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The United Kingdom, along with the United States and other countries, is working to provide Ukraine with thousands of new artificial intelligence drones that can simultaneously attack Russian targets in swarms. According to people familiar with the matter, this technology could allow Ukraine to more effectively deplete Russian positions. Bloomberg reports. Drones have become an […]
The European Union plans to impose the first antitrust fine of about 500 million euros on Apple and ban certain App Store rules that the bloc believes restrict competition. The fine will be announced next month, and Apple could be fined up to 10% of its annual global sales, writes Bloomberg. The investigation was launched […]
Ukrainian analogs of Russian Lancet drones have successfully passed their first tests, preparing for use in combat, said Deputy Prime Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov on the Diia YouTube channel, writes Ekonomichna Pravda. The tests were conducted with the products of four companies, of which two drones successfully passed the tests. Fedorov said that […]
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope could dramatically change our understanding of galaxy formation and dark matter by revealing a galaxy larger than the Milky Way that existed more than 11 billion years ago. The study, published in the journal Nature, showed that this ancient massive galaxy contains stars that formed 1.5 billion […]
NVIDIA has officially presented the launch of the Eos supercomputer, designed specifically for artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. It is equipped with 576 NVIDIA DGX H100 systems, each of which contains 8 H100 accelerators, for a total of 4,608 such accelerators. The systems are connected using the NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand architecture with a bandwidth of 400 […]
OpenAI’s attempt to register the GPT abbreviation as a trademark has failed again, reports The Verge. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rejected OpenAI’s application, arguing that the term GPT, which stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is too generic to register and may prevent competitors from correctly describing their products as GPTs. Earlier, OpenAI […]
The US government says it has destroyed a botnet used by Russia’s GRU military intelligence unit to conduct phishing expeditions, espionage, credential collection, and data theft against US and foreign governments and other strategic targets, The Register reports. The most recent court-ordered seizure took place in January and included the neutralization of “more than a […]
When the OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu was planned, the team aimed to collect at least 60 grams of material. This was a requirement for a successful mission. According to IFLscience, it seems that OSIRIS-REx has doubled its success, as it brought home 121.6 grams (4.29 ounces), the largest sample of extraterrestrial material from […]
The recently opened luxury airline Beond will start offering passengers Apple Vision Pro headsets for “immersive in-flight entertainment.” This service will be available on flights to the Maldives, where the airline is based. The airline recently opened in the Maldives and is positioning itself as the world’s first premium airline to offer unique and customized […]
In Dusseldorf, Germany, 17-year-old basketball player Vladimir Yermakov was killed. The reason for this was the nationality of the athlete, Channel 24 reports, citing the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. What is known? The tragic event took place on February 10 in the evening. The attackers, armed with knives, attacked two young basketball players from Ukraine who, […]