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    Hackers’ “bullet-proof” hosts deliver malware from blockchains

    This stuff can in fact be censored by public RPC services. And there's precedent for those providers to do so. While the Tornado Cash contracts were on the sanctions lists, all the large, public RPCs censored requests for those addresses.
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    NATO boss mocks Russian navy, which is on the hunt for Red October “the nearest mechanic”

    Indeed. Wikipedia says the new Columbia class ICBM boats that are slated to replace our Ohio sub's will run $9B each.
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    Tornado Cash sold crypto “privacy”; the US saw “money laundering.” A jury isn’t sure what to think.

    There's many reasons to be critical of tornado cash, but it literally is an open source project on github. https://github.com/tornadocash
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    Robotaxis burn in Los Angeles in backlash to immigration raids

    Fucking shit up like this has a place in many circumstances (Peaceful protest only works when there's a credible threat of unpeaceful stuff). But when protesting ICE, shouldn't the targets of action be a lot more directly tied to what's being protested? I mean, if this was a general protest...
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    The top fell off Australia’s first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch

    Did the primary buffer panel just fall of my gorram ship for no apparent reason?
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    Republicans want to tax EV drivers $200/year in new transport bill

    I wouldn't be knee jerk opposed to this if they also raised the federal gas tax to match. As is, $200/year is the equivalent of 819 gallons worth of the $0.244 gas tax. A 30mpg ICE vehicle driving 12K miles a year would be paying less than $100/yr in gas taxes.
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    Fire destroys Starship on its seventh test flight, raining debris from space

    Well there's the problem. This is the second time a starship was lost because leaks led to a fire that eventually caused the loss of vehicle. Why are they accepting leaks of this scale? Musk, ever the the fan of "the best part is no part" is essentially saying, let's solve this by adding more...
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    Not just heat death: Here are five ways the Universe could end

    I really prefer the heat death scenario. It means that in the long run, everything will be nearly 0K.
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    New Glenn rocket is at the launch pad, waiting for calm seas to land

    Eh. They have precisely one investor to be concerned about. And, at this point, he should be more than able to handle it if it goes boom at the wrong time. As for the barge and downrange weather and the waves out there, anyone else remember how originally Jacklyn was going to be a big converted...
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    Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival

    We used it for a while. It was more then competent enough. What turned us off from them though is that unless you pay for a subscription, you can't upgrade in place, and the subscription price was more then what we were up for or needed.
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    A year after Broadcom’s VMware buy, customers eye exit strategies

    For VoIP stuff - you really want to stay as close to the metal as you can. Voice is a realtime application - and the typical timing jitter that happens in normal VMS can really make a mess of your voice quality. If you at all can - use LXC/LXD/Incus containers for your voice systems.
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    The New York Times shows how AI can aid reporters without replacing them

    Whisper's accuracy really depends on the quality of the recording and which version of the model you choose to run. The bigger versions of the model are a lot slower at processing audio, so there is a trade-off that whisper users have to make between speed and accuracy. That said, we've set it...
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    Starliner still doesn’t have a return date as NASA tests overheating thrusters

    Launch the Polaris Dawn Dragon and have Butch and Suni to a short space walk over to the Dragon.
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    The “Pompeii of paleontology” preserves a time when rhinos roamed Nebraska

    Thank you. I loved the article, but not having this detail was driving me nuts.
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    There’s not enough room for Starship at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX rivals claim

    There's probably some combination of workable solutions to deconflict things. It just takes some willingness to cooperate. SpaceX could accept limits on how often they have fueled vehicles on the pad at 39a during the daytime when ULA has normal day shift work at pad 40. ULA could work to reduce...
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    There’s not enough room for Starship at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX rivals claim

    Part of it is that even nominal flights need the exclusion zone because of how loud they are.
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    Maybe it’s time to reassess the risk of space junk falling to Earth

    It isn't clearly stated, but I take it this is chunks of trunk? Edit - nvm. I need to read better.
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    Sophisticated $25M ethereum heist took about 12 seconds, DOJ says

    Because theft is against the law regardless of the legal classification of the things being stolen.
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    Sophisticated $25M ethereum heist took about 12 seconds, DOJ says

    They had 16 validators. At the time, the average validator got selected to propose about ~5 timrs per year to propose with a pretty strong pseudo-rng selection process. So they were looking at about 80 chances per year. But when selected for a block, a validator has about a 6-12 minute heads up...
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    Sophisticated $25M ethereum heist took about 12 seconds, DOJ says

    https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=over-25-million-taken-from-an-mev-bot-by-malicious-validator