Month: June 2024

The Soviet Union’s Monster Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner

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The Soviet-era Mil Mi-6 Hook was a colossal helicopter. It was the largest production rotary-wing craft until its successor, the Mi-26, came into existence. Clocking in with a greater overall length than the C-130 Hercules transport, the Mi-6 was used for all manner of military and civil aviation applications within the USSR. However, a little-known […]

Inside a $1 radar motion sensor

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Jun 28, 2024 (Electronics) (Wireless communication and power) I recently got some cheap RCWL-0516 microwave motion sensors, mostly because I was wondering how China managed to make a radar for under a dollar: Click for mirrored back view Getting one working was quite easy, I just connected the VIN pin to 5 volts, GND to […]

Trilobites killed by volcanic ash reveal features never seen before

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Some of the most perfectly preserved trilobite fossils ever found have revealed details of the extinct arthropod unknown until now. The new specimens, which were killed and fossilised quickly when volcanic ash smothered them underwater more than 500 million years ago, show details never before seen in any trilobite, despite the millions of fossils gathered […]

Air Force Confirms Its F-35As Were Mission Capable About Half the Time in 2023

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Share Article The F-35A mission capable rate for fiscal 2023 was 51.9 percent, with the Air Force blaming spare parts availability for the decline from the previous year’s figure of 56 percent. Mission capable rates measure the percentage of time an aircraft is able to perform at least one of its core missions. The service […]

CVE-2021-4440: A Linux CNA Case Study

The Introduction This blog serves as a case study into how the newly-formed Linux CNA (CVE Numbering Authority) has affected Linux kernel vulnerability management, through the mishandling of a vulnerability we reported a little over a month ago in the upstream 5.10 LTS kernel. The Vulnerability The report below provides the full details, but the […]

The Operational Wargame Series: The best game not in stores now (2021)

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Picasso Museum in Paris Puts Thousands of His Works in New Online Archive

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Born in 1881 in Spain, Pablo Picasso spent most of his life in Paris, where he helped develop Cubism with French painter Georges Braque. Bettmann You don’t have to travel all the way to Paris to see Pablo Picasso’s work: Thousands of the Spanish artist’s pieces are now accessible from anywhere with an internet connection, thanks […]