"When you look at the northern sky, you can follow the arm of the Big Dipper as it arcs around toward the bright star called Arcturus. Roughly in the middle of that arc, you'll find the Northern Crown constellation, which looks a bit like a smiley face. Sometime between now and September, if you look to the left-hand side of the Northern Crown, what will look like a new star will shine for five days or so."
🌠 SpaceX satellites threaten to hide asteroids that pose danger to humanity | Technology | EL PAÍS English
"It’s difficult to say exactly how many asteroids will be lost… but preliminary results suggest that for every five near-Earth asteroids we discover, we lose one solely due to constellation interference. That’s if no mitigation measures are taken”
"So we have two legacy languages in the TIOBE Top 20 for rather different reasons - COBOL skills are still needed to sustain vital legacy (or should that be out-dated) systems. Fortran, on the other hand, has a role to play at the cutting edge of scientific research and can be expected to have an expanding role in its "Modern" incarnation."
🔎 flawz: A Terminal UI for browsing security vulnerabilities (CVEs) | @orhun
"As default it uses the vulnerability database (NVD) from NIST and provides search and listing functionalities in the terminal with different theming options."
"Nicklaus Wirth felt that something more suitable to operating systems and application development was needed so he began work on Modula. This became Modula-2 and would be essentially finalized around 1984 or so."
@tuparev@jbzfn wow! I learned a bit of Prolog by looking at sources of accompanying programs in Turbo Prolog, and even managed to run the GeoBase natural language query tool…
I also tried (and succeed!) to resolve “Einstein’s riddle” 1 in Prolog 2 after resolving it by hand… but I only read a bit of Modula-2, and would not have dreamed of doing what you did, kudos!
🔥 How DeviantArt died: A.I. and greed turned a once-thriving community into a ghost town | Slate
"Generate a bunch of free images and accounts, have them buy and boost one another in perpetuity, inflate metrics so that the “art” gets boosted by DeviantArt and reaches real humans, then watch the money pile up from DeviantArt revenue-sharing programs. Rinse, repeat."
👽 Scientists Identify Seven Star Systems That May Be Hosting Alien Megastructures
— @futurism
"They created a list of seven strong candidates that may be hosting Dyson spheres by analyzing observations from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite an, as well as more infrared survey results from other ground- and space-based telescopes.
The seven candidates are all M-dwarf stars, meaning they're both smaller and dimmer than our Sun."
🤖 NetBSD’s New Policy: No Place for AI-Created Code
— @linuxiac
“New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD’s licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.”
⚡Tesla's Supercharger Changes Tell the EV Industry: Fend for Yourselves
— Business Insider
"I got a bounce from every email address," said Andres Pinter, a co-CEO of Bullet EV Charging Solutions, which has about a dozen projects underway for Tesla. Other contractors, he said, may be in trouble if they don't have non-Tesla projects to fall back on."
🦾 Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments
"Tired of being underserved and overbilled by shitty regional broadband monopolies, back in 2002 a coalition of local Utah governments formed UTOPIA — (the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency). The inter-local agency collaborative venture then set about building an “open access” fiber network that allows any ISP to then come and compete on the shared network."
🧠 Exclusive: Musk's Neuralink has faced issues with its tiny wires for years, sources say
— @Reuters
"The company knew from animal testing it had conducted ahead of its U.S. approval last year that the wires might retract, removing with them the sensitive electrodes that decode brain signals, three of the sources said. Neuralink deemed the risk low enough for a redesign not to be merited, the sources added."