The US Space Force has published a call for a new constellation of hypersonic missiles detecting and tracking satellites dubbed FOO Fighter.

The United States Space Forces Space Development Agency (SDA) has published a draft solicitation for a FOO Fighter satellite constellation. The Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter program gives it its full name, F2; the constellation is intended to detect, track, and coordinate the interception of hypersonic missiles.

Published on July 7, 2023, the program asks for eight satellites fitted with infrared and optical sensors. These satellites will aid in detecting, warning, and precisely tracking advanced missile threats, including More.

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Planetary nebulae are created by the gas ghost clouds expelled by the dying stars, finds study.

Back in 2013, Bryan Rees of the University of Manchester discovered the unusual alignment of stars at the galactic center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Rees discovered elongated planetary nebulae in the Milky Ways center that appear to lay parallel to the plane of the galactic bulge hinting at undiscovered underlying phenomena.

A team of robots would still be able to complete a mission if one or two of the machines malfunction.

Swiss researchers led by ETH Zurich are exploring the possibility of sending an interconnected team of walking and flying exploration robots to the Moon, a press statement reveals.

In recent tests, the researchers equipped three ANYmal robots with scientific instruments to test whether they would be suitable for lunar exploitation.

The metaverse is emerging as a new platform for fashion and retail, allowing brands to reach consumers through innovative online experiences and immersive digital spaces.

The possibilities are enormous for companies that want to raise brand awareness, improve customer experience, and deepen engagement with their followers. The global apparel market is expected to reach $2.25 trillion by 2025 and smart brands are leveraging the latest technologies to gain a competitive edge.

Lets explore some of the ways the future internet will transform how we shop online and engage with retail brands.

The metaverse and web3 technologies have the potential to transform the world for fashion and retail brands.

New research into the hormone somatostatin has the potential to change the general scientific consensus on how it influences Alzheimers and how the disease begins to develop in the brain.

Somatostatin plays a role in many parts of our body. In previous studies, the hormone was also thought to drive the production of the enzyme neprilysin, which can degrade amyloid beta, the protein that clumps together and damages neurons in the brains of people with Alzheimers.

The new study suggests that somatostatin actually influences amyloid-beta more directly, putting the brakes on the mechanisms by which the proteins monomer (single molecule) form combines into an oligomer (multi-molecule) form.

BENGALURU, July 13 (Reuters) Tesla (TSLA.O) is discussing an investment proposal with the Indian government to set up a factory with an annual capacity to produce about half a million electric vehicles, the Times of India reported on Thursday, citing government sources.

The company, led by billionaire Elon Musk, is also looking at using India as an export base to ship cars to countries in the Indo-Pacific region, the report said.

The starting price for the vehicles will be 2 million rupees ($24,400.66), the report added, which is more than double of Indias cheapest EV, MG Comet, and half a million costlier than Tata Nexon EV, the top-selling electric car in the country.

The Webb Space Telescope is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of its best yet: the dramatic close-up of dozens of stars at the moment of birth.

NASA unveiled the latest snapshot Wednesday, revealing 50 baby stars in a cloud complex 390 light-years away. A light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers).

The region is relatively small and quiet yet full of illuminated gases, jets of hydrogen and even dense cocoons of dust with the delicate beginnings of even more stars.

An unusual superconducting state observed in the material uranium ditelluride (UTe2) could help overcome well-known challenges in the advancement of quantum computing.

Researchers from the Macroscopic Quantum Matter Group laboratory at University College Cork (UCC) discovered the unique properties, which allow electrons to flow freely without resistance along a kind of quantum waterslide.

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Connected technology tools can be stepping-stones to a new world in diverse areas such as genetic engineering, augmented reality, robotics, and renewable energies. But they need cyber protection.

If you hack things in the real world, you probably have one or more rolls of duck tape. Outside of the cute brand name, many people think that duck tape is a malapropism, but in truth it is the type of cloth traditionally used in our favorite tape: cotton duck. However, as well see, its not entirely wrong to call it duct tape either. Whatever you call it, a cloth material has an adhesive backing and is coated with something like polyethylene.

Actually, the original duck tape wasnt adhesive at all. It was simply strips of cotton duck used for several purposes, including making shoes and wrapping steel cables like the ones placed in 1902 at the Manhattan Bridge. By 1910, the tape was made with adhesive on one side and soaked in rubber, found use in hospitals for binding wounds. In May 1930, Popular Mechanics advised melting rubber from an old tire and adding rosin to create a compound to coat cotton tape, among other things.

Duck T...

The 2023 Spring "Free Software Foundation Bulletin" is here! Read about the right to repair movement, web browser privacy, a volunteer rescue response to an earthquake, and much more.

Security Journey announced an acceleration of its secure coding training platform enhancements. Since combining HackEDU and Security Journey training offerings into one Platform, the company has added or refreshed almost 200 lessons and 25 languages, frameworks, and technologies; giving customers even more new training content to improve secure coding knowledge gain of up to 85%. New and updated learning content is especially needed at a time when record-high numbers of software security flaws are being More

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Linux.com Changed a Lot
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Summary: The linux.com domain has been scuttled by the Linux Foundation (same as IBM and opensource.com) and today we discuss the current state of it

TWO hours ago we showed how the coveted domain linux.com had been reduced to nonsense or barely anything at all. It was a thriving domain for about 20 years prior to the great cull.

The Linux Foundation has basically convinced people to abandon this domain.It has now been over 4 years since Zemlin et al (already Microsoft employees on the Board) decided to give linux.com staff the boot. Overnight, all staff i.e. both writers and editors got sacked. What did they do wrong? Did money run out? Or did Zemlin et al simply decide to kick Linux? Whatever their motivation was (their modus operandi is sinister and they are far too secretive for us to know what went on; transparency does not exist, let alone meeting minutes), linux.com is pretty much a dead domain now. In the past fortnight all that got added to it was two links. Both links were directing towards the blog of the Linux Foundation and not even 100 people saw those links. The Linux Foundation has basically convinced people to abandon this domain. Cant people just go to Microsofts GitHub instead? The Linux Foundation constantly links to that domain and it even sold a seat in the Board to it (Microsofts...

Warning! The percent symbol (%) is used a lot in this article, which is known to cause headaches in some readers.

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Government entities, military organizations, and civilian users in Ukraine and Poland have been targeted as part of a series of campaigns designed to steal sensitive data and gain persistent remote access to the infected systems. The intrusion set, which stretches from April 2022 to July 2023, leverages phishing lures and decoy documents to deploy a downloader malware called PicassoLoader, which

Version 1.71.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes this time include the C-unwind ABI, an upgrade to musl 1.2, and more.

Truework launched Truework Guardian, a new verification automation tool for employees, employers and payroll providers that replaces the manual HR verification process while increasing the protection of sensitive data. Guardian is a solution to help payroll providers and Human Capital Management systems (HCMs) automate verifications for every employer while protecting employee data through unique risk scoring on every request. Guardian allows payroll providers to scale verification to thousands of employers without sacrificing on data security, More

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Similar to what I have shown with the Ryzen 9 7950X AVX-512 desktop performance and AMD EPYC 9004 series AVX-512 server performance, the new Ryzen 7040 series mobile processors are exhibiting great AVX-512 performance for laptops. In today's article is a look at the performance impact when toggling AVX-512 capabilities for a Ryzen 7 7840U "Phoenix" SoC compared to toggling AVX-512 with prior Intel Tiger Lake and Ice Lake laptops that offer AVX-512.

As many as 196 hosts have been infected as part of an aggressive cloud campaign mounted by the TeamTNT group called Silentbob. "The botnet run by TeamTNT has set its sights on Docker and Kubernetes environments, Redis servers, Postgres databases, Hadoop clusters, Tomcat and Nginx servers, Weave Scope, SSH, and Jupyter applications," Aqua security researchers Ofek Itach and Assaf Morag said in a

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Microsoft July Round of Layoffs
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Summary: Today we pause and discuss the latest big wave of layoffs at Microsoft; it started this past Monday and it wont end soon, based on office hearsay and speculations (heard through the grapevine)

THE rumours we heard last December (about this July) turned out to be correct. It just took about 8 months for that to materialise.

Dont think what happens this week is the end of it. Microsoft has remained silent on the issue (as a matter of policy) because it fears the truth would cause a panic and damage morale. Many executives are leaving already (seeing high-level memos) and this summer may be a bigger bloodbath than the start of the year (far more than 10,000 were laid off, not even counting contractors, temps, and prema-contractors).

Summer is still young and Microsoft has plans.The video above focuses on this week (so far). Weve been adding to the Wiki some updates as we go along this month (very exceptionally busy so far) and I still want to cover the latest layoffs in the form of video, albeit so far Ive lacked time. It slowed down a bit today (fewer updates on the layoffs), so giving a status update seems reasonable. Many countries are impacted, we hear of entire units being scuttled (not staff replaced by new workers), and we envision several waves, just like earlier this year (if Ireland says 70 layoffs it may mean 70 this month, then another...

Heres an idea: The U.S. should buy some of the weapons it left behind in Afghanistan from the Taliban and send them to Ukraine! haha Babylon Bee, please pick up the nearest white courtesy phone. Via: Libertarian Institute: The Joe Biden administration has come out in opposition to Congress creating an inspector generals office to []

Some men just want to watch the world burn. Zachary Kallenborn discusses acts of existential terrorism, such as the Tokyo subway sarin attack by Aum Shinrikyo in 1995, which killed or injured over 1,000 people.

Zachary kallenborn is a policy fellow in the center for security policy studies at george mason university, research affiliate in unconventional weapons and technology at START, and senior risk management consultant at the ABS group.

Zachary has an MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and a BS in Mathematics and International Relations from the University of Puget Sound.

His work has been featured in numerous international media outlets including the New York Times, Slate, NPR, Forbes, New Scientist, WIRED, Foreign Policy, the BBC, and many others.

Forbes: New Report Warns Terrorists Could Cause Human Extinction With Spoiler Attacks
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/06/23/new-rer-attacks/

Schar School Scholar Warns of Existential Threats to Humanity by Terrorists.
https://www.gmu.edu/news/2023-07/schar-school-scholar-waterrorists.

Shocker. Via: AP: No fingerprints or DNA turned up on the baggie of cocaine found in a lobby at the White House last week despite a sophisticated FBI crime lab analysis, and surveillance footage of the area didnt identify a suspect, according to a summary of the Secret Service investigation obtained by The Associated Press. []

Chinese hackers have compromised the emails of an unnamed US Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency.

In Mid-June a malicious email activity was reported by an unnamed US Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency. Microsoft experts who investigated the suspicious activity discovered that China-linked threat actors have targeted the agency as part of a cyberespionage campaign targeting two dozen organizations.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on July 12, 2023 have published a joint advisory to warn organizations and allow them to enhance organizational cybersecurity posture and position organizations to detect similar malicious activity via implementing the listed logging recommendations.

In June 2023, a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency observed unexpected events in Microsoft 365 (M365) audit logs. After reporting the incident to Microsoft, network defenders deemed the activity malicious. reads the advisory published by US CISA. 

According to the Washington Post, the Chinese cyberspies breached the U.S. State Department email system. The threat actors also targeted the Commerce Department, a congressional staffer, a U.S. human rights advocate, and U.S. think tanks.

Chinese cyberspies, exploiting a fundamental gap in Microsofts cloud, hacked email accounts at the Commerce and State departments, including that of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo whose agency has imposed stiff export controls on Chinese technologies that Beijing has denounced as a malicious attempt to suppress its companies. reported the Washington Post. Raimondo is the only known Cabinet-level official to have their account compromised in the targeted cyberespionage campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the matters sensitivity.

US CISA urges organizations to enable audit logging, enable Purview Audit (Premium) logging, ensure logs are searchable by operators, enable Microsoft 365 Unified Audit Logging (UAL), and understand the organizations cloud baseline....

AU10TIX launched the AU10TIX app, empowering customer-facing businesses with automated, in-person and point of sale (POS) identity and age verification capabilities. The app enables companies to securely verify IDs in the field within 4-8 seconds, enhancing the customer experience and accelerating sales. For industries where access control is crucial, manual ID examination is insufficient for effectively detecting sophisticated fake IDs. This poses significant challenges and potential liabilities for businesses, as even trained professionals struggle to More

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[3DSage] has long been obsessed with a certain type of musical instrument after playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It spawned a project to robotically control an ocarina, which turned out beautifully.

The first step was to build an air blower that could excite the ocarina into making noise. With that completed, [3D Sage] then 3D scanned an ocarina so he could design a mechanism that would fit the instrument and let it be played. The final design uses a set of solenoids with rubber caps to plug the various holes of the ocarina to play different notes. The solenoids are actuated according to notes pressed on a printed keyboard. Alternatively, it can be programmed to play pre-stored songs by itself.

The results are charming, though the ocarina does sound a little off-pitch. Overall, though,...

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The kernel-development process routinely absorbs large changes to fundamental subsystems and still produces stable releases every nine or ten weeks. On occasion, though, the development community's luck runs out. The per-VMA locking work that went into the 6.4 release is a case in point; it looked like a well-tested change that improved page-fault scalability. There turned out to be a few demons hiding in that code, though, that made life difficult for early adopters of the 6.4 kernel.

ManageEngine has added OpenAI observability as a native capability to Site24x7, its comprehensive cloud-based observability platform. The offering enables application owners to monitor the utilization of different OpenAI models seamlessly while tracking real-time performance and cost metrics all within a unified view. This capability empowers businesses to leverage the potential of emerging AI technologies, such as OpenAIs ChatGPT, to drive innovation and achieve their strategic objectives while being cost-conscious. As organizations increasingly embrace OpenAIs More

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Twitter and the Public Domain
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Summary: Theres a catastrophe in the making; not only do many public institutions and public servants lose audiences as Twitter stagnates; were about to lose a lot of history and there are no fallback plans in place (for archival)

TWITTER more or less died on the last day of June, as we noted yesterday (and in IRC days prior). Basically, the walled gardens did huge damage because people who lurked in Twitter (e.g. for weather updates, emergencies and so on) could no longer access anything. This went on for about a week and then the rivals emerged even stronger (Facebook quickly overran the hype/buzz around Bluesky and Mastodon). Longtime Twitter users looked for alternatives. Many ended up in Facebook/Instagram (Meta), which isnt a positive development at all. Registering a domain in their national top-level domain (TLD) space or even international namespace isnt so expensive. Hosting can even be done with a single-board computer from ones home network, especially owing to the speeds of todays residential connections.

In any event, the video above explains what the death of Twitter will mean to public institutions and politicians. A lot of history will get deleted and many people are still unable to access public information without going through Fraud Musk. One can hope that the end of Twitter is forthcoming shortly, one person told me. Many countries have been misusing Twitter in place of channels of official communications. Yet some of the very same countries also have a constitutional obligation to archive official notices and communications. Twitter fails on that ground.

Longtim...

Via: Jon Rappoport: No, really. It was quite something, wasnt it? Aside from the destruction of the economy, the suicides, and the mass murder of old people in hospitals with the ventilator-sedation protocol. It was on television. Trump and Fauci. Doofus and psychopath. It couldnt have been planned better. These two guys were doing []

pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD specifically tailored for use as a firewall and router that is entirely managed via web interface. pfSense 2.7.0 ships with improvements to firewall performance, fixes some uPnP issues related to running multiple gaming systems on the same network,....

Concentric AI has announced an archetype functionality for granularity and precision of data discovery and protection. Archetype in the context of data discovery, classification and risk remediation is a specific type of data or file that contains sensitive or confidential information, such as a contract in the legal industry, a tax form in finance services, or a workers compensation claim in the insurance field. As a result, todays updates to Concentric AIs Semantic Intelligence DSPM More

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Secure Code Warrior closed its Series C funding round, led by Paladin Capital Group. At $50 million, this marks the largest investment since the companys inception, bringing its total funding to date to over $100 million. The company, whose annual revenue averaged $29.83 million according to IT-Harvest, will use the funding for product innovation through its platform and go-to-market efforts, with a focus on increasing market share and further empowering developer and engineering teams to More

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Security updates have been issued by Debian (ruby-doorkeeper), Fedora (mingw-nsis and thunderbird), Red Hat (bind9.16, nodejs, nodejs:16, nodejs:18, python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8, and rh-nodejs14-nodejs), Slackware (krb5), SUSE (geoipupdate, installation-images, libqt5-qtbase, python-Django1, and skopeo), and Ubuntu (knot-resolver, lib3mf, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-ibm, linux-oracle, linux-azure-fde, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and scipy).

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Via: Summit News: .@RepMalliotakis questions why the "Proximal Origin" co-authors suspiciously abandoned their initial belief that COVID originated in a Chinese lab. Within 3 days of speaking to Dr. Fauci, @K_G_Andersen shifted his support to a zoonotic origin. Americans deserve to know why? pic.twitter.com/QAZwylO4f9 Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) July 11, 2023 []

Steam generators in thermal (steam-cycle) power plants require a constant influx of cool water to maximize the transfer of thermal energy. How this water is cooled again in the condensor after much of the steams thermal energy has been spent in the steam turbines or heat exchangers is a very important consideration in the design and construction of these plants. The most obvious and straightforward system is direct once-through cooling, where the water is drawn straight from a nearby river or other body of water and released after passing through the condenser. This type of system is by far the cheapest, but is also impacted by both the seasons and environmental considerations.

Where cool surface water is less abundantly available, evaporative cooling in a recirculating system such as with spray ponds and cooling towers is a good alternative. Although slightly more costly, a big benefit of these is that they require far less water and have much more control over the intake water temperature, which can raise plant efficiency. Finally, dry cooling is essentially a closed-loop system, which is exceedingly useful in areas where water is scarce. This latter type of cooling is what allows thermal plants to operate even in desert regions.

As the global climate changes &...

Rambus announced the first in a family of Quantum Safe security IP products with its next-generation Root of Trust for data center and communications security. Quantum computers will be able to rapidly break current asymmetric encryption, placing important data and assets at risk. The Rambus Root of Trust IP offers customers a complete Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) hardware security solution that protects valuable data center and AI/ML assets and systems. To ensure todays data remains More

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Keep in mind, this is just what the perpetrators are willing to admit. Via: Dr. John Campbell:

Halibut writes:

Quoting The Washington Post:

If you're printing something on actual paper, there's a good chance it's important, like a tax form or a job contract.

But popular printing products and services won't promise not to read it. In fact, they won't even promise not to share it with outside marketing firms.

The spread of digital file-sharing along with obnoxious business practices by printing manufacturers has pushed many U.S. households to give up at-home printers and rely on nearby printing services instead. At the same time, major printer manufacturers have adopted mobile apps and cloud-based storage, creating new opportunities to collect personal data from customers. Whether you're walking to the corner store or sending your files to the cloud, it's tough to figure out whether you're printing in private.

The article then gives a quick rundown of various printing services and their apparent verbal-vs-actual commitments to privacy.

Also seen on Bruce Schneier's blog.

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Fidelis Cybersecurity released the new Fidelis Active Directory Intercept, a capability that combines network detection and response, deception technology, and Active Directory (AD) security, as part of their Fidelis Network and Deception 9.6.1 product release. Active Directory Intercept is the latest capability in cyber defenses delivered by Fidelis Cybersecurity that keeps customers ahead of adversaries. This solution provides insights into an organizations resources, enables rapid identification of AD issues, detects suspicious activities and active attacks More

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In a sign that cybersecurity researchers continue to be under the radar of malicious actors, a proof-of-concept (PoC) has been discovered on GitHub, concealing a backdoor with a "crafty" persistence method. "In this instance, the PoC is a wolf in sheep's clothing, harboring malicious intent under the guise of a harmless learning tool," Uptycs researchers Nischay Hegde and Siddartha Malladi said.

Its a pretty surreal scene at the Puente Hills Mall. Lights on. Air conditioning working. Most store spaces vacant. Almost no customers. I wonder what the mall spends on electricity to keep that place cool in July??? Hint: The forecast is for low to mid 90s everyday for the week ahead. The last time I []

Rockwell Automation has fixed two vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-3595, CVE-2023-3596) in the communication modules of its ControlLogix industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs), ahead of expected (and likely) in-the-wild exploitation. An unreleased exploit capability leveraging these vulnerabilities is associated with an unnamed APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) group, industrial cybersecurity company Dragos has stated on Wednesday. About the vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-3595, CVE-2023-3596) CVE-2023-3595 allows attackers to manipulate firmware memory, perform remote code execution with persistence, and modify, deny, and exfiltrate More

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The Biden-Harris Administrations recently released National Cybersecurity Strategy calls for two fundamental shifts in how the United States allocates roles, responsibilities, and resources in cyberspace: Ensuring that the biggest, most capable, and best-positioned entities in the public and private sectors assume a greater share of the burden for mitigating cyber risk Increasing incentives to favor long-term investments into cybersecurity Today, the Administration is announcing a roadmap to realize this vision. It is taking More

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Version 8.1 of OpenBGPD, the OpenBSD Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing daemon, has just been released.

The announcement reads,

Subject:    OpenBGPD 8.1 released
From:       Claudio Jeker 
Date:       2023-07-12 14:20:01

We have released OpenBGPD 8.1, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.

This release includes the following changes to the previous release:

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Weve covered dozens of projects about getting images of Earths weather straight from the source. Its not too much of a trick to download images straight from our constellation of weather satellites, but what about space weather? Weve got satellites for that too, of course, but to get a good look at the Sun, theyre out of reach of most homebrew ground stations.

Thats about to change, though, as STEREO-A returns to our neighborhood after a 17-year absence, making citizen science a reasonable proposition. The STEREO mission Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory was launched in 2006 with a pair of satellites in heliocentric orbits. STEREO-B was lost in 2014 due to a navigational glitch, but STEREO-A has spent a lot of the intervening years watching the backside of the Sun relative to the Earth. As [Scott Tilley] explains, the satellite is now approaching inferior conjunction, where it will pass between the Earth and the Sun.

This close pass makes STEREO-As X-band deep-space beacon readily available to hobbyist-scale equipment, like [Scott]s 66-cm dish antenna. The dish is mounted on an alt-az telescope mount for tracking, and sports a host of gear at the focus, like LNAs, filters, mixers, and an Ettus B200 SDR. Its not a cheap setup, but compared to...

These are just plugs (links) and with less than 80 views more than a day later it shows that minimum effort gets little return; the one from 3 days ago did not even get 100 views:

Only two posts, both of which are boiling down to merely a link (LF promotion), in Linux.com so far this month in https://www.linux.com/

These almost always go to the same site:

This is the latest example, dated but without author:

So according to them, everything began in a zoo, and they never heard of GNU. The typical revisionism. The pages there never contain a name (they moved from Free software to a proprietary CMS last year). But the page source, as json, reveals the same author name as the person who promotes these in Linux.com (the overpaid contractor):

Here are all his latest posts:

But thats the same as all the posts overall (so hes the sole author of this blog):

He says Linux Foundation in his name, but he uses a private address of a private, for-profit firm. Who runs the Foundation anyway and what d...

Intel's Linux software engineers understand the annual GCC compiler release cadence well and acknowledge the importance of having tuned compiler support available at launch. Intel for years has tended to get their new CPU support and new ISA features upstreamed into GCC as well as LLVM/Clang well ahead of product launch so that by the time their new consumer and server CPUs are shipping, there tends to be support within compilers just not at their stable versions but already found in the likes of Ubuntu. With that said, today Intel engineers posted initial compiler patches for Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake processors...

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