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In response to a threat against Air Force 1 last month, the president was clandestinely removed in a catering container.
But the plane was sent into the skies anyway
🔥with government employees and reporters onboard.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/us/pol…

With Trump Secretly Evacuated, Imperiled Air Force One Became a Flying Decoy
In response to a threat against the jet last month, the president was clandestinely removed in a catering container. But the plane was sent into the skies anyway with government employees and reporters onboard.

Astronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low
(SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe
— neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn,
when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago.
What they’re picking up instead is electronic leakage from SpaceX satellites.
-- Not the broadband beams Starlink intentionally transmits.
-- The accidental static bleeding from onboard hardware, coupling throug…

Starlink's Signal Leakage Is Threatening Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies
Starlink signal leakage is contaminating SKA-Low's critical frequencies, with emissions up to 10,000 times stronger than the cosmic signals astronomers need to detect.

Hyperspectral Calibration Detection: A Novel Concept For Change Detection With Unsupervised Incremental Safe Pseudo-Labeling Implementation
Chia-Hsiang Lin, Shih-Min Hsu, Ching-Yun Liang, Jocelyn Chanussot, Jhih-Yan Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06028 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.06028 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.06028
arXiv:2608.06028v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Hyperspectral change detection (HCD) has found numerous key applications, such as land cover monitoring. The majority of benchmark HCD algorithms are semi-supervised methods, and some of them can even achieve very low sample labeling rates. However, in some practical scenarios, such as those requiring immediate detection responses for onboard edge computing, we need to achieve the zero-label requirement as ground-truth labeling would not be available onboard for newly acquired images. In this work, we propose a fully unsupervised HCD algorithm, together with a lightweight model, quite suitable for onboard detection missions. Based on an iteratively augmented training set that safely collects some unchanged pixel samples, we learn an iteratively refined spectrum calibration function that eventually compensates the variability of acquisition conditions (often observed in bitemporal images), thereby making the changed pixels easily detectable by analyzing the calibrated spectra. The proposed hyperspectral looping unsupervised calibration and incremental detection (HyperLUCID) algorithm is not only computationally efficient (around 1 to 2 orders of magnitude faster than most benchmark HCD methods), but has also achieved state-of-the-art results (around 93.6% to 97.9% overall accuracy) on several real benchmark HCD datasets. Source codes: https://github.com/IHCLab/HyperLUCID.
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Sources: Binance is still operating in the EU months after it failed to get a MiCA license, using workarounds to onboard new customers and reroute its trading (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-04/how-bi…

It's all right, every body. Calm down. He wasn't holding a handwritten cardboard placard saying 'I support #PalestineAction', so we can't arrest him.
#Racism
#Nazis

Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover

🧰 23 commands share one vocabulary with your agent: craft, shape, critique, audit, polish, bolder, quieter, distill, harden, onboard, animate, colorize, typeset, layout, delight, overdrive, clarify, adapt, optimize, live
🔗 A provider-native design hook runs the detector on UI file edits in #ClaudeCode,

This week the launch services contract was signed for the Heliospheric Pioneer for Solar and Interplanetary Threats Defence - #Henon - mission, ESA’s first stand-alone deep-space CubeSat, confirming that the pioneering spacecraft will fly onboard Ariane 6, alongside ESA’s Plato mission: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Shaping_the_Future/Deep_space_pioneer_Henon_signs_to_launch_with_Plato

A live blog of Meta Connect 2026, where a new pair of Meta Glasses without cameras onboard and a new VR headset are expected (Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2266105/meta-connect-2026-live-blog-ai-vr/

Meta Connect 2026 live: Updates from Mark Zuckerberg's keynote on AI glasses, VR and more - Engadget
More smart glasses and possibly a VR headset are expected today

> Linus says AI tooling is OK, and Linux is a technical project rather than a social movement
> A subset of people flip because the BDFL isn't onboard with their mission to make every single thing political
> I'm annoyed because now I have to find a way to filter out people talking about politics in Linux without filtering out Linux
I will nonetheless persist with my "No Politics Unless It Shits In My Yard And Then Only As Much As Is Absolutely Require…

In the Russian city of Samara, the Progress Rocket and Space Centre,
which manufactures Soyuz rockets and spacecraft,
came under attack by Ukrainian Flamingo missiles on the night of 14-15 August.
These are used to launch satellites for the Rassvet low-Earth-orbit communications system, which is described as Russia's equivalent of Starlink.
"Building 106A operates under a high cleanroom standard: this is where onboard electrical systems, instruments and prin…

OSINT analysts show damage to plant in Russia's Samara where rockets for military satellite launches are equipped
The OSINT community CyberBoroshno, based on an analysis of satellite imagery, identified the location where FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles struck the Progress Rocket and Space Centre in Samara, Russia.

OH! That really was the screen I wanted! I inserted the on-board SD card with Debian13 and (so far) it is happily installing!
so (a) the brand of kbd is critical and (b) EFI only sees network or onboard SD?

Emirates Exploration Imager (EXI) Reveals Crater and Boulder Distribution on #Deimos - Insights Into Its Dynamical and Geological Evolution: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL117346 -> "we reveal the global distribution of craters and boulders on Deimos, including areas previously poorly observed, using high-resolution images from the Emirates Exploration Imager onboard the Emirates Mars Mission. Craters on Deimos have not reached saturation equilibrium, suggesting a recent resurfacing event."

For the record, this is my first and only Apple product, so please be gentle 😅 I'd learned to despise the company when they did that massive takeover of academia in 1990, overpriced last-year's tech, couldn't even spool a print job while my SGI Indy could play 3 Jurassic Park clips at once 🤣
I did envy their flat address space, but this iMac is Intel, so I'm still lacking that.
I'll lack a lot more if I can't coax a boot from a USB drive. I see it reports an onboard SD drive; is that important to my purpose?