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NASA ready for another shot at launching Artemis 2 moon missionhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2026/03/13/nasa-ready-for-another-shot-at-launching-artemis-2-moon-mission/At the conclusion of a two-day flight readiness review, "all the teams polled 'go' to launch and fly Artemis 2 around the moon, pending completion of some of the work before we roll out to the launch pad," said Lori Glaze, associate administrator of Exploration Systems Development at NASA Headquarters.Mar 13, 2026 8:34 PM
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Instagram Ending Encrypted DMshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368081In May 2026, a technical change inside Instagram began to trigger a much larger debate about privacy, surveillance and the future of private conversations on the internet. The platform confirmed that it will discontinue end-to-end encryption for direct messages, reversing a feature that only a few years ago had been presented as a major step forward for digital privacy. What may sound like a technical adjustment to most users touches the center of a global conflict involving governments, technology companies and civil liberties.To understand why this matters, it helps to start with the basics. End-to-end encryption is a system that ensures only the sender and the recipient can read the content of a message. Not even the company operating the service can access it. In practical terms, it turns messaging apps into something close to a whispered conversation. Messages travel through servers but remain unreadable to any intermediary.For years, companies like Meta, Apple and Google defendedMar 13, 2026 6:46 PM
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Ukraine will host first test for Leonardo’s Michelangelo security domehttps://spacenews.com/ukraine-will-host-first-test-for-leonardos-michelangelo-security-dome/MILAN — The first field test of Leonardo’s Michelangelo “security dome” architecture will take place in Ukraine by the end of 2026, CEO Roberto Cingolani announced March 12. Michelangelo, first announced in November 2025, is Leonardo’s proposal for an integrated, multi-domain structure spanning air, land, maritime and space. The system is designed as an interoperable […] The post Ukraine will host first test for Leonardo’s Michelangelo security dome appeared first on SpaceNews.Mar 13, 2026 6:20 PM
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USBR Crack the Case Challengehttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/prizes-challenges-crowdsourcing-program/center-of-excellence-for-collaborative-innovation-coeci/usbr-crack-the-case-challenge/NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other agencies. This three-phase challenge invites geophysicists, sensing specialists, nondestructive testing experts, and creative problem-solvers (including AI/ML practitioners) from […]Mar 13, 2026 5:13 PM
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USBR Halt the Hitchhiker: Invasive Species Challengehttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/prizes-challenges-crowdsourcing-program/center-of-excellence-for-collaborative-innovation-coeci/usbr-halt-the-hitchhiker-invasive-species-challenge/NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other agencies. The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) is sponsoring a 3-phase prize challenge (managed by yet2) for innovative solutions […]Mar 13, 2026 5:03 PM
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Keyword: Jockeyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd837d58a416c988eda52c59adcd2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloodhorse.com%2Fhorse-racing%2Farticles%2Ftag%2Fjockey&c=11928532674265978254&mkt=en-usThere have been more than 1,400 structures, half of them homes, destroyed in the two wildfires that have ravaged New Mexico since the morning of June 17. One of those homes belonged to former jockey ...Mar 13, 2026 5:01 PM
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Ask HN: App for clean movie/TV shorts?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366828I see less and less clean movie shorts these days. so thinking of building an app the problem if more people have the same issue.clean movie shorts i mean ones without added background music, reviews, pic on pic and etc.Mar 13, 2026 4:53 PM
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Artifacts From NASA’s Webb, Parker Solar Probe on View at Smithsonianhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/artifacts-from-nasas-webb-parker-solar-probe-on-view-at-smithsonian/A testing replica of the “backbone” of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and a full-scale model of the agency’s Parker Solar Probe are now on permanent display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. “From touching the Sun with Parker Solar Probe to creating humanity’s most powerful […]Mar 13, 2026 3:06 PM
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GVIS Virtual Systems Simulationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-virtual-systems-simulations/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support of NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop new solutions that bring their projects to life. Virtual System Simulations The GVIS Lab prides itself on creating […]Mar 13, 2026 2:54 PM
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GVIS Scientific Visualizationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-scientific-visualizations/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support of NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop new solutions that bring their projects to life. Scientific Visualizations GVIS creates scientific visualizations to explain complex scientific […]Mar 13, 2026 2:54 PM
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GVIS Test Facilities Visualizationshttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/gvis-test-facilities-visualizations/The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support for NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop solutions to bring their projects to life. Test Facility Models GVIS creates visualizations of various NASA test facilities. […]Mar 13, 2026 2:53 PM
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Proton's Swiss Myth: US Jurisdiction via Cloudflare and FAA Arbitration Clauseshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364922The "Swiss Sanctuary" is a Network and Legal MirageAs a Business customer, I performed a technical and legal audit of Proton AG’s current infrastructure. The results show a systemic disconnect between their "100% Swiss" marketing and their actual operational routing and legal framework.1. The Technical Leak: Routing via AS13335 (Cloudflare) A simple traceroute to mail.protonmail.ch reveals a critical interception at Hop 5. - Node: cloudflare.belgiumix.net (185.1.127.13) - Owner: Cloudflare, Inc. (US Entity) - Jurisdiction: US CLOUD ActBy routing business traffic through US-owned CDNs before it even touches Swiss soil, Proton effectively places user metadata and transit traffic under the jurisdiction of the Patriot Act and CLOUD Act. The "Swiss Jurisdiction" promise is nullified the moment a packet hits a Cloudflare node.2. The Legal Dol: Section 13 and the FAA Proton’s Terms of Service (Section 13) explicitly mention the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). How can a company sell "Swiss PrivMar 13, 2026 2:25 PM
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NEW YORK: Last Days of the Ritzhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb36655884d73bcedc328a8bb4838&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2Farchive%2F6868313%2Fnew-york-last-days-of-the-ritz%2F&c=10590881304882304891&mkt=en-usNew York’s famed Ritz-Carlton Hotel was created to reward the rich for being rich. With its soft rugs, its gilded mirrors, its glittering chandeliers and the Roman grandeur of its outsized bathtubs, ...Mar 13, 2026 1:38 PM
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The 6 Best Duvet Covers To Enhance Your Comfort And Stylehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ccece7b184493b542f1528f876840&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fforbes-personal-shopper%2Farticle%2Fbest-duvet-cover%2F&c=13323955193803725414&mkt=en-usI'm a certified sleep science coach who has tested over 50 mattresses. While a duvet cover isn’t an absolute necessity for one’s bedroom, it does give your mattress a certain aesthetic upgrade while ...Mar 13, 2026 10:58 AM
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Plato readies for space-like testshttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/03/Plato_readies_for_space-like_testsThe European Space Agency’s mission to discover Earth-like exoplanets, Plato, is now sealed in the Large Space Simulator (LSS) chamber at ESA’s Test Centre for a series of vital tests under space‑like conditions.Mar 13, 2026 10:00 AM
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Looking for Partner to Build Agent Memory (Zig/Erlang)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356098I’m working on a purpose-built memory platform for autonomous AI agents.Right now, agent memory is stuck between two hohum options: RAG (which loses relational topology) and Graph Databases (which require massive pointer chasing and degrade under heavy recursive reasoning).I'm building an alternative using Vector Symbolic Architecture (Hyperdimensional Computing). By mathematically binding facts, sequences, and trees into fixed-size high-dimensional vectors (D=16,384), we can compress complex graph traversals into O(1) constant-time SIMD operations…and do some quasi brain-like stuff cheaply, that is, without GPUs and LLMs.The design is maturing nicely and strictly bifurcated to respect mechanical sympathy:• The Data Plane (Zig): Pure bare-metal math. 2GB memory-mapped NVMe tiles via io_uring. Facts are superposed into lock-free 8-bit accumulators strictly aligned to 64-byte cache lines. Queries are executed via AVX-512 popcount instructions to calculate Hamming distances at line-rate. Mar 12, 2026 7:46 PM
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Show HN: Aurion OS – A 32-bit GUI operating system written from scratch in Chttps://github.com/Luka12-dev/AurionOSHi HN! I'm 13 and I built Aurion OS as a solo learning project over 14 days (~12 hours/day).It's a 32-bit x86 operating system written entirely in C and x86 Assembly with no external libraries.What it has: Custom bootloader and kernel VESA framebuffer graphics (1920x1080, double-buffered) Window manager with draggable, overlapping windows macOS-inspired dock with transparency PS/2 keyboard and mouse drivers ATA hard drive driver with filesystem PCI bus enumeration RTL8139 network driver (WIP) Real-time clock Runs on just 16MB RAM (up to 10 windows simultaneously)Built-in apps: Terminal (with DOS mode), Notepad (save/load), Calculator, Paint (multiple colors and brush sizes), Snake game, Settings (theme switching), and System Info.Currently works best on QEMU, VirtualBox, and VMware. Real hardware support is still a work in progress.Next goal: TCP/IP networking stack.I'd love any feedback, suggestions, or criticism. This is my first OS project and I learned mass amounts while building iMar 12, 2026 6:33 PM
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MacBook Air vs. Pro: Which MacBook Should I Buy?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cc3ae86a740c59307d8b085a82dcb&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnet.com%2Ftech%2Fcomputing%2Fmacbook-air-vs-macbook-pro-which-macbook-should-i-buy%2F&c=987432611431203123&mkt=en-usIf you need something more powerful than the Neo, is the mainstream MacBook Air the right choice or do you need to spend more for a MacBook Pro? Let's go in-depth to find the right MacBook for your ...Mar 12, 2026 4:13 PM
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Another Earth raises $4 million to boost AI training with synthetic satellite datahttps://spacenews.com/another-earth-raises-4-million-to-boost-ai-training-with-synthetic-satellite-data/A Vienna-based startup has raised $4 million to scale a software platform that generates synthetic satellite data for training AI models to detect environmental and operational risks. The post Another Earth raises $4 million to boost AI training with synthetic satellite data appeared first on SpaceNews.Mar 12, 2026 4:10 PM
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Help Galaxy Zoo: Tidal Tales Open Cosmic Storybookhttps://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/help-galaxy-zoo-tidal-tales-open-cosmic-storybook/Galaxies carry the imprints of past encounters. When they pass near one another or collide, gravity pulls their stars into long tails, thin streams, and faint shells – features that preserve the history of these dramatic events. Thanks to deep, high-resolution images from the Euclid space telescope, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with critical contributions from NASA, we can now see these delicate structures more clearly than ever before in unprecedented numbers.Mar 12, 2026 3:41 PM
