Commonwealth Fusion has published five peer-reviewed papers laying out the physics case for ARC, its planned 400 MW fusion power plant, which would follow the company's smaller SPARC tokamak now under construction. The papers suggest ARC could produce more energy than it consumes using high-temperature superconducting magnets, molten-salt heat extraction, ...

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NASA has named Randy Bresnik, Luca Parmitano, Frank Rubio, and Andre Douglas as the crew for Artemis III, which has been reworked from a moon-landing mission into a roughly two-week Earth-orbit test of lunar landers being built by SpaceX and Blue Origin. NBC News reports: Randy Bresnik, Luca Parmitano, Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas are expected to launch ...

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to make it effectively impossible for people to buy what many call burner phones -- a phone not explicitly linked to your identity at the point of purchase -- which would impact privacy-conscious people, to domestic abuse survivors, to journalists, and many ...

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Five peer-reviewed papers update the design and model its expected output.

Cities are dynamic, not static grids, and urbanization is a "spiky," cyclical, and asynchronous process.

A separate zero-day also disclosed by Nightmare Eclipse appears to be patched as well.

Starlink, SpaceX's top moneymaker, also raised service prices by $5 to $10.

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The Pentagon has added Alibaba, BYD, Baidu, Unitree, and other Chinese companies to its list of firms it says support China's military, barring them from U.S. defense contracts. The companies and China's embassy deny the allegations. The Associated Press reports: Created in 2021 by a congressional mandate, the list (PDF) seeks to identify Chinese companies ...

The startup touted a production-ready breakthrough in solid-state battery tech, but the claims collapsed under scrutiny.

The European Commission has ordered Meta to temporarily restore free WhatsApp Business API access for rival AI chatbots while it investigates whether Meta's ban on third-party assistants abuses its dominant position. Meta says it will appeal, calling the move "regulatory overreach" that would let major AI companies use a paid WhatsApp product for free. The ...

Two months after the rousing success of the Artemis II mission, NASA introduces four new astronauts. But a recent rocket explosion raises questions about timing.

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class AI model for enterprise customers and paid subscribers. The company says broader access is possible thanks to new safeguards that block high-risk requests in areas like cybersecurity and biology. "For us, it's really around what we call 'race to the top,' being able to provide this technology in a ...

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New frontier model refuses cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry queries.

Netflix's response: "Absurd."

Kingdom Hearts 4, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake and Xenoxblade Genesis stole the show.

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Gemini 3.5 Live Translate doesn't wait for one speaker to finish before generating a response.

If you want to test out Fable 5 without paying extra, you need to try it before the end of the month.