Part of the Communications Act 2003 has come into force.
As a member of the public I'm confused as to why these laws don't automatically sunset if left unactivated. Certainly after more than 20 years, and significant changes in the makeup of Parliament.
(This change is just about classifying significant events, eg, sporting events.)
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Falcons GM Ian Cunningham calls decision to keep four QBs 'a little bit of an insurance policy' https://www.nfl.com/news/falcons-gm-ian-cunningham-keep-four-qbs-insurance-policy
Periodic radio and X-ray emission from an accreting #WhiteDwarf binary: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02882-x -> UNC-Chapel Hill astronomers help crack cosmic radio mystery: https://uncnews.unc.edu/2026/06/02/unc-chapel-hill-astronomers-help-crack-cosmic-radio-mystery/ -> Mysterious signals keep coming from space - at least part of this mysterious class of radio-emitting objects may originate from interacting stellar companions rather than neutron stars: https://theconversation.com/mysterious-signals-keep-coming-from-space-we-have-found-their-rosetta-stone-281753 & https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/new-long-period-transient-reveals-its-secrets
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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Watermelon model and Muse Spark open weights are "coming soon" (Mark Zuckerberg/@finkd)
https://x.com/finkd/status/2095232032896946311
Constantly coming across interesting things while making demo setups for showing off ngscopeclient filters.
Here, I'm looking at the fall time of a 10 MHz reference clock coming off my Leo Bodnar GPS NTP server. This isn't quite as clean as the 10 MHz off the SRS FS752 GPSDO on the other side of the lab, but the NTP server lives on the main IT rack next to the scope in the VM server that I'm using for this test, so it was a convenient test signal source.
I expected it…
Despite hundreds of public comments opposing a giant space mirror that would shine a beam of light roughly five kilometres wide back down to Earth,
the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has given it the green light.
The company building the space mirror, Reflect Orbital, is touting its proposal as "sunlight on demand,"
which could be used for any number of reasons, it says, such as agriculture, solar farms or for search and rescue.
Astronomers a…
Maybe, as part of reviewing the UK government use of WhatsApp, there'll be a recommendation to adopt something based on [matrix] ?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/independent-review-of-the-use-of-non-corporate-com…