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President Donald Trump ordered the entire federal government to stop using products from the AI company Anthropic on Friday to stop what he called a “radical left, woke company” from encroaching on the military’s decision-making.The public feud between the Pentagon and Anthropic which resulted in the firm’s blacklisting has become effectively a proxy for the larger battle over the future governance of AI.The coverage has focused on Anthropic’s refusal to budge off its two “red lines” — using its product in mass domestic surveillance or to power fully autonomous weapons — and whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon can be…

A new magnetic wireless power bank from Xiaomi is gaining attention – not because it’s an Android accessory, but because it feels like something Apple should have made. Its compact design, strong magnetic grip, and clean aesthetic make it look and behave like a premium iPhone-compatible accessory, offering a sleeker, more polished experience than many MagSafe alternatives. And yes – it works flawlessly with the Apple iPhone, despite not being an Apple product. A premium magnetic power bank that feels like it belongs to Apple’s ecosystem Xiaomi’s new magnetic wireless power bank instantly stands out because of its ultra-thin profile,…

Originally from the small Balkan country of Montenegro, Strahinja (Strajo) Janjusevic says his life has unfolded in unexpected ways, for which he is deeply grateful. After graduating from high school, he was selected to represent his country in the United States, studying cyber operations and computer science at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He has since continued his cybersecurity studies and is currently a second-year master’s student in the Technology and Policy Program (TPP), hosted by the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). His research with the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and…

OpenClaw has fixed a high-severity security issue that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed a malicious website to connect to a locally running artificial intelligence (AI) agent and take over control. “Our vulnerability lives in the core system itself – no plugins, no marketplace, no user-installed extensions – just the bare OpenClaw gateway, running exactly as documented,” Oasis Security said in a report published this week. The flaw has been codenamed ClawJacked by the cybersecurity company. The attack assumes the following threat model: A developer has OpenClaw set up and running on their laptop, with its gateway, a local WebSocket…

MWC 2026 officially gets underway on March 2 and will continue through March 5, but the announcements are already coming ahead of its start. We can always count on the annual tech event to bring tons of new phones, laptops and tablets, and we’re expecting to see some robots and other gadgets too — plus plenty of AI news, of course. In addition to the announcements, MWC is our chance to get hands-on time with some of the most interesting new devices, like the Xiaomi 17 Ultra.Engadget’s Mat Smith is on the ground in Barcelona, and we’ll be updating this…

“This is just not the right pathway forward,” Isaacman said.A senior NASA official, speaking on background to Ars, noted that the space agency has experienced hydrogen and helium leaks during both the Artemis I and Artemis II prelaunch preparations, and these problems have led to monthslong delays in launch.“If I recall, the timing between Apollo 7 and 8 was nine weeks,” the official said. “Launching SLS every three and a half years or so is not a recipe for success. Certainly, making each one of them a work of art with some major configuration change is also not helpful in…

Introduction Modern generative‑AI experiences hinge on speed. When a user types a question into a chatbot or triggers a long‑form summarization pipeline, two latency metrics define their experience: Time‑to‑first‑token (TTFT) and throughput. TTFT measures how quickly the first sign of life appears after a prompt; throughput measures how many tokens per second, requests per second or other units of work a system can process. Over the past two years, these metrics have become central to debates about model selection, infrastructure choices and user satisfaction. In early generative systems circa 2021, any response within a few seconds felt magical. Today, with…

Your bottle of wine is only as good as the conditions in which it’s stored. While we often follow general rules such as avoiding direct sunlight and seeking cool, dry spaces, you may be committing a handful of wine crimes without realizing it — otherwise known as pour decisions. Fortunately, I chatted with Liz Martinez, general manager and sommelier at Centrolina in Washington, DC, as well as Beki Miller, advanced sommelier and beverage manager of Las Vegas’s Caramá by Wolfgang Puck, to remind us what reds, whites and bubbles demand in ensuring that their quality and integrity are maintained with every…

Flux, a startup with a platform that speeds up the development of printed circuit boards, has raised $37 million across two funding rounds. The company disclosed the investments today. Flux, officially Defy Gravity Inc., raised about two-thirds of the capital through a recent Series B deal led by 8VC. It received the remaining $10 million earlier in the form of a seed round backed by Outsiders Fund and Bain Capital Ventures. A printed circuit board, or PCB, is a flat rectangle that holds electronic components. Every computer’s processor sits on a PCB. PCBs can also function as standalone devices: companies…

Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and ETH Zurich, in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), have introduced APOLLO – an innovative artificial intelligence framework designed to interpret complex, multilayered cellular data. This method empowers scientists to distinguish biological signals that are common across various measurement techniques from those unique to specific assays, enhancing precision in disease research and experimental planning. In modern cell biology, multimodal strategies are essential for capturing diverse aspects of cellular behavior. Techniques such as transcriptomics (for gene expression), chromatin accessibility assays, protein quantification, and cell…