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The FCC just gave Reflect Orbital permission to launch its 1st space mirror to orbit. Tens of thousands more could follow

The first of perhaps tens of thousands of sunlight-directing space mirrors just got cleared for liftoff. California-based startup Reflect Orbital just got a license from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch and operate its first demonstration satellite, a spacecraft that will unfurl a reflective surface that measures about 60 feet (18 meters) on a side. That satellite…
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Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?

Quick question: Do you want AI to be so well trained, it could help husbands (or wives, for that matter) plan the perfect murder of their spouses? Just as a gut reaction, that feels like a no for me. I wouldn’t even think it was a particularly hard question. But America contains many diverse perspectives, and one such perspective was shared by Comma AI founder and longtime jailbreaker George…
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4 hours of searching led to this spectacular Milky Way cave photo – "I'm always drawn to locations that feel unique and relatively undiscovered"

This photograph, Galaxy on the Rise, was captured in Tenerife, the Canary Islands, where the photographer spent nearly four hours searching for a hidden cave that proved remarkably difficult to find. “I’m always drawn to locations that feel unique and relatively undiscovered, and this cave was a perfect example,” says astrophotographer Anastasia Gulova, reflecting on the image that has now…
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When Oliver Klink photographed rural Europe's disappearing communities, many of them looked straight down the lens. Some might see that as a problem for documentary work, but I'd argue it's actually a sign of success

Look through Oliver Klink’s Where the Earth Remembers, on view throughout July on All About Photo’s Solo Exhibition platform, and you’ll soon see a pattern emerge. The two children steadying a donkey loaded with firewood are looking straight at the camera. So are the…
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Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok — a model he admits is worse

Elon Musk told Tesla staff to move to using Grok, the AI model from his own xAI (now folded into SpaceX), according to a memo sent to employees on Friday. The push comes days after Tesla capped employee spending on third-party AI tools — and it lands even though Musk himself concedes Grok is not as good as its rivals. What the memo says Musk told staff they should switch to Grok “when…
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