HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Army will soon assume a broader mission in defending the U.S. homeland, expanding from a focus on countering intercontinental ballistic missiles to address a much wider variety of threats, from drones to cruise missiles to hypersonic weapons, said Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey, commander of Army Space and Missile Defense Command.
Through its 100th Missile Defense Brigade, the…
Poland awards $3.8 billion F-16 modernization deal to US
August 15, 2025
WARSAW, Poland — In a bid to modernize the country’s combat aircraft fleet, the Polish Ministry of National Defense has signed a deal with the United States to upgrade its 48 F-16 C/D Block 52+ fighter jets to the F-16V standard.
The contract, which is to be performed…
Of Peaks and Tides, a Survival Sandbox Game Inspired by Eastern Mythology, Introduced with Debut Trailer
August 15, 2025
The last few years have featured a stream of visually impressive titles from Chinese developers coming at a regular clip. That trend continues with Of Peaks and Tides, an open-world survival sandbox game revealed with a debut trailer Thursday by developer…
Let’s be real, Magic: The Gathering is complicated. I’ve been playing it for decades, but knowing how or where to start is intimidating if you haven’t – until last year, when a product called the Foundations Beginner Box finally provided the excellent starting point paper Magic has needed. Now, with a brand new Beginner Box themed around the game’s upcoming crossover with Avatar…
Battlefield 6 Dev Confirms Playlist Changes, Custom Search, and Start Time for Open Beta Weekend 2
August 15, 2025
Following the hugely popular Battlefield 6 Open Beta Weekend 1, developer DICE has outlined the changes and additions fans can expect for the upcoming Weekend 2, and confirmed its start time.
Weekend 2 kicks off today, August 14, at 8am UTC (1am PT), and runs until Sunday…
Can you imagine yourself having a conversation with Windows about what your PC is doing? Microsoft’s Windows chief can, and is trying to build a future where those interactions are the norm.
In an interview with Microsoft AI product manager Christiaan Brinkhoff, the chief…
AMD’s X3D continues to dominate desktop PCs
August 15, 2025
AMD’s share in the desktop PC market climbed by a mammoth total of 9.2 percentage points versus last year, a ringing endorsement for AMD’s Ryzen chips and especially its X3D lineup of gaming processors.
AMD snatched headlines for its first-quarter performance, where its desktop market share grew by 4.1 percentage points, or just 0.9 of a percentage point from the previous quarter. During the…
The U.S. government may take a stake in Intel
August 15, 2025
The U.S. government is discussing whether it will take a stake in beleaguered chipmaker Intel Corp. as a way to bail it out of its financial struggles, according to a report.
Bloomberg reported that the two sides were in discussions, but nothing has been decided: not when…
Google unveils ultra-small and efficient open source AI model Gemma 3 270M that can run on smartphones
August 15, 2025
Google’s DeepMind AI research team has unveiled a new open source AI model today, Gemma 3 270M.
As its name would suggest, this is a 270-million-parameter model — far smaller than the 70 billion or more parameters of many frontier LLMs (parameters being the number of…
Gartner: GPT-5 is here, but the infrastructure to support true agentic AI isn’t (yet)
August 15, 2025
Here’s an analogy: Freeways didn’t exist in the U.S. until after 1956, when envisioned by President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration — yet super fast, powerful cars like Porsche, BMW, Jaguars, Ferrari and others had been around for decades.
You could say AI is at that same pivot point: While models are becoming increasingly more capable, performant and sophisticated, the critical…
