The Colombian navy says it has seized an unmanned narco-submarine that was equipped with a Starlink terminal, enabling the sub to be controlled remotely (France 24)
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250702-colombia-narco-submarine-starlink
If you think through in more detail about operation Spiderweb’s drone attack on Russia. Extreme vulnerabilities are evident for Russia but also for any european country or military. Remember that Ukraine used local (!) phone networks for guidance, with pilots remotely in Ukraine apparently.
#ukraine #drones
Welp, that’s a first: I had to actually break the glass in case of fire.
This evening, I used a fire extinguisher on a brush fire that had started near a house just three doors down from our beach rental. The owners weren’t home, and if it hadn’t been stopped, it easily could’ve taken the house with it.
Neighbors came running, the kids were thrilled by the whole thing, and I’m still kind of buzzing.
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20078 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…
'He's probably irreplaceable': Lions call for rapid growth after Ragnow retirement https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45459583/detroit-lions-offensive-line-frank-ragnow
Quantum light and radiation in Rindler spacetime: from uncertainty relations to the cosmological implications
Fujin Wang, Syed Masood, L. G. Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02417 …
#WritersCoffeeClub 5: Talk about something you’ve read that made you think, 'I wish I wrote that.'
Most anything of Sir Terry Pratchett, I have an immense admiration for his wit, his humour, his intelligence, and his writing. I'm not remotely funny, not in my opinion anyway, which makes me awestruck when I find someone who is.
Correlating Superconducting Qubit Performance Losses to Sidewall Near-Field Scattering via Terahertz Nanophotonics
Richard H. J. Kim, Samuel J. Haeuser, Joong-Mok Park, Randall K. Chan, Jin-Su Oh, Thomas Koschny, Lin Zhou, Matthew J. Kramer, Akshay A. Murthy, Mustafa Bal, Francesco Crisa, Sabrina Garattoni, Shaojiang Zhu, Andrei Lunin, David Olaya, Peter Hopkins, Alex Romanenko, Anna Grassellino, Jigang Wang
Rapid7 finds eight vulnerabilities, including one remotely-exploitable flaw that cannot be fixed via firmware patch, affecting 689 models of Brother printers (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/694877/brother-printer…