2025-05-06
Elon Musk's Urgent Concern: That the Earth Is Going to Get Swallowed by the Sun
Instead of meaningfully addressing a growing climate crisis and actively stripping environmental regulations, actions that could have devastating consequences for humanity in the short term, billionaire Elon Musk is far...
Ukraine’s Sea Drones Armed with US Sidewinders Shoot Down Russian Su-30SM Jets
Key Points: In early May 2025, Ukrainian forces achieved a historic first in naval warfare, reportedly using Magura-7 sea drones armed with US-made AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles to shoot down...
Tim Sweeney Talks to Peter Kafka, Still Thinks Fortnite Is Coming Back to iOS This Week
About 16 minutes into the podcast (the whole thing is a great succinct interview): Kafka: You said Fortnite is going to come back to iOS. You guys were kicked off...
Trump Offered Putin an ‘Excellent’ Ukraine War Deal: Why Did He Say No?
Key Points: Vladimir Putin’s rejection of President Trump’s exceptionally favorable peace proposals for Ukraine—which included recognizing Russian territorial gains and rolling back sanctions—indicates his true aim is likely the complete...
Bridging Simulations and Observations: GalSim & JWST Data Drive Deep Learning
GalSim generates realistic pre-training data; JWST galaxies provide high-fidelity fine-tuning, enabling robust transformer-based enhancement of space images.
Space Selfies Level Up-AI Learns from the Best in the Universe
Creates paired HST-JWST galaxy images for training, using synthetic and real data to teach Transformers superior astronomical image restoration.
Microsoft unleashes an AI agent on your unsuspecting Windows settings, but initially only if you have a Snapdragon X-powered PC
What, no more drilling down into submenus that date from the late 1990s?
The M10 Booker Has a Message for the U.S. Army
The M10 Booker has become one of the most controversial projects in recent years and is an excellent case study into the problems with the US’ requirements and procurement process....
Efficient Transformers for Astronomical Images: Deconvolution and Denoising Unleashed
Restormer’s transformer architecture powerfully restores HST images, combining deconvolution and denoising for JWST-level clarity using transfer learning.
AI Breakthrough Sharpens Telescope Images-Astronomy’s Next Big Leap
Applies efficient Transformers to restore and enhance astronomical images, matching JWST quality and outperforming traditional methods in precision.
“When we think of love, we think of romance and happily-ever-after fairy...
“When we think of love, we think of romance and happily-ever-after fairy tales. By telling this story, I want to invoke something different — the radical power of seeing, understanding,...
How to Build Seamless Cross-Chain dApps with GetBlock’s Multi-Blockchain Support
Cross-chain dApps are decentralized applications that operate across multiple blockchain networks. This approach broadens an app’s reach, letting it tap liquidity and users from Etherum, Solana, BNB, Polygon, and beyond....
Hawk Tuah Girl Says She’s Horrified by What Happened With Her Crypto Launch
That Thing Haliey "Hawk Tuah" Welch seems to be on a redemption tour in the wake of her disastrous crypto project. In her first major interview since her $HAWK meme...
A Beginner’s Guide to Blockchain Nodes and How They Work
Blockchain is a distributed ledger shared across many computers (nodes) Each “block” in this chain is like a page in the ledger containing a batch of transactions or records. When...
Optimizing Language Models: Decoding Griffin’s Local Attention and Memory Efficiency
Explores how Griffin’s local attention and recurrent layers outperform traditional Transformers, improving language modeling at scale and faster inference.
I'm already totally enamored with Grand Theft Auto 6's Jason and Lucia, and I've had them for less than 5 minutes
It took two trailers for me to fall in love with GTA 6's version of Bonnie and Clyde.
The new GTA 6 trailer just dropped and the thing I'm impressed with most are its beer bottles
At least I have plenty of time to prepare. In typical Rockstar fashion, it won't likely launch on PC until way after the console release.
How to access the open beta for the new REPO update
Test the new update for yourself ahead of launch.
R.I.P. Skype!
On May 5, Microsoft retired Skype, the startup that sparked a communication revolution. I won’t repeat myself, as I’ve already published a postmortem analyzing Skype’s decline under Microsoft’s 14-year ownership...
Forget the F-35: Canada Could Pick the JAS 39 ‘No Escape Zone’ Fighter
Key Points: Sweden’s JAS 39 Gripen showcases a formidable and versatile weapons arsenal, enhancing its appeal as a 4.5-generation multi-role fighter. -Its “swing-role” capability allows seamless mission changes, backed by...
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