Watch Duty gives live updated maps based on satellite hotspot monitoring. It can sometimes see hotspots that aren’t there due to smoke covering, but nothing is faster and more updated than live satellite data.
Zoom.earth gives you live satellite imagery if you want to see how smoke is blowing and up-to-date images.
Northrop Grumman’s answer was to build something that spends most of its working life parked on the ocean floor with nearly everything switched off. It is called Manta Ray. It can be transported anywhere in the world in five shipping containers, gets bolted together on a dock in two days, swims out by pumping seawater through itself instead of turning a propeller, then anchors to the ocean floor and sleeps there until someone wakes it.
The big problem with drones almost always comes down to the battery – especially underwater where it is nearly freezing. Instead of spinning a propeller, this drone acts like an underwater glider. It pumps seawater in to get heavy and sinks. It then pumps water back out to get light and rise. To move forward, it uses it’s wings convert all that vertical rising and falling into forward motion.
Additionally, to extend mission time, they have also been experimenting with ways to attach to the sea floor and passively collect energy to recharge batteries and extend total mission time.
It’s uncertain how well all the trials went, there’s been no further information since May 2024. The drone the Navy actually keeps ordering in volume is a 10-foot tube called Lionfish.
The hires rate today looks a lot like the hires rate did coming out of the Great Recession. You pretty clearly see that the labor market softened over the years. We saw that payroll employment growth slowed pretty substantially.
After Nicholas Carlini’s famous talk at Black Hat conference this year, his predictions have become shockingly real. Critical bugs are being found at an alarming rate. This means patches are also coming at a never before seen rate – and system developers and software engineers must now deal with this historic flood of patches. How many? Most companies would release in the low double digits of bug fixes in a given period. Now we’re seeing hundreds – in mere days.
None of this appears to be slowing – and we have AI to thank for it. AI is able to find bugs at a rate never before seen. It’s a reminder to the software development world, and especially security specialists, that they have been leaving a LOT of bugs and issues in some of the most secure software (BSD) that was undiscovered for decades.
Now people are talking about how to deal with astronomical numbers of patches coming out every week. It’s definitely something your production pipeline must be prepared for – because this will likely be the new normal for the rest of this year.
“I find if I’m stressed about something it’s usually because I’m not doing anything about it. I’m listening to my body as a signal that something is wrong, and I find that the stress goes away the second I take the first step.”
“Imagine you’re financially secure. You have enough money to take care of your needs, now and in the future. How would you live your life? What would you do with the money? Would you change anything? Let yourself dream.”
Question 2: Remember, you’re living on borrowed time
“Imagine your doctor tells you that you have five to 10 years left to live. You won’t feel sick, but you’ll have no notice of the moment of death. What will you do in the time you have remaining? Will you change your life? How will you live out your remaining years?”
Question 3: Seizing the day
“Imagine your doctor tells you that you have 24 hours left to live. Notice what feelings arise as you confront your mortality. What did you miss? Who did you not get to be? What did you not get to do?”
