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Never send a Link to do a Zelda's work: The LINK mission intended to boost the Swift Observatory into a higher orbit has itself spun out of control, leaving Swift to burn down, fall over, and sink into the swamp, by which we mean disintegrate upon re-entry and any surviving fragments fall harmlessly into the ocean and Canberra. (CNN)

The loss is lessened slightly, perhaps, by the fact that Swift was launched with a planned operational lifetime of two years... In 2004.

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Inherent's AI teammate is claimed to outperform Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research. (Tech Crunch)

Inherent, which just raised $50 million in funding, didn't build its own LLM. It runs on Qwen 3.6-27B, which anyone can download and run on a Mac or a 32GB graphics card like an RTX 5090 or the much cheaper Radeon R9700.
A decent laptop with 16GB of RAM is better than a good laptop with 8GB. (The Verge)

At least if you're running Windows 11 where, despite everything Microsoft says, you really need 32GB of RAM for anything serious.
Microsoft also says your games are crashing because of you kids and your RGB lighting. (Bleeping Computer)

Despite the fact that it all worked perfectly before the latest Windows Update.
AMD has published Linux drivers for RDNA 4m (mobile) graphics devices. (WCCFTech)

Which is slightly interesting because there are no RDNA 4m graphics devices. Not yet, anyway.

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