Mines in the Strait of Hormuz: How dangerous are they?

Iran says it has placed mines in the Straight of Hormuz to discourage independent traffic. How dangerous are naval mines, and what can be done to clear them?

Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed

Towns and villages in southern Lebanon are being levelled by Israeli demolitions, satellite images and videos obtained by BBC ...
marktechpost

Netflix AI Team Just Open-Sourced VOID: an AI Model That Erases Objects From Videos — Physics and All

The streaming giant's research team dropped a model that doesn't just remove objects from video. It understands what happens next. Video editing has always had a dirty secret: removing an object from ...
9to5Mac

Apple’s new AI model recreates 3D objects with realistic lighting effects from a single image

Apple researchers have created an AI model that reconstructs a 3D object from a single image, while keeping reflections, highlights, and other effects consistent across different viewing angles. Here ...
CNBC

China's Alibaba launches AI model to power robots as tech giants talk up 'physical AI'

Alibaba's new AI model called RynnBrain is focused on powering robots. One video released by Alibaba's DAMO Academy shows a robot identifying fruit and putting it in a basket. Nvidia and Google are ...
TechCrunch

Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks

Last year, a swarm of AI browsers from companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, Opera, and The Browser Company launched with the aim to replace Chrome with features like sidebar assistants and automated ...
Wired

OpenAI’s Atlas Browser Takes Direct Aim at Google Chrome

OpenAI announced on Tuesday it’s rolling out a new internet browser called Atlas that integrates directly with ChatGPT. Atlas includes features like a sidebar window people can use to ask ChatGPT ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft restricts IE mode access in Edge after zero-day attacks

Microsoft is restricting access to Internet Explorer mode in Edge browser after learning that hackers are leveraging zero-day exploits in the Chakra JavaScript engine for access to target devices. The ...
IEEE

ZSPose: Instance-Level Zero-Shot Object Pose Estimation With Segment Anything Model

Abstract: Estimating the poses of new objects is a challenging problem. Although many methods have been developed for instance-level object pose estimation, they often struggle when faced with ...
SiliconANGLE

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model can navigate the web like a human

Google LLC has just announced a new version of its Gemini large language model that can navigate the web through a browser and interact with various websites, meaning it can perform tasks such as ...
The Verge

Google’s latest AI model uses a web browser like you do

The new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model can click, scroll, and type in a browser window to access data that’s not available via an API. The new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model can click, scroll, and type ...