SpaceX has hit the century mark for the third year in a row. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday (Aug. 19) at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT; 9:01 p.m. on Aug. 18 local time). It was the 97th Falcon 9 launch of the year and the 100thContinue Reading
An Australian national, Thomas Bingham, has pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor for an assault on a federal officer. He was alleged to have committed the assault on a Transport Security Administration (TSA) officer at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in March 2026. Sentencing has been set for SeptemberContinue Reading
While the skies of the United Kingdom are peaceful almost every single day of the year, that doesn’t mean that the Royal Air Force is resting on its laurels. Quick Reaction Alert fighter jets have only scrambled a handful of times in the past year to defend the UK’s airspace,Continue Reading
The ChatGPT maker said in a blog post that it “temporarily slowed the pace of scaling” after its models independently gained access to the internet., The ChatGPT maker said in a blog post that it “temporarily slowed the pace of scaling” after its models independently gained access to the internet.,Continue Reading
The survey also observed how age affects attitudes toward AI with respondents who were over 60 and aged 18 to 29 remaining the most worried., The survey also observed how age affects attitudes toward AI with respondents who were over 60 and aged 18 to 29 remaining the most worried.,Continue Reading
We are used to seeing Murena roll out new devices every now and then. Their whole sales pitch revolves around a de-Googled, privacy-focused Android experience. Not everyone is sold on that approach, sure, but the company has managed to stick around for quite a few years now, which says something.Continue Reading
Massachusetts EV drivers who choose to participate in a V2X pilot could receive a free “smart energy station,” enabling them to supply their homes and EVs with solar power, and use vehicle-to-home tech to power their homes in case of outages. dcbel, in collaboration with partners TMH, Resource Innovation andContinue Reading
British Columbia Ferry Services (BC Ferries) has selected Corvus Energy to supply the battery systems for four new hybrid-electric passenger and car ferries, part of the operator’s new Summit Class. Corvus will deliver 40 MWh of installed capacity, or 10 MWh per vessel, which it says places the ships amongContinue Reading
With the continuously moving environment, the need for cybersecurity has increased. Digital life is growing faster than ever. One weak link can expose millions of data points and records. According to IBM reports, the global average cost of a data breach has increased by 12% compared to that of previousContinue Reading
HONG KONG (AP) — Shares of Unitree, one of China’s largest humanoid robot makers, initially soared as much as 629% in its public stock trading debut Wednesday in Shanghai, in the latest highlight of investor optimism over China’s technological advances. The company, founded in 2016 by entrepreneur Wang Xingxing inContinue Reading
Waves of Ukrainian drones targeted the massive logistics center outside Moscow overnight. The next morning, it was still ablaze, dark smoke rising into the sky from what was one of Russia’s largest retail warehouses. Hundreds of miles away, Ukrainian drone crews had barely paused after the night’s work before startingContinue Reading
Almost eight months after confirming a critical security vulnerability within the personal version of its AI assistant, Copilot, Microsoft on Tuesday issued a patch to close the hole, which relies on an LLM’s inability to distinguish the data in a query from an instruction. The CoSnitch hole was discovered byContinue Reading
Diffusion models are becoming sophisticated enough that they can reproduce an image even when they don’t have access to the original. In a series of ‘what if’ scenarios, researchers associated with MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) swapped out different training datasets to test the impact on imageContinue Reading