Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Ukrainian Forces Fight Inside Russia For Second Day
August 7th, 2024Via: The War Zone: For the residents of Russia’s Kursk Oblast, the war is hitting home in a way few envisioned as a surprise mechanized Ukrainian incursion there stretches into its second day. Hundreds of Ukrainian troops and dozens of vehicles including tanks and other armor are said to have poured over the border, creating […]
FRANCE: “MASSIVE ATTACK” ON FAST TRAIN NETWORK
July 26th, 2024Update: ‘Sabotage’ Hits French Trains Hours Before Olympics Via: AFP: Arson attacks scrambled France’s high-speed rail network for tens of thousands of passengers on Friday, after what officials called premeditated acts of “sabotage” just hours before the Paris Olympics opened. Friday’s attacks were launched as the French capital was under heavy security ahead of the […]
While The Internet Is Still Up, a Reminder: “Be at Full Readiness and Far Away from Cities Before the Election in November”
July 19th, 2024The attempted assassination of Donald Trump is definitely a deep event. Joe Biden is profoundly impaired and his own party seems to want him gone. We are experiencing a global IT systems disruption that might be a test run for something bigger. If you think all this is a coincidence you are an idiot. — […]
Majority of Trump Security Detail Were not Secret Service, Whistleblowers Tell Sen. Hawley
July 19th, 2024In other news: The ‘most serious IT outage the world has ever seen’ I shouldn’t joke around, but: Can we get the UFOs going again? Via: Fox: Whistleblowers inside the Department of Homeland Security have alleged that the majority of the security detail for former President Donald Trump were “not even Secret Service,” according to […]
Error with CrowdStrike Update Caused Massive Microsoft System Failures
July 19th, 2024Test run? Via: Reuters: A worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance on Friday before services started coming back online after hours of disruption, highlighting the risks of a global shift towards digital, interconnected technologies. A software update by global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike appeared to have triggered systems problems that grounded flights, forced […]
UChicago: World’s First Anode-Free Sodium Solid-State Battery
July 6th, 2024This is definitely interesting. In terms of years we would have to wait for this, I wonder what, “Closer than ever,” means? Via: University of Chicago: UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering Prof. Y. Shirley Meng’s Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion has created the world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery. With this research, the LESC – […]
Batteries as a Military Enabler
June 25th, 2024Via: War on the Rocks: The larger and more sophisticated the Chinese battery complex becomes, the more likely it is to secure technological advances in next-generation solid-state batteries that could revolutionize energy or transform military affairs. It could also leverage its existing industrial capabilities in lithium-ion batteries to scale deployments of unmanned and manned aerial […]
Microsoft Wants Fusion Energy for AI
June 21st, 2024Via: Washington Post: Microsoft is betting on an effort to generate power from atomic fusion — the collision of atoms that powers the sun — a breakthrough that has eluded scientists for the past century. Physicists predict it will elude Microsoft, too. The tech giant and its partners say they expect to harness fusion by […]
Starlink Mini
June 21st, 2024SpaceX is rolling out the Starlink Mini; a portable Starlink groundstation roughly the size of a laptop computer. Musk said, “This product will change the world.” I can see how that could be true in some ways, in theory. But here’s the unpleasant part: This will enable the fielding of a wide variety of autonomous […]
Large Power Outage in New Zealand
June 19th, 2024Update 0200NZST (UTC+12): Grid Up At The Moment The grid is up for us at the moment. This is the latest status from my grid operator: “As we manage the Transpower event there is a potential for current power outages continue with possibility of further outages in the morning as we mange load restrictions.” I’m […]
