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Submission + - ESA - Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon

Submitted by alanw
alanw writes: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safe...

Last year, an approximately 60 metre near-Earth object captured global attention. For a brief period, asteroid 2024 YR4 became the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years. While an Earth impact was soon ruled out, the asteroid faded from view with a lingering 4% chance of striking the Moon on 22 December 2032.

Now, that risk has been eliminated. Astronomers have confirmed that 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon using new observations made by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Instead, it will safely pass the Moon at a distance of more than 20 000 km.

Submission + - Dave Farber has died 1

Submitted by alanw
alanw writes: From the NANOG mailing list: https://seclists.org/nanog/202...

We are heartbroken to report that our colleague — our mentor, friend, and conscience — David J. Farber passed away suddenly at his home in Roppongi, Tokyo. He left us on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026, at the too-young age of 91.

https://www.internethalloffame...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://www.scientificamerican...

Farber is sometimes called the "Grandfather of the Internet" both because of his pioneering work in distributed computing and his mentoring of graduate students who helped build the Internet. He remains deeply involved in debates over how to maximize benefits and minimize risks of the Internet.

Comment Re:This stuff worries me... (Score 1) 111

by alanw (#65972160) Attached to: CIA Has Killed Off The World Factbook After Six Decades

... to roads... many things that we use today were paved and made available by the US government.

Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans^H^H^H^H^H^H Americans ever done for us?

(I'm afraid HTML strike doesn't work here)

Submission + - Garmin Emergency Autoland deployed for the first time (flightradar24.com)

Submitted by alanw
alanw writes: On Saturday, 20 December 2025, the Garmin’s Emergency Autoland was used for the first time in a real world emergency situation. The Emergency Autoland system is designed to take control of an aircraft in the event of pilot incapacitation and safely land at a nearby airfield.

That is precisely what happened on Saturday as the pilot of Beech B200 Super King Air N479BR became incapacitated about 20 minutes after departing Aspen for Denver.

Submission + - SPAM: Fire destroys gov cloud storage, no backups available

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available

“A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS)'s Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil servants, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said Wednesday.”

Submission + - DJB on the NSA's attempt to remove backup algorithms from post-quantum crypto

Submitted by alanw
alanw writes: Daniel J. Bernstein" has made a couple of blog posts about the NSA's attempts to influence NIST post-quantum cryptography standards, by removing the "belt and braces" current algorithms and silencing dissent.

NSA and IETF: Can an attacker simply purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?

MODPOD: The collapse of IETF's protections for dissent.

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