The new Storm Radar app is a treasure trove of data for weather nerds

The horrible winter of 2026 is behind us in New England; now we’ve moved on to the season where there’s a threat of rain basically every day. Given that, the updated Storm Radar app from The Weath [...]

NOAA warns staff a militia group thinks its radars are 'weather weapons'

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has warned the National Weather Service of possible attacks from an armed conspiracy group targeting Doppler radar stations, according to a report f [...]

Frontier Radar #1: From chatbots to problem solvers - the state of AI agents in 2026

2025 was supposed to be the year of AI agents, and some say the revolution never happened. We see it differently: it did happen, just more quietly than expected. <br /> But what actually separat [...]

Frontier Radar #3: How agentic AI is turning tokens into a business metric

Monthly subscription, open chat, ask question: This is how generative AI used to work. Agentic workflows go beyond this model. They consume many times more tokens, run autonomously for hours and make [...]

Giant radar ‘umbrella’ launches into space on mission to transform climate science

The European Space Agency (ESA) has blasted its Biomass satellite into space aboard a Vega-C rocket. The launch took place at 11:15 (CEST) today from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.  N [...]

Gemini Diffusion could be Google's most important I/O news that slipped under the radar

Google is testing a new kind of language model called Gemini Diffusion—an experimental system that generates text using diffusion techniques instead of traditional word-by-word prediction.<br /&g [...]

Frontier Radar #2: Why AI productivity gets lost between benchmarks and the balance sheet

Generative AI leads to measurable time savings on many tasks. But a gap remains between faster task completion and measurable economic impact. Verification overhead, limited metrics, and organizationa [...]

Canada buys Australian Arctic radar in A$2.5bn defence-export first

Australia has been refining the same unusual piece of radar for decades, a system that bounces signals off the ionosphere to see thousands of kilometres past the curve of the Earth, and for all that t [...]

Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead?

Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are now within striking distance of the best US models. Western labs blame distillation, and there's real evidence for it. But guilty or not, the conclusion is the same: a mod [...]