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SpaceX Launches Starship on First Attempt to Reach Orbit in Flight 14
The uncrewed mission marks a pivotal shift from suborbital tests to orbital objectives, carrying the first batch of Starlink V3 satellites.
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SpaceX Advances Starlink Fleet While Amazon’s Rival Constellation Faces Launch Delays
A major SpaceX mission aims to deploy next-generation satellites and test orbital insertion for its heavy-lift vehicle, highlighting a widening gap with Amazon’s grounded satellite internet project.
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Apple Faces $5.7 Billion Penalty After Jury Finds Haptic Tech Patent Infringement
A California jury ruled against the tech giant in a dispute with audio firm Taction Technology, though Apple vows to appeal and denies using the contested vibration systems.
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Honor Unveils Magic 9 Pro Max with Arri-Branded Camera System and Massive Battery
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Nissan Unveils 2027 Rogue Hybrid with e-POWER Technology and Standard All-Wheel Drive
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New Hardware Turns AI Glitches Into Experimental Music
A startup launches an offline sampler that uses custom-trained models to generate uncanny sounds from audio inputs, aiming for creative exploration rather than polished production.
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Weber Shuts Down June Oven Services, Highlighting Fragility of Connected Home Ecosystem
The cessation of cloud support for the high-end smart oven underscores a broader industry trend where connected devices lose functionality after corporate acquisitions or business failures.
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DeepSeek Unveils DSec Sandbox Infrastructure for Large-Scale AI Agent Training
The company publishes a new paper detailing how its elastic compute system supports the training of agents from V3.2 to V4.1, aiming to establish a competitive moat in AI infrastructure.
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Salesforce Patches 'SalesBleed' Vulnerabilities in Agentforce AI Platform
Security researchers identified three critical flaws allowing AI agents to bypass network controls via DNS protocols, prompting immediate fixes from the cloud computing giant.
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Middle Schoolers Repurpose NPR Podcast Comments as Unrestricted Social Hub
Host Ira Glass explores how teenagers bypassed digital restrictions by turning a niche audio platform into an impromptu messaging service, highlighting the persistent gap between adult content moderation and youth communication needs.
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Silent Hill Franchise Shifts Setting to Fictional Scottish Island in New Entry
Screen Burn Studios brings the horror series to a UK location for the first time, aiming for authentic local detail rather than broad stereotypes.
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Sony and UMG Renew Legal Challenge Against Suno Over AI Training Methods
Major music labels argue that Suno’s latest model perpetuates copyright infringement through a process they term 'model laundering,' despite the company's claims of a fresh data foundation.
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Labor Data Shows No Immediate AI Displacement for Recent College Graduates
A new economic analysis contradicts earlier warnings that artificial intelligence is causing widespread hiring freezes for entry-level workers, though experts caution that effects may lag behind adoption rates.
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Meta Adjusts Muse AI to Fully Expose Virtual Machine Filesystem
The company clarified that unrestricted access to the underlying Linux environment is a deliberate feature, marking a shift from earlier restrictions that cited security concerns.
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Tesla Faces Manufacturing Hurdles in Scaling Humanoid Robot Production
Precision assembly challenges and manual labor requirements are slowing the rollout of Optimus units, complicating ambitious weekly output targets.
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