Welcome to Edition 7.36 of the Rocket Report! Well, after nine months, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are finally back on Earth, safe and sound. This brings to conclusion one of the stranger and more dramatic human spaceflight stories in years. We’re glad they’re finally home, soon to be reunited with their families. … Read more
Ars Technica has reached out to the NIH and HHS for comment and will update this story with any new information provided. The agencies did not respond to comment requests from KFF. Kennedy’s misinformation Before becoming the top health official in America, Kennedy had long railed against vaccines, becoming one of the world’s most prominent … Read more
Insurance companies have so far paid out more than $12 billion for losses from the two biggest of the Los Angeles-area wildfires that swept through the region and destroyed tens of thousands of homes in January. California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Wednesday announced new figures as part of an update of the public consumer … Read more
The use of high-risk and outdated open source software (OSS) components is a widespread problem, according to a Black Duck report that revealed 86% of analyzed codebases contained vulnerable open source components.The 2025 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) Report, published Tuesday, is based on analyses by Black Duck Audit of 965 commercial codebases … Read more
In 2023, despite nearly universal legal requirements to have auto insurance, more than one in seven drivers (15.4 percent) nationally were uninsured, and more than one in six drivers (18.0 percent) were underinsured, according to the new report, Uninsured and Underinsured Motorists: 2017–2023, by the Insurance Research Council (IRC), affiliated with The Institutes. Across the … Read more
