Comment Re:Good products (Score 1) 79
You haven't worked for a large corporation.
Submission + - Putin's most feared missile downed with a song (telegraph.co.uk)
fahrbot-bot writes: The Telegraph is reporting that Ukraine forces are jamming signals for Russia's ‘invincible’ Kinzhal hyper-sonic missile with a song satirizing Russian propaganda.
Night Watch, the group operating the technology, claims to have brought down 19 Kinzhal missiles – described by Putin as “invincible” – in the past two weeks.
The team told technology website 404 Media that it is using a song and a redirection order to knock the “next-generation” missiles, which carry a 480kg payload and cost around £7.7m each, out of the sky.
Kinzhals and other guided munitions rely on the GLONASS system – Russia’s GPS-style navigation network using satellites – to find their targets. Night Watch developed its own “Lima” jamming system that replaces the missiles’ satellite navigation signals with the Ukrainian song “Our Father is Bandera”.
When the song begins, the Lima system feeds the incoming missiles a false navigation signal, tricking them into believing that they are flying over Lima, in Peru, so that they attempt to change their trajectory. Traveling at a speed of more than 4,000 miles per hour, however, the missiles become destabilized by the abrupt and unexpected change of course.
Night Watch said they developed the system after discovering that the Kinzhals used a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA), an antiquated type of technology for resisting, jamming and spoofing. The team told 404: “They had the same type of receivers as old Soviet missiles used to have.
“The airframe cannot withstand the excessive stress and the missile naturally fails. When the Kinzhal tried to quickly change navigation, the fuselage of this missile was unable to handle the speed and, yeah, it was just cut into two parts. The biggest advantage of those missiles, speed, was used against them.”
Night Watch, the group operating the technology, claims to have brought down 19 Kinzhal missiles – described by Putin as “invincible” – in the past two weeks.
The team told technology website 404 Media that it is using a song and a redirection order to knock the “next-generation” missiles, which carry a 480kg payload and cost around £7.7m each, out of the sky.
Kinzhals and other guided munitions rely on the GLONASS system – Russia’s GPS-style navigation network using satellites – to find their targets. Night Watch developed its own “Lima” jamming system that replaces the missiles’ satellite navigation signals with the Ukrainian song “Our Father is Bandera”.
When the song begins, the Lima system feeds the incoming missiles a false navigation signal, tricking them into believing that they are flying over Lima, in Peru, so that they attempt to change their trajectory. Traveling at a speed of more than 4,000 miles per hour, however, the missiles become destabilized by the abrupt and unexpected change of course.
Night Watch said they developed the system after discovering that the Kinzhals used a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA), an antiquated type of technology for resisting, jamming and spoofing. The team told 404: “They had the same type of receivers as old Soviet missiles used to have.
“The airframe cannot withstand the excessive stress and the missile naturally fails. When the Kinzhal tried to quickly change navigation, the fuselage of this missile was unable to handle the speed and, yeah, it was just cut into two parts. The biggest advantage of those missiles, speed, was used against them.”
Comment Re:Good products (Score 1) 79
Netflix and YouTube both use AV1, which is royalty free.
You're right about YouTube. I was thinking HEVC was one of their delivery formats, but apparently not.
Netflix definitely did use HEVC for delivery of some of its high-end content at one time. Whether they still do or not, I have no idea.
Either way, the fact that people are running into error messages suggests that there is some actual customer impact.
Comment Re:Windows is NOT a professional operating system. (Score 1) 31
Quite true. Unfortunately, MS crap is also a really good example for a market failure.
Comment Re: AI (Score 1) 31
Indeed. Windows and MS Office are a disgrace to the whole human race. No product on that level should ever have long-term economic success.
Comment Re:Horrible education system (Score 1) 133
Yep. As if denial would make their predicament any less bad.
Comment Re:Microsoft is all in (Score 1) 34
The always have been. Unfortunately, most of their customers are too. It just has gotten more concrete with LLMs now.
Comment Re:An Obvious Development (Score 1) 34
I get the driver behind this. Also trade-secrets, etc.
But is this really a local model and is no data transferred? There is some fuzzy language in "use an on-device AI model to power some of its features". What bout other features? What about if it "powers" the features, bit the data is still sent home? The whole thing looks like a lie by misdirection to me.
Comment Re: Better data leaks! (Score 1) 34
Difficult to say. I have no idea how much power an "NPU" draws.
Comment Re:Shit tier clickbait that answers in the end (Score 1) 79
Smart. Instead of charging each customer an additional $0.04 per unit, or even eating those costs ($600k, in other word chump change), they use it as an excuse to upsell their product line.
Except that nobody who buys one of their machines is going to think, "I could pay an extra $100 and my machine would work better." They're going to think, "This piece of s**t can't even do things that my cell phone from eight years ago can do. Why did I buy this, and why should I ever buy anything from this manufacturer in the future?"
This level of penny-wise, pound-foolish behavior is a sure way to permanently lose customers.
Comment Re:Good products (Score 1) 79
Anyone who wants to do H.265 encoding
...or decoding...
will probably be looking at the higher end models anyway.
You mean like... anyone who wants to watch Netflix or YouTube or any other streaming service's high-res content?
Comment Re: Paywalled (Score 1) 16
And I read RPG as rocket propelled grenades first.
Comment Re: photons, fiber optic cable... (Score 1) 41
It means fewer cats died.
Comment "This game is nothing but trash" (Score 2) 16
hard to dispute
Comment Re:Good products (Score 1) 79
I see that you haven't worked with/against corporate purchasing decision.
If a corporation buys 5 it doesn't matter, but when they purchase 5000 it matters.
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