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Beyond-visual-range missiles and stealth coatings were supposed to make the dogfight obsolete, yet high off-boresight weapons still win if the engagement collapses inside visual range. Six fighter jets currently in production or front-line service are built, in whole or in part, around winning that merge. The question is which designContinue Reading

gnome-51-released,-this-is-what’s-new

GNOME 51 is out, bringing FIDO2 passkey login, a Reduced Motion option and frame scheduling changes that make UI animations and scrolling feel smoother. Core apps pick up improvements too. The desktop Maps app gains offline area downloads and live transit data, Papers now lets you add visual signatures andContinue Reading

aws-bets-that-ai-agents-need-an-inbox,-not-another-chat-window

AWS is betting that AI agents need a different interface as they move beyond answering prompts and start working autonomously in the background. The company has open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted application that gives users an inbox for managing work delegated to AI agents, with separate threads for ongoing tasksContinue Reading

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Linux gamers are used to being treated as second-class citizens, and Ubisoft recently gave everyone a fresh reminder when they pulled Linux and Steam Deck support from For Honor. They blamed anti-cheat limitations, even though the game’s anti-cheat software had supported Linux for years. Meanwhile, cloud gaming has been slowlyContinue Reading

Strange ‘centaur’ object between Saturn and Uranus has mysterious, changing rings, James Webb telescope study hints

The rings around a strange small body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus look mysteriously different from previous views, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest. The rings encircle Chariklo, which is a centaur , a strange type of object that shows characteristics of both asteroids and comets . Chariklo is only aboutContinue Reading

Are you worried about the US deploying weapons in space?

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Live Science. Formerly, she was the Content Manager at Space.com and before that the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics research institute. Kenna is also a book author, with her upcoming book ‘Octopus X’ scheduled for release in spring of 2027. Her beats include physics, health, environmental science, technology, AIContinue Reading