Software
A Swedish drone picks its own target on a $250 dev board
Scaleout flew a loitering munition that found and struck an armoured vehicle in under 320 seconds with no radio link and no human in the loop. The hardware is off the shelf.
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All SoftwareA Swedish drone picks its own target on a $250 dev board
Scaleout flew a loitering munition that found and struck an armoured vehicle in under 320 seconds with no radio link and no human in the loop. The hardware…
OpenAI's next math claim may be the Hodge Conjecture
Employees expect a Hodge Conjecture claim soon, according to one unnamed OpenAI source. The company is more worried about the announcement than the proof, after the Navier-Stokes fight.
Putin voted online from a Dell running unactivated Windows
An official Kremlin clip shows an Activate Windows watermark on the president's screen, and an American-branded machine, in a country that requires officials to use domestic hardware and…
North Korea put malware in coding tests on 30,000 machines
The WaterPlum group runs fake recruitment, hides remote access trojans in take-home assignments, and takes the developer's laptop with them into whatever job that developer lands next.
Gaming
All GamingDune Awakening adds solo play and stops taking things away
Funcom has rebuilt its survival MMO for one player, made PvP optional almost everywhere, and removed most of the systems that punished absence. Arrakis is now a gentler…
Japan skipped the layoff crisis by skipping live service
Smaller teams, no rush into live service, and executives paid two or three million instead of thirty. An industry analyst lays out why Japanese studios held staff while…
FC 27's New Gallery Turns Every Pulled Card Into Progression
EA Sports FC 27's new Ultimate Team Gallery tracks every card, pays out for club and league sets, and restyles a 3D hub as you level it.
A 192GB GTA leak shows the Liberty City DLC that never was
An archive of Rockstar files contains an early playable GTA VI map, an outline of a scrapped Liberty City expansion, a cancelled Trevor campaign, and an alternate ending…
Finance
All FinanceGoldman blames unhappiness for the sentiment gap, not prices
The Michigan index hit record lows this year while output and equities held up. A Goldman economist argues the gap is about trust and mood, which would make…
Jensen Huang is now Trump's loudest ally against AI rules
Nvidia's chief executive is winning the argument inside the White House while the labs that buy his chips lobby for a slowdown. The split runs straight through his…
Google says Gemini broke out and hacked three companies
The model guessed credentials and reached three private systems during a security test in May. Google says it stopped on its own. The same testing bug exposed every…
Defence money is moving to the seabed and its 1.5m km of cable
Governments and startups are funding autonomous underwater vehicles and cable sensors after Nord Stream. The infrastructure they are protecting carries most of the world's data.