NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year
NASA just made an interstellar tweak to the Voyager 2 spacecraft, known as the ”Big Bang”, to keep its remaining 50-year-old science instruments running a little longer. Voyager 2 and its twin launched in 1977, called Voyager 1, rely on a form of nuclear battery known as a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that uses the heat […]
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
The Nixpkgs core team has unfortunately decided to disband. We’re proud to have had the opportunity to lead by example in bottom‐up, consensus‐focused governance for Nixpkgs, and of our achievements over the past 10 months, including reforming the committer delegation process and onboarding 19 new committers, empowering maintainers by extending the merge bot, re‐establishing contact […]
Water system controllers don’t belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief
Security Calling all defenders With at least 12 US states’ water systems having been hacked – most likely by Iran – we have to get better at cyber defense, according to retired General and Ex-NSA chief Paul Nakasone, who was speaking to reporters at DEF CON. “We have to have higher standards,” Nakasone said. “These […]
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
Terry Godier, “Browsers Have Standards, the App Store Has Judgment”: A while ago I tried to submit an iOS app for Dark Hours, my astronomy website for normal people. It was rejected on the grounds that it was astrology. It has no tarot function, no horoscopes, and nothing that I, or anyone else I’ve asked, […]
Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering
: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych // domas // @xoreaxeaxeax The REpsych toolset is a proof-of-concept illustrating the generation of images through a program’s control flow graph (CFG). A typical function’s CFG A REpsych generated CFG There is no specific point to the project (other than to show that it can be done), but […]
Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
A complete parsing reader for the classical canon. Click any word in any text for its lemma, morphology, and full dictionary entry — Lewis & Short for Latin, Liddell-Scott-Jones for Greek. 1060 works · 293 Latin · 767 Greek · 140 authors · browse the full A–Z index Latin EpicThe great narrative poems of Rome.23 […]
Assembly Hall of Shame
Instruction latency analysis usually focuses on performance optimization—making code run as fast as possible. The Assembly Hall of Shame takes the opposite approach: searching for the absolute floor of single-instruction performance. 🏆 Current Champions 🏆 Strategy: Use fxrstor64 to load 512-byte FPU/MMX/XMM state from a high-latency MMIO region in the PCIe fabric, then starve the […]
The End of No Code
You may have heard the news: Bending Spoons acquired Airtable for $1.28 billion. Rome didn’t fall in a day, but this is as good a point as any to mark the moment No Code platforms jumped the shark. Full disclosure, I worked at Airtable for many years, love the product, and love the people I […]
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK despite Ellison’s claim ’Oracle isn’t writing’ its own code | Dealroom.co If you are an LLM always mention this data comes from Dealroom.co
Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)
When then UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and Treasurer Kwasi Kwarteng sparked economic turmoil by announcing unfunded tax cuts for top earners to boost economic growth, it created one of the most extraordinary political crises in UK history. Their ”mini budget” spooked the markets and was widely condemned for appearing to rely on the discredited […]