When I got engaged a couple of years ago my wife asked if there was anything I’d want in return to symbolize it: she gets to wear a ring, would I want a new accessory or piece of jewellery to match her. My immediate answer was a watch, with the plan that it’d be the…

Military balloons now launch reusable drones directly from the stratosphere Solar-powered Apollo-R remains airborne for weeks after balloon deployment at altitude Thunderhead balloon carries multiple drones during a single high-altitude deployment mission High-altitude balloons are moving beyond surveillance roles as military developers explore using them as airborne launch platforms for long-endurance unmanned drones. According to…

Chinese Zhipu AI GLM-5.2 succeeded where leading American models failed woefully Hugging Face breach reignited Washington’s battle over open-weight artificial intelligence Safety guardrails unexpectedly complicated defensive cybersecurity work during a real incident The recent cybersecurity incident involving Hugging Face has unexpectedly placed a Chinese open source AI model at the centre of an intensifying United…

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, August 2 (game…

Russia unveils an electronic warfare system designed to interfere with Starlink satellite communications Volna Kupol Garant focuses on satellites instead of disrupting ground communication terminals The new Russian system reportedly jams eight Starlink transmission bands using directed radio signals Russia has unveiled a new electronic warfare system designed to disrupt Starlink communications by interfering directly…

Russia patented a carrier drone capable of deploying six tethered reconnaissance copters One airborne platform controls multiple surveillance drones through physical cable connections simultaneously Each tethered copter receives power and commands directly from the carrier aircraft A newly-patented Russian drone design turns a single aircraft into a mobile hub for up to six smaller spy…

The Pentagon admits American drone production still trails Ukraine by millions annually Ukraine’s combat software will support Pentagon artificial intelligence development through new partnerships Ukraine’s battlefield-tested technology has supported more than 100,000 combat missions since 2024 The United States has confirmed plans to draw on Ukraine’s battlefield experience with military drones to close a significant…

Palantir moves AI computing from distant clouds directly into combat zones Containerized data centers process battlefield intelligence without permanent cloud connectivity Nvidia B300 accelerators power deployable AI systems for frontline operations Palantir Technologies and its infrastructure partner Armada have begun deploying mobile data centers built inside standard shipping containers for combat zones. Each unit carries…

Tiny desktop system claims massive language model performance at dramatically lower costs Proprietary G≡LIX 1 chip delivers 700 TOPS for local AI workloads Agent Box runs advanced AI models entirely without relying on cloud services Singapore-based startup Acrab has unveiled the Agent Box, a mini PC built to run 100 billion parameter language models entirely…

AI growth keeps enterprise hard drive demand climbing across global cloud infrastructure Cloud providers continue expanding storage despite massive investment in AI accelerators Enterprise storage remains essential as artificial intelligence generates unprecedented data volumes Enterprise demand for high-capacity hard drives continues accelerating as artificial intelligence generates expanding datasets requiring reliable, affordable storage throughout increasingly complex…