
The US Army Is Building Its Own Chatbot for Combat
The AI system, trained on real military data, is meant to give soldiers mission-critical information.
THURSDAY, 09 APRIL 2026, 11:23

The AI system, trained on real military data, is meant to give soldiers mission-critical information.
Meta has launched Muse Spark, its first major AI model under Alexandr Wang’s leadership. The model was built over the past nine months and is being positioned as a significant step up from Llama 4. Axios reports: Muse Spark will power queries in the Meta AI app and Meta.ai website immediately, with plans to expand across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The model accepts voice, text and image...

This discount brings the price of the Apple Watch Ultra 3 with GPS and cellular down to just $700.
Microsoft has apparently terminated the account VeraCrypt uses to sign its Windows drivers and bootloader, leaving the encryption project unable to publish Windows updates and throwing future releases into doubt. VeraCrypt’s developer says Microsoft gave no clear explanation or warning for the move. “I didn’t receive any emails from Microsoft nor any prior warnings,” Mounir Idrassi, VeraCrypt’s...

Intel’s role in Elon Musk’s ambitious chip venture is still murky, raising questions about what the partnership actually entails—and whether it can work at all.

Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.

In an email to customers, Amazon announced that it would be ending service for Kindle devices older than the 2012 edition. Those devices will lose access to the Kindle Store.
The model, Muse Spark, performed better than Meta’s previous A.I. models but lags rivals on coding ability.

San Francisco, USA — Open‑source software released today could significantly lower transaction fees on zero‑knowledge rollups, potentially ending the trade‑off between low cost and strong security that has long defined Ethereum layer‑2 scaling. The code, named “Venus,” was published by Cysic, a verifiable compute network. It is a hardware‑optimized proving backend built on top of […]
Valve has released a native Steam Link beta for Apple Vision Pro, letting users stream their existing Steam games onto a large virtual screen in visionOS. It supports up to 4K resolution and will let you dynamically adjust the curve of the display. The Mac Observer reports: Steam Link does not support VR titles in this beta, and Valve clearly states that the app is limited to 2D game streaming,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple earned the lowest grades in a report on laptop and smartphone repairability released today by the consumer advocacy group Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. The report, which looks at how easy devices are to disassemble and how easy it is to find repairability information, gave Apple a C-minus in laptop...

Pam Bondi’s DOJ left election deniers frothing for more. Potential candidates for the attorney general job could give them what they want.

As Artemis II returns from the dark side of the moon, Nasa’s transformations of electromagnetic energy into sound remind us that everything is vibrating – even while the astronauts are listening to Chappell Roan
Jaw-dropping dark-siding exploration aside, it’s the mundane details of the Artemis II mission that connect us with the four astronauts slingshotting their way around the moon and...

Amendments to the Electronic Communications Amendment Act have a narrow focus on key provisions requiring urgent action.

Yasam Ayavefe is taking the Mileo brand into a market where the landscape usually speaks first, and that alone gives the announcement unusual weight. Rather than adding another address in a louder tourism corridor, he has tied the brand’s next planned step to Dominica, a Caribbean island known for waterfalls, rainforest terrain, diving, wellness appeal, […]

Ikea’s latest light bulbs, remotes, and more have arrived, plus plenty of other fun gear that’s well-priced and easy to control.

The new facility gives African resellers access to AI tools, technical support and a platform to build and deploy cloud solutions.

NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced its participation in a new marketing research study conducted by Callan Consulting, a Silicon Valley executive marketing consulting firm, joining 18 B2B and B2C technology companies to examine how AI is reshaping modern marketing organizations, marking a clear shift from early experimentation to embedded,...

As real astronauts vanish behind the moon, games have long tried to evoke the fragile quiet of drifting through space
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Last week’s launch of the Artemis II space mission was a stunning spectacle, the 17-storey-high rockets erupting into cacophonous life before wrenching the craft through the Earth’s atmosphere. But the images...

With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.

For a company that is supposed to have missed the biggest tech shift in a generation, Apple is having a remarkably good run.