Month: September 2024
Use These 9 Expert-Recommended Mental Health Tips to Beat Your Election Anxiety
You might be feeling anxious about the upcoming presidential election. These expert tips can help reduce your anxiety.
You might be feeling anxious about the upcoming presidential election. These expert tips can help reduce your anxiety.
An International Space Station Leak Is Getting Worse, NASA Confirms
Ars Technica reports NASA officials operating the International Space Station “are seriously concerned about a small Russian part of the station” — because it’s leaking.
The “PrK” tunnel connecting a larger module to a docking port “has been leaking since September 2019… In February of this year NASA identified an increase in the leak rate from less than 1 pound of atmosphere a day to 2.4 pounds a day, and in April this rate increased to 3.7 pounds a day.”
A new report, published Thursday by NASA’s inspector general, provides details not previously released by the space agency that underline the severity of the problem…
Despite years of investigation, neither Russian nor US officials have identified the underlying cause of the leak. “Although the root cause of the leak remains unknown, both agencies have narrowed their focus to internal and external welds,” the report, signed by Deputy Inspector General George A. Scott, states. The plan to mitigate the risk is to keep the hatch on the Zvezda module leading to the PrK tunnel closed. Eventually, if the leak worsens further, this hatch might need to be closed permanently, reducing the number of Russian docking ports on the space station from four to three.
Publicly, NASA has sought to minimize concerns about the cracking issue because it remains, to date, confined to the PrK tunnel and has not spread to other parts of the station. Nevertheless, Ars reported in June that the cracking issue has reached the highest level of concern on the space agency’s 5×5 “risk matrix” to classify the likelihood and consequence of risks to spaceflight activities. The Russian leaks are now classified as a “5” both in terms of high likelihood and high consequence.
“According to NASA, Roscosmos is confident they will be able to monitor and close the hatch to the Service Module prior to the leak rate reaching an untenable level. However, NASA and Roscosmos have not reached an agreement on the point at which the leak rate is untenable.”
The article adds that the Space Station should reach its end of life by either 2028 or 2030, and NASA “intends to transition its activities in low-Earth orbit onto private space stations,” and has funded Axiom Space, Blue Origin, and Voyager Space for initial development.
“There is general uncertainty as to whether any of the private space station operators will be ready in 2030.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Ars Technica reports NASA officials operating the International Space Station “are seriously concerned about a small Russian part of the station” — because it’s leaking.
The “PrK” tunnel connecting a larger module to a docking port “has been leaking since September 2019… In February of this year NASA identified an increase in the leak rate from less than 1 pound of atmosphere a day to 2.4 pounds a day, and in April this rate increased to 3.7 pounds a day.”
A new report, published Thursday by NASA’s inspector general, provides details not previously released by the space agency that underline the severity of the problem…
Despite years of investigation, neither Russian nor US officials have identified the underlying cause of the leak. “Although the root cause of the leak remains unknown, both agencies have narrowed their focus to internal and external welds,” the report, signed by Deputy Inspector General George A. Scott, states. The plan to mitigate the risk is to keep the hatch on the Zvezda module leading to the PrK tunnel closed. Eventually, if the leak worsens further, this hatch might need to be closed permanently, reducing the number of Russian docking ports on the space station from four to three.
Publicly, NASA has sought to minimize concerns about the cracking issue because it remains, to date, confined to the PrK tunnel and has not spread to other parts of the station. Nevertheless, Ars reported in June that the cracking issue has reached the highest level of concern on the space agency’s 5×5 “risk matrix” to classify the likelihood and consequence of risks to spaceflight activities. The Russian leaks are now classified as a “5” both in terms of high likelihood and high consequence.
“According to NASA, Roscosmos is confident they will be able to monitor and close the hatch to the Service Module prior to the leak rate reaching an untenable level. However, NASA and Roscosmos have not reached an agreement on the point at which the leak rate is untenable.”
The article adds that the Space Station should reach its end of life by either 2028 or 2030, and NASA “intends to transition its activities in low-Earth orbit onto private space stations,” and has funded Axiom Space, Blue Origin, and Voyager Space for initial development.
“There is general uncertainty as to whether any of the private space station operators will be ready in 2030.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
WSJ: ‘Apple Is No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round’
Tom Dotan and Berber Jin, reporting late last night for The Wall Street Journal (News+):
Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding
round expected to raise as much as $6.5 billion, an 11th hour end
to what would have been a rare investment by the iPhone maker in
another major Silicon Valley company. Apple recently fell out of
the talks to join the round, which is slated to close next week,
according to a knowledgeable person.
I just observed the other day that the tumultuous (to say the least) leadership situation at OpenAI seems incongruous with Apple’s.
Also surely related, to some degree, is this report on OpenAI’s financials that dropped yesterday from Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith at The New York Times:
OpenAI’s monthly revenue hit $300 million in August, up 1,700
percent since the beginning of 2023, and the company expects about
$3.7 billion in annual sales this year, according to financial
documents reviewed by The New York Times. OpenAI estimates that
its revenue will balloon to $11.6 billion next year.
But it expects to lose roughly $5 billion this year after paying
for costs related to running its services and other expenses like
employee salaries and office rent, according to an analysis by a
financial professional who has also reviewed the documents. Those
numbers do not include paying out equity-based compensation to
employees, among several large expenses not fully explained in the
documents.
Rob Pike, on Mastodon:
OpenAI: We lose a little on every sale but we make it up in volume.
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Tom Dotan and Berber Jin, reporting late last night for The Wall Street Journal (News+):
Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding
round expected to raise as much as $6.5 billion, an 11th hour end
to what would have been a rare investment by the iPhone maker in
another major Silicon Valley company. Apple recently fell out of
the talks to join the round, which is slated to close next week,
according to a knowledgeable person.
I just observed the other day that the tumultuous (to say the least) leadership situation at OpenAI seems incongruous with Apple’s.
Also surely related, to some degree, is this report on OpenAI’s financials that dropped yesterday from Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith at The New York Times:
OpenAI’s monthly revenue hit $300 million in August, up 1,700
percent since the beginning of 2023, and the company expects about
$3.7 billion in annual sales this year, according to financial
documents reviewed by The New York Times. OpenAI estimates that
its revenue will balloon to $11.6 billion next year.
But it expects to lose roughly $5 billion this year after paying
for costs related to running its services and other expenses like
employee salaries and office rent, according to an analysis by a
financial professional who has also reviewed the documents. Those
numbers do not include paying out equity-based compensation to
employees, among several large expenses not fully explained in the
documents.
OpenAI: We lose a little on every sale but we make it up in volume.
If your AI seems smarter, it’s thanks to smarter human trainers
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Apple reportedly cooperating with Russia to quietly remove VPN apps from App Store – 9to5Mac
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Meta blocks links to the hacked JD Vance dossier on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images
Meta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD Vance dossier that was allegedly nabbed in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. The company has apparently removed posts containing the link and is seemingly blocking links to PDFs of the dossier being hosted elsewhere.
Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold emailed Meta’s statement to The Verge:
“Our policies do not allow content from hacked sources or content leaked as part of a foreign government operation to influence US elections. We will be blocking such materials from being shared on our apps under our Community Standards.”
A Meta page on privacy violations forbids users from sharing details “obtained from hacked sources,” as well as “material that purports to reveal nonpublic information relevant to an election shared as part of a foreign government influence operation.”
People on Threads have reported that Meta removed their posts containing the link. Meta also appears to be disabling links to the document hosted elsewhere, such as the below post with a Scribd link, or another one purporting to link to the PDF on a Google Drive.
Many Threads posts instead contain links to a Google search for Klippenstein’s Substack article or posting the direct link, with random spaces, words in place of punctuation, or even QR codes. Meta doesn’t appear to be blocking posts about or searches for the dossier.
X has also been blocking links to the story, and other social media users reported being unable to share the document via their Google Drive accounts (although I was able to share it, at least between two of my personal accounts). Neither company responded to our requests for comment by press time. We’ve also asked Box, Apple, Dropbox, and Microsoft whether they’re restricting the document, but none replied before we published this story.
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images
Meta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD Vance dossier that was allegedly nabbed in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. The company has apparently removed posts containing the link and is seemingly blocking links to PDFs of the dossier being hosted elsewhere.
Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold emailed Meta’s statement to The Verge:
“Our policies do not allow content from hacked sources or content leaked as part of a foreign government operation to influence US elections. We will be blocking such materials from being shared on our apps under our Community Standards.”
A Meta page on privacy violations forbids users from sharing details “obtained from hacked sources,” as well as “material that purports to reveal nonpublic information relevant to an election shared as part of a foreign government influence operation.”
People on Threads have reported that Meta removed their posts containing the link. Meta also appears to be disabling links to the document hosted elsewhere, such as the below post with a Scribd link, or another one purporting to link to the PDF on a Google Drive.
Many Threads posts instead contain links to a Google search for Klippenstein’s Substack article or posting the direct link, with random spaces, words in place of punctuation, or even QR codes. Meta doesn’t appear to be blocking posts about or searches for the dossier.
X has also been blocking links to the story, and other social media users reported being unable to share the document via their Google Drive accounts (although I was able to share it, at least between two of my personal accounts). Neither company responded to our requests for comment by press time. We’ve also asked Box, Apple, Dropbox, and Microsoft whether they’re restricting the document, but none replied before we published this story.
How to Give Americans Back Control of Their Digital Identities
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Save a Staggering $150 on This Dyson Hot and Cold Bladeless Fan at QVC
This Dyson bladeless fan is now just $300 at QVC, just in time for cooling temperatures.
This Dyson bladeless fan is now just $300 at QVC, just in time for cooling temperatures.
Razer’s Updated Sensa Haptics Has Your Back (and Legs and Head)
The haptic chair cushion that debuted as Project Esther has arrived, as Freyja, and the same updated Sensa haptics are in the flagship Kraken V4 Pro headset.
The haptic chair cushion that debuted as Project Esther has arrived, as Freyja, and the same updated Sensa haptics are in the flagship Kraken V4 Pro headset.