ESA prepares for the post-ISS era, selects The Exploration Company, Thales Alenia to develop cargo spacecraft

The European Space Agency selected two companies on Wednesday to advance designs of a cargo spacecraft that could establish the continent’s first sovereign access to space.  The two awardees, major aerospace prime Thales Alenia Space and French startup The Exploration Company, will receive €25 million ($27 million) each to advance concepts for vehicles that can […]
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Expressable brings speech therapy into the home

Expressable is a platform that offers one-on-one virtual sessions with speech language pathologists.
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Snowflake Arctic, a New AI LLM for Enterprise Tasks, is Coming to APAC

Data cloud company Snowflake’s Arctic is promising to provide APAC businesses with a true open source large language model they can use to train their own custom enterprise LLMs and inference more economically.

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ChatGPT Gets an Upgrade With ‘Natively Multimodal’ GPT-4o

OpenAI added a desktop ChatGPT application for macOS with GPT-4o. Separately, all ChatGPT users have access to Memory and some other features for free.

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Best ACR class in XDefiant and how to unlock

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that the ACR is one of the best assault rifles you can utilize when starting out in XDefiant thanks to its solid damage output and relative ease of use. However, despite it being solid in its own right, knowing the best ACR class setup is key to pushing it to its full potential.
Below, we’ll take you through the best ACR 6.8 loadout in XDefiant as well as how to actually unlock the gun since it isn’t one that is provided to you right out of the gate.
Best ACR 6.8 loadout in XDefiant
Here is the best ACR loadout you can choose in XDefiant that enhances the already great base weapon that bit further:

Muzzle: Muzzle Brake
Barrel: Stabilizing Barrel
Front Rail: Angled Grip
Rear Grip: Quick Draw Grip
Stock: Precision Stock

If you’ve played with the weapon already you’ll know that it barely has any recoil to it and the above attachments make it even more stable, basically turning it into an absolute laser.
As you can see though, we have opted for no sight just to maximize the effectiveness. So, if you’re more of a red dot player, you could sacrifice the Quick Draw Grip as this is more for getting the ACR ready to fire rather than improving the core of the weapon.
How to unlock ACR in XDefiant

If you haven’t even got your hands on the ACR yet knowing the steps for unlocking it is essential. Thankfully, it is pretty simple but it will require you to get some matches under your belt.
This is because to unlock the ACR in XDefiant you have to complete a weapon challenge, and your task is to get ten Assault Rifle Longshot Kills. These are kills that are 30 meters and above away so you’re going to be needing to look down those longer sight lines to get this one done, maybe on a map like Midway or Dumbo where areas are more open.
Once you get this completed, the ACR will be unlocked instantly, allowing you to get a custom loadout going no matter which faction you’re playing.
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Most US TikTok Creators Don’t Think a Ban Will Happen

The Chinese-owned app is in serious trouble in Washington, but a survey of US creators suggests TikTok’s influencer economy is carrying on with business as usual.

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Anthropic’s Generative AI Research Reveals More About How LLMs Affect Security and Bias

Anthropic opened a window into the ‘black box’ where ‘features’ steer a large language model’s output.

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The biggest French startups in 2024 according to the French government

The French Secretary of State for the Digital Economy as of this year, Marina Ferrari, revealed this year’s laureates during VivaTech week in Paris. According to its promoters, this fifth class was the most selective since the inception of the program.
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Spotify to shut off Car Thing for good, leading users to demand refunds

Spotify is notifying customers who purchased its Car Thing product that the devices will stop working after December 9, 2024. The company discontinued the device back in July 2022, but had said at the time that it would still support the units that had already been sold. The company’s plans for the device have changed, […]
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IBM X-Force Report: Grandoreiro Malware Targets More Than 1,500 Banks in 60 Countries

Find out how Grandoreiro banking trojan campaigns work and the countries targeted, as well as how to mitigate this malware threat.

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