Celestron Origin Intelligent Home Observatory, introduced in 2024 and shipping through 2025, uses a 6-inch Rowe-Ackermann Schmidt Astrograph (RASA) at f/2.2 with an integrated 8.3-megapixel Sony STARVIS IMX178 color sensor, has no eyepiece, a fully motorized one-arm alt-azimuth mount with StarSense plate solving, built-in autofocus and dew control, and about 6 hours of cordless operation.…
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The Take It Down Act was passed in April 2025 and signed into law in May 2025, making it a federal crime to create or share nonconsensual AI-generated intimate imagery and requiring platforms to remove such content within 48 hours. In May 2025, Mr. Deepfakes shut down after a critical service provider withdrew support, effectively…
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OpenAI released GPT-4o in May 2024 as a natively multimodal model that accepts text, audio, image, and video input and can generate text, audio, or images, delivering GPT-4-level performance at roughly 50% lower cost and faster speed. Google DeepMind Gemini, unveiled in December 2023, ships as Gemini 1.0 Ultra, Pro, and Nano and has exceeded…
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SpaceX conducted two Falcon 9 Starlink launches within 24 hours (July 26 from Florida and July 27 from California), marking SpaceX’s 92nd mission of 2025, with the first booster flying 22nd time and the second booster 19th flight, and both droneship landings bringing the total to 480 recoveries. A rare global Starlink outage on July…
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The White House released America’s AI Action Plan on July 23, 2025, detailing 90+ federal initiatives across three pillars: accelerating innovation, building AI infrastructure, and strengthening global partnerships. On July 29, 2025, a group of Senate Democrats including Chris Coons, Mark Warner, Chuck Schumer, Jack Reed, and Elizabeth Warren warned that resuming sales of advanced…
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Janitor AI was founded by Australian developer Jan Zoltkowski and launched in June 2023, attracting over 1 million users in its first week and roughly 3 million registered users by September 2023. In July 2023 OpenAI issued a cease-and-desist over Janitor AI’s sexual content, prompting a pivot to its own JanitorLLM and a homegrown model…
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Grok 4 was unveiled on July 9, 2025 in a live stream on X, with Elon Musk calling it “the smartest AI in the world” and claiming it is “postgrad-level in every subject.” Grok 4 can use tools natively, perform autonomous web searches, run Python code, and access real-time information, removing the fixed knowledge cutoff.…
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UK Co-op confirmed a data breach affecting 6.5 million members, with attackers stealing an Active Directory database after a social‑engineering password reset on April 22 and deploying the DragonForce ransomware. KNP Logistics, a British transport firm founded in 1865, collapsed into administration after the Akira ransomware breached it in June 2024 via a guessed weak…
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SpaceX conducted back-to-back Falcon 9 Starlink launches within 24 hours: July 26 from Cape Canaveral with 28 satellites and July 27 from California with 24 satellites, pushing the active Starlink constellation to 8,032. Crew-11 astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui and Oleg Platonov are set to launch on July 31 aboard Dragon Endeavour to…
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On July 27–28, 2025, the White House unveiled an AI Action Plan calling for open-source and open-weight AI models to be freely available worldwide and for regulatory hurdles to be slashed to accelerate innovation. During the July 27–28 weekend, President Trump signed executive orders to expedite AI infrastructure projects and require federally funded AI to…
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