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Mondmission Artemis-2: NASA verschiebt geplanten Start nach Problemen auf März
Zwar ist die Generalprobe des Starts der Mondrakete SLS geglückt, aber Probleme haben für stundenlange Unterbrechungen gesorgt. Der Start wird darum verschoben.

1. GenAI is probably going to impact us but how? Nobody knows.
2. The worst thing about GenAI isn't the technology, it's the shitty people: https://karlbode.com/the-problem-with-ai-is-shitty-human-beings [<must-read]
3. We can’t have a grown-up conv…

The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings
The problem with AI isn't going to be Skynet. It's going to be amoral extraction class assholes applying half-cooked automation at scale onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country too corrupt to have functioning regulators.

“Not every problem is a coding problem. Access to code generation pulls us toward solving policy challenges with new lines of code, and to focus on problems that are legible to machines. This capture of the imagination of policy, industry, academia, and media habituates us to dehumanization.”
https://www.

Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI
Acknowledging that AI systems are advancing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts, says Eryk Salvaggio.

Perplexity asks a US judge to force Dow Jones and the New York Post to hand over the queries they made to "fish" for a basis to sue for copyright infringement (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/p

Perplexity claims News Corp tried to 'entrap' chatbot to make copyright case
Perplexity has accused News Corp's Dow Jones and the New York Post of carrying out a fishing exercise for their AI copyright claim.

Newly-released emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kick off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage (Alison Durkee/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/

New Epstein Files Reveal Even More Powerful Connections: Musk, Trump, Gates, Lutnick, More
The Justice Department’s latest and largest release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein includes new revelations of the late disgraced financier’s ties with the world’s most powerful people, including new information about his relationship to Elon Musk, Richard Branson Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Bill Gates and more.

Here are recordings of seven webcasts of last night's total #LunarEclipse that actually worked (with the time stamp of totality beginning):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQLcLAfilkQ from 2:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TywJ47LZ-Ic from 1:53
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdASZ4AGXeY from 8:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQuzWYn2WJw from 2:35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeOlqcK5Edg from 2:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2-_LYVuIEE from 0:47
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGxr_kinPmk from 5:53
Many suffered from clouds - as did even Mauna Kea where a sensitive wide angle camera was eventually able to capture the sky around the dark Moon, however:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJV9EHB05qc (5th hour)
Here are various early timelapse attempts:
https://bsky.app/profile/astrodave.bsky.social/post/3mg5xbiwuvc22
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1999310513984541
https://scicomm.xyz/@david@theblower.au/116165095846134092
https://www.facebook.com/reel/905832598970486
https://bsky.app/profile/nasaspaceflight.com/post/3mg5venqfds2h
This one from an all-sky camera in Alaska features a lot of aurora, better to see during totality:
https://x.com/landon_wx/status/2028820535757472112
And finally one with the Moon setting before totality:
https://bsky.app/profile/naztronomy.com/post/3mg5tzlesxk2p

Apples CloudKit: Entwickler berichten über Probleme
CloudKit, mit dem Apple Entwicklern eine einfache Synchronisation von App-Daten ermöglicht, scheint mit iOS 26.4 nicht mehr rundzulaufen. Fixes fehlen.
https://www.

Good analysis.
#iran #hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz is the U.S.’ problem now — whether Trump likes it or not
Nicholas Grossman: There’s no good way out of Iran for Trump, no matter how much he wishes otherwise.

Artemis-2: Outlook verursacht nicht nur auf der Erde Probleme
Auf dem Weg zum Mond kann wirklich alles passieren: Zum Beispiel, dass Outlook nicht funktioniert.
https://www.heise.d…

heise | Analyse: Probleme der deutschen Energiewende und wie sie sich lösen ließen
Der hohe Anteil an wetterabhängiger Stromerzeugung erzeugt ungewöhnliche Probleme. Zum Glück gibt es jeweils Lösungen, die der Markt schon aufdrängt.