Comment How do you ban it? (Score 1) 57
Maybe in the classroom, but beyond that
Submission + - Gov. DeSantis bans Flock cameras from state highways (www.wctv.tv)
schwit1 writes: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he’s removing Flock camera from state roadways.
The announcement comes amid a growing concern over the misuse of automated license plate readers.
On Monday, DeSantis ordered all Flock cameras removed from what he calls the “state highway system” within the next 30 days, which would include interstates like I-10 and I-75.
That order led to several sheriff’s departments like in Franklin, Liberty and Putnam Counties to announce they’re ending their own license plate reader programs.
The announcement comes amid a growing concern over the misuse of automated license plate readers.
On Monday, DeSantis ordered all Flock cameras removed from what he calls the “state highway system” within the next 30 days, which would include interstates like I-10 and I-75.
That order led to several sheriff’s departments like in Franklin, Liberty and Putnam Counties to announce they’re ending their own license plate reader programs.
Comment The 2nd booster landed miles away (Score 2) 27
One side booster (B1072-3) landed at Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2)
The other side booster (B1104-1) landed at Landing Zone 40 (LZ-40)
These two pads are several miles apart, so the classic close dual landing (the dramatic “twin touchdown” view from past missions) didn’t happen.
Why the change?
In the past, SpaceX almost always recovered both side boosters at the adjacent pads LZ-1 and LZ-2 (at the old Launch Complex 13 area).
LZ-1 has since been retired (its last landing was in 2025), and SpaceX built a new landing pad called LZ-40 right next to their main Falcon 9 launch site (SLC-40).
Comment Space Medal for a space Uber ride? (Score 1) 137
This only cheapens the medal.
There was little significant risk. Nothing like Shepherd, Glenn(Atlas was unreliable), Armstrong & Aldrin or Young & Crippen.
Submission + - China is secretly fueling America's data center rage (axios.com)
alternative_right writes: The X Safety team probed suspected Chinese accounts involved in influence operations and identified 200,000 accounts, including 200 accounts "posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy," the team said in a tweet.
The posts included content on how AI strains the electricity grid and increases utility prices and "cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense."
It's unclear what, if any, action X will take to suspend or delete accounts from the bot farm.
X, owned by Elon Musk, whose billions rely on data centers to boost his AI enterprises, did not respond to Axios' request for comment.
The posts included content on how AI strains the electricity grid and increases utility prices and "cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense."
It's unclear what, if any, action X will take to suspend or delete accounts from the bot farm.
X, owned by Elon Musk, whose billions rely on data centers to boost his AI enterprises, did not respond to Axios' request for comment.
Submission + - The world's busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now (arstechnica.com)
schwit1 writes:
A Falcon 9 launch early Tuesday was the last planned Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral until SpaceX begins flying Starship missions from Florida, according to Kiko Dontchev, the company’s vice president of launch. For at least the rest of the year, and maybe longer, this means the launch rate at the Florida spaceport will drop from eight or nine per month to perhaps two per month.
It wasn’t long ago when two launches per month was the norm, an indication of just how quickly SpaceX’s launch cadence has grown. Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center sit on adjoining property and share the same range on Florida’s east coast, so it is worth considering them a single spaceport. The last time the Florida spaceport did not lead the world in space launches was in 2015.
“From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship,” Dontchev wrote on X. “The West Coast team will continue regularly launching Starlink from Vandenberg.”
Yep, that'll be louder — but everybody knows the real action will be in Louisiana, starting in 2029 or so.
Musk’s other unstated reasons for shutting down Falcon 9 in Florida.
Submission + - Q-CTRL Achieves First GPS-Free Quantum Gravimetric Maritime Navigation Demo (q-ctrl.com)
schwit1 writes: Ironstone Opal maintained 1 NM positioning accuracy over the mission duration and surpassed navigation-grade GNSS backups by more than 10 times.
Comment Until they get a national security letter (Score 1) 63
and a gag order.
Ring is no better than Flock. Expect Ring to soon support ALPR and facial recognition, it's inevitable.
Comment 'Urges', with critical infrastructure? (Score 2) 76
This is critical effiing infrastructure, not vending machines.
Critical infrastructure should be constantly red-teamed by CISA, DOD, NSA should and DHS. If you're not passing with flying colors there should be massive fines.
CISA should park in their pocket until this gets fixed.
Submission + - China's Moonshot in talks with Microsoft, Amazon, Google over K3 revenue sharing (reuters.com)
schwit1 writes: China's Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet's Google, that would allow the U.S. cloud giants to host its blockbuster Kimi K3 model, three people familiar with the talks said.
Any deal could mark the first big revenue-sharing pact between a Chinese AI firm and a major U.S. cloud company.
The discussions highlight how China's leading AI models, often far cheaper than Western offerings, are gaining traction in the U.S., despite national security concerns in Washington that have led to bans on exports of AI chips to China. They are also taking place despite critical comments about Moonshot from senior U.S. officials.
IPO-bound Moonshot is seeking up to a 30% share of revenue generated from K3-related services on Microsoft's Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, according to the sources who declined to be identified because the discussions are private.
That would be in line with terms that sources have said the startup has outlined for major customers using the open-weight model.
Moonshot has come under fire from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who said last month that he might add it to a trade blacklist. U.S. officials have accused the Beijing-based company of stealing from Anthropic's most sophisticated model, Fable, to help create Kimi K3 and illegally acquiring Nvidia chips.
Founded in 2023 by Carnegie Mellon-trained AI researcher Yang Zhilin, Moonshot is backed by several Chinese tech giants including cloud computing giant Alibaba.
Any deal could mark the first big revenue-sharing pact between a Chinese AI firm and a major U.S. cloud company.
The discussions highlight how China's leading AI models, often far cheaper than Western offerings, are gaining traction in the U.S., despite national security concerns in Washington that have led to bans on exports of AI chips to China. They are also taking place despite critical comments about Moonshot from senior U.S. officials.
IPO-bound Moonshot is seeking up to a 30% share of revenue generated from K3-related services on Microsoft's Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, according to the sources who declined to be identified because the discussions are private.
That would be in line with terms that sources have said the startup has outlined for major customers using the open-weight model.
Moonshot has come under fire from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who said last month that he might add it to a trade blacklist. U.S. officials have accused the Beijing-based company of stealing from Anthropic's most sophisticated model, Fable, to help create Kimi K3 and illegally acquiring Nvidia chips.
Founded in 2023 by Carnegie Mellon-trained AI researcher Yang Zhilin, Moonshot is backed by several Chinese tech giants including cloud computing giant Alibaba.
Comment I want physical buttons (Score 1) 245
I want no screen on the center console. I can use my phone for navigation and I can use an app to talk to the car for deep stuff.
Other than that I want buttons, sliders and rotating switches for the environment and audio systems.
Comment Re:Why would they need ID? (Score 1) 51
They want to track of every video you watch?
Comment Voters unknowingly bankrolled by the CCP (Score 1, Interesting) 97
The CCP is pressing everywhere.
https://apnews.com/article/sou...
And won't this just make Elon richer in the long run as he puts datacenters into space?
BTW, the next Starship test launch is a few weeks away.
Submission + - Evidence of the Covid origin cover-up emerging in court (telegraph.co.uk)
Bruce66423 writes: 'A British zoologist involved in risky bat coronavirus experiments in Wuhan is accused of plotting with a senior US health official to shut down the theory that Covid-19 leaked from a lab.
'Dr Peter Daszak, the former president of EcoHealth Alliance, sent bottles of wine to David Morens, thanking him for his “behind the scenes shenanigans” and promising further gifts, such as dinners at Michelin-starred restaurants, US court documents state.
'Morens, 78, a former employee at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and adviser to Dr Anthony Fauci, this week pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to grant research funding and the Covid-19 pandemic.
'He is facing five years in jail. No charges have been brought against Dr Daszak.'
'Dr Peter Daszak, the former president of EcoHealth Alliance, sent bottles of wine to David Morens, thanking him for his “behind the scenes shenanigans” and promising further gifts, such as dinners at Michelin-starred restaurants, US court documents state.
'Morens, 78, a former employee at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and adviser to Dr Anthony Fauci, this week pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to grant research funding and the Covid-19 pandemic.
'He is facing five years in jail. No charges have been brought against Dr Daszak.'
Submission + - American Airlines Changed Passengers' Flights w/o Asking and No Human Oversight (inc.com)
schwit1 writes: In recent years, American Airlines has embraced artificial intelligence. Now the new technology appears to be changing flight tickets.
Earlier this week, columnist Marc Thiessen took to social media to voice his frustration with American‘s rebooking system. He claimed the airline rebooked his connecting flight in Chicago without his knowledge when his inbound flight was delayed. “Since when do you change my itinerary without asking?” Thiessen wrote on X.
The rebooking automation appears to be part of an American Airlines system called AURA (for AUtomated ReAccommodation). The system, which initially rolled out in 2023, is meant to help passengers with their connecting flights. “Our Automated Reaccommodation tool proactively rebooks customers impacted by flight cancellations and delays, and exchanges tickets,” the company said on its site. However, the automated system appears to have negatively impacted more than one traveler.
Below Thiessen’s post, media consultant Beverly Hallberg replied that American had done the same thing to her the day before. “I had to call and switch my connecting flight back to the original itinerary, and I had enough time to do that since we were stuck on the tarmac for so long. But, like you, they didn’t ask,” she wrote on X.
https://x.com/danikkk_wqs/stat...
Earlier this week, columnist Marc Thiessen took to social media to voice his frustration with American‘s rebooking system. He claimed the airline rebooked his connecting flight in Chicago without his knowledge when his inbound flight was delayed. “Since when do you change my itinerary without asking?” Thiessen wrote on X.
The rebooking automation appears to be part of an American Airlines system called AURA (for AUtomated ReAccommodation). The system, which initially rolled out in 2023, is meant to help passengers with their connecting flights. “Our Automated Reaccommodation tool proactively rebooks customers impacted by flight cancellations and delays, and exchanges tickets,” the company said on its site. However, the automated system appears to have negatively impacted more than one traveler.
Below Thiessen’s post, media consultant Beverly Hallberg replied that American had done the same thing to her the day before. “I had to call and switch my connecting flight back to the original itinerary, and I had enough time to do that since we were stuck on the tarmac for so long. But, like you, they didn’t ask,” she wrote on X.
https://x.com/danikkk_wqs/stat...
