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jbzfn, 1 month ago to robotics

🦾 NASA Quietly Training Robot Dog to Navigate Landscape of the Moon | @futurism

「 The project called Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analog Environments (LASSIE) is designed to teach the robot to adapt to its varying environment in real-time, with the goal of eventually having it traverse the surface of the Moon and perhaps even other worlds in our solar system 」

https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-training-robot-dog-navigate-landscape-moon

#Robotics #NASA #Moon #Space

jbzfn, 1 month ago to tesla

🎈Tesla's top engineering exec resigns, adding to concerns about who will succeed Elon Musk | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2024/04/15/tesla-top-engineering-exec-drew-baglino-elon-musk-ceo-succession/

#Tesla #Musk #EVs

jbzfn, 1 month ago to TeslaMotors

📦 Cybertruck’s “Armor Glass” Cracks in Routine Hail Storm | @futurism

「 "CT [Cybertruck] windshield did not withstand a freak sudden hailstorm in Austin, rest of vehicle seems fine," writes Redditor xanderhud in r/cybertruck. "None of the other cars parked next to it had windshield damage but they had lots of dings in their body. Pretty disappointing, will let y’all know how much it costs to fix." 」

https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-armor-glass-hail-storm

#Cybertruck #Tesla #Musk #EVs

jbzfn, 1 month ago to node

🦕 5 Amazing Deno Features | @deno_land

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nU1Jf2WW9ZM

#Deno #wasm #Javascript #Typescript

jbzfn, 1 month ago to twitter

:birdsite: Molusko is gonna start charging new users. Charging old users for reach didn't stop the bot farms, it made it worse.

Bots are most of the premium users. And probably are the new "users" he's trying to milk.

The world's richest man is fighting over pennies, something is up.

That platform is dying. Genuine new users are fleeing anywhere

#twitter #musk #xitter

jbzfn, 1 month ago to physics

⚛️ The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton | WIRED

「 Physicists have begun to explore the proton as if it were a subatomic planet. Cutaway maps display newfound details of the particle’s interior. The proton’s core features pressures more intense than in any other known form of matter. Halfway to the surface, clashing vortices of force push against each other. And the “planet” as a whole is smaller than previous experiments had suggested 」

https://www.wired.com/story/the-quest-to-map-the-inside-of-the-proton/

#Proton #Physics #Science

jbzfn, 1 month ago to Cosmology

🌌 Top Astronomers Gather to Confront Possibility They Were Very Wrong About the Universe | Futurism

「 The team found that one hemisphere actually hosted slightly more of these quasars, suggesting one area of the night sky was more massive than the other, undermining our conception of dark energy, a hypothetical form of energy used to explain why the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate 」

https://futurism.com/the-byte/astronomers-gather-confront-universe

#Cosmology #Astronomy #Science #Space

jbzfn, 1 month ago to javascript

The browser is just another operating system, frontend developers are the new low-level engineers.

Rust + WASM on the client side requires that mindset.

#frontend #javascript

jbzfn, 1 month ago to ai

🤔 The tech industry can’t agree on what open-source AI means. That’s a problem | MIT Tech Review

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/25/1090111/tech-industry-open-source-ai-definition-problem

#AI #Opensource #OpensourceAI

jbzfn, 1 month ago to Cybersecurity

🔎 Kaspersky analysis of the backdoor in XZ

「 Unlike other supply chain attacks we have seen in Node.js, PyPI, FDroid, and the Linux Kernel that mostly consisted of atomic malicious patches, fake packages and typosquatted package names, this incident was a multi-stage operation that almost succeeded in compromising SSH servers on a global scale. 」

https://securelist.com/xz-backdoor-story-part-1/112354/

#XZ #Cybersecurity #Opensource

jbzfn, 1 month ago to Blizzard

:warcraft: Where Did Blizzard Go? | Going Indie

https://youtube.com/watch?v=u3I38DIJPtg

#Blizzard #Activision #Gamedev #Layoffs

jbzfn, 1 month ago to SpaceX

🛰️ There Appears to Be a Huge Problem With SpaceX's Starlink | Futurism

「 Despite eclipsing the total number of all operating satellites in Earth's orbit, Starlink isn't just struggling to cut even. Experts are concerned that trying to provide the entire globe with internet via satellites — instead of expanding coverage with cell towers where needed — could prove difficult, with speeds already beginning to decrease in 2022 」

https://futurism.com/the-byte/huge-problem-spacex-starlink-profit

#SpaceX #Starlink #Connectivity #Space

jbzfn, 1 month ago to random

About to witness the biggest "fuck around and find out" on CNN.

jbzfn, 1 month ago to debian

🍥 APT 2.9 Released: Debian's APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More | Phoronix

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-2.9-Released

#Debian #Linux #Opensource

jbzfn, 1 month ago to FreeBSD

Some thoughts on FreeBSD | Vincent Maggard

https://youtube.com/watch?v=n3w8O-nVbZ0

#FreeBSD #BSD #Opensource

jbzfn, 1 month ago to GraphicsProgramming

⚡Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines | Phoronix

「 Mesa's Lavapipe driver as a software (CPU-based) implementation of the Vulkan API has now implemented support for ray-tracing pipelines 」

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lavapipe-RT-Pipelines-Mesa-24.1

#Raytracing #Vulkan #Linux #Opensource

jbzfn, 1 month ago to China

🐼 Why Many of China’s College Grads Are Becoming ‘Full-Time Children’ | @WSJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQvNRC4h01k

#China #Unemployment

jbzfn, 1 month ago to DOOM

:OttGun: Killing Margaret Thatcher in Doom | Jonas Čeika

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4eu45yGPRbA

#Thatcher #Doom #DoomMod

jbzfn, 1 month ago to DOOM

:erogun: Killing Margaret Thatcher in Doom | Jonas Čeika

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4eu45yGPRbA

#Doom #Thatcher #Union #Gamedev

jbzfn, 1 month ago to retrogaming

🎁 Castlevania Resurrection The Canceled Sega Dreamcast Game | Sega Lord X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRN1ZFksegk

#Castlevania #Dreamcast #Retrogaming

jbzfn, 1 month ago to diy

🎧 The Fairbuds noise-canceling earbuds have an easily swappable battery | @theverge

「 In addition to replacing the batteries, you can repair or exchange the left or right earbud, the silicone ring, earbud tips, the charging case outer shell, and the charging case core. The new buds also come with a standard two-year warranty, but you can add one extra year if you register them online 」

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/9/24125089/fairbuds-fairphone-noise-canceling-earbuds-battery-replace-repairability

#Fairbuds #Fairphone #DIY #RightToRepair

jbzfn, 1 month ago to uk

🔐 Vendor lock-in hurts UK govt ability to negotiate spending | The Register

「 "UK government's current approach to cloud adoption and management across its departments faces several challenges" which combined result "in risk concentration and vendor lock-in that inhibit UK government's negotiating power over the cloud vendors." 」

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/uk_cddo_admits_cloud_spending_lock_issues_exclusive/

#Cloud #UK #AWS #Azure #VendorLockin #Opensource

jbzfn, 1 month ago to SF

:computerfairies: San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks | The Register

"And before folks start panicking, it's worth remembering that use of floppy disks is not uncommon in embedded systems. Bear in mind that the US nuclear arsenal ran off eight-inch floppies until 2019. It's the way stuff was done when these systems were built last century.

Upgrading San Francisco's public transit IT will be a lengthy and costly effort"

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/san_francisco_muni_floppy_disks/

#SF #Floppy #Retrocomputing

jbzfn, 1 month ago to Astro

:blobwizard: Gravitational waves reveal “mystery object” merging with a neutron star | @arstechnica

「 “The idea of a gap between neutron-star and black-hole masses, an idea that has been around for a quarter of a century, was driven by such electromagnetic observations. GW230529 is an exciting discovery because it hints at this ‘mass gap’ being less empty than astronomers previously thought 」

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/gravitational-waves-reveal-mystery-object-merging-with-a-neutron-star

#GW230529 #GravitationalWaves #NeutronStar #BlackHole #Astrodon #Space

jbzfn, 1 month ago to voyager

:thinkerguns: NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix | @arstechnica

「 The faulty memory bank is located in Voyager 1's Flight Data System (FDS), one of three computers on the spacecraft. The FDS operates alongside a command-and-control central computer and another device overseeing attitude control and pointing 」

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2015200

#Voyager1 #Voyager #Space #NASA #Astrodon