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SkyOrbiter UAVs May Be The Next Way You Will Receive Internet Access

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Quarkson, a Portuguese company, plans to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to transmit Internet access “to every corner of the world”, with their program called SkyOrbiter. Read more about the SkyOrbiter Program here. Google Will Beam Gigabit Internet from Solar-Powered Drones (motherboard.vice.com). Related articles.

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AI and coding: How Seattle tech companies are using generative AI for programming

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Prompt: “A robot helping a software engineer develop code.” ” Generative AI is already changing the way software engineers do their jobs. We caught up with engineering leaders at six Seattle tech companies to learn about how they’re using generative AI and how it’s changing their jobs.

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High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica

The Verge

McMurdo Station in Antarctica | United States Antarctic Program. But despite its central role in Antarctic research, McMurdo is lacking something most scientists working at 21st-century laboratories take for granted: high-speed internet. United States Antarctic Program. That could soon change, however.

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Ukraine engineer talks testing SpaceX’s new Starlink service

The Verge

To his surprise, he got a signal in just 10 seconds from one of SpaceX’s satellites overhead, indicating he was receiving broadband internet. “I A software and communications engineer, he bought his off eBay — where dishes range from $2,000 to $3,000 — in order to reverse engineer the device and learn more about it.

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2020: The year the internet didn’t crash

GeekWire

But it could have been worse: the internet could have crashed, or not been there at all. Just look at how much of our lives shifted to the internet as a result of the pandemic. Imagine what things would have been like without the internet. Commentary: Yes, 2020 really sucked. Video conferencing numbers demonstrate the reality.

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The Generative Self-Sovereign Internet

Phil Windley

Summary: The self-sovereign internet, a secure overlay on the internet, provides the same capacity to produce change by numerous, unaffiliated and uncoordinated actors as the internet itself. This article explores the properties of the self-sovereign internet and makes the case that they justify its generativity claims.

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Social Engineering and Phishing

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Social engineering is one of the most problematic attack techniques to combat. User education is most effective at stopping a social engineer. Users who are aware of the potential for social engineering attacks and learn to recognize them can use simple methods to thwart these attacks successfully. Stu Sjouwerman.