MIT Technology Review is reporting that the Artemis II Orion mission successfully transmitted crystal-clear footage from space using the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O). It said the system, developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory in collaboration with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, downlinked nearly half a terabyte of data at speeds up to 260 megabits per second. This data included never-before-seen views of the moon's far side, a crescent Earth, a total solar eclipse, and meteoroid flashes on the lunar surface. Farzana Khatri, lead systems engineer for O2O, stated the goal was to extend high-bandwidth internet connections to astronauts in deep space.
The publication also highlighted several other technology-related findings. It said a fundamental flaw makes large language models (LLMs) vulnerable to attacks, allowing them to be tricked into performing unauthorized actions. Separately, Anthropic reportedly discovered a "hidden space" where its Claude LLM processes concepts, using a new technique to probe its internal workings.
In other news, MIT Technology Review reported that a European fertility group is advocating for limits on sperm donations to prevent donor-conceived individuals from discovering hundreds of siblings. It also noted that artificial intelligence is more prone than humans to form biases in hiring processes, not only learning stereotypes from training data but also creating new ones.
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