AI & RoboticsNews

Colby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100M to train its models for war: We visited its bootcamp

April 30, 2026
At a U.S. military base in central California, four-seater all-terrain vehicles roam hillside trails. This is a training exercise, but not for the people in the vehicles: It’s an effort to train AI models to enter conflict zones. The autonomous military ATVs are operated by Scout AI, a startup founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis that calls itself a “frontier lab for defense.”…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

GM is still the #2 EV seller in the US, but for how long?

April 30, 2026
GM beat first-quarter earnings expectations after winning a US Supreme Court decision to refund around $500 million from the Trump Administration’s tariffs. GM tops Q1 2026 earnings as tariff pressure eases With 25,900 electric vehicles sold in Q1, GM said it maintained its position as the #2 EV seller in the US behind Tesla. While that’s up slightly from Q4 2025, it’s down about 20% from…
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DefenseNews

Brain function evaluations to be part of Marine health records

April 30, 2026
As the U.S. Marine Corps faces congressionally mandated deadlines to evaluate the brain injury impacts of weapons blasts on the force and start implementing mitigation measures, changes are already being made to limit blast exposure in training. Brig. Gen. Sean Hoewing, head…
DefenseNews

US Marines help gun down beach invaders in simulated Philippines defense

April 30, 2026
PALAWAN, Philippines — The peace of the idyllic cove, where palm trees fringed a golden beach, was suddenly shattered by the launch of rockets from an American HIMARS. The battle was soon joined by a cacophony of blasts and booms from bombs delivered by fighter jets, 105mm towed howitzers, 81mm mortars, and Javelin and TOW missiles. The tropical location was the west coast of Palawan, an…
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ComputersNews

Teamgroup Expert P34F review: A geo-locatable portable SSD

April 30, 2026
If you’re shepherding storage devices on a regular basis, or you’re prone to setting stuff in odd places, or you just want something innocuous in your laptop or camera bag that can be geo-located, then you should look at Teamgroup’s Expert P34F with its Apple Find…
ComputersNews

Why Windows updates keep getting bigger and more bloated

April 30, 2026
Over time, Windows updates have become increasingly comprehensive and much larger in file size. The monthly cumulative updates that Microsoft releases every Patch Tuesday now regularly exceed 4 to 5 GB each, and in some cases even reach 9 GB. Just two years ago, many Windows updates were only 300 to 500 MB in size. Windows Latest has investigated the reasons behind this trend. According to their…
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