Ukrainian developers complete combat trials of airless wheels for ground robots New 3D-printed wheels eliminate inflation requirements for battlefield robotic vehicles Ukrainian wheel sets weigh between 32 and 56 kg Ukrainian engineers have developed inflation-free wheels for unmanned ground vehicles, aiming to keep robotic platforms moving despite damage encountered during frontline operations. The project brings…

Minisforum’s MS-S1 MAX-P495 is on pre-order at $7,399 with 192GB of unified memory and a 2TB SSD CPU and NPU specs are similar to previous iterations: 16 cores, 32 threads with a boost in clock speeds of 100 MHz, in addition to increased NPU performance by 10% to 55 TOPS The real upgrade is memory:…

Russia has updated the concept of barrage balloons to defend oil refineries Barrage balloons were first deployed over 100 years ago to defend against air raids It is not clear what the measures are defending against, as they only appear suitable for disabling smaller drones Russia has deployed barrage balloons around its oil refineries to…

VisionQuest‘s creator briefly floated the idea of a Tony Stark cameo in the Marvel TV show The series has numerous ties to Robert Downey Jr’s iconic MCU character Terry Matalas knew it was a non-starter, so it never moved forward VisionQuest‘s showrunner has admitted he’d have liked to have included a Tony Stark cameo —…

Asus confirms the ProArt GR1X will use the 20-core RTX Spark N1X, mainly in 64GB and 128GB configurations, shipping before year-end via premium retailers The GR1X matches Asus’s Ascent GX10 on size, weight, fans, and power brick, and joins RTX Spark boxes from Microsoft, Dell, Acer, Honor, amongst others The GR1X still has no price,…

James Spader has teased what fans can expect from Ultron in VisionQuest It’ll reunite us with the genocidal android 12 years after his last MCU appearance The Marvel TV show allows Spader to further explore the fan-favorite villain VisionQuest actor James Spader has opened up on the “older and more mature” Ultron we’ll see in…

Google Trends highlights the term “super intelligence” is replacing “artificial intelligence” in the US – but not elsewhere In a Truth Social post, the POTUS described anyone that doesn’t use the “super intelligence” name as “THE ENEMY” The US government’s AI website domain remains ai.gov Donald Trump has declared that anyone using the term “artificial…

The US exported 7,592 military drones, narrowly ahead of Iran’s 6,800 Iran overtook America in 2025 after US deliveries dropped to 402 Russia received 99% of Iran’s exported drones, mostly Shahed-136 attack systems The United States exported the most military drones between 2022 and 2025, narrowly beating Iran, which ranked second worldwide during the period….

Anthropic warns that self-replicating AI worms could become feasible by the end of the year These AI worms could hijack hardware ranging from IoT devices to data centers Smaller models are already capable of adapting to unfamiliar hardware and self-replication Anthropic has warned self-replication could become feasible for small AI models on internet-of-things (IoT) devices…