Space is both an engineering and a scientific problem. It’s about building systems that can withstand harsh environments and using them to collect data that couldn’t be collected any other way. This category is about how spacecraft are designed and operated and how space is used as a platform for science, observation and experimentation. Interesting … Read more
Google LLC is trying to wrest Nvidia Corp.’s hold on the artificial intelligence industry by launching a special version of the open-source PyTorch framework called TorchTPU that is designed to eliminate a key advantage of its rival. One of the reasons Nvidia and its GPUs remain so dominant in the AI industry is because the … Read more
Plex gives you a central place to find and access all the media that matters to you. From personal media on your own server to free on-demand movies and shows, live TV, podcasts and web shows to music streaming, you can enjoy it all in one app on any device. And getting started is very … Read more
Researchers in the US have shown how a two-letter trigger can make a robot abandon its assigned task and point a knife at a model human hand instead of a plastic apple. The experiment, conducted by computer scientists at Binghamton University in New York, uncovered a security flaw in large language models (LLMs) used to … Read more
An artificial intelligence startup called ASI Inc. that creates complex models of air traffic and energy networks announced today that it has raised $325 million in Series C funding, bringing its valuation to a whopping $3 billion. The round was led by Spark Capital and joined by participants including Citadel Securities, Craft Ventures, Meritech Capital, … Read more
What we know so far: Memory shortages due to the AI boom have cast doubt on the release timing and prices of next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft. While rumors have pointed to a possible 2027 launch, a new report pushes that back another year, supporting estimates that both devices could break the $1,000 barrier. … Read more
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has certified Boeing’s 737 MAX 10, the largest aircraft in the 737 MAX family, after a test program that included nearly 1,000 flights and more than 2,000 flight hours. The approval clears the way for Boeing to begin deliveries of the 737-10 in the coming months. The aircraft can accommodate … Read more
Why it matters: Chip manufacturers ship buggy code all the time, and that alone is not news. What sets WPSplinter apart is that Broadcom apparently issued a fix eight years ago, but that fix never reached the routers sitting in people’s homes. Additionally, the lack of a CVE left the problem invisible to the recommendations … Read more
Diffusion language model startup Inception AI Inc. has released Mercury 3, its new flagship model. In the company’s own benchmarks, Mercury 3 GPT-6 beat OpenAI Group PBC’s Luna and Anthropic PBC’s Claude Haiku by 5.5 in eight of 12 tests at four to eight times speed. The publication clears up the main doubts about Inception’s … Read more
In a development that could accelerate antivenom research, Claude generated over 318,000 protein designs in just 64 hours, 17 of which passed laboratory binding tests against dangerous scorpion neurotoxins. The study, conducted with support from Citrini Research and laboratory testing from Adaptyv Bio and Twist Bioscience, tested 211 selected designs, 17 of which met strict … Read more