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Musk cuts Starlink access for Russian forces - giving Ukraine an edge at the front

BBC News

Evidence is mounting that Elon Musk's decision to deny Russian forces access to his Starlink satellite-based internet service has blunted Moscow's advance, caused confusion among Russian soldiers and handed an advantage to Ukraine's defenders. And what can Ukraine's military achieve in the meantime? The Russians lost their ability to control the field, a Ukrainian drone operator who goes by the callsign Giovanni told us. I think they lost 50% of their capacity for offence, he said. That's what the numbers show.



RenderMe-360: A Large Digital Asset Library and Benchmarks Towards High-fidelity Head Avatars Dongwei Pan

Neural Information Processing Systems

Synthesizing high-fidelity head avatars is a central problem for computer vision and graphics. While head avatar synthesis algorithms have advanced rapidly, the best ones still face great obstacles in real-world scenarios.




Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,456

Al Jazeera

How the US left Ukraine exposed to Russia's winter war Will Europe use frozen Russian assets to fund war? How can Ukraine rebuild China ties? Russian forces launched multiple attacks on Ukraine's Zaporizhia region, killing one person and injuring seven others over the past day, the region's military administration said on the Telegram messaging platform. The attacks involved 448 drones as well as 163 artillery strikes, causing damage to 136 homes, cars and other structures, the military administration said. Russian forces also continued shelling Ukraine's Donetsk region, forcing 173 people, including 135 children, to evacuate front-line areas over the past day, regional governor Vadym Filashkin said on Telegram.


City-run board cancels lease of Israel drone supplier sparking backlash toward Mamdani: 'Ludicrous'

FOX News

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces criticism after Brooklyn Navy Yard drops lease with Easy Aerial, a drone manufacturer that supplies Israel's military.