Starlink Requires $30B Investment
By Supantha Mukherjee, Clara-Laeila Laudette 4 Min Read BARCELONA (Reuters) -Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Tuesday that his Starlink satellite internet venture was growing quickly as he forecast total investment costs in the business at between $20 billion and $30 billion. Without disclosing details, he also said Starlink has “two quite significant partnerships with […]
Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after protest from residents
reader comments 74 with 51 posters participating Share this story After coming close to imposing a near-total ban on municipal broadband networks, Ohio’s Republican-controlled legislature has reportedly dropped the proposed law in final negotiations over the state budget. The final budget agreement “axed a proposal to limit local governments from offering broadband services,” The Columbus […]
U.S. inflation likely to remain elevated for up to four years – BofA
Shoppers look at merchandise in the Swatch store in Times Square in New York City, U.S., May 3, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) – BofA expects U.S. inflation to remain elevated for two to four years, against a rising perception of it being transitory, and said that only a financial market crash would […]
The web browser I’m dreaming of
Those are the main features I’m expecting from a web browser: Written in a memory-safe-ish language that a plebeian like me can understand, review and contribute to, like rust and go or even lua or V, but please no lisp, elisp or haskell. Sandboxed to death. Ability to block ads because the web is a […]
An EPYC escape: Case-study of a KVM breakout
Posted by Felix Wilhelm, Project Zero Introduction KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the de-facto standard hypervisor for Linux-based cloud environments. Outside of Azure, almost all large-scale cloud and hosting providers are running on top of KVM, turning it into one of the fundamental security boundaries in the cloud. In this blog post I describe […]
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may produce lasting immunity
These authors contributed equally: Jackson S. Turner, Jane A. O’Halloran Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA Jackson S. Turner, Wooseob Kim, Aaron J. Schmitz, Julian Q. Zhou, Tingting Lei, Mahima Thapa, Rita E. Chen & Ali H. Ellebedy Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA […]
Stepping Back from Speaking
Giving talks has been one of the pillars of my career. I’ve given keynotes at software events all over the world. Some of these talks have tens, even hundreds, of thousands of views on youtube. I keep being asked back, so I assume I do a pretty decent job. But those who don’t know me […]
GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer
What context does GitHub Copilot use to generate suggestions? GitHub Copilot uses the current file as context when making its suggestions. It does not yet use other files in your project as inputs for synthesis. This means that, for example, copy/pasting a type declaration into the file you’re working on may improve suggestions from GitHub […]
GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer
Today, we are launching a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, a new AI pair programmer that helps you write better code. GitHub Copilot draws context from the code you’re working on, suggesting whole lines or entire functions. It helps you quickly discover alternative ways to solve problems, write tests, and explore new APIs without having […]
Physicists confirm two cases of “elusive” black hole/neutron star mergers
reader comments 37 with 33 posters participating Share this story The successful gravitational-wave detections just keep coming for the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, which has now confirmed two separate “mixed” mergers between black holes and neutron stars, sending powerful gravitational waves rippling across spacetime. Those signals were detected last year by the collaboration, just 10 days apart. […]