ANCHORAGE, Alaska — U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for a high-stakes summit that could determine not only the trajectory of the war in Ukraine but also the fate of European security.
The sit-down offers Trump a chance to prove to the world that he is both a master dealmaker and a global peacemaker. He and his allies…
Deep-space radar hits key testing milestone
August 18, 2025
The Space Force’s deep-space radar hit a testing milestone in recent weeks, using seven of its antennas to track multiple satellites in orbit from a site in Australia.
The Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability, or DARC, is being built by Northrop Grumman to detect and track…
Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced Gets Surprise DLSS 4 Support on PC With New Drift Week Update
August 18, 2025
Grand Theft Auto 5 players on PC just got a new update that adds DLSS 4 support, new cards for Grand Theft Auto Online, and more.
Rockstar Games detailed all of the additions for GTA 5 Enhanced owners on its website, revealing a garage filled with content for fans who play…
Mafia: The Old Country Dev Confirms Free Ride Mode Is on the Way as Part of a Free Update
August 18, 2025
Mafia: The Old Country developer Hangar 13 has confirmed Free Ride mode is coming to the game as part of a free update for all players.
Hangar 13 also revealed “new activities and gameplay” are coming as part of the free update, which is due out in “the coming months.”
The developer didn’t offer any more information, but did issue the image, below, to tease Free…
Cal Kestis, the hero of EA’s Star Wars Jedi video games, will appear in a spin-off TV series — marking his first voiced appearance in another medium.
The redheaded Jedi will play a role in new episodes of Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy set to debut on streaming…
For many months, AMD offered a special treat to enthusiasts wishing to run AI chatbot LLMs on their PCs: configurable VRAM that significantly improved performance. Now Intel can say the same.
Bob Duffy, who oversees Intel’s AI Playground application for running AI art and…
This researcher turned OpenAI’s open weights model gpt-oss-20b into a non-reasoning ‘base’ model with less alignment, more freedom
August 18, 2025
OpenAI’s new, powerful open weights AI large language model (LLM) family gpt-oss was released less than two weeks ago under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — the company’s first open weights model launch since GPT-2 in 2019 — but developers outside the company are already reshaping it.
One of the most striking examples comes from Jack Morris, a Cornell Tech PhD student, former Google…
Gemini’s Nasdaq IPO filing unveils bold access to Ripple Credit and RLUSD-based liquidity, signaling a powerful fusion of stablecoin finance and institutional crypto dominance.
Gemini Nasdaq IPO Filing Unlocks Ripple Credit Access and RLUSD-Based Liquidity
Gemini Space…
A former Monero lead developer sparked controversy after revealing that a close friend—previously skeptical of crypto—wanted to buy XRP, believing banks would be obsolete within two years.
Igniting the XRP Debate: A Skeptic’s Inquiry
The claim by Riccardo Spagni…
Trump, Tariffs, and Tornado Cash
August 18, 2025
Last week, Donald Trump reminded traders that he can still move markets with a tweet, a tariff, or a firing. Crypto whipsawed on his words and actions.
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Trump as Market Catalyst
The bitcoin lows around $116,000 mentioned in the newsletter…
