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Ian Patterson

@ianpatterson99
6 posts
2024-03-17
Almost out of sight, 12 or so prototype satellites have been launched by SpaceX on behalf of an unidentified customer, probably part of the US Intelligence agencies. A network of several hundred more of these spy sats is set to follow for $1.8bn. https://www.reuters.com/...
2024-03-17 View on X
Reuters

Sources: SpaceX's Starshield is building a network of spy satellites under a classified, $1.8B contract with the US spy agency National Reconnaissance Office

SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with a U.S. intelligence agency …

2023-11-14
This New Yorker piece on the end of programming has been getting some traction via HN. Suspect the same would have been said at the end of previous phases of coding: the end of assembler, of punched cards, of Cobol, of Fortran,... https://www.newyorker.com/...
2023-11-14 View on X
New Yorker

A eulogy for coding, which has always felt like an endlessly deep and rich domain, after ChatGPT swallowed knowledge and skills that take lifetimes to master

Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain.  Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.

2023-04-24
ARMs business model changes are fascinating to watch. It'ss previously announced a new Licencing regime that seeks to get more of the downstream value of chips. Now it's maybe making some of its own. https://www.ft.com/...
2023-04-24 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Arm plans to work with manufacturing partners to build a test chip showcasing the capabilities of its designs, its most advanced chipmaking effort yet

Company to build test chip with factory partners, stoking fears it could in future compete with its biggest customers

2023-04-23
ARMs business model changes are fascinating to watch. It'ss previously announced a new Licencing regime that seeks to get more of the downstream value of chips. Now it's maybe making some of its own. https://www.ft.com/...
2023-04-23 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: in its most advanced chipmaking effort, Arm plans to work with manufacturing partners and build a test chip to showcase the capabilities of its designs

Company to build test chip with factory partners, stoking fears it could in future compete with its biggest customers

2021-11-04
Around the world, various organisation - nefarious or otherwise - are surely storing encrypted data they get hold of for later exploitation, maybe decades later, when technology permits. This shouldn't be a surprise: Bletchley did it in WW2. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
2021-11-04 View on X
MIT Technology Review

How US agencies are preparing for “post-quantum cryptography” against attackers who harvest sensitive data now for decryption in the future

The US government is starting a generation-long battle against the threat next-generation computers pose to encryption. Tweets: @techreview , @techreview , @aarongrunwald , @statec...

2021-06-25
What with Twitter making it easy to post to Instagram, and now this, somethings up - more change than we've seen for a while https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-25 View on X
9to5Mac

Instagram starts to quietly roll out the option to publish posts from its website on desktop, but iPad is not supported

and it's about time Stephanie Mlot / PCMag : Instagram Tests Desktop Publishing Feature Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint : You could soon post to Instagram through desktop Ivan Mehta / ...