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The German arms concern Rheinmetall has signed a memorandum with the Ukrainian authorities to build a plant to produce artillery shells. Europe’s largest ammunition manufacturer Rheinmetall will open a joint plant for the production of shells in Ukraine. This was reported by the arms concern in the social network Х Rheinmetall, Europe’s largest ammunition maker, […]
Hackers from the Head Mare group got into the servers of the Russian military company NGO High Precision Systems and Technologies, part of the Kalashnikov concern, and posted a lot of documentation online. In particular, it includes descriptions of two types of missiles. Data on the responsible personnel and their activities, floor plans, and much […]
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus robotic spacecraft took a few selfies with the Earth shortly after its launch on February 15 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket – and we can all see them. “Intuitive Machines successfully transmitted the first images of the IM-1 mission to Earth on February 16, 2024. The images were taken shortly after […]
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 […]
OpenAI has launched a new video generation model – Sora. With its help, users can quickly create videos using only text prompts. Ukrainian users, including creatives, have already responded to the new product. We tell you what is known about the new OpenAI neuron and what the network thinks about it. Advantages and disadvantages of […]