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Samsung Android XR Headset Could Cost as Much as the Apple Vision Pro
Rumors suggest Samsung’s ‘Project Moohan’ has even better displays than the Vision Pro, but that hints at a pricey VR headset.
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti And 5060: Rumored Launch Date And What To Expect
NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 are the next on the list for new GPU releases. We recently saw the GeForce RTX 5070 from NVIDIA, which sits at the midrange with a $549 MSRP. Stock and inventory seemed low, and many gamers were not able to get the GPU itself. Furthermore, Founders Edition models were pushed back to a late March release
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US Likely To Ban Chinese App DeepSeek From Government Devices
The White House is weighing measures to restrict Chinese artificial-intelligence upstart DeepSeek, including banning its chatbot from government devices because of national-security concerns, WSJ reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: U.S. officials are worried about DeepSeek’s handling of user data, which the Chinese company says it stores in servers located in China, the people said. Officials also believe DeepSeek hasn’t sufficiently explained how it uses the data it collects and who has access to the data, they said.
The Trump administration is likely to adopt a rule that would bar people from downloading DeepSeek’s chatbot app onto U.S. government devices, the people said. Officials are also considering two other possible moves: banning the DeepSeek app from U.S. app stores and putting limits on how U.S.-based cloud service providers could offer DeepSeek’s AI models to their customers, people close to the matter said. They cautioned that discussions about these two moves were still at an early stage.
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Intuitive Machines’ second Moon mission seems to have gone as well as the first
The second lunar lander by Intuitive Machines has made its way to the Moon, but not without incident. The Athena vehicle may not be upright, which is what happened to the company’s Odysseus lander upon touchdown back in February. CEO Steve Altemus said during the post-landing news conference that he doesn’t believe that Athena is “in the correct attitude on the surface of the Moon yet again.”
Altemus said that the company will know for sure in the coming days once the team gets “a picture from the lunar reconnaissance orbital camera from above.” Data from the lander’s inertial measurement unit does seem to indicate a sideways orientation. We do know that Athena has touched down approximately 100 miles from the lunar south pole, which is where it’s supposed to be.
Athena is part of the company’s IM-2 mission, which is a partnership with NASA to (finally) bring crewed missions back to the Moon. The lander also carries a bevy of payloads and scientific instruments designed to look for evidence of water on the lunar surface.
The company’s previous lander Odysseus was the first privately owned spacecraft to reach the Moon’s surface, though it toppled over. Rival company Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its own Blue Ghost spacecraft onto the lunar surface earlier this week, and this one landed upright.
As for Athena, it’s currently charging on the surface and is communicating with the mission team here on Earth. However, performance seems to be sub-optimal. “We’re not getting everything that we had asked for in terms of power generation and communications,” Altemus said. This could impact the lifespan of the lander’s ten-day mission, though the company has “done some power conservation steps as prudent measures to see how long and what objectives we can accomplish in the mission going forward.”
When the orientation is confirmed, the team can start figuring out how many of the payloads and instruments are in working order. These include a drill that searches for ice and a hopping drone vehicle that the company has scheduled to explore a permanently shadowed crater.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/science/space/intuitive-machines-second-moon-mission-seems-to-have-gone-as-well-as-the-first-162637189.html?src=rss
Disney’s Next Legacy Lightsaber Sends Mara Jade to Galaxy’s Edge
The latest fine addition to Batuu’s collection brings the Star Wars EU legend to the parks.
NVIDIA Responds To Reports Of Missing ROPs On Laptop RTX 50 GPUs
Have you tuned into this season of How The GPU World Turns? I’ve lost track of what season this actually is, or even which episode for that matter, but there’s no shortage of drama, intrigue, and even a bit of comedy (mostly unintentional) unfolding for anyone who cares to watch. If you didn’t catch the latest episode, let me fill you in.
Beats Powerbeats Pro Is Just as Good at 40% Off If You’re Not Ready to Splurge on Pro 2
These earbuds were made with active users in mind and sound fantastic in all use cases.
Ubuntu To Revert “-O3” Optimizations, Continues Quest For Easier ARM64 Installations
Canonical engineer Matthieu Clemenceau has posted a status update on the behalf of the Ubuntu Foundations engineers now half-way through the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle. A number of notable package updates have landed as well as continued work on better ARM64 support and coming to a decision over “-O3” optimized packages…
Zant – An open-source Zig SDK for neural network deployment on microcontrollers
Zant is an open-source, cross-platform SDK written in Zig and designed to simplify deploying Neural Networks (NN) on microcontrollers. It comprises a suite of tools to import, optimize, and deploy NNs to low-end hardware.
After less than a day, the Athena lander is dead on the Moon
Intuitive Machines announced on Friday morning that its Athena mission to the surface of the Moon, which landed on its side, has ended.
“With the direction of the Sun, the orientation of the solar panels, and extreme cold temperatures in the crater, Intuitive Machines does not expect Athena to recharge,” the company said in a statement. “The mission has concluded and teams are continuing to assess the data collected throughout the mission.”
Athena, a commercially developed lander, touched down on the lunar surface on Thursday at 11:28 am local time in Houston (17:28 UTC). The probe landed within 250 meters of its targeted landing site in the Mons Mouton region of the Moon. This is the southernmost location that any probe has landed on the Moon, within a few degrees of the lunar south pole.
Microsoft Quantum Computing ‘Breakthrough’ Faces Fresh Challenge
An anonymous reader shares a report: A physicist has cast doubt on a test that underlies a high-profile claim by Microsoft to have created the first ‘topological qubits’, a long-sought goal of the company’s quantum computing effort. The critique comes amid mounting speculation about the validity of Microsoft’s claim.
Microsoft announced the breakthrough, which could lead to a quantum computer more resistant to information loss than with other approaches, on 19 February. Without a peer-reviewed paper backing up the claim, some researchers were sceptical. An accompanying paper in Nature described a method to measure the read-out from future topological qubits, but did not offer proof of their existence.
In the latest critique, posted as a preprint, Henry Legg, a theoretical physicist at the University of St Andrews, UK, raises concerns about a test that Microsoft uses to look for Majoranas, so-far undiscovered quasiparticles arising from the collective behaviour of electrons that are needed for the topological qubits to work.
Known as the topological gap protocol (TGP), the test is not mentioned in the 19 February Microsoft announcement. But the company has subsequently indicated to Nature’s news team, and in a comment online, that it created the topological qubits using the TGP. “Since the TGP is flawed, the very foundations of the qubit are not there,” says Legg. Business Insider, separately reports: On February 19, Microsoft unveiled a new quantum processor called Majorana 1. […] On the same day, Simone Severini, Amazon’s head of quantum technologies, emailed CEO Andy Jassy casting doubt on Microsoft’s claims, according to a copy of the email obtained by Business Insider.
Severini wrote that Microsoft’s underlying scientific paper, released in Nature, “doesn’t actually demonstrate” the claimed achievement and only showed that the new chip “could potentially enable future experiments.”
[…] Oskar Painter, Amazon’s head of quantum hardware, stressed the need to “push back on BS statements like S. Nadella’s,” likely in reference to the Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s social media post proclaiming major advancements with the Majorana chip. Further reading:
Scientists Question Microsoft’s Quantum Computing Claims.
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Former Xbox Exec Says Microsoft Would Stop Making Hardware If It Could
The Xbox that fans have known for decades is currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation as Microsoft sets it sights on a multiplatform approach to gaming and its console sales continue to decline year after year. Veteran gaming executive Peter Moore, an Xbox VP in the early aughts, recently suggested the…
Avowed’s Best Mace Is Battletrance, The Speediest Of The Heavy Sticks
Do you like bonk sticks? Do you like bonking enemies with those bonk sticks? Then maces might just be for you in Avowed. You’ll have quite a lot of them to choose from as you make your way through The Living Lands, but there’s one called Battletrance that’s a great choice, due to its excellent increases to cast speed…
Trump says bitcoin reserve will change everything. Crypto fans aren’t so sure.
Ahead of the first-ever White House Crypto Summit Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a strategic bitcoin reserve that a factsheet claimed delivers on his promise to make America the “crypto capital of the world.”
Trump’s order requires all federal agencies currently holding bitcoins seized as part of a criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceeding to transfer those bitcoins to the Treasury Department, which itself already has a store of bitcoins. Additionally, any other digital assets forfeited will be collected in a separate Digital Assets Stockpile.
But while Trump likely anticipates that bitcoin fans will be over the moon about this news—his announcement of the reserve and looser crypto regulations helped send bitcoin’s price to its all-time high of $109,000 in January, Reuters noted—some cryptocurrency enthusiasts were clearly disappointed that Trump’s order confirmed that the US currently has no plans to buy any more bitcoins at this time.
Apple’s M2 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM drops to a new low of $699
One of the best things about Apple upgrading one of its devices is that you can find better deals on older, still very capable models. Just days after the company announced the M4-powered MacBook Air, a version of the laptop with the M2 chipset has dropped to a new record low of $699. That’s $300 off the regular price.
This is a variant with 16GB of RAM rather than the base model’s 8GB. That’s really the bare minimum of RAM you should be looking for these days (and we were pleased to see Apple start giving the MBA 16GB of RAM as standard). You’ll also get 256GB of SSD storage in this system.
This discount is quite transparently an effort to clear out M2 MBA stock ahead of the M4-powered model’s impending arrival. And while we currently rank the M3 MBA as the best MacBook and best laptop overall, the M2 version isn’t anything to sniff at — especially at this price.
In our 2022 review, we called the M2 MBA “a near-perfect Mac” and awarded it a score of 96. We liked the performance (which of course has been surpassed by the M3 system), thin form factor and terrific display and audio.
The M2 MBA should still be more than capable of handling most everyday tasks. It also supports Apple Intelligence features, for those who are interested in that sort of thing. So this is a great deal on a killer, if a little older, laptop.
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This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/apples-m2-macbook-air-with-16gb-of-ram-drops-to-a-new-low-of-699-154743334.html?src=rss
State Department Will Use AI to Search for ‘Pro-Hamas’ Students to Deport
The new move is part of a broader attack by the Trump administration on free speech and free expression.
[$] Hash-based module integrity checking
On January 20, Thomas Weißschuh shared a new
patch set implementing an alternate method for checking the integrity of
loadable kernel modules. This mechanism, which checks module integrity based
on hashes computed at build time instead of using cryptographic signatures,
could enable reproducible kernel builds in more contexts. Several distributions
have already expressed interest in the patch set if Weißschuh can get it
into the kernel.
AMD Officially Confirms Ryzen 9 9900X3D + Ryzen 9 9950X3D Pricing & Availability
Back in January at CES was the Ryzen 9 9000X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D announcement while today AMD officially confirmed the release date and pricing on these new Zen 5 desktop CPUs with 3D V-Cache…