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Jay Peters

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    NASA’s Orion spacecraft has reached its maximum distance from Earth: 252,756 miles.

    After setting a new distance record and going behind the Moon, the Artemis II crew has now gone as far away from Earth as they will during the mission.

    The team reached the milestone during a planned communications blackout, but they’ve made contact again.

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    Jay Peters
    Bluesky has had some issues today.

    Outage reports have gone up and down on Downdetector today, and my feed occasionally hasn’t loaded. Bluesky says the issue, which it blamed on an upstream service provider, “appears” to have been fixed, but users have taken the problems as a chance to poke fun at unpopular comments from the Bluesky team about vibe coding.

    Updates: Added Bluesky’s status updates.

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    Jay Peters
    More open source AI models from Meta, though not right away.

    Meta will “eventually” offer open source versions of its new AI models Alexandr Wang is in charge of, but first, the company “wants to keep some pieces proprietary and to ensure they don’t add new levels of safety risk,” Axios reports.

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    Jay Peters
    Unrolling LG’s rollable phone.

    JerryRigEverything tore down LG’s unreleased rollable smartphone, and seeing the insides of this phone and how it works is just awesome. The teardown proper starts at about 4 minutes and 20 seconds.

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    Jay Peters
    A company that makes AI training data has been hit by a security breach.

    Meta has paused work with the company, Mercor (which The Verge has profiled), while OpenAI is investigating the security incident, Wired reports.

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    Jay Peters
    Take-Two’s head of AI and his team are no longer at the company.

    Luke Dicken posted about the changes on LinkedIn, as reported by Game Developer, saying that the team’s time “has come to an end.” Before becoming Take-Two’s head of AI, he held the role of senior director of applied AI at Zynga, which is owned by Take-Two, for two years.

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    Jay Peters
    Windows 11 might give haptic feedback for things like closing a window.

    Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 feature that would let users “feel haptic feedback effects on compatible input devices while performing certain actions, such as aligning objects in PowerPoint, window snapping, resizing, or hovering over the Close button,” according to the Windows Insider Blog. This could be really cool on a good trackpad.

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    Jay Peters
    Signs of life for State of Decay 3.

    Xbox’s Undead Labs will be hosting alpha playtests for the zombie apocalypse game starting next month, according to a video. You can sign up for the waitlist now.

    State of Decay 3 was first announced in 2020 and got a trailer in 2024.