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Google launched its AI Overview feature last year with the intention of saving users time by providing AI-generated summaries for their queries. Just one year later, they've introduced AI Mode, which is an expansion of the AI Overview feature and is said to be useful for queries that require deeper exploration and reasoning. Despite that, the AI Overview feature has struggled multiple times, even when answering basic, fundamental queries. Recently, many users on X reported that when they asked Google, “Is it 2025?”, the AI Overview responded, “No, it's not 2025. The current year is 2024, according to a calendar.” Interestingly, a user on Reddit mentioned that he was able to get the correct answer by adding the F-word at the end of the question. Fortunately, it seems that Google has finally fixed this issue. Now, the AI Overview correctly states that the current year is 2025. Although Google hasn't commented on why this happened, one of their spokespersons told TechCrunch that they use examples like this to update their system so that such mistakes are not repeated. AI Overview making such a blunder in answering a simple question is enough to make anyone believe that you shouldn't completely rely on the answers you get from AI Overview. If you’re not living in a cave, then you’d definitely know the answer to what year this is, so you can easily say that the Overview response is incorrect. But what if you search for something complex, the answer to which you aren't sure about? In such cases, you won't be able to confirm whether the AI Overview answer is correct. That’s why it is very important to manually check the sources that Google’s AI Overview cites in its responses. Interestingly, this isn’t the first time AI Overview has made such a big blunder. In May 2024, users reported that AI Overview was recommending they eat one small rock per day. There were also reports in the same month of users being advised to use glue to stick cheese to a pizza. Google CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned at the I/O 2025 annual developer conference that AI Overview has over 1.5 billion monthly active users. If Google truly wants this number to increase rapidly, it needs to ensure that the AI Overview feature does not repeat such mistakes again. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of April): 1,811 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Microsoft is rolling out a big feature update for its browser. Edge 137 is now available in the Stable Channel with a few important changes and improvements. The update also removes quite a lot of features, which were first announced with the release of Edge 137 Beta a few weeks ago. With the release of Microsoft Edge 137, the following components are being removed: Image Editor, Image Hover Menu, Mini Menu, Video Super Resolution, and Wallet Hub. Microsoft is ditching those features to streamline the experience, particularly in Wallet. All the data stored in your Wallet (payment data and personal information) will be available in the password manager. You can read more about changes to Wallet in a document on the official support website. As for new features and improvements, Edge 137 brings picture-in-picture enhancements, namely new playback controls. Now, besides play/pause, you skip forward and backward and use the playback progress bar. Another addition is Web Content Filtering, a new feature announced at Build 2025. With WCF, companies can block millions of inappropriate sites by selecting the categories they want to block. Microsoft updates Web Content Filtering every day to keep its policies and blocking lists relevant and up to date. At the moment, it is in public preview. Other changes include page summarization and contextual queries support in Copilot on the Work tab for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat, "Find on Page" integration into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Microsoft Edge for Business, and various policy changes, which you can check out in the official changelog. There is also a fix for Outlook and Teams links not showing sidepane content for users with the sidebar visibility set to "Auto Hidden." Finally, Edge 137.0.3296.52 patches eight security vulnerabilities, which you can find in the Microsoft Security Update Guide using this link. Microsoft Edge will download and install version 137 automatically in the background and apply it upon the next restart. You can speed things up by heading to edge://settings/help. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of April): 1,811 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

AMD has released a new display driver for Windows 11 and 10. The new driver—Adrenalin Edition 25.5.2 Optional Update Driver Version 25.10.01.12 (Windows Driver Store Version 32.0.21001.12002)— is not WHQL certified as the company released it earlier today to fix F1 25 crashes. In particular, the crash-fix is for Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs with the path tracing feature enabled. This is also the first driver to bring support for the racing sim title. Aside from this one fix, AMD also notes Discord performance issues and FreeSync-related system crashes on its 9000 series GPUs. The full changelog is given below and it is, as expected, rather small: Highlights New Game Support F1® 25 Fixed Issues and Improvements Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing F1® 25 with path tracing enabled on AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products Known Issues Stutter and lower than expected performance may be observed when using alt-tab and streaming to Discord with multiple monitors. Intermittent system crash may be observed while using multiple high-resolution monitors with AMD FreeSync™ on Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products. Aside from the display driver, the new driver package also contains an NPU driver in the form of the Ryzen AI NPU MCDM Driver version 32.00.0203.258. To download the driver, head over to AMD's official website here where you can also view the release notes. It is compatible with the RX 5000, 6000, 7000, and 9000 series families. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of April): 1,811 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

In mid-2022, Google revealed that it was merging Google Meet and Duo into a single app. Now, it has announced that the legacy Google Duo calling will be replaced by Meet in September 2025. All users who are participating in a Meet call using the latest version of the app will have access to all the latest bells and whistles. However, users with an outdated version of the app may connect to other users via a Legacy call, that offers fewer features than Meet, and the later has steadily been focusing on AI features powered by Gemini. Duo's calling features offered the following options: Family mode, Moments, Mirror mode, Knock Knock, Low light mode and Data saving mode. These are being retired, but Meet has alternatives for some of these. Moments is replaced by "take a device shot". Low light mode is replaced with video lighting adjustment and portrait touch-up for some users. Data saving mode is replaced with Meet saver mode. So the only features from Duo that are going away are Family mode, Mirror mode, and Knock Knock. Users will no longer be able to send an emoji from the pre-call screen, but you can use emojis during the call. A full list of the differences between Duo Legacy and Meet calling features are available here. Google is prompting Meet users to export their Duo call history, and video messages from their legacy calling account and message settings. Instructions for these are available on a support page. In short, you can export messages from the following section: Settings > Message settings > Export messages. The exported messages can be viewed from the Meet folder in the Collections tab in the Photos app. To export your Legacy Duo call history, go to: Settings > Calling settings (Legacy) > Legacy calling account > Manage legacy calling history > Export legacy call history. You can choose to copy the data or download it in a .CSV sheet. Source: 9to5Google Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of April): 1,811 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

"This is a design change that I really had to push the team very hard to do." Welcome to Edition 7.46 of the Rocket Report! As I write this, the date is May 29. From a meteorological standpoint, "spring" ends in fewer than three days. Summer lasts from June 1 through August 31. Consider this a public service announcement for launch companies targeting "spring" and "summer" launches for various missions. As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar. Xodiac rocket makes its final flight. Originally built by Masten Space Systems, the suborbital Xodiac rocket had flown 175 successful missions before a flight from Mojave, California, on Wednesday. But now, it will fly no more. "While the vehicle remained within its planned flight envelope, it detected an anomalous condition and commanded a flight termination," said Astrobotic, which acquired Masten a couple of years ago. "This resulted in a rapid descent and caused a loss of the vehicle upon impact with its launch pad." Now entering the Xogdor waiting room ... There were no injuries or significant damage to the company's infrastructure in Mojave. The vehicle is essentially a hopper and has been used in recent years by various customers, including companies building commercial lunar landers, to test their hazard-detection systems. Astrobotic has been working on a larger version of Xodiac, which it is calling Xogdor. Chinese firm tests Grasshopper-like rocket. Chinese private rocket firm Space Epoch said Thursday it had successfully run a flight recovery test, Reuters reports. Beijing-based Space Epoch, or SEPOCH, said its Yuanxingzhe-1 verification rocket was launched at 4:40 am from a sea-based platform off the waters of the eastern province of Shandong. The rocket soared upward, its engines briefly shutting down after the peak of its trajectory, then reigniting as it began its vertical descent to enter the Yellow Sea in a circle of fire, a video posted on Space Epoch's WeChat account showed. Chasing the Falcon 9 ... The flight lasted 125 seconds, reaching a height of about 2.5 km (1.6 miles), the company said. Last year, another Chinese launch company, LandSpace, completed a 10-km (6.2-mile) VTVL test, marking China's first in-flight engine reignition in descent. Both companies are pushing to make debut tests of their reusable rockets later this year. Florida company aims to acquire F-4 Phantoms for launch. Starfighters International, a company best known for doing air shows, is now seeking to move into air launch. Based at Kennedy Space Center, the company is in the process of acquiring a dozen F-4 Phantoms, a Cold War-era fighter jet, TWZ reports. Starfighters International is seeking to acquire the F-4 aircraft from South Korea. Press F-4 to doubt? ... Based upon the information in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company is considering both a suborbital and orbital launch capability for small satellites, which would fly to space on a small rocket deployed from the F-4 Phantom. In my experience, air-based launch systems always seem like a better idea on paper than in reality. Perhaps there is some potential for hypersonics here, but I would be shocked to ever see a satellite launched into orbit from a fighter jet. (submitted by Biokleen) Rocket Lab acquires Geost. Rocket Lab is expanding deeper into the defense sector with the acquisition of Geost, a supplier of electro-optical and infrared sensor payloads used in US military satellites, Space News reports. In a deal announced Tuesday, Rocket Lab will acquire Geost from the private equity firm ATL Partners for $125 million in cash and $150 million in stock, with an additional $50 million in potential cash payments tied to revenue targets in 2026 and 2027. Seeking mil money ... The acquisition gives Rocket Lab access to satellite sensor technology used by the US Department of Defense for missile-warning systems and space surveillance—capabilities that could help it win lucrative Pentagon contracts. "The acquisition of Geost will bring on board critical technology and payloads that are relied upon by the Department of Defense," said Rocket Lab’s chief executive, Peter Beck. Rocket Lab has been seeking to expand its military contracts in recent years, and this move is consistent with that. Northrop names rocket, invests in Firefly. Northrop Grumman announced Thursday that it is investing $50 million into Firefly Aerospace to further development of a medium-lift rocket. The company also revealed that the rocket will be named "Eclipse." The rocket will be capable of launching up to 16,300 kg of cargo to low-Earth orbit or 3,200 kg of cargo to geosynchronous transfer orbit, and initially it will likely be used for Cygnus cargo missions to the International Space Station. A match made in heaven? ... Eclipse will use the same first stage Firefly is developing for the Northrop Grumman Antares 330 rocket. Both launch vehicles will use seven of Firefly’s Miranda engines. The new rocket is expected to make its debut no earlier than 2026 (and, if history is any guide, probably later). "Eclipse gives customers the right balance of payload capacity and affordability," Northrop Vice President Wendy Williams said in a statement. "Our partnership with Firefly builds on our capacity to provide crucial space-based communication, observation, and exploration for civil and national security customers." China launches asteroid mission. A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth launched Wednesday from a military-run spaceport in the country's mountainous interior, Ars reports. The liftoff aboard a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang launch base kicked off the second mission in a series of Chinese probes to explore the Solar System. This mission, designated Tianwen-2, follows the Tianwen-1 mission, which became the first Chinese spacecraft to land on Mars in 2021. Sending samples home ... China has two objectives for Tianwen-2. First, Tianwen-2 will fly to a near-Earth asteroid designated 469219 Kamoʻoalewa, or 2016 HO3. Once there, the spacecraft will retrieve a rocky sample from the asteroid's surface and bring the material back to Earth in late 2027 for analysis in labs. After the spacecraft releases its sample carrier to land on Earth, Tianwen-2 will change course and head to a mysterious comet-like object found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Next Kuiper launch gets a June date. United Launch Alliance said Thursday that an Atlas V rocket will launch its second batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites next month. The Atlas V 551 rocket launch is planned for 2:29 pm ET on June 13 from Space Launch Complex-41, pending range approval. A speedy turnaround ... Amazon also confirmed that it has finished processing the Kuiper satellites for the launch, saying all 27 spacecraft have been integrated onto the rocket. Getting to space in June with this mission will mark an impressive turnaround from Amazon, given that its KA-01 mission, also with 27 Internet satellites, launched on April 28. SpaceX set to launch another GPS satellite. SpaceX is gearing up to launch a Global Positioning System satellite for the US military on Friday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, marking another high-profile national security mission that shifted from United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan to the Falcon 9 rocket, Space News reports. The launch of GPS III SV-08—the eighth satellite in the GPS III constellation—was originally assigned to United Launch Alliance but was switched to SpaceX as the military prioritizes getting advanced anti-jamming capabilities into orbit as quickly as possible. Gotta go fast ... This marks the second consecutive GPS III satellite to be switched from ULA to SpaceX, following December’s launch of GPS III SV-07. ULA’s Vulcan, which received certification to launch national security missions, continues to face delays and has accumulated a backlog of military launches. In a press call this week, Space Force officials said the mission was executed on an unusually accelerated timeline. Launch planning for GPS III SV-08 kicked off in February, with Lockheed Martin receiving a formal request on February 21 and SpaceX following on March 7, just under three months ahead of liftoff. That’s an extraordinary pace for a national security launch, they said, which typically takes 18 to 24 months from contract award. Another Starship launch, another second-stage issue. SpaceX made some progress on another test flight of the world's most powerful rocket Tuesday, finally overcoming technical problems that plagued the program's two previous launches, Ars reports. But minutes into the mission, SpaceX's Starship lost control as it cruised through space, then tumbled back into the atmosphere somewhere over the Indian Ocean nearly an hour after taking off from Starbase, Texas, the company's privately owned spaceport near the US-Mexico border. During the rocket's two previous test flights—each using an upgraded "Block 2" Starship design—problems in the ship's propulsion system led to leaks during launch, eventually triggering an early shutdown of the rocket's main engines. Not great, not terrible ... On both flights, the vehicle spun out of control and broke apart, spreading debris over an area near the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The good news is that that didn't happen on Tuesday. The ship's main engines fired for their full duration, putting the vehicle on its expected trajectory toward a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. For a short time, it appeared the ship was on track for a successful flight. The bad news is that Tuesday's test flight revealed more problems, preventing SpaceX from achieving the most important goals Musk outlined going into the launch, including testing Starship's reentry tiles. Elon Musk talks Starship version 3. In an interview with Ars Technica, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said he expects that an upgraded version of Starship—essentially Block 3 of the vehicle with upgraded Raptor engines—should fly before the end of the year. The business end of the rocket will have a sleek look: "The upgraded Raptors have a complete redesign of the aft end of the booster and the ship," Musk said. "So, because we don't need the heat shield around the upper portion of the engine, it greatly simplifies the base of the booster and the ship. It'll look a little, frankly, naked, especially on the booster side, because the engines will just be there, like, not with stuff around them." A difficult upgrade to work through ... "This is a design change that I really had to push the team very hard to do, to get rid of any secondary structure, and any parts that could get burned off because there will be no heat shield," Musk added. "So it'll be very clear when we have a Raptor 3. Version 3 of the Ship and Booster has quite a radical redesign." Given the challenges that version 2 of Starship has faced with its recent flights, an upgrade in the overall design appears to be much-needed. Next three launches May 30: Falcon 9 | GPS III SV-08 | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida | 17:23 UTC May 31: New Shepard | NS-32 | Launch Site One, West Texas | 13:30 UTC May 31: Falcon 9 | Starlink 11-18 | Vandenberg Space Force Base, California | 20:01 UTC Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of April): 1,811 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend