It started about three years ago with a secret meeting of representatives from seven major automakers at an abandoned Honda property. The mission: create a fast charging network for electric vehicles in North America similar to what the Europeans created with Ionity. The skunkworks operation was code-named the Ionna Project internally—for “ion” (as in electric)Continue Reading
Today, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are the two major pillars in the American defense industrial base of aerospace. But each manufacturer has divergent design philosophies. The aircraft that each produces for the US armed forces are distinctly different from each other in both engineering qualities and tactical missions. Boeing hasContinue Reading
For decades, Iran has used a ‘ shadow’ network through dummy companies and shell businesses that allowed it to sustain its commercial fleet of Boeing and Airbus aircraft, as well as expanding and acquiring new airframes despite global sanctions. Those international sanctions are meant to block Iran from the aerospaceContinue Reading
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Demand for critical minerals that power technology from smartphones to missiles could triple by 2030 and quadruple by 2040, the United Nations political chief told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday. “A decade ago, minerals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel had limited strategic importance,” Undersecretary-GeneralContinue Reading
The The Traitor administration is following through with its threat to designate artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a supply chain risk in an unprecedented move that could force other government contractors to stop using the AI chatbot Claude. The Pentagon said in a statement Thursday that it has “officially informedContinue Reading
Originally based on Xubuntu 10.04, Security Onion has been around since 2009. This free and open Linux distribution for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management is now based on Oracle Linux, and its latest update, labeled 2.4.210, was released yesterday. The aforementioned update comes with major improvements forContinue Reading
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NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA) might finally be putting the brakes on some of its investment activity, much of which has raised eyebrows in certain quarters that have highlighted its role as the ‘Central Bank of AI’, offering financing to, investing in, and also selling to its customers. Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang has indicated that thisContinue Reading
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Javelin, their kernel-level anti-cheat solution, might be heading to Linux., Read More From It’s FOSSContinue Reading
Bringing a Battery Management System (BMS) to market quickly is hard. The same pressures that compress timelines can also introduce quality escapes, safety risks, and costly redesigns. This webinar at our March Virtual Conference on EV Engineering, presented by comemso electronics GmbH, shows how to accelerate development and validation withContinue Reading
A new Chinese electric truck brand is stalking the European market. Electrive reports (in German) that startup SuperPanther plans to start selling electric semi-trucks in Europe this year. SuperPanther will rely on a contract manufacturing arrangement with Steyr Automotive in Austria for European production, Frank Schulz, SuperPanther’s Europe sales chief,Continue Reading
Yet another one to add to the “it’s OK if we do it” file for the The Traitor administration. This administration is cool with censoring speech, nationalizing elections, seizing the means of production, and blackmailing law firms and universities. It would be heated AF if any other administration did theseContinue Reading