DefenseNews

Phelan establishes new Naval Rapid Capabilities Office

August 27, 2025
The civilian head of the U.S. Navy announced the service will consolidate several wings and create a new office focused on development and problem-solving. Navy Secretary John Phelan said the Navy established the Naval Rapid Capabilities Office, which will dismantle and absorb the Maritime Accelerated Response Capability Cell, Disruptive Capabilities Office, NavalX and the Navy’s execution of…
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ComputersNews

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

August 27, 2025
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 are largely a thing of a past. So… if you’re not yet using an SSD, what are you waiting for? If you already have an…
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NewsSpace

Supernova blast sculpts ghostly hand-shaped nebula in the cosmos (video)

August 26, 2025
A glowing hand stretches across the cosmos, with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion. The eerie structure is part of the nebula MSH 15-52, powered by pulsar B1509-58 — a rapidly spinning neutron star that is only about 12 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter. By combining radio data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) with X-rays from…
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AI & RoboticsNews

MCP-Universe benchmark shows GPT-5 fails more than half of real-world orchestration tasks

August 26, 2025
The adoption of interoperability standards, such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP), can provide enterprises with insights into how agents and models function outside their walled confines. However, many benchmarks fail to capture real-life interactions with MCP.  Salesforce AI Research developed a new open-source benchmark it calls MCP-Universe, which aims to track LLMs as these interact with…
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