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missed opportunity for title: “human drivers crash way mo than Waymo”

Wish someone had posted a heads up the day before 😥 looks like the closest we’ll see of this for years is Jupiter in 27.

This is exactly the same problem as CrowdStrike. It’s a mistake to put this much power in the hands of one person, organization, or company.

What about end to end encryption and security? If I’m backing up my files remotely and giving a company access for AI scanning it better damn well be accessible only to me.

For those like me interested in how the coronagraph (the thing that allows you to "mask out" a ridiculously small star) actually works with the James Webb Space Telescope: this very technical article describes it. Basically, it's a 2 x 20 x 60 mm strip of coated sapphire with aluminum deposited...

Girlfriend and I both live in east Tennessee and have AT&T on separate plans, both iPhone 13 mini. Her phone has been in SOS all morning, and mine shows 3 bars… very strange.

Excellent article! I love in-depth views of science missions. Thanks for the perspective and insights!

I think we have a nominee for this year’s Ignobel prizes.

🎶 Maia hee, maia hoo, maia haaa, maia ah-ha! 🎵

Three decades not four, right? I remember the first discovery when I was a kid; it looks like the first exoplanet was confirmed detected in 1992. According to NASA the first extrasolar planetary disc was discovered in 1984, so perhaps that’s where the confusion lies?

Given the list of targeted processors on that tweet (AARCH64, SPARC, etc) and since the list includes other systems, it seems unlikely that it's for Apple PowerPC ... it seems far more likely to be a cross-compilation targeting the IBM POWER series of processors, which are contemporary and used...

What a sloppily written article. Perhaps true for enterprise systems, but certainly not true for desktops, where Linux is a very small minority. Citation needed. Perhaps you mean Intel chips? PowerPC hasn't been supported for like 15 years. Oh, perhaps this is actually why macOS doesn't get...

It’s so appropriate that the 21st century equivalent of the “blue marble” photo is a spaceship’s selfie.

Sounds like government agencies and other corporate sponsors with lots of weight behind them had some quiet calls to Microsoft management. Never underestimate the reliance of large institutions on impossibly outdated and dangerously obsolete software practices.

Do not look into 9000 years with remaining eye.

Aha! I’d heard the name Hollerith before with relation to punch cards: early FORTRAN required strings to be encoded with numbers, and a compile time string encoded as such was called a “Hollerith constant”. I still get warnings in legacy code bases today about their use. Thanks for the article!

I'm on the phone with my cable company right now, and this article is only slightly more nauseating!

That caption is… long and odd and apparently in the wrong text encoding? Edit: fixed soon after. Good article Beth!

I grew up with Prof. Nagyvary’s family (his wife was my chemistry teacher and his daughter was in orchestra with me) and have been following his career since. Glad to hear of the culmination of his life’s work!

Not an easy attack vector. If you’re a high profile user where the damage from compromised data is severe, always physically destroy devices. Governments figured this out 70 years ago: you don’t recycle classified printouts as scratch paper.