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The Trump administration today withdrew a controversial order to freeze funding for a wide range of government programs, according to multiple news reports. Acting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Matthew Vaeth reportedly wrote in today’s memo, “OMB Memorandum…
Echoing Elon Musk’s approach to thinning out Twitter’s staff in 2022, Donald Trump’s plan to significantly slash the government workforce now, for a limited time only, includes offering resignation buyouts. In a Tuesday email that the Office of Personnel Management…
Alibaba claims that its Qwen2.5-Max artificial intelligence model outperformed its rivals at OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek.
A miniature gold lock dated to the third to fourth centuries was found by a metal detectorist in Germany.
DeepSeek has quickly upended markets with the release of an R1 model that is competitive with OpenAI’s best-in-class reasoning models. But some have expressed worry that the model’s Chinese origins mean it will be subject to limits when talking about…
PC game storefront GOG, which has recently pledged to focus on restoring and preserving Good Gold Games, has now revamped its community wishlist for games to bring to its storefront. The GOG Dreamlist serves not only as a way to…
Sony’s game publishing arm has done a 180-degree turn on a controversial policy of requiring PC players to sign in with PlayStation accounts for some games, according to a blog post by the company. A PlayStation account will “become optional”…
An egg-cracking beam relies on a hyperelastic torque reversal mechanism similar to that used by mantis shrimp and jumping fleas. Credit: Seoul National University. An egg-cracking beam relies on a hyperelastic torque reversal mechanism similar to that used by mantis…
The Trump administration today withdrew a controversial order to freeze funding for a wide range of government programs, according to multiple news reports. Acting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Matthew Vaeth reportedly wrote in today’s memo, “OMB Memorandum…
Astronauts on board China’s “heavenly palace” space station have demonstrated a new way of making rocket fuel products and breathable oxygen by mimicking a chemical reaction in plants. The technology could be utilized in China’s planned moon base.
