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Submission + - Finnish Defence space operations centre established

An anonymous reader writes: Minister of Defence Häkkänen: A Finnish Defence Forces space operations centre will be founded in Tikkakoski

“The founding of a space operations centre is part of a broader process to improve Finland’s defence by reinforcing the Finnish Defence Forces’ space capabilities. It is also our response to the growing importance of space as an operational domain for defence,” Minister of Defence Häkkänen said.

“Space systems are today essential elements of society and military capability. The forthcoming space strategy for defence will build a basis for Finland’s space defence for decades to come. The space operations centre is an important step towards achieving this goal,” Minister Häkkänen said.

Submission + - SGI IRIX Indigo Magic Desktop recreation with AI: Cyanotype Blueprint Desktop (niten.irix.expert)

MIPSPro writes: Someone has re-created the Indigo Magic Desktop for the SGI IRIX operating system as a rather large scale undertaking with dozens of applications and preferences straight out of 2006. It's a BSD licensed affair with an actual IRIX port and several other platforms including Solaris SPARC and x86_64 BSD and Linux systems. It's based on man custom extensions to MOTIF much like SGI's SGM libraries for notebook widgets and non-MOTIF goodies. It runs on many x11 platforms including Xorg and X11Libre as well as forthcoming ports to Tru64 Alpha, and AIX 6.1 on POWER4 or better, and HP-UX 11iv3 Integrity and PA-RISC HP-UX 11.31. There is also a Citrix clone "CyThrough" and a CalDAV desktop calendar, Sunbeam.

Submission + - Strategic alignment of datacentre connections to the grid

An anonymous reader writes: Datacentre grid priority confirmed as connection queue response published

“The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has confirmed it will prioritise strategic demand and strategically align datacentre connections to the grid.”

“It follows reforms that have already deprioritised up to 300GW of battery and solar capacity from the connection queue, as demand for electricity heads towards more than doubling by 2050.”

Comment Exodus (Score 2) 21

It might be too soon but the Exodus Technologies third-order Coulomb devices (IIRC) are built for this kind of very low impulse long duration lifiting.

Getting a rig up there to clamp on to the Hubble is probably the hard part of the project.

High-impulse propulsion is more likely to damage it than low and slow.

Comment Re:Lame duck (Score 2) 22

This was during the "NJ Drone Flap".

Trump was on TV saying he'd been briefed on them and the drones were "tracked back to their garage".

Last thing he said about it before his FAA said "they were authorized, we're not explaining, stop asking".

Matthew Livelsberger said they were of Chinese origin.

Robert Hastings wrote an entire book on unidentified craft over nuclear facilities covering four decades of documented incursions.

The FoIA request sounds like good data but nothing new.

Comment Re:So why do they want to rewrite legacy code? (Score 2) 87

From what I can tell most middle managers hate their employees - especially those who are smarter and more skilled - and can't wait to replace them.

They all probably think they'll be one of the last humans at the company.

It'll be funny when AI supplants middle management.

The right way is for a manager to be the advocate and ally of his subordinates. It can work really well but there's little place for ego and envy.

Submission + - Tech-Brah Sam Altman Wants All RAM For AI (tomshardware.com)

Gilmoure writes: Looks like OpenAI CEO wants to own all the computing resources and rent out terminals to the world, as a way of propping up his business plan now that debt ridden AI companies are teetering on the edge.

Altman's talk suggests that the company would prefer that more RAM go to OpenAI's data centers rather than home computers, which also sparks enthusiast fears of not being able to own your own hardware or software, but rather rent an agent and a computer in the cloud.


Comment Re:Why does such a level of notability really matt (Score 2) 59

It's just used an excuse for censorship is the main problem.

Like every single South Park episode has its own page but several public intellectuals who spoke out against lockdowns suddenly became "not notable".

"Trust the Experts" / "You're no longer an expert"

Abuse is inherent in the system as currently defined.

They could use some proxy like view counts, but that would be objective, not subjective.

Yet every once in a while I look up some obscure biological molecule or plant that hardly anybody cares about, mostly for the external references because the articles are so short, and I'd hate to see those get purged. I've found some odd and rare flora growing in my forest and appreciate the information.

Say what you want about LLM's but they could probably be tasked with policing for defacement.

Comment Re:And this is why ... (Score 1) 87

> that old computer or phone that has had a factory wipe

Don't trust old phones with too much value.

There are hardware bugs on Bluetooth, WiFi, and SS7 that are fairly easy to hack with the right setup and SS7 especially is built into the same baseband controller so main memory can be exfiltrated over cellular even without an active SIM.

Keeping it turned off most of the time reduces the attack surface, of course.

A few phones do better - switchable modems, etc. but very few and even some phones that meet GrapheneOS specs are imperfect.

An old ThinkPad with LibreBoot is probably OK if you want to get really nerdy. Yet 0.00001% of the population can handle that.

Hot/warm/cold is of course another layer of protection. But again, very few people can manage this.

Still, if you are transferring $200 to your dedicated phone to go out shopping, it's not very tragic if it gets lost.

We really don't have a good solution for the 99% yet. So companies like Binance step in and make a profit (as long as they can assume liability and responsibility for losses).

It sounds like that devops laptop had /way/ too much access. Where's their multisig for billions of dollars? I would never have guessed Binance would be one so lax. Doing it right is way cheaper than a shareholder lawsuit.

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