With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.
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ChatGPT hallucinated about music app Soundslice so often, the founder made the lie come true | TechCrunch
Earlier this month, Adrian Holovaty, founder of music-teaching platform Soundslice, solved a mystery that had been plaguing him for weeks. Weird images of what were clearly ChatGPT sessions kept being uploaded to the site.
Are you ready to trust your next ride to a robot chauffeur? | Fox News
Scientists at the University of Tokyo, led by Dr. Kento Kawaharazuka, have taken a novel approach to this problem. Instead of creating a fully autonomous vehicle, they’ve developed a robot that can drive a regular car.
‘Artificial atoms’ help achieve secure real-world quantum communication
This approach leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to generate random keys that are impossible to crack.
To guard against cyberattacks in space, researchers ask “what if?” | Ars Technica
Because space is so remote and hard to access, if someone wanted to attack a space system, they would likely need to do it through a cyberattack. Space systems are particularly attractive targets because their hardware cannot be easily upgraded once launched, and this insecurity worsens over time. As complex systems, they can have long supply chains, and more links in the chain increase the chance of vulnerabilities. Major space projects are also challenged to keep up with best practices over the decade or more needed to build them.
Space Force Adds Two New Launch Providers
All told, there are now a dozen companies in approved for OSP-4: Blue Origin, Stoke Space, ABL Space Systems, Aevum, Astra, Firefly Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Relativity Space, Rocket Lab, SpaceX, United Launch Alliance (ULA), and X-Bow.
Teen robotics enthusiasts make world’s smallest, cheapest network switch
A great example of students using innovation to meet a real-world need. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/worlds-smallest-cheapest-network-switch
Researchers wonder what if you just put a robot in the driver’s seat instead of automating the car?
In this new effort, the research team wondered if it might not be easier and cheaper simply to build a robot that can be taught how to drive a car and put it in the driver’s seat of a normal vehicle.
Voyager 1 Is Back! NASA Spacecraft Safely Resumes All Science Observations | Scientific American
After more than six months of long-distance troubleshooting—Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth, and any signal takes more than 22.5 hours to travel from our planet to the spacecraft—mission personnel have finally coaxed Voyager 1 to gather and send home data with all its remaining science instruments, according to a NASA statement.
The world’s largest 3D printer is building cozy homes from wood | CNN
The new printer can produce objects as large as 96 feet long by 32 feet wide by 18 feet high and can print up to 500 pounds per hour.