From the Git repo’s README to blogs, Markdown is everywhere in the tech world in general. I have been using Markdown for years. That’s what I use for writing the articles here. While I often write directly in the CMS, I also manage personal notes, drafts and work on documentationContinue Reading
Last year the The Traitor administration announced it would ban Chinese-made drones from the U.S. As I noted at the time, the plan had several problems, not least of which being the The Traitor administration is a racist, corrupt, dysfunctional mess filled with weirdos and lazy incompetents, primarily interested inContinue Reading
Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The backstop would let OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt campus in southern Ohio that SoftBank’s energy subsidiary is developing. The reason such a guarantee is needed is straightforward: OpenAIContinue Reading
The 13th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket went pretty well — and provided some amazing visuals, too. Flight 13 launched on Friday (July 24), sending the 408-foot-tall (124 meters) Starship Version 3 (V3) vehicle aloft from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas. Starship’s Super Heavy booster had some engine issues on its way backContinue Reading
Rocket Lab has signed a contract with the U.S. Space Force to launch up to 18 missile-defense missions, most of them from the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska. (Image credit: Rocket Lab) Rocket Lab is expanding its launch operations to the snowy north. The California-based company, which already flies from New Zealand and Virginia, justContinue Reading
The co-founder of the AI company hacked by an OpenAI chatbot told NewsNation it was “very strange.”, The co-founder of the AI company hacked by an OpenAI chatbot told NewsNation it was “very strange.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Knightscope uses a combination of AI, robots and humans to fight crime., Knightscope uses a combination of AI, robots and humans to fight crime., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Sponsored by Avery Dennison Performance Tapes. Intended for engineers and decision-makers in the EV battery design, manufacturing and implementation, the new “EV battery electrical insulation design guide” from Avery Dennison Performance Tapes, helps readers understand and make informed choices about using dielectric tapes as an electrical insulation solution. Featuring theContinue Reading
As electric vehicle manufacturers scale production, quality teams face a difficult challenge: critical defects are often hidden inside batteries, castings, connectors, welds, electronics, and other high-value components. Traditional inspection methods can miss internal issues, require destructive teardown, or create bottlenecks that make comprehensive inspection impractical. Industrial CT gives manufacturers andContinue Reading
For the first time, Apple Maps will affect the next generation of self-driving electric vehicles…Continue Reading
A new version of Linux system monitoring app Mission Center is available for download, adding new hardware stats, first-run setup prompt and bug fixes. Mission Center 1.2.0 adds a new Battery page in the Performance tab, surfaces per-partition usage details on the Disk page with free and used space andContinue Reading
Traveling enterprise employees beware: Think twice before you log onto that oh-so-convenient public Wi-Fi. Since at least June, threat actors have been compromising “captive” Wi-Fi gateways and other portal appliances at hotels, conference centers, and similar shared venues to hijack users’ Microsoft 365 accounts, according to the ReliaQuest Threat ResearchContinue Reading
Now that Samsung has jumped into the crowded AI-powered glasses arena alongside Apple, Google, Meta, and others, CISOs and IT leaders are again having to think through whether it makes sense to establish enterprise restrictions on such devices, given the likely data leakage and privacy and compliance issues. And evenContinue Reading