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🌙 NASA Artemis II crew splashes down after Moon flyby

🇫🇷 France to ditch Windows for Linux

🔥 Suspect arrested after Molotov cocktail thrown at Altman's home

🏦 Anthropic Mythos triggers anxiety among Washington banks

🔍 Google calls Polymarket results in News an "error"

🪟 Microsoft's "commitment to Windows quality" starts with overhaul of beta program

Plus: 🎁 11 other news you might like, 🧰 5 tools, and 📚 2 papers.

🌙 NASA Artemis II crew splashes down after Moon flyby LINK

NASA's Artemis II crew of four astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean today aboard the Orion capsule, completing the first crewed trip around the moon since 1972.

The crew traveled 694,481 miles over 10 days, swinging more than 4,000 miles past the moon's far side, with Christina Koch becoming the first woman to venture beyond Earth orbit.

Orion's heat shield passed a key test during re-entry at 24,661 mph, after NASA redesigned the descent trajectory because an earlier uncrewed mission showed more serious charring than expected.

🇫🇷 France to ditch Windows for Linux LINK

France announced plans to replace Microsoft Windows on its government computers with the open-source operating system Linux as part of a broader push to reduce its reliance on U.S. technology.

French minister David Amiel said the government can no longer accept having no control over its data and digital infrastructure, calling the move an effort to "regain control of our digital destiny."

France did not provide a specific timeline or say which Linux distributions it was considering, but the shift follows its earlier decision to replace Microsoft Teams with French-made Visio.

🔥 Suspect arrested after Molotov cocktail thrown at Altman's home LINK

A 20-year-old man was arrested in San Francisco after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home and later threatening to burn down OpenAI's headquarters.

Police responded to a fire investigation in the North Beach neighborhood around 4:12 AM PT and found that an incendiary destructive device had been thrown at the home's exterior gate.

OpenAI confirmed no one was hurt in either incident, said the individual is in custody, and noted the company is assisting law enforcement with their ongoing investigation into the attacks.

🏦 Anthropic Mythos triggers anxiety among Washington banks LINK

Anthropic's latest AI model, Mythos, has caused serious concern among major Washington banks, prompting Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell to call bank CEOs for an emergency meeting.

Leaders from Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs gathered this week to discuss AI-driven cyberattacks that could wipe account balances or exploit financial system vulnerabilities.

Anthropic plans to offer Mythos to only a few dozen companies to limit exposure, but critics say AI labs profit from selling solutions to the very threats their own models create.

🔍 Google calls Polymarket results in News an "error" LINK

Google says that Polymarket betting odds appearing in Google News results was an error, not an intentional feature, and the company has removed them from its News product.

Before removal, Polymarket links showed up next to credible sources like The Guardian and Reuters, leading users directly to betting markets tied to specific news events.

Google has already partnered with both Polymarket and Kalshi to show their data on Google Finance, but the company has not explained how Polymarket ended up in News results.

🪟 Microsoft's "commitment to Windows quality" starts with overhaul of beta program LINK

Microsoft is overhauling its Windows Insider Program as part of a broader effort to improve Windows quality, merging some testing channels and giving users more control over what they test.

The Canary and Dev channels will be combined into a single "Experimental" channel, while the Beta channel stays mostly the same for people who want more stable preview builds.

Both the Experimental and Beta channels will let testers pick between the 26H1 Arm-focused version and the standard 25H2 version, with a "Future Platforms" option for early builds.

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• YouTube says those 90-second ad timers were caused by a bugLINK

• Canada's Cohere, Germany's Aleph Alpha in merger talks, Handelsblatt reportsLINK

• Deepmind CEO Hassabis says AGI will hit like ten industrial revolutions compressed into a single decadeLINK

• App Store fight continues as Apple and Epic clash over court-ordered stayLINK

• Mozilla says Microsoft is using Copilot and Edge to tighten its grip on WindowsLINK

🧰 Trending tools

Pardonned.com: a searchable database of US presidential pardons scraped from the Department of Justice website and built as a static site.LINK

Capso: a free, open-source Mac screenshot and screen recording tool with OCR, annotations, and image beautification—no subscriptions or paywalls required.LINK

Tech Marketing Framework: a git repo with Claude-powered agents that reads your product documentation and generates technical marketing content grounded in your actual features and capabilities.LINK

Clicky: privacy-focused web analytics platform that tracks real-time visitor behavior without cookies, includes aggressive bot blocking, and remains GDPR-compliant by default.LINK

MolmoWeb: a dataset containing over 800,000 annotated 3D objects across diverse categories, enabling developers to train and test computer vision models with rich visual variety.LINK

📚 Trending papers & reports

A new optimization method for dividing 32-bit numbers by constants on 64-bit processors achieves speedups of 1.67x on Intel Xeon and 1.98x on Apple M4 chips.LINK

Large language models frequently prioritize company revenue over user welfare when faced with advertising conflicts, with some recommending sponsored products 83% of the time despite being nearly twice as expensive.LINK

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