FAA Orders Probe Into Blue Origin New Glenn Mishap Federal aviation regulators have directed Blue Origin to investigate a malfunction in the upper stage of its New Glenn rocket following a failed satellite launch from Florida over the weekend. The incident occurred during the vehicle’s third flight and its second mission carrying a commercial payload, marking a notable setback in the company’s efforts to expand its position in the competitive launch market. The Federal Aviation Administration has mandated a full mishap investigation. Blue Origin must submit its findings and any corrective measures for approval before resuming flights. The regulator will…
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India’s Green Transition Faces Mineral Supply Challenge Amid Global Tensions Rising tensions in the Middle East are prompting India to accelerate its shift towards renewable energy. However, the country faces a parallel challenge as it depends heavily on imports for the minerals required to sustain its green transition. India currently imports around 80 percent of its oil and gas needs. Consequently, the push towards renewable energy has gained urgency. The country aims to install 500 gigawatts of green energy capacity by 2030, including solar, wind and hydropower. In addition, it plans to expand battery storage and electric mobility to support…
India’s decennial census has finally arrived, 15 years late, but with an update: The paper sheets, hand-drawn boundary maps are now being replaced with geotagging features integrated with smartphones to get precise coordinates of each household, each cluster. Professor Nithiyanandam of the Takshashila Institution, a geospatial programming specialist, calls it “a gold mine of information.” The concept is still pretty much the same if you see it. An enumerator, that is a person employed in taking a census of the population, will visit your house and ask you around 29 questions per household. These will span across your assets, connectivity,…
Meta Expands Broadcom Partnership to Boost AI Chip Development Meta has announced an expanded partnership with Broadcom to develop multiple generations of custom artificial intelligence processors, as the company accelerates efforts to strengthen its computing infrastructure for AI-driven features across its platforms. The agreement, revealed on April 14, extends the collaboration through to 2029. It includes an initial commitment exceeding one gigawatt of computing capacity, which is roughly equivalent to the energy required to power around 750,000 average homes in the United States. Strategic Shift Towards Custom AI Hardware As part of the revised arrangement, Broadcom’s chief executive, Hock Tan,…
The “fly on the wall” has officially transitioned from just a metaphor to a high-priority line item in modern defence procurement. At the heart of Israel’s tactical footprint in Gaza is an insect-sized spy device that is often dropped using small drones. According to a Middle East Monitor report, these tiny “insects” are reportedly used to detect the location of captives by infiltrating areas where traditional surveillance cannot reach. The report added that Israel is also dropping worm-sized devices equipped with cameras. Devices were placed in bags and dropped in open areas, such as cemeteries and even inside residential neighbourhoods…
On March 31, the internal source code of ‘Claude Code’, an AI-powered coding assistant by Anthropic, was leaked. This means that software developers across the world could now look into how this model works and have access to 512,000 lines of its code. The leak, Anthropic confirmed, was due to a “release packaging issue caused by human error” and not a targeted hack or security breach. When a team member ran a production build manually for the Claude Code version 2.1.88 update, the compiler accidentally published an internal file publicly, which allowed anyone who found it to download it as…
Imagine seeing a navigation map inside your spectacles as you drive. Or an answer quietly appearing on your lens mid-exam. This is no longer just a theory. Companies like Ray-Ban, Oakley, and Xiaomi are making it happen — weaving large language models into frames that sit on your face. China has emerged as one of the primary testing grounds for this frontier. Of the 14.8 million smart glasses shipped globally in 2025, the Chinese market claimed 2.5 million — roughly 16.7 percent of the total. Tech giants like Xiaomi and Alibaba are leading the charge, with car manufacturer Li Auto…
Imagine being stuck in traffic or simply not wanting to work, while your laptop finishes your spreadsheets and emails your pitch deck for you—all on its own. Anthropic has officially pushed its Claude assistant to follow OpeClaw’s footsteps. Beyond mere text-based conversations, this is what they call agentic AI – newly introduced computer-use capabilities. Claude is being trained to take over your keyboard and screen to retrieve files, navigate the internet, and operate software autonomously. This capability is managed through two distinct layers: “Dispatch,” a tool released last week for remote task assignment via smartphones, and “Orbit,” an experimental mobile-native…
Iran strikes on Amazon and Microsoft data centres reveal new digital battlefield The war in West Asia has shifted from traditional military and infrastructure targets to a new domain: data centers. The Fars news agency, an affiliate of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), recently claimed that Iran targeted Amazon and Microsoft facilities in the Gulf via drone strikes. While Microsoft stated it has not experienced regional outages, AWS confirmed a breach on Monday. “In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impacts…
On Monday, users across the world were complaining about Claude, an artificial intelligence model facing an outage for hours. While the term ‘AI is booming’ has been used extensively in the past few months, the dependency has been revealed in this instance. Anthropic, Claude’s parent company, fixed the issue, but the technical instability it created sent immediate ripples across private sector productivity and high-stakes military operations. The reason for the outage was attributed to Claude experiencing an unprecedented surge, with daily downloads jumping 88 percent. This was synonymous with a 295% surge in uninstallations of ChatGPT’s mobile app in the…