Nostr notes by Reed Mideke

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lorenzofb/117033314459632462 My ...

2026-08-04T05:51:26Z

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lorenzofb/117033314459632462

My IANAL take on this is you that if you say "software" instead of "AI" it suddenly doesn't look so novel. If you download some exploit and accidentally point it at a site you don't own, or write a worm and accidentally release it, you may be liable for damages and potentially prosecution under laws like CFAA depending on the details and how convincing the "accidental" part is

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (npub1xvw…ksg7)/117033314488091223">https://mastodon.social/Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (npub1xvw…ksg7)/117033314488091223

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NEW: We spoke to hacking law experts to learn if OpenAI and Anthropic could be prosecuted for their AI agents’ hacks against Hugging Face, and three unnamed victims.

The answers are complicated, as we are in “uncharted territory,” as one lawyer put it.

But another lawyer said there is a potential avenue to hold the two AI giants liable for negligence. And for him, it would be a "no brainer" to sue the two companies.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/whos-legally-to-blame-for-anthropic-and-openais-autonomous-ai-hacks-its-complicated

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2026-08-01T01:29:03Z

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Shot: https://xcancel.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/2082835241081733488
Chaser: https://xcancel.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/2083249962150760610

Google adding AI image generation to google earth. Hard to ...

2026-07-31T06:13:50Z

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Google adding AI image generation to google earth. Hard to imagine any ways this could possibly go wrong

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/earth/nano-banana-google-earth-image-generation/

#AIIsGoingGreat "A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled ...

2026-07-31T04:32:13Z

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#AIIsGoingGreat "A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week … A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that ⁠signals it was made with OpenAI tools"

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-government-map-africa-mislabels-every-country-global-conference-2026-07-30/

FWIW, their rocket+spacecraft bus+lots of solar panels concept ...

2026-07-30T19:12:00Z

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FWIW, their rocket+spacecraft bus+lots of solar panels concept has existed (in powerpoint, naturally) for a lot longer, their original grift was a space based solar power startup called Aetherflux before they pivoted to AI around the end of 2025 https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/116581799330100949

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note1y4u…4qf6

Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt pivots from vaporware space-based solar power to vaporware space-based AI data centers, investors throw $275 million at him. Nominally 20,000 satellites in roughly the same SSO everyone else wants

https://www.satellitetoday.com/technology/2026/05/15/cowboy-space-files-for-20000-satellite-constellation-for-data-center-services/

UN Panel of Experts confirmed 727s connected to his company were ...

2026-07-30T04:28:15Z

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UN Panel of Experts confirmed 727s connected to his company were used to supply the RSF https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/boeings-identified-reuters-report-carried-weapons-sudanese-paramilitary-un-2026-07-29/

Reuters reports companies owned by US special forces vet and long ...

2026-07-30T04:26:05Z

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Reuters reports companies owned by US special forces vet and long time DOD contractor Steven Shaulis appear to have been deeply involved in supplying the RSF in the run up to the El Fasher massacre. Including having crew contracted to his company killed in a 737 blown up at an RSF controlled airport in Nyala, along with senior RSF officers and dozens of RSF fighters

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/us-contractor-mystery-boeings-operating-sudan-paramilitary-supply-routes-2026-07-15/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116999381341932986 ...

2026-07-28T23:49:29Z

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116999381341932986

Committing or preventing? 🤔

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note160m…mk36

According to the journalist Ken Klippenstein, FEMA has a new mission: Domestic Terrorism.

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency, often criticized for its inadequate response to natural disasters like wildfires, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes, has been assigned a new mission: “domestic terrorism.”

Now FEMA is shelling out grant money to state and local authorities to build up capacity to carry out pre-crime operations against “organized political violence,” as one FEMA information bulletin I obtained says.

The bulletin, dated July 9, instructs local authorities to prioritize “domestic terrorism” in their grant applications. Titled “Implementation of National Security Presidential Memorandum-7…,” the document echoes President Trump’s emphasis on rooting out suspected domestic terrorists before an attack takes place.

To head off these attacks, the bulletin tells states what to buy: training to spot “social media-based indicators,” analysts to monitor “online behaviors and digital footprints,” and teams for “managing persons of concern whose behavior indicates a potential trajectory toward domestic terrorism.”

The story says the White House is trying to get states and localities to buy into this "precrime surveillance" by tying funding to their compliance.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/femas-new-mission-domestic-terrorism?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7677&post_id=208852828&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MjA1MTc2LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoyMDg4NTI4MjgsImlhdCI6MTc4NTI2NzQ3NSwiZXhwIjoxNzg3ODU5NDc1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzY3NyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.JucxU7NE_KspkdGtnLlZRTSPbQSE1xgl34_8IYNi5dk&r=3ozy0&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

"here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section ...

2026-07-27T02:44:25Z

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"here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points"

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/canadian-legislator-reads-out-apparent-llm-response-in-floor-speech/

#AIIsGoingGreat

"The bottom line of these results is that, across a variety ...

2026-07-26T23:52:58Z

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"The bottom line of these results is that, across a variety of specifications and alternative proxies, available data provide little compelling evidence that industries with faster AI adoption are already experiencing stronger productivity growth"

https://www.ft.com/content/3fcda833-80d2-4e13-86f4-29b479b79adf

My main takeaway from this Reuters piece on the OpenAI/Hugging ...

2026-07-25T23:39:06Z

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My main takeaway from this Reuters piece on the OpenAI/Hugging Face "escape" incident is that OpenAI's security controls, logging and alerting are all (presumably vibe coded) crap

https://www.reuters.com/business/its-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-company-sources-say-openai-did-not-notice-week-2026-07-24/

#AIIsgoingGreat

Grok seems to be particularly bad at "translating" names. ...

2026-07-22T04:49:35Z

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Grok seems to be particularly bad at "translating" names. Google renders his name as "Drapaty" while Firefox builtin goes with "The Dropy" 🤣

Seems like it might not be a terribly common name

Another egregious #LLM translation fail. ...

2026-07-22T03:35:36Z

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Another egregious #LLM translation fail.
"ДРАПАТИЙ" is Drapatyi (even if, like me, you don't really read Cyrillic, you can probably tell it isn't Syrskyi), the *new* CiC. But grok "knows" Syrskyi goes with COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF so…

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Who could have predicted that taking a high level position in a ...

2026-07-19T00:42:01Z

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Who could have predicted that taking a high level position in a widely despised mega-corp / ponzi scheme would lead to a flood of negative interactions?

Even a super-intelligence could not have foreseen this!

https://xcancel.com/deanwball/status/2078477218406142429

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/116941001377913004 ...

2026-07-19T00:00:46Z

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RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/116941001377913004

Today's #AIIsGoingGreat David Revoy (npub16ys…sjae)/116941001370730504">https://mastodon.social/David Revoy (npub16ys…sjae)/116941001370730504

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note12l9…tf04

For Instagram, my art is "Likely made with AI". Hard to be an artist in 2026...

r/AITAITM

2026-07-18T21:47:28Z

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r/AITAITM

Hats off to you, New Jersey Man "I was at home at the time, ...

2026-07-15T21:53:54Z

Hats off to you, New Jersey Man "I was at home at the time, heard a loud crash and found a hole in the ceiling of the master bedroom. I smelled a strong sulfur-like odor and saw many black fragments along with debris and black dust that covered my bed, carpet and surrounding areas" ... "He then immediately preserved and documented the entire scene using disposable gloves and aluminum foil to place the meteorite fragments in glass jars"

https://www.seti.org/news/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite/

"[a] wave of AI-related cost pressures spilling over into ...

2026-07-15T03:37:25Z

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"[a] wave of AI-related cost pressures spilling over into consumer prices is still in the early stages of building"

https://apnews.com/article/ai-inflation-federal-reserve-434f02e62a02f9b92e57995d9375df57

"Software used by millions of households, small businesses ...

2026-07-15T03:32:09Z

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"Software used by millions of households, small businesses and nonprofits, including products from Adobe and Intuit, has been getting more AI features, which often come with higher price tags" - The AI dividend is rolling in!

(For shareholders)

https://wapo.st/4plm8VG

#GiftArticle #GiftLink #AIIsgoingGreat

AP managed to write a whole article on the risks of AI note ...

2026-07-10T23:18:52Z

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AP managed to write a whole article on the risks of AI note takers without once using the words "accuracy" or "hallucination" or anything similar 🥴

https://apnews.com/article/ai-notetaker-work-meetings-privacy-data-c700299371ca7cfec77dafdfb948067f

As @npub18md…dgg0 points out* "Never treat user-controlled ...

2026-07-10T03:09:25Z

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As Paco Hope (npub18md…dgg0) points out* "Never treat user-controlled content as trusted instruction input for an AI agent" is basically just a funny way of saying "don't use an AI agent with user supplied input"

Additionally, lol "Testing GitHub repeatedly with variations, as an attacker would, and adding the keyword “Additionally” triggered unintended behavior in the model, causing it to reframe its output rather than refuse it"

https://noma.security/blog/gitlost-how-we-tricked-githubs-ai-agent-into-leaking-private-repos/

* Paco Hope (npub18md…dgg0)/116886378706228310">https://mastodon.social/Paco Hope (npub18md…dgg0)/116886378706228310

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CG, aerodynamics, launch and landing gear left as an exercise to ...

2026-07-09T05:28:19Z

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CG, aerodynamics, launch and landing gear left as an exercise to the reader

Bad #AvGeek DIY #Aviation idea: Shahed variants reportedly have ...

2026-07-09T05:27:33Z

Bad #AvGeek DIY #Aviation idea: Shahed variants reportedly have warheads up to 90 kg. So hypothetically, if you find a nice intact one like this, you could ditch the warhead for a seat, rig a controller to the flight computer, and (if you're maybe a little lighter than the guy in the picture), fly around on it

https://www.tiktok.com/@user6165589856093/photo/7659738820694494485

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/116851055605661062 I guess you ...

2026-07-08T20:27:43Z

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/116851055605661062

I guess you could the vulnerabilities are…
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…ubiquitous

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note1j0g…rm2t

25 Ubiquiti CVEs, seven of which are sev:CRIT and the rest are sev:HIGH. LMFAO.

https://community.ui.com/releases/Security-Advisory-Bulletin-066-066/984eceb3-49c8-4227-942d-671c289b3afc

Also, if you wanted to create a low friction path to renew low ...

2026-07-07T05:31:35Z

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Also, if you wanted to create a low friction path to renew low risk prescriptions, you shouldn't need fucking AI to do that. If it's safe for spicy autocomplete to decide, a simple web form with known contra-indications should be able to at least as well

https://apnews.com/article/ai-prescription-refill-utah-doctronic-fda-technology-cf94ce370c05f686e8792be8671a2ef0

"Pushback against medical AI mainly stems from the economic ...

2026-07-07T05:21:19Z

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"Pushback against medical AI mainly stems from the economic fears of doctors and other health workers, says [pro AI thinktank] Cicero’s director for health policy" - I suspect it also comes from patients not wanting to be killed by your fucking chatbot, but this is America, home of the World's Greatest Healthcare System™ so their opinions are presumably irrelevant

https://apnews.com/article/ai-prescription-refill-utah-doctronic-fda-technology-cf94ce370c05f686e8792be8671a2ef0

#AIIsGoingGreat

'When I searched for an award the company claimed on its ...

2026-07-04T07:06:51Z

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'When I searched for an award the company claimed on its website to have won, the Google AI Overview said that “Recent notable recipients include Brownsville Energy Storage Terminals, recognized for their rapid expansion in the independent oil and terminal operations sector.”' - Put a fake award on a fake website, and google "AI" will happily confirm you were a recipient

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-ai-reporting

TBH the anthropomorphic banter has always felt icky to me. If a ...

2026-07-01T04:38:54Z

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TBH the anthropomorphic banter has always felt icky to me. If a statistical text-stringer-together is a useful thing, it shouldn't need to push your buttons by pretending to be human

https://www.404media.co/companies-are-making-claude-and-codex-talk-like-cavemen-to-stop-ais-soaring-costs/

Newsflash! In-band signalling is still insecure: "LLMs ...

2026-06-30T06:56:33Z

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Newsflash! In-band signalling is still insecure: "LLMs identify roles from an insecure feature (style). This is like identifying a stranger's profession from how they talk and dress rather than by checking their ID. Usually everything agrees, so this works fine. But when attackers intentionally create a mismatch, the LLM uses the insecure method (writing style) to identify its role instead of the secure method (tags)"

https://role-confusion.github.io/

#AIIsGoingGreat

"What do EFF staffers Sarah Chen, Javier Morales, Caitlin ...

2026-06-30T04:47:40Z

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"What do EFF staffers Sarah Chen, Javier Morales, Caitlin Chin, Emma Rodriguez, and Mikko Kopponen have in common? For one thing, they don’t exist. For another, all have been quoted as EFF experts in articles published in the past two months on a site called News-USA Today"
(as noted, not affiliated with the real USA Today, which for all it's other faults does not generally flat out make shit up like this)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/news-site-keeps-hallucinating-eff-staffers

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"Analysts at its lead underwriter Goldman have predicted a ...

2026-06-29T03:58:08Z

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"Analysts at its lead underwriter Goldman have predicted a 100-fold surge in its AI revenues to $322 billion by 2030" - Fun fact: They're called analysts because of where they get the numbers from

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/spacex-plans-to-launch-starlink-mobile-service-in-the-us/

"Over prior years, we didn’t pay as much attention as we ...

2026-06-29T01:25:39Z

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"Over prior years, we didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles. Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product" - Yeah, your senior engineers could have (and probably did) told ya that

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai-automation-human-workers-b3003787.html

#AIIsGoingGreat

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2026-06-26T21:42:54Z

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Area burglar demands police investigate dastardly foreign thief ...

2026-06-26T00:19:31Z

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Area burglar demands police investigate dastardly foreign thief for shamelessness LOOTING his stash of stolen goods https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/anthropic-claims-alibaba-defied-trump-to-attack-claude-and-steal-capabilities/

This is more a fraud story than an AI story, but boy does AI ...

2026-06-26T00:06:59Z

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This is more a fraud story than an AI story, but boy does AI continue to shine at helping stupid people do stupid shit:
"Among the false posts he’s accused of having made — primarily on Facebook and Instagram — was one claiming an endorsement from the Queens Jewish Alliance. Prosecutors say the post used the authentic logo of the organization as well as a legitimate-looking endorsement sheet"

https://apnews.com/article/rinaldi-ai-gemini-facebook-meta-new-york-995585d736361c976611f8846db171a2

AI dunk thread has gotten painfully slow, so here begins part 2. ...

2026-06-26T00:04:13Z

AI dunk thread has gotten painfully slow, so here begins part 2. Where we left off: Accenture Accenture-ing https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/116809589461977007

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2026-06-13T18:16:34Z

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2026-06-11T01:40:37Z

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Yeah I did double take seeing Watsonville before I realized out ...

2026-06-09T22:20:40Z

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Yeah I did double take seeing Watsonville before I realized out it didn't mean WVI. We don't have ramp workers or passenger service

Biggest aircraft I've seen there were a couple C-17s once, back when I lived right off the end of the runway

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2026-06-06T01:22:39Z

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2026-05-31T00:29:40Z

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CBS story ...

2026-05-28T04:17:04Z

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CBS story https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-cia-official-arrested-40m-gold-bars-allegedly-found-inside-home/ links to the complaint

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.596235/gov.uscourts.vaed.596235.2.0.pdf

Would have put CIA near the top of a list of places not to pad ...

2026-05-28T03:24:59Z

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Would have put CIA near the top of a list of places not to pad your resume, but apparently it worked for him before the gold bars thing went sideways:
"in his first application, he said he graduated from Clemson University in 2000 … he added that he had a graduate degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute … On his third try, in 2009, he succeeded, and he included those degrees and an aircraft test from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. None of it was true"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna347177

"A former CIA senior officer with top secret-level clearance ...

2026-05-28T03:20:47Z

"A former CIA senior officer with top secret-level clearance has been accused of secretly stashing millions of dollars in gold bars in his home that he said he needed for “work-related expenses,” according to court documents and two people familiar with his employment history"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna347177

recognizant

2026-05-22T22:27:23Z

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recognizant

If I've read the spec correctly, the part defining how the ...

2026-05-22T04:15:17Z

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If I've read the spec correctly, the part defining how the host tells the card how much it's allowed to draw only goes up to 2.88 W (or 1.8 for actual cards rather than embedded). But maybe someone is planning ahead for SD-eGPU…

To be fair SD only gives you 3.6 (or 1.8) volts, which in my hazy ...

2026-05-22T01:26:58Z

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To be fair SD only gives you 3.6 (or 1.8) volts, which in my hazy memory is a bit low for welding

SWP comment on UAE's toxic and implausibly denied involvement ...

2026-05-16T04:35:59Z

SWP comment on UAE's toxic and implausibly denied involvement in various African conflicts

https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/the-destabilising-role-of-the-united-arab-emirates-in-african-conflicts

Oh wait, it's the Galactic Brain dudes who already made an ...

2026-05-16T02:22:57Z

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Oh wait, it's the Galactic Brain dudes who already made an appearance under their previous name, Aetherflux https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/115698426249459537

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note1aen…utc4

'Aetherflux, announced on Tuesday that it plans to launch its first data center satellite in early 2027 — the first piece of a larger constellation of satellites it’s calling the “Galactic Brain.”' - Oh come on you incompetent buffoons "Galaxy Brain" was right there

https://www.theverge.com/news/841887/data-center-space-solar-power-aetherflux-lunch

Details are thin, but the distinguishing feature seems to be ...

2026-05-16T02:13:57Z

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Details are thin, but the distinguishing feature seems to be having the payload built into the (currently non-existent) upper stage. Which… eh, could be a win depending on specifics but hard see it being a game changer. Save a bit on structure and avionics, lug a bit more mass to the final orbit, make it harder to launch of different LVs
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Like a few others, they also tout optical communication

https://www.cowboyspace.com/

Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt pivots from vaporware ...

2026-05-16T02:04:44Z

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Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt pivots from vaporware space-based solar power to vaporware space-based AI data centers, investors throw $275 million at him. Nominally 20,000 satellites in roughly the same SSO everyone else wants

https://www.satellitetoday.com/technology/2026/05/15/cowboy-space-files-for-20000-satellite-constellation-for-data-center-services/

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2026-05-09T01:36:08Z

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DOD claims they exercised against spiderweb style attacks in ...

2026-05-07T00:33:43Z

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DOD claims they exercised against spiderweb style attacks in September 2025

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2026/04/pentagon-ukraine-counter-drone/413087/

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2026-04-25T02:23:03Z

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2026-04-16T02:48:46Z

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2026-04-13T17:55:43Z

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2026-04-09T22:18:07Z

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2026-04-05T21:18:15Z

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BRB, writing elevator pitch for an Agentic AI Firewall Appliance ...

2026-04-04T18:07:43Z

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BRB, writing elevator pitch for an Agentic AI Firewall Appliance startup! Why bother spending all that time writing pesky filters and ACLs when you can just ask Claude whether it's a good packet or a bad packet?

PAO confirmed fan is jammed, fecal collection OK. (of all the ...

2026-04-02T01:34:37Z

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PAO confirmed fan is jammed, fecal collection OK.

(of all the Apollo feats the crew might want to experience, the infamous Apollo 10 incident is probably low on the list https://www.vox.com/2015/5/26/8646675/apollo-10-turd-poop)

Toilet update from ground: "[something, maybe separation ...

2026-04-02T00:53:42Z

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Toilet update from ground: "[something, maybe separation fan?] cannot spin up, must use CTU(?) for urine" maybe jammed, looking at possible additional steps

Good apogee raise burn

2026-04-02T00:42:11Z

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Good apogee raise burn

Update from the press conference "controller issues with the ...

2026-04-02T00:23:48Z

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Update from the press conference "controller issues with the toilet, will take a few hours to troubleshoot"

The real adventure and romance of spaceflight: Crew: "on step ...

2026-04-01T23:53:57Z

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The real adventure and romance of spaceflight:
Crew: "on step 6.7, toilet shut down on it's own, blinking amber fault light"
Mission control: "Roger. We're gonna have to think about that"

I didn't really expect that to go on the first try ...

2026-04-01T22:38:07Z

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I didn't really expect that to go on the first try

🚀 🌔 ⁉️ Go at T-10 (no earlier than) #NASA #Artemis ...

2026-04-01T22:21:33Z

🚀 🌔 ⁉️

Go at T-10 (no earlier than)

#NASA #Artemis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo

Bearcat came back #N9G #WarBird #AvGeek #PlaneSpotting #KWVI ...

2026-03-31T08:11:01Z

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Bearcat came back

#N9G #WarBird #AvGeek #PlaneSpotting #KWVI

clippy.vim (scared to check if a script with that name already ...

2026-03-28T00:27:53Z

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clippy.vim

(scared to check if a script with that name already exists)

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2026-03-27T23:25:36Z

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Guardian on the predictable and predicted massacre in El Fasher ...

2026-03-26T07:46:01Z

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Guardian on the predictable and predicted massacre in El Fasher #Sudan
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/25/heroism-horror-and-the-pits-of-hell-inside-the-last-days-of-el-fasher

"Some of that might be due to the fact that we have more ...

2026-03-25T03:42:19Z

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"Some of that might be due to the fact that we have more detection capability now than we did in the past, and then our ability to defeat them has improved. Whereas a year ago, almost every one that was detected was not defeated, now about a quarter of the ones that we detect we’re able to defeat"
So if they're routinely "defeating" now, someone is presumably picking up the pieces and analyzing, right? Or does "defeat" mean we pressed the jam button and it went away?

https://www.twz.com/news-features/u-s-battled-drone-incursions-over-key-bases-at-home-after-launch-of-epic-fury

NORTHCOM claims to have "defeated" a drone at an ...

2026-03-25T03:38:21Z

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NORTHCOM claims to have "defeated" a drone at an unspecified base "In the early hours of Operation EPIC FURY last month, a deployed [fly-away kit] successfully detected and defeated sUAS operating over a strategic U.S. installation"

Also "So far, NORTHCOM has only one fly-way kit, but more should be delivered 'in the Spring of 2026''"

One. You watched a big chunk of Russia's strategic bomber fleet burn down 9 months ago and you have *one*

https://www.twz.com/news-features/u-s-battled-drone-incursions-over-key-bases-at-home-after-launch-of-epic-fury

And speaking of getting away with it, WTF was going on for those ...

2026-03-21T04:07:35Z

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And speaking of getting away with it, WTF was going on for those four hours a day? Does Barksdale have no drones of their own? No helicopters they can call on to follow one?

It's also remarkable that basically none of the many "swarms of drones" sightings over sensitive installations has ended with any drones being found or anyone being caught. OPSEC is hard, drones fail, pilots crash… yet these have somehow been perfect

What hypothetical actor wants to be seen, uses a 10+ drones ...

2026-03-21T03:56:38Z

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What hypothetical actor wants to be seen, uses a 10+ drones flying for hours at a time, over multiple days?

If you want to probe defense, a single, plausibly deniable consumer / hobby drone would seem far more to the point. If you want to be covert, you wouldn't run lights and would use minimum number to get the job done.
Even if you want to send a message, you'd still want to minimize the chance of being caught, unless you're just absolutely sure you'll get away with it
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But whatever actually happened it seems like confirmation the US ...

2026-03-21T03:37:21Z

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But whatever actually happened it seems like confirmation the US is completely unprepared for an Operation Spiderweb style attack on strategic air bases

"the drones came in waves and entered and exited the base in ...

2026-03-21T03:34:20Z

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"the drones came in waves and entered and exited the base in a way that may suggest attempts to “avoid the operator(s) being located.” Lights on the drones suggested the operators “may be testing security responses” at the base … The flights lasted around four hours each day and the drones used varied routes of ingress and deliberate maneuvering within restricted airspace" - Like so many of these reports, this makes very little sense (also, no pictures)

https://abcnews.com/International/multiple-waves-unauthorized-drones-spotted-strategic-us-air/story?id=131245527

"Between March 9-15, 2026, BAFB Security Forces observed ...

2026-03-21T03:28:43Z

"Between March 9-15, 2026, BAFB Security Forces observed multiple waves of 12-15 drones operating over sensitive areas of the installation, including the flight line, with aircraft displaying non-commercial signal characteristics, long-range control links and resistance to jamming. After reaching multiple points across the installation, the drones dispersed across sensitive locations on the base" 🤨

https://abcnews.com/International/multiple-waves-unauthorized-drones-spotted-strategic-us-air/story?id=131245527

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2026-03-17T22:11:45Z

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2026-03-03T08:26:46Z

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2026-02-23T09:41:34Z

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Still, that's peanuts to SpaceX claimed one million which are ...

2026-02-10T05:20:13Z

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Still, that's peanuts to SpaceX claimed one million which are also supposed to go to SSO

https://www.pcmag.com/news/space-elon-musk-big-plans-data-centers-in-space-1m-satellites-experts-skeptical

Starcloud's whitepaper downplays debris risk with the ...

2026-02-10T05:12:12Z

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Starcloud's whitepaper downplays debris risk with the (dubious and mostly irrelevant) claim* SSO is underutilized. They now want to put 88,000 satellites in 600-850 km SSO, which is *checks notes* approximately 6 times the current total number of active satellites in space

https://www.pcmag.com/news/data-center-space-race-heats-up-as-starcloud-startup-requests-88000-satellites

* https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/115489897364339232

I continue to believe the VC money will dry up long before any ...

2026-02-07T04:46:01Z

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I continue to believe the VC money will dry up long before any serious attempt to build out of orbital data centers starts, and terrestrial capacity will be available at fire sale prices

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2026-02-07T04:34:17Z

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.[@planet4589.bsky.social](https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social ) doesn't totally dismiss the concept, but doesn't buy the timeline: "Maybe [2-3 years] for a prototype satellite, but for deploying this system, I can’t see that happening sooner than a decade, personally. Space [exploration] is incredibly capital-intensive. So the question you have to ask is: On that timescale, are there other technical advances that could happen to make Earth-based data centers more efficient?"

https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/a-leading-astrophysicist-has-some-questions-for-elon

'And the big bet from investors is that this trend continues, ...

2026-02-07T04:28:49Z

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'And the big bet from investors is that this trend continues, making “data centers in space” a no-brainer' - Not gonna argue with that, it does seem like a perfect fit for investors with no brain https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/data-centers-in-space-might-not-be-a-pie-in-the-sky-idea-but-out-of-reach-right-now

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2026-02-06T05:40:00Z

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Physicist Matthew Buckley's take on "data centers in ...

2026-01-31T23:42:37Z

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Physicist Matthew Buckley's take on "data centers in spaaaaaaaaaace" is less optimistic: "The guys building porn-and-scams AI in league with censorious far right theocrats know exactly what they’re doing, but it’s more fun for them and for their fanboys if they pretend that they’re building the AI space utopia. Datacenters in space sounds like a step in that direction, even if none of it maths out"

https://www.physicsmatt.com/blog/2025/12/11/the-dumbest-thing-ive-seen-this-week

Musk is of course on the "AI data centers in ...

2026-01-31T01:22:00Z

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Musk is of course on the "AI data centers in spaaaaaaaaaace" hype train: "the lowest cost place to put AI will be in space. And that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest"

(props to reuters for noting his "timing projections are rarely realized")

https://www.reuters.com/world/musks-spacex-merger-talks-with-xai-ahead-planned-ipo-source-says-2026-01-29/

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2026-01-30T05:37:34Z

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2026-01-18T23:56:51Z

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2026-01-17T08:28:33Z

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2026-01-12T23:37:42Z

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2026-01-07T05:42:13Z

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Phil Metzger thinks it's plausible at $200/kg, which, ...

2026-01-02T06:35:33Z

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Phil Metzger thinks it's plausible at $200/kg, which, according to him, could happen in 10 years 🤨

Which I wouldn't *totally* dismiss, but I'm pretty confident the current trend of investors throwing hundreds of billions at "AI" without any coherent path to return on the investment will last significantly less than 10 years

NYT gives "data centers in spaaaaaaaaace" the he said, ...

2026-01-02T06:27:24Z

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NYT gives "data centers in spaaaaaaaaace" the he said, she said treatment, but I can't argue with the final quote from Tom Mueller "The hottest thing to invest in right now is A.I., and the second-hottest thing is space. Now they’re converging."

(this is not to say they're *good* investments, but it does go some way to explain why so many more-money-than-sense techbros are so hyped about the idea)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/technology/space-data-centers-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BVA.ba0o.zBMifPKFo2Fy&smid=url-share

#GiftArticle #GiftLink

As bad as the RSF, the SAF isn't much (if at all) better ...

2025-12-17T03:17:08Z

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As bad as the RSF, the SAF isn't much (if at all) better #Sudan
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2025/12/africa/sudan-army-saf-ethnic-killings-canals-intl-invs-vis/

'Aetherflux, announced on Tuesday that it plans to launch its ...

2025-12-11T01:51:21Z

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'Aetherflux, announced on Tuesday that it plans to launch its first data center satellite in early 2027 — the first piece of a larger constellation of satellites it’s calling the “Galactic Brain.”' - Oh come on you incompetent buffoons "Galaxy Brain" was right there

https://www.theverge.com/news/841887/data-center-space-solar-power-aetherflux-lunch

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2025-12-10T03:24:50Z

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2025-12-09T06:57:53Z

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#Sudan "While the final death toll of the massacre remains ...

2025-12-06T02:22:53Z

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#Sudan "While the final death toll of the massacre remains unclear, British MPs have been briefed that at least 60,000 have been murdered in El Fasher"

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/05/rsf-massacres-sudanese-city-el-fasher-slaughterhouse-satellite-images