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Submission + - Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software (404media.co)

Submitted by alternative_right on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:51PM

alternative_right writes: The Security Services of Ukraine’s (SBU) Operation Spider Web was a coordinated assault on Russian targets it claimed was more than a year in the making, which was carried out using a nearly 20-year-old piece of open source drone autopilot software called ArduPilot.

Comment Re:Then do something. (Score 2) 172

by wiz32 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @12:01AM (#61973643) Attached to: A Bitcoin Mine In Navajo Nation Flares Tensions

I live near the Navajo Nation I don't think you quite understand how large and dispersed it really is.

Comment Re:It's become a criminal's playground (Score 0) 114

by wiz32 on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:31PM (#60352965) Attached to: Do you currently own any Bitcoin or cryptocurrency?

So maybe we should ban stock car racing? How did NASCAR begin? The big races are held along the East coast of the USA, why? Awhile back The government banned alcohol. Revenue Agents and police were tasked with stopping tho illegal importation of alcohol. To do the job they had access to the technology of stock cars. Rum runners, bootleggers, and criminals also had access to stock cars. But using the same tech, they were caught more often than they would have liked.So they had the financial incentive to improve handling, power, traction, ect.., stock cars to be better than the stock cars that the police had available. Investing in innovation costs money and somebody has to do it. I have no qualm driving my automobile that has tech invented by criminals, its not philosophical, it's technically better than a 1933 Packard, and modern cop cars are very capable now too. Any tech will be embraced by criminals first if it helps them do their dastardly deeds. And as a technology matures non-criminals may decide a better handling car might be safer to transport their family.

Comment Re:Benjamin Franklin.... Cruel irony? (Score 1) 265

by wiz32 on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @01:34AM (#52357565) Attached to: Bigger Isn't Better As Mega-Ships Get Too Big and Too Risky

Your going to send them back empty? No, they are full of cardboard on the way back to Asia.

Submission + - Suspicious about differential equations, airline's flight from Phily delayed (usnews.com)

Submitted by Earthquake Retrofit on Saturday May 07, 2016 @12:50PM

Earthquake Retrofit writes: US News reports that the flight was delayed because a fellow passenger thought the equations he was writing might be a sign he was a terrorist. Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio was solving a differential equation and said he was told the woman thought he might be a terrorist because of what he was writing.

Fedora Project Turns 10 83

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday September 23, 2013 @07:05PM from the here's-to-ten-more dept.

darthcamaro writes "It was ten years ago this past Sunday September 22nd, that the Red Hat sponsored Fedora project was born. The first Fedora release didn't come until six weeks later in November of 2003. Over the last 10 years the project has transformed itself from being entirely controlled by Red Hat to being a true community effort. In a video interview, the current Fedora Project Leader, Robyn Bergeron talks about the past and the future of Fedora. 'We need to think about how we're actually making the sausage,' Bergeron said. 'I think we can try and abstract and automate the things we have to do a lot, so our really awesome people's brains can be applied to solving problems that aren't yet automate-able.'"

'Antimagnet' Cloak Hides Objects From Magnetic Fields 87

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 23, 2012 @09:57AM from the don't-let-ian-mckellan-get-his-hands-on-this dept.

ananyo writes "Researchers have made a cloak that can hide objects from static magnetic fields, realizing a theoretical prediction they made last year. This 'antimagnet' could have medical applications, but could also be used to subvert airport security. The cloak's interior is lined with turns of tape made from a high-temperature superconductor. Superconductors repel magnetic fields, so any magnetic field enclosed within a superconductor would be undetectable from outside. But the superconductor itself would still perturb an external magnetic field, so the researchers coated its external side with an ordinary ferromagnet. The superconductor tries to repel external field lines, whereas the ferromagnet tries to draw them in — together, the two layers cancel each other out (abstract)."

Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded, Physics Soon To Follow 135

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 06, 2008 @11:41AM from the tis-the-season dept.

Nobel Prize season is here again, and the first award for Physiology or Medicine was split between two virologists who discovered HIV and one who demonstrated that a virus causes cervical cancer. Coming soon is the announcement for Physics. Look to the right for a chance to pit your selection wit against the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences with a poll for which scientific achievement deserves the prize. Front runners, according to Reuters, are; Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, discovers of graphene, Vera Rubin, provider of the best evidence yet of dark matter, and Roger Penrose and Dan Shechtman, discoverers of Penrose tilings and quasicrystals.

Palin Email Hacker Found 767

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 21, 2008 @12:01PM from the do-not-pass-go dept.

mortonda writes to tell us that the person responsible for breaching Sarah Palin's private email account has been found. We discussed the breach last Wednesday, shortly before the hacker, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student, posted a message detailing his methods. Wired has a story examining the potential legal consequences for the hacker.

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