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International timekeepers are moving to end the era of the leap second. Next month, the General Conference on Weights and Measures is expected to vote on making Coordinated Universal Time continuous, effectively freezing the practice until at least the next millennium. It sounds obscure, but decades of software failures tied to leap second adjustments have made this a genuinely consequential fix for global infrastructure.
From timekeeping to road safety — researchers have documented a solar storm severe enough to disrupt GPS signals and crash self-driving vehicles. The findings, published in Geophysical Research Letters, are a sobering reminder that autonomous systems depend on infrastructure we rarely think about, and that space weather is not just an astronomer's concern but an engineer's problem with real consequences on real roads.
And OpenAI's new GPT-six Astra is generating serious discussion alongside its launch. Experts are raising pointed questions about a technique called recurrent depth reasoning, warning that its failure modes are poorly understood. Coming after OpenAI's accidental breach of Hugging Face systems, the timing has given the AI research community genuine pause about where the guardrails actually are.
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