Posts by Luggagethecat

Paragon spyware deployed against journalists and activists, Citizen Lab claims

perfidious kill switch claims

While it’s technically true the F35 doesn’t have a kill switch the ability for USA / Lockheed to degrade the plane it might as well be.

For example every mission needs the expected flight plan, radar contacts, weapons stowed, terrain/weather, fuel load etc etc upload to Lockheeds severs processed then uploaded to the Jet to maximum is changes of mission success,

Based on the processed data the plane can optimise its sensor array radar suite and jamming abilities to the potential targets.

If for example Canada was attending to attack Russia planes and the Trump administration disagreed they could simply refuse to process the data which would leave the plane more vulnerable and unable to work as effectively.

They could turn off the jamming abilities as seen with Ukraine and its F16 or disallow the targeting computers to load Russia fighter jet and missiles profiles leaving the targeting computers to rely on generic profiles instead,

Not an off switch but effectively muzzling the plane from Rottweiler to Toy Dog

Source Globe and Mail

Trump’s tariffs, cuts may well put tech in a chokehold, say analysts

Re: Shaking

Tell me no nothing about economics, without telling me you know nothing about economics.

Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine

Bing for the win!

Personally Ive been using Bing as my go to search engine for the last year!

Ever since it integrated chatgpt/copilot its results are scary good!

Sorry Google its been a good run, but no one wins em all!

Your air fryer might be snitching on you to China

Chinese Spyware No Way

I solved this to my satisfaction by creating a separate network for my Chinese branded appliances or home gadgets

Bending the rules with flexible non-silicon 32-bit RISC-V chip

But can it run Doom?

Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough

Have Fusion, Will Travel

Perhaps this form of fusion will take us to the stars,

China dumps dud chips on Russia, Moscow media moans

Rebrand

If I was a betting man, I’d say a good portion are scavenged components, resurfaced and re-soldiered.

Very common easy & to buy from China/Asia, can buy refurbished general electronic components by the kg….

ISS dodges space junk from satellite Russia blew up

Hello Garbage Scowl!

Seriously why isn’t NASA teaming with private enterprise to build a space tug that can capture this junk and re- use or de-orbit?

It would assume energy requirements to be alot lower launching a tug from the iss than launching one from the surface ……

Meet the CrowPi-L – a clever, slightly rustic, Raspberry Pi laptop chassis

The touchpad at the top of the chassis is a non starter for me

Boffins decide what world really needs is indestructible robot cockroaches

And this my friends was the birth of the infamous Rad Roach that tormented vault residents to no end!

Chinese chip designers hope to topple Arm's Cortex-A76 with XiangShan RISC-V design

Yeah I cant help think this is a different time and situation!

The USA was very concerned at Japan's rise and they also brought sanctions and various laws to try and hobble Japan's economy which for the most part worked! (google US Japan Trade War)

However China isnt Japan and China has a bigger population base a larger knowledge pool to tap into and a 'whatever I do what I want' attitude.

Plus being an authoritarian regime it can redirect R&D spending quicker than I can nuke microwaveable popcorn, will that produce tangible results overnight nope but given the talent/people that China can amass I personally arent betting on the USA as being the winner here (unfortunately)