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An illustration of Africa2Moon’s Bounced African Low Lunar Spheres, or BALLS. Credit: Africa2Moon China’s Chang’e-8 Moon lander mission is scheduled for 2029, and just like other major launches, it has some room left over for additional payloads. The latest to be announced is a payload for the Africa2Moon program, consisting of three spherical sensors that […]

If you have built anything with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in the last two years, you have lived its central frustration: You chop your documents into chunks, embed them, retrieve the top few that look similar to the question, and hand them to the model. For “What was our Q3 refund policy?” This works beautifully. For […]

Certain chats with Anthropic’s Claude were briefly visible in Google Search over the weekend. According to a handful of Reddit posts, entering a specific Google query caused shared Claude conversations to appear in search results, allowing strangers to read exchanges that the affected users didn’t intend to make fully public. To be clear, these were […]

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 […]

I’ve been an avid PC gamer since the early 1990s. My first computer, bought specifically to play Star Wars: X-Wing, was a plucky 486DX running at 33MHz (cutting-edge at the time — well, only behind the 486DX2, but that was too pricey). I have fond memories of playing Doom on the office LAN and getting […]

ChatGPT has started refusing requests to imitate the writing styles of famous authors. Users who ask the chatbot to write “in the style of” a specific living or dead writer now frequently receive a refusal or a redirection toward a broader description of tone, genre, or mood instead, Ars Technica reports. In some cases, the […]

For months, Apple seemed better protected from the memory crisis than most laptop makers. It had long-term supplier agreements, enormous purchasing power, and enough margin to absorb rising component costs. The situation has now caught up with its most popular laptop. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, MacBook Air availability has tightened considerably across Apple’s retail […]

Major American AI companies like Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI are scrambling to figure out a coherent response to Chinese developer Moonshot’s Kimi K3 AI model. Not only is it almost as capable as the best Western-designed AI, but it’s an open-weight model, meaning anyone can run it on their own hardware without using Moonshot’s cloud […]

Google has confirmed that the Pixel 11 line will cost more than earlier models and, as with everything else, links the increase to a steep rise in RAM costs. This will come as a disappointment to those who have already found Pixel products overpriced given their specs. When 9to5Google spoke with Shakil Barkat, Google’s VP […]