Month: November 2025

Fernzugriff aus China: Briten untersuchen ihre Elektrobusse auf Kill-Switch

Eine Untersuchung aus Norwegen ruft weitere Behörden auf den Plan. Der chinesische Hersteller Yutong soll aus der Ferne seine E-Busse lahmlegen können. (Elektrobus, Sicherheitslücke)

Eine Untersuchung aus Norwegen ruft weitere Behörden auf den Plan. Der chinesische Hersteller Yutong soll aus der Ferne seine E-Busse lahmlegen können. (Elektrobus, Sicherheitslücke)

Tim Berners-Lee: KI-Browser bedrohen das offene Web

Der Weberfinder Tim Berners-Lee warnt vor KI-gestützten Browsern, die traditionelle Internetgeschäftsmodelle zum Einsturz bringen könnten. (KI, Browser)

Der Weberfinder Tim Berners-Lee warnt vor KI-gestützten Browsern, die traditionelle Internetgeschäftsmodelle zum Einsturz bringen könnten. (KI, Browser)

Neutron rocket’s debut slips into mid-2026 as company seeks success from the start

“Those who have failed to deliver are numerous.”

During an earnings call on Monday, Rocket Lab chief executive Pete Beck announced that the company’s medium-lift launch vehicle, Neutron, would not launch this year.

For anyone with the slightest understanding of the challenges involved in bringing a new rocket to the launch pad, as well as a calendar, the delay does not come as a surprise. Although Rocket Lab had been holding on to the possibility of launching Neutron this year publicly, it has been clear for months that a slip into 2026 was inevitable.

According to Beck, speaking during a third-quarter 2025 earnings call, the new timeline has the company bringing Neutron to Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during the first quarter of next year. The first launch is scheduled to occur “thereafter,” according to the company’s plans.

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Intuitive Machines—known for its Moon landers—will become a military contractor

“They’ve been Ford Aerospace, Space Systems/Loral, Maxar, Lanteris, and now it’ll be Intuitive Machines.”

Intuitive Machines announced last week an $800 million acquisition that will catapult the one-time startup into the space industry establishment.

The company’s planned purchase of Lanteris Space Systems, a satellite manufacturer you may have never heard of, is rather significant. Lanteris is the latest addition to a line of corporate brands that dates back to 1957. Until last month, the company was known as Maxar Space Systems. Its acquisition by Intuitive Machines would be perhaps the industry’s most evident example of a “New Space” firm buying up an “Old Space” company.

The deal would help Intuitive Machines expand beyond its core competency of Moon missions to the broader sector of satellite manufacturing and space services. Lanteris has been owned since 2023 by Advent International, a private equity firm. The transaction is expected to close early next year, subject to “customary regulatory approvals and closing conditions,” according to Intuitive Machines.

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Researchers isolate memorization from reasoning in AI neural networks

Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or passages from books) and reasoning (solving new problems using general principles). New research from AI startup Goodfire.ai provides the first potentially clear evidence that these different functions actually work through completely separate neural pathways in the model’s architecture.

The researchers discovered that this separation proves remarkably clean. In a preprint paper released in late October, they described that when they removed the memorization pathways, models lost 97 percent of their ability to recite training data verbatim but kept nearly all their “logical reasoning” ability intact.

For example, at layer 22 in Allen Institute for AI’s OLMo-7B language model, the bottom 50 percent of weight components showed 23 percent higher activation on memorized data, while the top 10 percent showed 26 percent higher activation on general, non-memorized text. This mechanistic split enabled the researchers to surgically remove memorization while preserving other capabilities.

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