Collaborate Disseminate
“South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms,” reports Ars Technica:
The goal is to make drones a “universal combat tool” for all troops by tra… Continue reading South Korea Plans To Train Entire Military As ‘Drone Warriors’
“Amid growing public anger over A.I. and a debate over how to regulate it, a group of employers, state governors and foundations has raised $500 million to try to answer some of those questions themselves,” reports the New York Times.
“Just how many… Continue reading Ex-Governors, Big Tech Launch Coalition To Help Workers ‘Navigate the AI Economy’
IBM has unveiled “what it says is the world’s first sub-1-nanometer chip technology,” reports ZDNet, “designed to pack nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-size die, roughly doubling the density of IBM’s earlier 2-nm test chip, first shown in… Continue reading IBM Says It Can Fit Nearly 100 Billion Transistors On a Chip
The planets Neptune and Uranus may be better described as “magma-ocean giants” rather than “ice giants,” according to a team of researchers from the University of California. Gizmodo reports:
While the Voyager flyby confirmed the planets’ classificati… Continue reading Scientists Think Neptune and Uranus May Not Be the Ice Giants We Imagined
Donald Trump shuttered the web site Climate.gov in 2025, cutting off public access to climate information from America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
But “former members of the site’s team have brought much of it back at a… Continue reading Trump-Shuttered Climate Change Site Now Back Online In Nonprofit Hands
The New York Times alleges Microsoft actively encouraged OpenAI to steal its copyrighted work, reports Ars Technica, citing a new (and heavily redacted) court filing Thursday:
NYT’s motion comes after the [U.S.] Supreme Court sided with Cox Communicat… Continue reading Microsoft Slammed for Building Copyright-Infringing Supercomputer for OpenAI in New Court Filing
Spanish startup FOSSA Systems “has raised about $10.5 million to expand its connectivity constellation,” reports Space News, noting some funding is backed by Spain’s government:
The support from the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (… Continue reading Spain-Backed Fund Joins FOSSA’s Sovereign Satellite Communications Push
Chinese AI systems “have matched the performance of Anthropic’s powerful model Mythos in some cybersecurity scenarios,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
They call it “a development poised to reset the global tech race and pressure the White House in i… Continue reading China’s AI Matches Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Causing Worry Over US Restrictions
The New York Times tells the story of a 63-year-old retiree who wrote a check for several thousand dollaras to pay her taxes. But she discovered much later that her taxes were never paid because that check had been intercepted and then altered to be pa… Continue reading Are Checks Sent Through the Mail Vulnerable to Theft?
America’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has “canceled its contract for a surveillance tool that enables warrantless tracking of mobile devices,” reports the Associated Press.
They note the move comes “after lawmakers, a prosecut… Continue reading US Agency Cancels Contract For Warrantless Tracking of Mobile Devices