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Criminal IP to Showcase Advanced Threat Intelligence at RSAC™ 2025
Terrance, United States / California, 22nd April 2025, CyberNewsWire
Industry First: StrikeReady AI Platform Moves Security Teams Beyond Basic, One-Dimensional AI-Driven Triage Solutions
Dallas, United States, TX, 21st April 2025, CyberNewsWire
Boeing Begins Flying Back 737 Max and Other Planes Rejected by China
Boeing has 130 orders for new planes, but China is rejecting the planes due to the trade war. At least one of the Boeing 737 Max planes has been flown back and two others are will be rejected. Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported Chinese government officials had instructed domestic airlines not to order any new ... Read more
SpaceX Will Only Build the Golden Dome if the President Asks
If the President asks SpaceX to help make the Golden Dome then SpaceX will do it. But Elon Musk hope that other companies (not SpaceX) can do this. Elon Musk would prefer to focus on Mars colonization and development. The Golden Dome is a planned missile shield that will need thousands of satellites to constantly ... Read more
Deep Dive into the Technology and Financials of BYD, Other China Companies and LIDAR Cost and Supplies
$25K Tesla and unsupervised robotaxis are starting this quarter-and BYD, Xiaomi, and legacy auto won't keep up. With BYD's 4% margins a sham (thanks to 3% dodged interest and other non-GAAP accounting), Tesla's cheaper EV and 5,000+ robotaxi fleet by 2025 and one million Tesla robotaxi network in 2026 in will dominate. We break down ... Read more
SpaceX, Palantir and Anduril Partnership Competing for the US Golden Dome Missile Defense Contracts
U.S. Space Force chief Gen. Chance Saltzman clarified the Golden Dome is not a single mega-shield, but a network of systems built to counter advanced missile threats. The system will combine terrestrial, naval, airborne, and space-based sensors and interceptors, along with non-kinetic defenses like directed energy weapons and electronic warfare capabilities. Saltzman emphasized that decision-making ... Read more
99.7% Likely That Exoplanet K2-18B is an Ocean Planet Teeming With Life
Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system. The most likely reason (when combined with other observation) for seeing 1000 times more of the chemical DMS would be that exoplanet K2-18B is an ocean planet teeming with life. This ocean filled with life is causing the chemical ... Read more
Impressive Robotics and Animatronics at Universal How To Train Your Dragon
Universal's Isle of Berk had it's soft opening two weeks ago. The dragon robots and large animatronics are very impressive. Visitors are very impressed with the walking baby dart dragon robot.
Expert Jon Twigge and Brian Wang on SURVIVING A FASTER and HARDER AI Future, Part 1
Technology experts Brian Wang and Jon Twigge discuss the fast arriving future of AI. The acceleration of AI technology has already started happening. It is the shocking speed of development and the speed of change which will make adapting and surviving harder. Speed of change is everything. XAI and Tesla have more speed. Physical change ... Read more
SquareX to Uncover Data Splicing Attacks at BSides San Francisco, A Major DLP Flaw that Compromises Data Security of Millions
Palo Alto, California, 16th April 2025, CyberNewsWire
Huawei Advanced Driving Failure at Shenyang Auto Expo
A Huawei M7 with Huawei's Advanced Driving System (ADS) 2.0 crashed into a person and some cars at an Auto Show. It should have been going at low speed in a parking lot situation. The Huawei M7 is a premium electric SUV that is equipped with Huawei's Advanced Driving System (ADS) 2.0. The Huawei M7 ... Read more
Google Dragontail AI is Scary Good, OpenAI Quasar, xAI Grok 3.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently ranked as the top released model on the leaderboards. Google's has more models lined up, and Nightwhisper (probably Gemini Coder) is reportedly amazing and so is Dragontail. There is a flood of new model releases from Google, OpenAI, XAI, Deepseek and others. Here we will review what has been released ... Read more
Composing and Combining Photos with AI has Breakthrough Image Control
Bytedance has new Uno AI that lets you change a picture into any selected style and you can upload photos to combine them into one picture. You can upload a photo of a wrinkled t-shirt and an image of a logo or any other picture or words. The words, logo or picture would be placed ... Read more
Bytedance Hyper Realistic AI Video Animator, Dreamina, Nears Microsoft VASA-1 Level
One year ago Microsoft Researchers created a hyper releastic AI video animator, VASA-1, but did not release it. Now, Bytedance owner of TikTok, is getting closer to matching the VASA-1 ability to hyper-realistically animate the facial muscles of faces and lip-sync based upon a single photograph. The Bytedance product is called Dreamina. The lipsync is ... Read more
Tesla FSD Version 13.X HW4 Passes Mark Rober Heavy Rain Test
Mark Rober tested Tesla Autopilot against simulated heavy rain but Kyle Paul tested the newest Tesla FSD self driving with Hardware 3 at the test was passed every time.
Does Lunar Electrostatic Dust Success Mean Electrostatics Will Work for Propellantless Drive ?
Dr Charles Buhler has been the lead NASA scientist on Electrostatics. An experiment last month was sent to the moon and showed success against a decades long problem of lunar dust. Buhler believes his world class knowldge of electrostatics has found a way to create a propellantless drive. The lab tests on earth have shown ... Read more
Tesla Single Motor RWD Cybertruck $69,990
Tesla Cybertruck Long Range now available for $69,990 before the $7500 tax credit. It has 362 miles of range. - $62,490 (incl. Federal Tax Credit) - 362 mi of range (est.) w/ Soft Tonneau - 6' x 4' bed - 7,500 lbs towing capacity This about the price of the F-150 Lightning. The Ford Lightning ... Read more
Trillions of Rogue Planets ?
Astronomers discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii. Since then, observers have spotted hundreds rogue astronomical bodies. In 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered dozens of seemingly physics-breaking rogue objects floating through space in pairs. James Webb Space Telescope near-infrared survey ... Read more
Anduril Industries Successfully Test Fires Hypersonic Solid Rocket Motor for the U.S. Navy
Anduril Industries achieved a significant milestone last month with two successful live-fire tests of its 21-inch hypersonic rocket motor for the U.S. Navy's STANDARD Missile Program. This rapid and iterative design phase, which was completed in close collaboration with the Navy, positions Anduril to quickly transition to full scale production of this vital capability. The ... Read more
U.S. Navy Cancels HALO Hypersonic Missile
The Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive (HALO) missile in development for the U.S. Navy's high priority Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare Increment 2 (OASuW Inc 2) program has been cancelled. This was announced on the Naval News by Rear Adm. Stephen Tedford, Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons. The U.S. Navy wanted HALO to be ... Read more
Next Month xAI Grok 3.5 Will Be On Top of the AI Leaderboards
Elon Musk has said that a new xAI Grok 3.5 will be released soonish which I interpret as being a May release. I am extrapolating the chatbot arena and other metrics assuming that the increase in training compute gives a similar scaled improvement from Grok 2 to Grok 3 (15X more training compute). xAI has ... Read more
xAI Grok 3.5 Likely in May and Grok 4 September
Elon announced that xAI Grok 3.5 will be released soonish. This likely means May. We know that at the February Grok 3 announcement xAI had already installed another 100,000 H100/H200s to go with the 100,000 H100s that trained Grok 3. I think xaI started training in February for Grok 3.5. They will likely use about ... Read more
Jared Isaacman Future NASA Administrator is Pro-Moon, Mars but not Lunar Gateway
Isaacman wants NASA to returns humans to the Moon as quickly as possible. This includes flying Artemis II around the Moon in 2026, and then landing the Artemis III mission later this decade. Isaacman has been a private astronaut who was with a crew that has gotten further from Earth than anyone except the Apollo ... Read more
90 Day Pause on Tariffs for Everyone Except China
There is a 90 day pause on tariffs for all countries except China. All other countries still have the 10% tariff which is likely permanent. Tesla is up 20%, Nasdaq is up 10%, Dow and S&P500 are up 6-8%. This was foreshadowed on Monday when markets were up 10% on the rumor that there would ... Read more
Tesla Austin Cars Driving Without Humans from Factory
New Tesla Model Ys and Cybertrucks are now autonomously driving themselves about 2 miles from the end of the production line at Giga Texas to their designated lanes near the outbound lot with no humans in the cars. Tesla Fremont is making 1,603 cars per day and Austin 925 cars per day yield a total ... Read more
Dire Wolves Have Been Brought Back from 10,000 Year Extinction
The dire wolf is no longer extinct. Meet the world's first de-extinct animals. The science of de-extinction is to analyze the frozen DNA of extinct animals and then genetically engineer a similar animal to have the desired traits of the extinct version. They took Grey wolves and changed DNA so the child wolves would have ... Read more
SpaceX Will Relaunch Super Heavy Booster 14 for Flight 9
SpaceX previously used Super Heavy Booster 14 and was able to catch it. They have now rolled Booster 14 back out to the launch tower and plan to reuse it for Starship flight 9. SpaceX has switched to a new generation of engine bell covers. There is orange and orange and white tape on the ... Read more
SpaceX Starship Global Cargo Logistics and Fuel
SpaceX's Starship upper stages, capable of one-hour cargo flights between continents, could revolutionize global logistics by drastically reducing delivery times compared to the 12-24 hours typical of traditional air cargo. However, to fully capitalize on this speed, bureaucratic and procedural delays-such as customs clearance, security checks, and documentation-must be minimized. By implementing expedited pre-approval processes ... Read more
How to Fully UNLOCK the AI Future
What is a full stack AI company? AI is making huge changes but we have not reached an intelligence explosion. We have not transformed all transportation, labor or computer coding. A company that can fully unlock the AI future would have control all aspects of what is needed for better and better AI. This would ... Read more
Tesla Optimus Has Improved Walking and Actuators
Tesla Optimus has shown improved walking and improved actuators. The actuators will continue to be improved. The walking was mastered using reinforcement learning in a digital simulation. This training approach is used by all of the leading humanoid bot companies. The reports and claims from the humanoid robot companies is that training of skills is ... Read more
Secure Ideas Achieves CREST Accreditation and CMMC Level 1 Compliance
Jacksonville, United States, 3rd April 2025, CyberNewsWire
SpaceX Starship Next Day Package Delivery Economics
SpaceX Starship could have significantly faster delivery options (12, 24 and 48 hours) compared to the current express standard of under five days. How much demand could there be for this service? People could be willing to pay 2X to 4X the price for ultrafast package delivery. Current express delivery is about 17% of total ... Read more
Boeing Starliner Was a Minute from Disaster in Space Station Docking
The Boeing Starliner faced a critical situation during its approach to the International Space Station (ISS), where multiple thruster failures brought it within minutes o losing full control and potentially endangering the crew. Ars Technica got the details from Astronaut Wilmore on the danger 9 months ago during the docking. The Starliner was likely 30-60 ... Read more
Sentient To Bring Powerful AI Search To The Masses
The decentralized artificial intelligence startup Sentient says it's throwing down the gauntlet to industry giants like OpenAI, Google, Perplexity and The decentralized artificial intelligence startup Sentient says it's throwing down the gauntlet to industry giants like OpenAI, Google, Perplexity and Anthropic with the imminent launch of Open Deep Search. Known as ODS, it's a very ... Read more
HUGE Changes in Tesla Factories for $25K Cars in 2025 and $15K in 2026
Tesla's unboxed process will transform car manufacturing and the cybercab will be revolunize transportation. They are so disruptive, they will need to have two major steps over two years. The first two steps will be done this year and next year. Tesla will no longer paint new cars starting with the new models introduced in ... Read more
Intel 18 Angstrom Chips Ramping to Mass Production in Second Half of 2025 – Intel Relevant Again
Brinker Named Among “10 Most Promising Defense Tech Startups of 2025”
Delaware, USA, 2nd April 2025, CyberNewsWire
BREAKTHROUGH Testing Soon for Starship’
SpaceX and the Air Force Research Lab will start testing and developing the capability to fly anywhere in the world in under an hour. SpaceX's Starship is poised to revolutionize global logistics and travel with breakthrough ultra-fast point-to-point flights on Earth. The US Air Force Research Lab and Space Force have awarded SpaceX contracts totaling ... Read more
Technology Leap of Tesla Cybercab Manufacturing is Like the Fully Reusable SpaceX Starship
The fully reusable SpaceX Starship includes huge combinations of new technologies. The innovations combine into a massive increase in capability. We will be able to launch 1000 times as much payload to orbit. A similar multi-year effort is being achieved with the Tesla Cybercab and its breakthrough manufacturing processes. A Starship uses the Mechazilla launch ... Read more
Super-Turing AI for AI Using 40 Million Times Less Energy
Super-Turing AI operates more like the human brain and with much less energy. This new AI integrates certain processes instead of separating them and then migrating huge amounts of data like current systems do. AI data centers are consuming power in gigawatts, whereas our brain consumes 20 watts. That's 1 billion watts compared to just ... Read more
Bodidata Has a 3D Scanner for 15X Faster Clothes Fitting With Over 90% Accuracy
Bodidata has next level size-matching technology for clothing and this will eliminate costs, reduce environmental waste, and make things easier and faster for customers. The 3D body scanner has over 15 x Faster than traditional fitting + 90% Accuracy on recommendations If this is used this would stop nearly a trillions of garments that don't ... Read more
Purchasing Power of Countries and Regions
There is a global total of $60 trillion of final consumer consumption for 2025. The US with about 4% of total world population has 33% of total consumption.
Active Rockets Compared
Here is a list of some active rocket companies.
German Rocket Startup Launch Failure After 30 Seconds
Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace company based in Munich, Germany. They build short range surface to ship missiles. They tried for a low earth orbit test and it failed after 30 seconds. They went for an orientation change it failed. The company is developing Spectrum, a two-stage, liquid-fueled rocket designed to launch 1,000 kilograms ... Read more
Reports that China Could Have Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) Lithography in 2026
Chinese electronics giant Huawei is testing elements for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine at its Dongguan facility, according to two sources posting photographs on X social media. The sources say the equipment is scheduled for trial production of circuits in 2Q25 with full-scale manufacturing in 2026, without attributing the information to any sources of ... Read more
SpaceX Is Launching 20% More Satellites and More Launch Towers
SpaceX is going to make huge advances with fully reusable Super Heavy Starships. A fleet of 100 fully reusable Starships with boosters could transport about 2 million tons per year to orbit. This would be about one thousand times more than last year. SpaceX is making huge progress in these few months. They are on ... Read more
When Will AI Drive Sustained GDP Growth Over 5% Per Year?
When might AI truly transform our world, and what will that transformation look like? The Epoch AI research team focuses on the future of AI. They have a mission of understanding the future of AI. They have disagreement about timelines for AGI. Two Epoch AI researchers with relatively long and short AGI timelines candidly examine ... Read more
Studies on Where Forests Are and Where They Can Be Added
Millions of hectares of old-growth forest disappearing every year, along with tens of thousands of forest species, scientists are calling for a greater emphasis on forest regeneration, in which natural forests are allowed or encouraged to recover under their own steam, for the benefit of ecosystems, communities and the climate. Environmentl Research Journal - Mapping ... Read more
SquareX Discloses Browser-Native Ransomware that Puts Millions at Risk
Palo Alto, USA, 29th March 2025, CyberNewsWire
XAI Acquires X In an All Stock Transaction
@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt). I think this means xAI is valued at $113 billion after the acquisition. Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the ... Read more
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