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Federal workers at the FAA and across government agencies are being required to install a White House app that security researchers say contains code from Elfsight, a Russian-founded software vendor. The app cost one point four million dollars, and the discovery is raising serious questions about supply chain vetting at the highest levels of government.
Shifting to space, China is advancing plans to strike an asteroid with a projectile traveling at Mach twenty-six as part of a planetary defense test. The ambition here is significant — demonstrating the ability to deflect a space rock requires both precision engineering and political will, and Beijing appears to be investing in both.
And on a lighter but genuinely interesting note, a musician going by 1010Benja has produced a track using the AI music platform Suno that's winning over at least some skeptics — including critics who typically find AI-generated music creatively hollow. It won't settle the debate about whether generative tools belong in music, but it does suggest the conversation is more complicated than either side wants to admit.
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