Author: Able Jam
NASA astronaut medical evacuation
NASA has shared more details about the astronaut who required a medical evacuation from space, the first such incident recorded by the space agency. Mike Fincke, a 58-year-old astronaut from Pennsylvania, confirmed in a statement yesterday that he was the International Space Station (ISS) passenger who required medical assistance on Earth. A space walk scheduled
Canadian AI to detect Russian Disinformation
A new artificial intelligence (AI) agent could equip Europe to better defend itself against the barrage of Russian disinformation attacks. Cipher is Canadian-developed AI software that has proven to accurately and quickly detect Russian disinformation targeting Canadian networks, on both the far right and the far left of the political spectrum. Cipher is a human-in-the-loop
Russia signals no rush for a deal to end Ukraine war
Russia signaled Thursday that it was in no rush to make a deal to end its war on Ukraine, hours after it attacked the neighboring country with hundreds of drones and missiles and as U.S. and Ukrainian officials met in Geneva to discuss efforts to end the war. Talks between Moscow and Kyiv remain deadlocked
Microsoft 365 Local and enhanced AI support through Foundry Local, aimed at organisations operating under strict regulatory and sovereignty requirements.
With Azure Local disconnected operations, organisations can now run mission-critical infrastructure entirely within their own operational boundary, even with no connection to the public cloud. Governance, policy enforcement and workload management remain inside the customer’s environment, ensuring continuity for classified, isolated or high-security deployments. The goal is to replicate familiar Azure experiences while removing dependency
xAI’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI
OpenAI has successfully convinced the court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s xAI, accusing the company of stealing its trade secrets.OpenAI and xAI have a longstanding feud, and this is just one of the several lawsuits between the two companies. In fact, Musk has an ongoing complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the
End-to-End AI Resolution for Customer Service on Zoom
Zoom’s latest virtual agent release targets organizations ready to move beyond basic chatbot interactions toward fully automated, cross-system customer resolution. Zoom Communications unveiled Zoom Virtual Agent 3.0 on Feb. 24, introducing an execution architecture designed to automate end-to-end customer resolution across enterprise systems. The update builds on Zoom’s AI Companion 3.0 framework. Zoom reported internal
Breaking encryption with a quantum computer
The RSA algorithm is one of the most widely used encryption algorithms, used for things like online banking and secure communication. It is based on the mathematical difficulty of finding which two prime numbers were multiplied together to create a very large number. Since the 1990s researchers have known that this difficulty can be side-stepped
Israel plans to boost US wheat imports
Israel plans to make further trade concessions to the US on food and agricultural goods, as part of efforts to persuade its closest ally to ease tariffs on exports from the Jewish state.Officials hope that boosting the competitiveness of US wheat against Israel’s traditional suppliers — the largest of them being Russia will help clinch
SpaceX The Crew-12 mission starts working
More than a week has gone by since SpaceX helped restore a full crew of astronauts at the International Space Station. For about a month, a skeleton crew of three – including just one American helped keep the orbital outpost up and running on their own after four other astronauts on a mission known as
Lockheed Martin uses AI in F35 pilots to spot enemy air defences
Lockheed Martin has shared new details about how it is using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help F-35 pilots spot hostile air defenses faster and more accurately. The company says it is also leveraging AI to speed up the process of using new data to refine and improve the jet’s already extensive electronic warfare suite.