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• China sets new airborne wind turbine record at 4,000m — this 747-sized helium blimp generates megawatt power from high-altitude winds [15d]
• Could helicopter drones be the next big military breakthrough? This US firm says its new unit can fly up to five times longer than traditional battery-powered quadcopters [15d]
• Quote of the day by PsiQuantum CEO Jeremy O’Brien: 'If you think the goal is to get to the top of the Empire State Building, you build longer ladders' — a challenge to incremental hardware progress in quantum computing [15d]
• iPod nostalgia is at an all-time high, so meet two new cheap, adorable tiny hi-res music players that invoke the best of the music-player era (bring your own white wired earbuds) [15d]
• Ukraine flags that Russia could have a secret fleet of autonomous military vessels stalking the seas [15d]
• Meta settles its alleged social media harm case for $18B and agrees to massive changes that may be almost impossible to enforce [15d]
• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says people think governments are using AI ‘to screw them over’, and that’s why the tech is having a ‘a crisis of trust’ — and he’s exactly right [15d]
• OpenAI says it took down a malicious Russian plan to spread misinformation on ChatGPT [15d]
• Samsung leak reveals Galaxy Aero smartwatch-lite — and it could right the wrongs of Samsung’s disappointing Apple Watch SE rival [15d]
• Security expert hijacks Apple's Find My network to share data with a Linux device [15d]