System Engineers Are Becoming Mission Operators

The systems engineer who fully owns the operational outcome: the security, the compliance, the resilience, the mission, is ...
EurekAlert!

Evolution toward extinction in an RNA-protein self-replication system

Recent research showed that an artificially constructed RNA self-replicating system modeling primitive life at the origin of life evolved to become more prone to extinction under certain experimental ...
autoevolution

European Tesla Owners Must Watch Tutorials and Pass a Quiz To Prove They're Fit To Use FSD

Tesla fans cheered the news that the Dutch vehicle authority, RDW, approved the Full Self-Driving software for use in the Netherlands as a driver assistance system. The European variant of the FSD ...
SpaceNews

Lockheed Martin wins $105 million contract for GPS ground control system as OCX winds down

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $105 million contract to support ground control operations for the next generation of GPS satellites, as the Pentagon moves to wind down a ...
VentureBeat

Karpathy shares 'LLM Knowledge Base' architecture that bypasses RAG with an evolving markdown library maintained by AI

AI vibe coders have yet another reason to thank Andrej Karpathy, the coiner of the term. The former Director of AI at Tesla and co-founder of OpenAI, now running his own independent AI project, ...
Machine Design

The Digital Evolution of Heavy Machinery—Understanding Model-Based Systems Engineering

Heavy machinery is entering a new phase where hydraulics, electronics and embedded software are engineered as one integrated system. Using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) as a framework to ...
ArchDaily

Rethinking Architecture at the Scale of Planetary Systems

Architecture has traditionally been described as a discipline concerned with space, form, and material presence. Yet this understanding becomes increasingly limited when confronted with the conditions ...
Seeking Alpha

Palantir, Nvidia to provide sovereign AI operating system architecture

Palantir Technologies (PLTR) and Nvidia (NVDA) are collaborating to deliver a sovereign AI operating system reference architecture that provides customers a complete AI data center from hardware ...
GovCon Wire

X-Bow Systems to Acquire Evolution Space to Expand Solid Rocket Motor Production

X-Bow Systems has agreed to acquire Evolution Space to scale production of advanced solid rocket motors, or SRMs, and expand its hypersonic capabilities. The company said Tuesday the acquisition, ...
Science Daily

Light-guided evolution creates proteins that can switch, sense, and compute

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic behaviors. By engineering yeast cells so their survival depended on proteins ...
Phys.org

Assessment of rare 'teenage' planetary system deepens understanding of cosmic evolution

Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed planetary systems at ...