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Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty

2 months 1 week ago
€240M found for three-year sprint to develop three chiplets for HPC, AI

A 38-strong group of tech players have founded a project with the snappy name Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, aka DARE, that aims to develop processor units to power the continent’s supercomputers and other high-performance machines.…

Tobias Mann

SpaceX's Latest Starship Test Flight Ends With Another Explosion

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SpaceX's eighth Starship test flight ended in failure after losing control and breaking apart shortly after launch, sending debris over Florida. "Starship didn't make it quite as high or as far" as the attempt nearly two months ago," notes NPR. That attempt ended with an explosion that sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos. From the report: This time, wreckage from the latest explosion was seen streaming from the skies over Florida. It was not immediately known whether the spacecraft's self-destruct system had kicked in to blow it up. The 403-foot rocket blasted off from Texas. SpaceX caught the first-stage booster back at the pad with giant mechanical arms, but engines on the spacecraft on top started shutting down as it streaked eastward for what was supposed to be a controlled entry over the Indian Ocean, half a world away. Contact was lost as the spacecraft went into an out-of-control spin. Starship reached nearly 90 miles in altitude before trouble struck and before four mock satellites could be deployed. It was not immediately clear where it came down, but images of flaming debris were captured from Florida, including near Cape Canaveral, and posted online. The space-skimming flight was supposed to last an hour. "Unfortunately this happened last time too, so we have some practice at this now," SpaceX flight commentator Dan Huot said from the launch site. SpaceX later confirmed that the spacecraft experienced "a rapid unscheduled disassembly" during the ascent engine firing. "Our team immediately began coordination with safety officials to implement pre-planned contingency responses," the company said in a statement posted online. You can watch a recorded livestream of the launch on X.

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Error'd: Tomorrow

2 months 1 week ago

It's only a day away!

Punctual Robert F. never procrastinates. But I think now would be a good time for a change. He worries that "I better do something quick, before my 31,295 year deadline arrives."

 

Stewart suffers so, saying "Whilst failing to check in for a flight home on the TUI app (one of the largest European travel companies), their Harry Potter invisibility cloak slipped. Perhaps I'll just have to stay on holiday?" You have my permission, just tell the boss I said so.

 

Diligent Dan H. is in no danger of being replaced. Says Dan, "My coworker was having problems getting regular expressions to work in a PowerShell script. She asked Bing's Copilot for help - and was it ever helpful!"

 

PSU alum (I'm guessing) Justin W. was overwhelmed in Happy Valley. "I was just trying to find out when the game started. This is too much date math for my brain to figure out."

 

Finally, bug-loving Pieter caught this classic. "They really started with a blank slate for the newest update. I'm giving them a solid %f for the effort."

 

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Lyle Seaman

Uncle Sam mulls policing social media of all would-be citizens

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President ordered immigration officials to ramp up vetting of foreigners 'to the maximum degree'

The US government's Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is considering monitoring not just the social media posts of non-citizens coming into the country, but also all those already in America going through an immigration or citizenship process.…

Iain Thomson