said Wednesday.

The rocket carried two lunar landers into space earlier this year, one for NASA and another from a Japanese company. After the lunar landers separated from SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, the team sought to ...Read more

Electronic Arts is now a private company, owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake and Affinity Partners.

The $55 billion acquisition of the gaming giant was first announced last September, approved by EA's shareholders in December, and completed on Tuesday, according to a press release. The deal marked the largest all-...Read more

America’s artificial intelligence titans recently banded together to urge the government not to restrict so-called open-weight AI models, or those that are publicly available for users to freely download and run on their own platforms, so that they can better compete with the ones coming out of China. All the usual suspects -- Nvidia Corp., ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Looking for some marmot content? Try OnlyFans or, rather, OnlyMarms.

Researchers at a UCLA-affiliated marmot research lab launched an OnlyFans account to post videos of marmots captured in the wild as a way to help generate funding for their work and offset federal cuts to universities.

Since it debuted at the end of May, the ...Read more

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For millennia, the Wounaan people, who live in parts of what is now Panama and Colombia, have hewn and sculpted various woods. Cocobolo rosewood, Dalbergia retusa, is particularly favored for carving ceremonial staffs used in traditional medicine and commercial art depicting tropical plants and animals.

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Severe storms, heat waves and wildfires can shut down the social life of a community, flooding out festivals, canceling community events and keeping people indoors.

They’re also evidence of how climate change isn’t just changing the environments we all live in, but also impeding our ability to connect with one another.

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A predawn launch by SpaceX on the Space Coast marked the 50th from Florida in 2026.

A Falcon 9 rocket a mission to deploy the BlueBird 11, 12 and 13 satellites for AST SpaceMobile took flight from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 lifting off at 3:49 a.m.

The first-stage booster for this mission made its 30th trip ...Read more

It’s not a stretch to say that 2001’s “Halo: Combat Evolved” was a game-changer. A launch title for the original Xbox developed by Bellevue-based Bungie and published by Redmond-based Microsoft Game Studios, “Halo” was the reason to get an Xbox. It revolutionized the first-person shooter genre and left an indelible mark on the ...Read more

Sony’s decision to stop physical disc production caused an uproar among gamers. It marks a sea change for the industry as PlayStation shifts to an all-digital future. For collectors, it’s a devastating end. Physical discs are prized because they give players an object to have in hand, but the bigger issue is that it raises the issue of ...Read more

The Ibreo 4-in-1 Foot 3 mini foot massager is heaven -- so much so that I’m sitting at my desk writing this column as my feet are being massaged.

That's what you get with the spa-grade portable mini foot massager that Ibreo designed to support daily recovery and relaxation after long hours of standing or physical activity. It’s portable ...Read more

We’ve all been there.

You’re out at the mall or shopping at the grocery store or at a hotel and your phone offers to join an open Wi-Fi network.

Should you do it? Is public Wi-Fi safe to use?

Yes…and no.

Public Wi-Fi is safe enough for tasks like checking the news or looking up the closest good Chinese restaurant. It’s fine for ...Read more

In the final season of HBO’s Hacks," Hannah Einbinder’s character, Ava, goes ballistic on an AI developer. When her boss and best friend, Deborah, played by Jean Smart, contemplates inputting a career’s worth of stand-up jokes into a ChatGPT-like large language model, Ava loses it.

“You either get on board or you get left in the past,�...Read more

If you build a house in the United States today, there’s a good chance you’ll be living under the dictates of a neighborhood homeowners association. Roughly two out of every three new homes are in an HOA, as are a third of existing homes.

Some of these HOAs have evolved to encourage environmentally friendly yards, particularly in the desert...Read more