ROSTOCK, Germany — The U.S. and NATO allies will launch scaled-back drills in the Baltic Sea this week, as conflicts in other regions draw ships away, though the exercise will still send a message of unity and strength to Russia, a senior German military official said.
The annual exercise, held for more than five decades since 1971, brings together some 20 vessels from 15 nations with around…
May the best Unmanned Surface Vessel win.
The U.S. Navy announced Friday that it selected seven companies to compete for the service’s Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel contract.
At-sea testing of the vessels is slated to begin next month, with companies whose MUSVs…
Imagine your Windows taskbar was replaced by a soft green meadow of gently swaying grass, with small bunnies hopping about. Or mechs stomping back and forth with hellfire. Microsoft’s suite of killer Windows utilities, called PowerToys, might be getting another utility…
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Microsoft’s Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is a specialized mini PC targeting AI developers, featuring an Arm-based RTX Spark chip with 20 cores and 6,144 CUDA cores.
PCWorld highlights this device offers 1 petaflop of AI compute power with 128GB RAM, pre-configured with Windows 11 for development work.
Expected to launch later this year at a high…
AI agents will soon be everywhere, we’re told, but where exactly? Clearly they’re in the cloud, on our desktop PCs, and even on our phones, but they could also live on other devices, like smart speakers, glasses, and perhaps, even a smart security badge.
That’s the…
Games Workshop just threw a grenade at the Warhammer 40,000 community with a stunning cinematic that shows the Emperor of the Imperium sitting on the Golden Throne — the first official look at the Master of Mankind in the current setting for years.
The Warhammer 40,000…
Video Games Could Have Movie-Style Product Placement to Counter Rising Costs, Ex-Dragon Age Boss Says
June 2, 2026
As big budget video game development gets more costly, including TV and movie-style product placement could help make up the shortfall, BioWare’s former Dragon Age boss Mark Darrah has said.
In a lengthy video discussing the future of video game monetization, Darrah noted the rise of AAA games including live-service elements to ensure owners kept playing — and paying — long after…
Factorio is set for its last major update soon, developer Wube Software has announced in a blog post.
The influential strategy game about building and creating automated factories launched on Steam in early access form in February 2016, before launching proper in August…
Avalanche Network Explodes as FIFA World Cup Drives 60,000 Blockchain Ticket Transactions
June 2, 2026
Arielle Pennington, SVP of Growth at Avalanche, stressed that the rise in these ticketing transactions before the FIFA World Cup shows how blockchain technology can be adopted in the background, integrating seamlessly into the user experience process without being promoted…
The proposal, introduced by pseudonymous developer cavemanloverboy, aims to increase the amount of SOL burned by introducing a new base fee for every transaction. This might make Solana’s network issuance deflationary during periods of very high activity, according to some estimations.
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Cavemanloverboy proposed SIMD-547 on Saturday, spiking some fees to curb SOL asset…
