The U.S. Navy commissioned its newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128), at a ceremony in Whittier, Alaska, Oct. 3. With the commissioning, the approximately 9,700-ton (8,800-ton) warship will enter active service as the second Flight III destroyer in the U.S. fleet. The ship is named after the late Senator Ted Stevens, … Read more
What you can look forward to: Microsoft is preparing to expand its Advanced Shader Delivery service to PCs with Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm graphics hardware, a move aimed at shortening the lengthy shader compilation process that can delay a game’s first launch. The service is already included in the PC version of Gears of War: … Read more
An institution that was explicitly set up to neutralize biological disasters is now at the center of one. Panic reigned in the Irkutsk region of eastern Siberia this weekend following the death of Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Institute for Plague Control. Shipilova died on October 2 in an intensive … Read more
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI Group PBC, insists that the security risks of artificial intelligence must be taken seriously. But unlike his counterpart Dario Amodei of Anthropic PBC, he believes that if everyone wants to reap the benefits of AI, people will have to accept that “some bad things” will happen. In an interview published … Read more
A Pittsburgh-based company has unveiled its powerful open-source humanoid robot. The robot, called RP1 (ROBOTO 01), was publicly unveiled at IROS 2026, marking its global debut. The company positions RP1 as the world’s first high-performance, full-stack, open source bipedal humanoid robot. RP1 is aimed at researchers, educators, robotics developers and embodied AI teams with the … Read more
What just happened? Another incident has occurred and highlights the need to be careful about what you tell the AI. A Florida woman is charged with a felony after using Claude as a diary and allegedly writing that she planned to “shoot up” the sheriff’s office. After a human evaluator reviewed the statements, they were … Read more
A nearly 1,200-foot-tall wind turbine has reached its full height in eastern Germany, creating a new approach to capturing wind energy at altitudes where the wind blows stronger and more consistently. The pilot turbine in Schipkau was developed by the German engineering firm GICON for the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND) and is intended … Read more
President Donald Trump today tapped Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to lead a new federal artificial intelligence task force, making him the administration’s second AI czar. Trump revealed the group in a Truth Social post, calling it the Super Intelligence Force. That name refers to an executive order he signed last week directing federal … Read more
First look: Sony appears to have quietly updated the PlayStation 5 Slim with a redesigned motherboard that changes the way the console handles cooling, certain components and basic repairs. A repair technician identified the new circuit board after opening a PS5 Slim from the Wolverine Limited Edition package. The internal revisions indicate a routine but … Read more
Japanese scientists may have found a surprisingly simple way to predict the behavior of some unusual materials based on the size of their crystal structure. In their latest study, they claim that this structural measurement can predict magnetic ground states in a family of unusual materials more consistently than the electron counting method that scientists … Read more