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It took a crew of more than 100 talented modders and another hundred voice actors nearly five years to make Fallout: London. Just as they planned to release it, Bethesda came out with a "next-gen upgrade" of the mod's base game, Fallout 4, forcing the team to scramble and ultimately find a way to downgrade the game.

Welcome to Edition 7.17 of the Rocket Report! Next week marks 10 years since one of the more spectacular launch failures of this century. On October 28, 2014, an Antares rocket, then operated by Orbital Sciences, suffered an engine failure six seconds after liftoff from Virginia and crashed back onto the pad in a fiery twilight explosion.

The Windows 10 update cliff is coming in October 2025. We've explained why that's a big deal, and we have a comprehensive guide to updating to Windows 11 (recently updated to account for changes in Windows 11 24H2) so you can keep getting security updates, whether you're on an officially supported PC or not. But this is more than just a theoretical exercise; I've been using Windows 11 on some kind of "unsupported" system practically since it launched to stay abreast of what the experience is actually like and to keep tabs on whether Microsoft would make good on its threats to pull support from these systems at any time. Now that we're three years in, and since I've been using Windows 11 24H2 on a 2012-era desktop and laptop as my primary work machines on and off for a few months now, I can paint a pretty complete picture of what Windows 11 is like on these PCs.

President Biden has issued the first-ever National Security Memorandum (NSM) on AI, with the aim of speeding up the adoption of these new technologies throughout the US military and intelligence agencies. The memorandum was signed and announced on Thursday (October 24) with it described in a statement as building on the key steps the President and Vice President have “taken to drive the safe, secure, and trustworthy development of AI…” While ensuring the United States is harnessing AI technologies in the best way possible, the NSM has also been designed to galvanize federal government adoption of AI to advance the national security mission. This includes ensuring that “such adoption reflects democratic values and protects human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy. “In addition, the NSM seeks to shape international norms around AI use to reflect those same democratic values, and directs actions to track and counter adversary development and use of AI for national security purposes.” White House memorandum builds on previous guidance on AI The memorandum places a lot of emphasis on the US leading the world’s development of AI, with the manufacturing of semiconductors being highlighted. “The NSM directs actions to improve the security and diversity of chip supply chains, and to ensure that, as the United States supports the development of the next generation of government supercomputers and other emerging technology, we do so with AI in mind.” It was in August of 2022 when President Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act which focuses largely on semiconductor manufacturing.

The sun gives energy, but it can also burn your nose. This hat embraces the dichotomy.

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Oct. 25