My reporting also helped answer another question that was lingering in my brain: Why doesn’t the world recycle more nuclear waste? There’s still a lot of usable uranium in spent nuclear fuel... Read more »

Now off-the-shelf technology—Starlink terminals, plug-and-play nautical autopilots, high-resolution video cameras—may be advancing that cat-and-mouse game into a new phase.  Uncrewed subs could move more cocaine over longer distances, and they wouldn’t put human smugglers... Read more »

On the other hand, some other reactor designs could produce a smaller volume of spent fuel, but that isn’t necessarily a smaller problem. Fast reactors, for example, achieve a higher burn-up, consuming... Read more »

Training versions of AI models on classified data is expected to make them more accurate and effective in certain tasks, according to a US defense official who spoke on background with MIT... Read more »

Quote of the day  “The inference inflection has arrived.”  —Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims we’ve reached a tipping point where AI usage is accelerating faster than its development, AP reports.  One More Thing  Meet the... Read more »

This year, a South Korean company called Absolics will start producing special glass panels that make next-generation computing hardware more powerful and efficient. Other companies, including Intel, are also pushing forward in this area.  ... Read more »