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The US Space Force announced it is tripling the maximum value of its National Security Space Launch Phase 3 contract to $17 billion. The military is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in total rocket launches. The expansion signals rising demand for military satellite launches.
Hugging Face was attacked by a fully autonomous AI agent that swarmed its system with tens of thousands of automated actions. The company fought back using Chinese model Z.ai's GLM 5.2 after a leading U.S. AI model's guardrails prevented it from examining malicious payloads. CEO Clem Delangue said open models are necessary for defense.
Overclock.net member asder00 created a plugin that enables VRAM temperature tracking for each memory module on Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs. The plugin also accesses the recently exposed hotspot sensor. This gives users granular thermal monitoring previously unavailable on these graphics cards.
Leaked images and pricing reveal two upcoming Redmi smartwatches. The Redmi Watch 6 Active costs €50 with a 1.85-inch AMOLED screen and 470 mAh battery. The Redmi Watch 6 Lite costs €60 with a 1.96-inch AMOLED screen, multi-system GPS, and a speaker. Both offer over 140 sports modes, heart rate, SpO2, and sleep tracking.
Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability tracks user actions, geolocation, and errors by user impact. It reveals that 14% of users reaching a payment step never complete it. A CDN misconfiguration degrading load times in Southeast Asia won't surface in global average LCP but shows as elevated errors for that region.
Meta discontinued its Muse AI feature on Instagram after privacy backlash. The tool let users tag public accounts to generate AI images and was on by default. Meta admitted it "missed the mark" and removed the feature less than a week after its July 7 launch.