DefenseNews

Turkish warship’s Benghazi port call cements new tack on Libya

ISTANBUL — Turkish corvette Kınalıada made a landmark visit to Libya with port calls in both Tripoli and Benghazi this month, the first time a Turkish Navy warship has visited the country’s rival power centers in a single deployment. According to the Turkish Ministry of Defence, Kınalıada visited Tripoli port on August 17–18, 2025, where the crew held meetings with the senior Libyan…
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ComputersNews

Best SSDs: From SATA to PCIe 5.0, from budget to premium

SSDs, or solid state drives, have drastically improved the computing experience over the last decade or so. Thanks to them, once ponderous boot times now border on instantaneous, programs and games are far more responsive, and the frustratingly long waits to load large files…
ComputersNews

Best monitors for a home office: 11 top-notch displays that mean business

Working from home has gone from being a growing trend to a full-scale phenomenon. There are many perks to a work-from-home arrangement, to be sure, but there can also be downsides: For example, there’s a good chance you’ll need to supply your own monitor. Fortunately, there are many great home office monitors to choose from, as I’ve discovered through extensive real-world testing. Below…
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NewsSpace

Eclipse experts' best travel tips for the total solar eclipse 2027

On Aug. 2, 2027, a total solar eclipse will cast its shadow from the Strait of Gibraltar through North Africa and into the heart of the Arabian Peninsula. During the eclipse, the sun’s disk will be completely covered from our perspective on Earth for a maximum of 6 minutes,22 seconds — the longest totality on land in 36 years, and the longest totality until June 3, 2114. No wonder…
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AI & RoboticsNews

LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

A new study from Arizona State University researchers suggests that the celebrated “Chain-of-Thought” (CoT) reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) may be more of a “brittle mirage” than genuine intelligence. The research builds on a growing body of work questioning the depth of LLM reasoning, but it takes a unique “data distribution” lens to test where and why CoT breaks down…
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