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For the first time in 50 years, a US spacecraft has landed on the moon. Houston-based Intuitive Machines landed its Odysseus craft in the Malapert A crater, about 300 kilometers from the moon’s south pole. Historic for a number of reasons, it’s the first of many new moon landings that we can expect in the next year, leading up to NASA’s manned moon mission in 2025-2026, where humans may actually …

Following an FBI raid of his home last year, the freelance journalist Tim Burke has been arrested and indicted in connection with an investigation into leaks of unaired footage from Fox News. The raid raised questions about whether Burke was being investigated for First Amendment-protected journalistic activities, and EFF joined a letter calling on the Justice Department to explain whether and how it believed Burke had actually engaged in wrongdoing. …

Alexander Saeedy and Alexandra Bruell at the Wall Street Journal, via Apple News: Vice Media said it would stop publishing content on its flagship website and plans to cut hundreds of jobs, following a failed effort by owner Fortress Investment Group to sell the embattled digital publisher and its brands. The moves were laid out in an internal memo from Chief Executive Bruce Dixon, a copy of which was reviewed …

After a hard two weeks to start the South Island, I took a break in the small town of St Arnaud. I slept in a bit, then wandered over to the general store to get breakfast. Finding that they didn’t serve breakfast until 9, I instead got part of my resupply that I knew I’d need, and which I could carry without needing a bag. I returned to the store …

Since the last outpouring when I was all about the new locos I've made a slight detour and they've got no further really. They need priming and the weather has been foul so a trip to the cold damp garage for a visit from a rattle can; they have been for a bath in the ultrasonic cleaner along with a sneaky addition. That terribly nice chap at Fourdees has added …

There are eight people buried in the private grave of Joseph Bonomi in Brompton Cemetery, five of his children, his wife and his mother-in-law. The first four of his children predeceased him, all dying within one harrowing week in April 1852; the eldest still hadn’t reached their sixth birthday and the youngest was, at just eight months, still an infant. The epitaph on the rather simple Grade II listed headstone …

I love these signs: "Shear and Tan are Narcs", "No Killer Robots in SF". Prop. E foes demonstrate outside Y Combinator HQ: Proposition E will reduce police accountability, make San Francisco less safe and disproportionately affect communities of color. [...] "We're here today to tell tech CEOs who think they own San Francisco that we need more transparency not less," said former police commissioner Angela Chan. [...] The measure, which …

ShareThe Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request to temporarily put on hold a bankruptcy plan for the Boy Scouts of America while a challenge to that plan continues in a federal appeals court. A group of childhood sexual abuse survivors had asked the justices earlier this month to block the plan, but in a brief unsigned order, without any public dissents, the justices declined to do so. Facing tens …

Content warning: Discussion of hospital stay, procedure, and graphic images in the links. Checking in for 2024-02-22: The procedure went well for my Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. I was a little doppy when I woke up from the anesthesia (I think I said something along the lines of "Teletubby go bye bye" when they were wheeling me out to come back to the room). I was on a liquid diet for …

For years, I’ve had the notion of chicken-fried catfish on my mind. While typically, I eat my fried catfish dredged in a cornmeal coating, I wondered if treating the fish... Source

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In October 2023 Patently Apple posted an IP report titled "Apple won Patents for a Virtual Online Store Experience with 'Vision Pro,' followed by a report in November 2023 titled "Apple wins a Patent for possible Future online AR Guided Consumer presentations with Apple Specialists." Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a patent application from Apple that relates to users being able to interact with a computer-generated …

Acorn 7.4.4 is out, and it's a free update for anyone with an Acorn 7 license. As previously mentioned, I'm not incrementing Acorn past the 7.4 number ('74 was a good year for me). But that doesn't mean I'm not adding new features, and this release has some. Here are some highlights straight from the release notes: Super Resolution ML resizing. This new option in the Image ▸ Resize Image… …

This is a video from the cabin of Ixonia, Wisconsin Amazon driver Alexander Evans’s truck when an Amtrak train cuts the vehicle in half right behind Alexander’s seat after crossing the tracks. This is why I always look both ways at train crossings, then turn around and go back home. Then Alexander just has to sit there with a speeding train passing a few feet behind his head and wait …

Infrasonic Audio let us know that a limited run of Warp Core - a stereo/dual-output complex oscillator for Eurorack - is now available.… Read More Warp Core Stereo Phase Distortion Oscillator Is Down With The Thiccness