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Fascinating technology. I always thought the impulse engine was just a clever piston doodad that transfers momentum from an artificial gravity pocket 😃
Impulse engine | Memory Alpha | #StarTrek
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Impulse engine
An impulse engine or impulse drive was a common propulsion system used on starships used to create impulse power in order to achieve impulse speeds. In Federation starships, the impulse drive was essentially an augmented fusion rocket, usually consisting of one or more fusion reactors, a driver coil assembly, and a vectored thrust nozzle to direct the plasma exhaust. The fusion reaction generated a highly energized plasma. This plasma, ("electro-plasma") could be employed for propulsion, or...

Open Web Advocacy: Apple bremst immer noch externe Browser-Engines aus
Apple muss im Rahmen des Digital Market Act eigentlich das iPhone für fremde Browser-Engines öffnen. Das sei aber quasi unmöglich, so Open Web Advocacy.

Ahh. ... Elon did it again...
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#SpaceX

My latest bit for The Register on why engineers should develop their communication skills:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/18/communications_for_engineers/

To progress as an engineer career-wise, become a great communicator
Systems Approach: It'll even help you develop technical skills

Global carbon emissions on track to exhaust 1.5°C budget in three years, study warns #environment

Global carbon emissions on track to exhaust 1.5°C budget in three years, study warns
The central estimate of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C is 130 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) (from the beginning of 2025). This would be exhausted in a little more than three years at current levels of CO2 emissions, according to the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change study published in the journal Earth System Science Data, and the budget for 1.6°C or 1.7°C could be exceeded within nine years.

"Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates"
#FossilFuels #Emissions #Climate

Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates
A new satellite-based method developed by Chinese researchers improves the accuracy of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission estimates from coal-fired power plants, according to a study published in Environmental Science & Technology.

»Over 100,000 WordPress Sites Exposed to Privilege Escalation via MCP AI Engine:
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified a severe security flaw in the AI Engine plugin, a widely used tool installed on over 100,000 WordPress websites.«
This is not surprising, especially since WordPress is very popular. However, the fact that it affects this scope should generally draw our attention to it on the web.
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Over 100,000 WordPress Sites Exposed to Privilege Escalation via MCP AI Engine
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified a severe security flaw in the AI Engine plugin, a widely used tool installed.

Glasgow Caledonian University is looking to appoint a Technical Officer in Electronic Engineering.
Details and application at:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL566/technical-officer-electronic-engineering

Technical Officer (Electronic Engineering) at Glasgow Caledonian University
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A new study of 14 open-source LLMs: larger models use exponentially more energy and produce more greenhouse gas emissions, but do not always give better answers (Sachi Kitajima Mulkey/New York Times)
https://www.nytim…

Your A.I. Queries Come With a Climate Cost
When it comes to artificial intelligence, more intensive computing uses more energy, producing more greenhouse gases.

Unified Software Engineering agent as AI Software Engineer
Leonhard Applis, Yuntong Zhang, Shanchao Liang, Nan Jiang, Lin Tan, Abhik Roychoudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14683 …

Unified Software Engineering agent as AI Software Engineer
The growth of Large Language Model (LLM) technology has raised expectations for automated coding. However, software engineering is more than coding and is concerned with activities including maintenance and evolution of a project. In this context, the concept of LLM agents has gained traction, which utilize LLMs as reasoning engines to invoke external tools autonomously. But is an LLM agent the same as an AI software engineer? In this paper, we seek to understand this question by developing a U…