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NASA is expanding its coalition for lunar exploration, welcoming Croatia as the seventy-fourth nation to sign the Artemis Accords. The ceremony took place in Zagreb with NASA and State Department officials present, marking another step in building the international framework meant to govern responsible behavior in space.
Shifting from the cosmos to your content feed, a developer named Tom Frazier has released a free, open-source Chrome extension called Slop Mop, designed to identify and flag low-quality AI-generated writing on LinkedIn. It runs on a decision-making model called Jev, requires no signup, and the code is publicly available on GitHub for anyone who wants to dig in.
And NASA also announced a second major development this week, selecting PRIMA, the PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics, as the first mission in a new class called Probe Explorers. The space telescope will study the history and evolution of the universe and now advances to the next phase of development under the agency's long-running Explorers Program.
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