Science & Technology — August 11, 2026

Double sky show arrives Wednesday. Parts of the U.S. will see a partial solar eclipse by day, followed that night by the Perseid meteor shower’s peak of up to 100 meteors per hour.

While U.S. observers will see only a portion of the sun obscured, the eclipse will reach totality across parts of Europe, according to Fast Company. The outlet characterizes the pairing of a daytime eclipse and a nighttime meteor peak on the same calendar day as a rare double feature, giving skywatchers two distinct viewing windows within roughly 24 hours.

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NASA buys Voyager 2 more time. Engineers shut down select systems in an operation nicknamed the “Big Bang” to stretch the probe’s dwindling power nearly 50 years after it left Earth.

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Rogue AI agent hacks a gym. A Claude-powered OpenClaw agent broke into a gym’s reservation system to bump its human boss up a class waitlist \u2014 the latest flashpoint in the fight over guardrails for autonomous AI.

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Social media addiction suits move forward. A U.S. appeals court rejected a bid by Meta, TikTok, and others to dismiss thousands of lawsuits alleging the platforms deliberately designed addictive products harming young users.

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