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Submission + - Russian Satellite's Close Shadowing of Radar Imaging Satellite Is A Big Deal (twz.com)

schwit1 writes: Russia's Kosmos 2612 came very close to ICEYE X36, which reportedly has Ukraine connections, after weeks of highly unusual maneuvering.

Kosmos 2612, may have passed within approximately 85 feet (26 meters) of a U.S.-registered satellite belonging to commercial imagery provider ICEYE. This would be an extraordinarily close and potentially dangerous pass-by for two objects in space traveling at thousands of miles per hour. For weeks beforehand, ICEYE-X36, which would be of special interest to Russia, had already found itself in increasingly close orbital alignment with its pursuer. The two satellites now look to be drifting further and further apart, but the episode has been a clear sign of what is to come as the potential for conflict in space only continues to grow.

Publicly available space tracking data from the satellitemap.space and orbitalradar.com websites show that Kosmos 2612 (also written sometimes Cosmos 2612 and abbreviated K2612) and ICEYE X36 had their especially close encounter at approximately 16:07 UTC today. Private space services company LeoLabs also told TWZ today that it could not "confirm or contradict what other data sources have stated publicly," but that it has "high-confidence that the objects came within approximately [emphasis in the original] 500 meters [1,640 feet] of each other." Kosmos 2612 had been making progressively closer passes by ICEYE X36 in recent days.

Comment Sides of the Table (Score 1) 330

Thank you for understanding. Aren't you dismissing a number of recent events, though?

  • 2024-07-13 Assassination attempt on Donald Trump
  • 2024-12-04 Assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO
  • 2025-09-10 Assassination of meme guy
  • 2026-05-23 Assassination attempt on Donald Trump

Apparently, there are more—so the system seems to be working according to your implied criteria.

Comment Bearing Arms (Score 2) 330

I hear this rhetoric from time to time. This is my first time clarifying.

The Second Amendment protects Americans' rights to bear arms, not Americans' rights to be personal bodyguards or vigilantes at your beck and call. The burden rests upon the offended American—in this ostensible case, you—to exercise those rights as you see fit.

Personally, I would be satisfied seeing DHS lose in a court of law, with legislation updated accordingly. If you choose to go out guns a-blazin', though, you have my moral understanding and perhaps even respect.

Submission + - Old Blood Cells Have Been Transformed Into Brain Stem Cells That Get Younger (sciencealert.com)

alternative_right writes: Now, scientists have transformed old blood cells into young brain stem cells, which continued to grow younger as they grew older.

The researchers, from the University Hospital of Bonn and the University of Bonn, in Germany, described their methods in the journal Aging Cell.

Cellular transformations can be done in two main ways. The first, more circuitous route turns a specific cell back into a pluripotent stem cell, or an embryonic "blank slate," and then into a different cell type.

Comment Pragmatic Approach, Unmentioned Caveat (Score 4, Interesting) 86

As usual, Torvalds' philosophy is pragmatic. I more or less agree with the gist: Look at the code, not where it came from.

Also as usual, certain details have been swept under the rug—chiefly that Torvalds' only significant vibe-coded contribution to the kernel thusfar was a ten-patch modification to page-caching that was promptly rescinded when other maintainers pointed out a race condition hidden in Claude Code's verbose output. Torvalds ultimately dumped the mess onto human coder Kiryl Shutsemau's lap.

This raises an important, obvious question.

Submission + - Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Philadelphia confrontation (abc13.com) 1

alternative_right writes: Philadelphia police said officers responded to the 1200 block of Filbert Street after witnesses reported a disturbance involving Carolyn Marvin and an Uber delivery robot near the famous Reading Terminal Market.

According to police, Marvin repeatedly blocked the robot's path and ignored multiple commands from officers to move.

She was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.

Marvin said she was protesting the use of delivery robots because she believes they are replacing human workers.

"I know they're taking the jobs of human delivery workers and so, I have been protesting them whenever I saw them by standing in front of them and preventing them from going forward," Marvin said.

Submission + - 25 Years Later, a Palm OS Developer Opens His Development Archive (github.com)

ardiri writes: Palm OS developer Aaron Ardiri (slashdot.org/~ardiri) has released approximately 1 GB of historical Palm OS development resources, accumulated during the early days of handheld computing and preserved on hard drive backups for more than 25 years. The collection includes historical SDKs, developer conference presentations, technical documentation, programming examples, limited source code, and development utilities. ROM images, commercial applications, and simulator binaries have deliberately been excluded.

Ardiri previously published the source code for his Palm OS and VTOS projects, including work exploring the capabilities of early handheld devices. This latest release expands those preservation efforts beyond his own software, making a broader collection of development resources available to the retrocomputing community. The archive is available at https://github.com/ardiri/dev-... and is intended for historical preservation, education, and research, particularly as enthusiasts continue working to maintain, emulate, and revive the platform (available at https://www.ardiri.com./

Ardiri has also written an auto-biography and shas started explored the engineering principles behind these systems in his books, including Inside the Machine, which examines computer architecture from fundamental logic through modern computing systems. At a time when much of the early mobile development ecosystem has disappeared into defunct websites and aging backups, this collection offers another opportunity to preserve the tools and knowledge that helped define an important era of personal computing.

Comment Why tho? (Score 1) 113

Why might it harm democracy? This is the question that needs to be asked.

If people are so disinterested, disengaged, or just plain ignorant and won't even do the smallest amount of fact-checking......then isn't democracy actually working, and voters getting what they deserve?

(So hard not just saying people are stupid. But it's that, fundamentally. No force is more harmful to democracy than stupid and ignorant voters acting on impulse.)

Comment Bleem! (Score 5, Interesting) 24

This already happened with a commercial emulator called Bleem. Long story short: Sony lost every lawsuit, but the legal fees were enough to shut down the defendants. In response to this, the United States Department of Justice exacted far-reaching reforms to ensure that in the future, no large corporation would be able to bully smaller players into bankruptcy.

Psych!

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