#news that #Iran’s attacks with #drones and ballistic missiles are down 95% and 90% respectively from the beginning of the war, but #Israel and maybe #USA are running low on interceptor #weaponry such as THAADs. Also: “The State Department last week announced a sale of 12,000 “BLU-110A/B general purpose, 1,000-pound bomb bodies” to Israel.” #politics
#bzip2 #compression #algorithms can be implemented in a few kilobytes of code, handy for the ComputerCraft mod for #Minecraft. #small-is-beautiful
#Breaking-Taps is fabricating his own 20MHz transport-triggered microprocessor at GlobalFoundries in 180nm using Tim Ansell’s new "wafer.space" #MPW service. Also he’s doing a cubesat and has sold off most of his shop. Also there's a coarser-grained alternative to FPGAs called a "CGRA" which is similar to #Groq’s LPUs.
#Mould #video about water hammer toys and a sort of sonoluminescence they produce.
#Veritasium #introduction #video to #asbestos health risks and #history, including Irving Selikoff’s finding in the 01960s that 1.4% of wartime shipyard workers died of #mesothelioma and other asbestos-related #cancer, presented at a conference in 01964, but also covering recent findings about non-quantified risks of natural asbestos exposure.