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From a Space.com article: Athena, the second lunar lander from Houston company Intuitive Machines, tipped over during its touchdown on March 6, ending up on its side within a small crater near the moon's south pole. This orientation prevented the lander's solar panels from capturing enough sunlight, and Intuitive Machines declared Athena dead on March 7. (The company's first moon lander, named Odysseus, also tipped over during its historic February 2024 touchdown but was able to operate for longer on the lu
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Portugal said it was reconsidering purchasing the Lockheed Martin-made F-35 jet in the wake of Trump's recent policy shifts. Read more ›
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Tesla protests, falling sales, and fierce competition are testing the popular saying, "You should never bet against Elon Musk." Read more ›
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The Linux Terminal app, which runs Linux apps in a virtual machine, now has tabs in Android 16 Beta 3 Read more ›
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Tesla is set to unveil a more affordable vehicle in the first half of 2025. Details are scarce, but new reports say it could take after the Model Y. Read more ›
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A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.” Read more ›
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DraftKings' chief product officer explains how the company drew inspiration from Netflix for its online casino app and original games strategy. Read more ›
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Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant. Read more ›
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Career experts said federal workers hoping to move to the private sector need to demonstrate that they have the skills many companies value. Read more ›
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For most people, the Covid-19 pandemic, which officially began five years ago this month, marked their first encounter with case counts and N-95 masks and lockdown orders. Not me, though. I was a young reporter for Time magazine in Hong Kong in early spring 2003, when we started getting reports about a strange new sickness […] Read more ›
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DOGE terminated Navy veteran Ben Gibson after he moved from Idaho to Washington, DC, for a VA job. He said the process was unbelievable. Read more ›
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The director of a NATO research group told BI the crisis scenario she's most worried about at present. Read more ›
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Star of Providence is like a retro game I would have loved as a kid. But the roguelike bullet hell shooter is also a modern twin-stick shooter, and the melding of the two eras results in a fun, fast, and challenging experience. In Star, you control a ship and explore randomly generated dungeons. As you […] Read more ›
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Google could unveil its budget-friendly device earlier than usual. Here's when the Pixel 9A could launch and what it might look like. Read more ›
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Neill Blomkamp is going to reboot Starship Troopers with a new movie based on the original novel rather than the 1997 film. Read more ›
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns the BNSF Railway. It's suffered a surge in thefts of items such as Nike sneakers and Turtle Beach headsets. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Broadband TV News: The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging the agency to establish a clear, industry-wide transition plan for the full deployment of Next Gen TV (ATSC 3.0). The proposal outlines a two-phased transition while modernizing regulatory requirements to support consumer access and innovation. [...] Under the plan, stations in the top... Read more ›
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Reviews season is in full swing, and we've been busy at Engadget HQ. Laptops, desktops, earbuds, gaming handhelds and even an ice cream machine are among our slate of recent reviews. The great thing about this time of year is there's really something for everyone among the in-depth testing our team undertakes. So sit back, relax and catch up on all the reviews you might've missed. Apple MacBook Air M4... Read more ›
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Amy Gleason, acting DOGE office administrator, said in a court filing that she doesn't work for Elon Musk, nor does the billionaire work for her. Read more ›
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"The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented 'backdoor' that could be leveraged for attacks," writes BleepingComputer. "The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence." This was discovered by Spanish researchers Miguel Tarascó Acuña and Antonio Vázquez Blanco of Tarlogic Security,. Read more ›
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smooth wombat writes: In what can only be described as a no-brainer, Volkswagen has announced it will have once again have physical buttons in all its vehicles. As Andreas Mindt, design chief at the company said, removing buttons was "a mistake". "From the ID 2all onwards, we will have physical buttons for the five most important functions -- the volume, the heating on each side of the car, the fans... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice. According to a bug report on Cursor's official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls "locs"), the AI assistant halted work and... Read more ›
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As Christie's auction house planned the first-ever auction dedicated to AI-generated art works, over 5,600 people signed an online letter urging them to cancel it. "Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license," the letter complained. "These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment... Read more ›
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Philosophy/ethics professor Troy Jollimore looks at the implications of a world where many students are submitting AI-generated essays. ("Sometimes they will provide quotations, giving page numbers that, as often as not, do not seem to correspond to anything in the actual world...") Ideally if the students write the essays themselves, "some of them start to feel it. They begin to grasp that thinking well, and in an informed manner, really... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: AI excels at following instructions -- but it's not pushing the boundaries of knowledge, says Thomas Wolf. The chief science officer and cofounder of Hugging Face, an open-source AI company backed by Amazon and Nvidia, analyzed the limits of large language models. He wrote that the field produces "overly compliant helpers" rather than revolutionaries. Right now, AI isn't creating new knowledge, Wolf wrote. Instead,... Read more ›
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Microsoft says that some USB printers will start printing random text after installing Windows updates released since late January 2025. From a report: The known issue affects Windows 10 (version 22H2) and Windows 11 (versions 22H2 and 23H2), but according to an update to the Windows release health dashboard, the latest Windows 11 24H2 is not impacted. "After installing the January 2025 Windows preview update (KB5050092), released January 29, 2025,... Read more ›
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Microsoft is preparing to launch an AI-powered Copilot for Gaming soon that will guide Xbox players through games and act as an assistant to download and launch games. From a report: Copilot for Gaming, as Microsoft is branding it, will be available through the Xbox mobile app initially and is designed to work on a second screen as a companion or assistant. Microsoft is positioning Copilot for Gaming as a... Read more ›
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The Washington Post reports: Meta was willing to go to extreme lengths to censor content and shut down political dissent in a failed attempt to win the approval of the Chinese Communist Party and bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a new whistleblower complaint from a former global policy director at the company. The complaint by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked on a team handling China... Read more ›
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Microsoft is ending support of its Remote Desktop app for Windows on May 27th. From a report: If you use the Remote Desktop app to connect to Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, or Microsoft Dev Box machines then you'll have to transition to the Windows app instead. The new Windows app, which launched in September, includes multimonitor support, dynamic display resolutions, and easy access to cloud PCs and virtual desktops.... Read more ›
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