An EFF article calls out a “brazen attempt to privatize” a wireless frequency band (900 MHz) which America’s FCC’s left ” as a commons for all… for use by amateur radio operators, unlicensed consumer devices, and industrial, scientific, and medical equipment.” The spectrum has also become “a hotbed for new technologies and community-driven projects. Millions… Read More »
Flappy Bird’s original creator hasn’t posted anything on social media since 2017. Until today. “This morning, the game’s creator Dong Nguyen posted a characteristically terse comment stating that he has nothing to do with the revival,” report TechCrunch, “and that he ‘did not sell anything.’ He added, ‘I also don’t support crypto’… The post makes… Read More »
For 30 days, 17,000 AT&T workers in nine different states from the CWA union went on strike. As it began one North Carolina newspaper noted some AT&T customers “report prolonged internet outages.” Last week an Emory University economist told NPR that “If it wasn’t disruptive or it didn’t have any kind of negative element towards… Read More »
The New York Times looks at “a third-generation family firm” in Paraguay “with 280 workers that packages hot sauce, soy beans…and seven kinds of salt for sale in Paraguayan supermarkets.” Its mascot — on t-shirts, coffee cups, and “in heavy demand at Paraguayan weddings” — is a mouse named Mickey. 51-year-old Viviana Blasco — one… Read More »
“Even black holes have edge cases,” writes Astronomy magazine contributing editor Steve Nadis, in an article in Quanta magazine (republished today by Wired): Black holes rotate in space. As matter falls into them, they start to spin faster; if that matter has charge, they also become electrically charged. In principle, a black hole can reach… Read More »
Last October Slashdot reported on René Rebe’s discovery of a random illegal instruction speculation bug on AMD Ryzen 7000-series and Epyc Zen 4 CPUs — which Rebe discussed on his YouTube channel. But this week’s YouTube episode had a different ending, reports Tom’s Hardware… Two days ago, tech streamer and host of Code Therapy René… Read More »
In 2015 Amazon purchased chip designer Annapurna Labs, remembers IEEE Spectrum, “and proceeded to design CPUs, AI accelerators, servers, and data centers as a vertically-integrated operation.” The article argues that while AMD, Nvidia, and other big-name processor companies may also want to control the full stack (purchasing server, software, and interconnect companies) — Amazon Web… Read More »
“It is with great relief that I welcome you home!” SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell posted on X. “This mission was even more extraordinary than I anticipated.” “SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew is home,” reports CNN, “capping off a five-day mission to orbit — which included the world’s first commercial spacewalk — by splashing down in the… Read More »
An anonymous reader shared this report from DecClass: A report from developer-focused analyst Redmonk finds “there does not seem to be a clear link between moving from an open source to proprietary license and increasing the company’s value.” Senior analyst Rachel Stevens studied the question of whether the companies that changed from open source to… Read More »
In 1980 a 23-year-old woman was shot multiple times by an unknown assailant in a small county in central Kansas. 44 years later, the county sheriff made a Facebook post… Over the years, dozens of law enforcement officers looked at the case to no avail. In mid-2022 I was approached by Detective Sgt. Adam Hales… Read More »