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A lifelong technologist, lived every major digital and technology transformation. Freelancer refining AI and LLM models. Golf fanatic. Boise State Alum. Ex-Pat Canuk.

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  1. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    May 27, 2026, FAA Orders SpaceX to “conduct a mishap investigation” to Investigate and report on the Starship V3 booster failure that occurred during the May 22, 2026 Starship test flight #12.

    After separating from the upper stage of the rocket, the Super Heavy Booster failed to reignite and execute the boostback burn resulting in the booster tumbling back to earth and most likely exploding on impact.

    SpaceX will have to pause any further Starship test launches until the investigation is completed. techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/faa-

    #spacex #starship #space #faa #investigation #boosterfailure
  2. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Podslop - the next iteration of AI vaporness.

    Podcast industry trackers are seeing an explosion in AI generated content fueling Pod Cast feeds.

    Some feeds look like overt plagiarism where content is posted that closely mirrors local newspaper articles, often appearing within minutes of the original stories.

    Follow the money! Programmatic advertising does not much care whether a human or a machine assembled the audio.
    editor.ne16.com/vo/?FileID=5ac

    #podcasts #ai #podslop #socialmedia #advertising #plagiarism
  3. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    HOLD UP on that SpaceX IPO Roadshow please! Sobering read on SpaceX's proposed IPO.

    BUYER BEWARE! Consider these facts as presented in the PROF G MEDIA Newsletter.

    According to SpaceX promoters ...

    - The company’s total addressable market (TAM) is the size of the entire U.S. economy — $28 trillion. WHAT!?!?!

    - That includes an estimated $22.7 trillion in revenue from enterprise applications >>> fully 30x larger than the ENTIRE EXISTING enterprise software MARKET. WHATx2!?!?!

    - Assumes that EVERY SINGLE household in the world will start using Starlink for WiFi. WHATx3 - GOOD LUCK THERE!?!?!?

    - SpaceX posted a loss of $4.94B on revenue of $18.7B in 2025, after posting a profit of $791M in 2024. profgmedia.com/p/spacex-ipo-wh

    #spacex #ipo #profgmedia #investing #buyerbeware #valuation
  4. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Check out the DARPA Artist now known as RSGS - Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellite.

    RSGS is a demonstration satellite with "highly dexterous robotic servicing suite" designed to perform "on-orbit upgrades, inspections, anomaly resolution, and satellite relocation." on satellites in geosynchronous orbit (GEO), which is ~ 22,236 miles (35,786 kilometers) above the Earth. space.com/space-exploration/sa

    #darpa #rsgs #satellites #geo #geosynchronousorbit #robot
  5. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Watch out for this Phishing attack on Microsoft Accounts!

    I got ping'd by one of these last night. howtogeek.com/kali365-phishing

    #phishing #hack #security #onlinesecurity #microsoft #mfa
  6. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Weekend Reading! Check out his TechAptitude post on the upcoming Quantum Internet.

    One of the first tangible outcomes from Quantum Technologies will likey be a highly -secure global communications backbone, a “quantum internet”, that could connect data centers, financial institutions, government facilities, with unbreakable encryption and quantum level security. techaptitude.substack.com/p/qu

    #quantum #quantuminternet #quantumtechnologies #communications #internet #security
  7. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    The devil or angel is always in the details - and there are no details here yet!

    Reports out indicate the U.S. Dept of Commerce is preparing to "invest" $2B in selected companies in the Quantum space. Funding is described as intended to accelerate U.S. leadership in quantum computing.

    Atom Computing, Diraq, D-Wave Quantum, GlobalFoundries, IBM, Infleqtion, Rigetti Computing, Quantinuum, PsiQuantum are the identified companies.

    FYI - Diraq is an Australian company, all of the others are U.S. based. There is no indication what source the U.S. Gov will secure the funding from... thequantuminsider.com/2026/05/

    #quantum #quantumcomputing #usgov #investment #equitystake #industrialpolicy
  8. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    @Xavier
    FYI - I have started digging into the environmental checks and balances of SpaceX's "increased cadence" of StarShip launches from Boca Chica ...

    The FAA executed a "Final Tiered Environmental Assessment" (published April 2025) as required by law and the report concluded - not surprisingly - "This EA concludes that no significant impacts would occur as a result of SpaceX's proposed action." More to come.

    #spacex #bocachica
  9. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Why can't today's newly minted billionaires - especially the tech-bros - do S_IT like this !!!! .... and stop injecting themselves into areas they know NOTHING about ???

    Media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner bought vast stretches of land in Colorado, New Mexico, Montana and Nebraska and managed them for conservation and wildlife protection.

    One property, the 363,000-acre Armendaris Ranch in south-central New Mexico is shielded from development by the nation’s second-largest permanent conservation easement. hcn.org/articles/ted-turner-ow

    Turner Foundation: turnerfoundation.org/

    #tedturner #billionaire #conservation #wildliferestoration #wildlifeprotection #protectedhabitat
  10. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Brain Drain @ OpenAI continues.

    Andrej Karpathy a founding member of OpenAI is joining Anthropic and will focus on building out Anthropic's pretraining research .... axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic

    #ai #karpathy #anthropic #openai #braindrain #pretraining
  11. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    FORE!
    Fresh signs LIV Golf will go belly up and call bankruptcy later this year.

    While claiming it is trying to secure $250M million in new investment, LIV is reported to be possibly moving its a headquarters to the United States to take advantage of its more favorable bankruptcy restructuring laws. golfdigest.com/story/liv-golf-

    #golf #liv #livgolf #bankruptcy #collapse #pif
  12. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Ok that is saying something!

    "xAI has the worst safety practices “nearly across the board” compared to other frontier AI developers, including OpenAI"

    Investor alert! Beware of the Co-mingling effect - aka the act of operating different companies with different missions under one corporate overlord - can lead to significant unintended consequences!

    AI Safety Boffins raise a red flag about xAI's poor safety record and lack of transparency and how this could negatively impact SpaceX and its future investors.

    The number of safety incidents xAI has experienced and the regulatory attention they received is “far out of proportion to its market share.” wired.com/story/ex-openai-staf

    #ai #xai #openai #aisafety #spacex #frontierai
  13. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    TechAptitude tackles the big hairy topic of the intersection of Quantum Technologies and Geo-Politics in this latest post.

    Is winning the "Quantum Race" really all that is needed? Check it out! open.substack.com/pub/techapti

    #quantum #quantumcomputing #quantumtechnolgogies #quantumrace #geopolitics #globalpolitics
  14. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    YES - the concept that new AI models should/need to be independently verified BEFORE release is very important and needs to be seriously addressed.

    HOWEVER - these peeps have lost sight of the core reality today - the person they are trying to influence here could give a rat's furry ass about this topic... aka they are trying to influence someone who does NOT give a s_it about this. axios.com/2026/05/18/trump-ai-

    #ai #airegulation #llms #security #risk #frontierai
  15. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Marcus Aurelius Monday! Selected Quotes!

    Drum Roll! Here is this week’s quote from Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius – known as the "Philosopher King".

    "Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just."

    #famousquotes #wordstoliveby #marcusaurelius #philosopherking #romans #lifelessons
  16. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    They should have done this 25 years ago!!!

    The Canadian Federal (Carney) and Alberta Provincial Government (Smith) advance agreement to build a new oil pipeline to the west coast of Canada with construction to begin as early as September 2027. cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-sm

    #canada #alberta #energy #oil #pipeline #canuks
  17. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Weekend Reading on TechAptitude! One of our most popular articles ever >> Satellite Collision Avoidance!

    Get details about how today's Satellite Collision Avoidance Systems and the three-stage process of screening, probabilistic risk assessment and autonomous maneuver planning or “mitigation”. techaptitude.substack.com/p/sa

    #space #satellites #collisionavoidance #conjunction #techaptitude #ai
  18. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    New survey from research firm Gartner asked 350 global business executives whose companies are pulling in at least $1 billion annually - ARE AI layoffs paying off in the real world - or stated another way are AI layoffs actually resulting in positive business outcomes?

    The Results: Organizations that slashed staff to invest in AI have seen the same financial gains as those who held onto their employees. In other words, attempting to replace workers with AI isn’t showing any detectable returns for these companies.

    Another study by MIT last year found that AI is failing to generate meaningful revenue growth at the vast majority of companies that embrace it. (this data may be a bit dated at this point)

    What is WORKING? >> companies leveraging AI as “people amplification” — meaning they give their employees AI tools to boost efficiency, instead of replacing them outright — ARE seeing the most significant gains. futurism.com/artificial-intell

    #ai #layoffs #employment #roi #aiinvestments #revenue
  19. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    The 3 legacy Telco's are teaming up and collectively getting into the direct-to-cell service arena - better hurry StarLink is already there and growing fast and Amazon Leo is coming up fast on the outside!

    AT&T and Verizon already have partnership deals with AST SpaceMobile for satellite direct-to-device services with AST continuing to place satellites into orbit - next launch is scheduled for mid-June 2026. advanced-television.com/2026/0

    #mobility #directtocell #satellite #starlink #leo #verizon
  20. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Resulting from funding gaps and idiotic shifts in priorities the U.S.A. is now woefully under investing in our core CyberDefense Ecosystem....

    National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is no longer enhancing all Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) with analysis and severity indicators, and instead NIST will prioritize enriching a much narrower set of security vulnerabilities.

    Related: In April 2025, a funding gap by in DHS appropriations threatened to cease CVE operations entirely —which would have creating systemic risk for global vulnerability management. An emergency funding extension was implemented to avoid a full on crisis. justsecurity.org/136914/nist-c

    #nist #mitre #cves #nvd #security #risk
  21. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Large Pension Funds and Giant Financial Services providers seem to have cold feet re the pending SpaceX IPO....

    Concerns re a lack of independence of the companies' board, adequacy of its board of directors, accounting anomalies, Musk’s involvement in politics, and business plans potentially relying on “nonexistent or speculative technologies,” all lead to a position that the era of the "blank check" for Musk must end. wired.com/story/activists-call

    #space #spacex #musk #ipo #pensions #pensionfunds
  22. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Sure, go ahead, let Zuckerberg read all of your Instagram DMs.

    Meta stopped end-to-end (E2E) encryption of Instagram DMs on May 8. It means every message you send on Instagram can now be read by by Meta.

    Also note: The company can potentially be legally compelled to hand over your message logs, voice notes, and media attachments to law enforcement agencies if presented with a valid court order. msn.com/en-in/money/news/meta-

    #security #privacy #e2e #encryption #dms #instagram
  23. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    This raises more questions that answers..... gotta see this work to believe it!

    Offshore Launch Platform "Gateway" - a purpose-built semi-submersible drone ship from vendor SeaGate, will launch Firefly’s Alpha rocket, a two-stage, liquid-fueled small-lift vehicle offshore.

    Claims it will leverage Seagate’s maritime logistics to transport and stage the LIQUID FUELED Alpha rocket entirely offshore >>> really ???? satnews.com/2026/05/04/lockhee

    #space #seagate #firefly #rocketlaunch #lockheedmartin #dod
  24. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    "Agreement:" reached in ShinyHunter's breach of Infrastructure's Canvas LMS .... the cybercrime gang returned the stolen data (which includes usernames, email addresses, course names, enrollment information, and messages) and provided shred logs confirming its destruction.

    While not confirmed, it looks like a ransom payment was made. A webinar on May 13 may provide more details. instructure.com/incident_update

    #breach #hackers #shinyhunters #infrastructure #canvaslms #lms
  25. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Another test lawsuit launched accusing ChatGPT of failing to detect threats of possible violence or crime.

    OpenAI sued by family of shooting victim in the April 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI’s ChatGPT enabled the attack. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/opena

    #ai #chatgpt #openai #violence #crime #llms
  26. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Seems like a prudent thing to do! BAN it!

    Starting July 1, 2026, Crypto ATMs (also know as the artist "convertible virtual currency (CVC) kiosks") are illegal in Tennessee.

    Often known as Bitcoin ATMs these machines enable customers to purchase Crypto aka Bitcoin with cold hard cash and they are notorious for facilitating Crypto Scams. tennessean.com/story/money/bus #

    #crypto #cryptocurrencies #bitcoin #blockchain #bitcoinatm #cvckiosk
  27. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    FoxConn Satellites? Huh? Oh, wait this strategy does have some logic behind it!

    Foxconn launches 2nd gen PEARL-1A and PEARL-1B satellites - core component of its “3+3” expansion.

    FoxConn's 3+3 strategy prioritizes three emerging industries—electric vehicles, digital health, and robotics—supported by three core technologies: artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and next-generation communications.

    By owning the satellite hardware and the communications stack, Foxconn aims to offer vertically integrated services for the automotive and industrial sectors, including real-time telemetry for its burgeoning EV platform. Boom! satnews.com/2026/05/03/foxconn

    #foxconn #space #satellites #evs #communications #ai
  28. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    It is a nothing burger people! No sightings of ET!

    Pentagon declassifies new batch of documents about government UFO/UAP sightings including ‘Orbs,’ ‘Saucers,’ and ‘Flashes’. wired.com/story/pentagon-drops

    #space #ufo #pentagon #dod #flyingsaucers #declassifieddocuments
  29. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Ok - this has now gotten SERIOUS! Musk and X (former CEO Yaccarino) now face a formal criminal investigation by France.

    French cybercrime authorities are now investigating alleged algorithmic manipulation by X to influence and interfere in French politics, and allegations that Musk and X knowingly allowed users of the AI chatbot Grok to create and spread Holocaust denials and nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfake images, and child sexual abuse materials on X.

    The Paris public prosecutor’s office is requesting indictments of X.AI Holdings Corp, X Corp, and X AI, Elon Musk, and Linda Yaccarino. If they fail to appear they may face judicial warrants that will serve as indictments. cnbc.com/2026/05/07/french-pro

    DL the Prosecutors PR here (PDF in French): tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/s

    #france #cybercrime #x #xai #grok #musk
  30. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Get out that Lug Wrench and tighten those bolts - Literally!

    Latest Tesla Cybertruck recall (the 11th so far) on its Rear Wheel Drive model states that “brake rotor stud holes may crack and allow the stud to separate from the wheel hub." >> aka the wheels may fall off! wired.com/story/the-latest-tes

    #tesla #cybertruck #nhtsa #safety #recall #brakes
  31. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Marcus Aurelius Monday! Selected Quotes!

    Drum Roll! Here is this week’s quote from Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius – known as the "Philosopher King".

    "That which isn't good for the hive, isn't good for the bee."

    #famousquotes #wordstoliveby #marcusaurelius #philosopherking #romans #lifelessons
  32. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Weekend Reading from TechAptitude!

    Get to know new Cryptography Standards (FIPS 20-3, FIPS 204, FIPS 205, FIPS 206) developed by NIST to withstand quantum attacks and prevent the so-called “Q-Day”. Q-Day is an estimate of the point in time when quantum computers will be able to reliably break existing RSA-2048 cryptography. techaptitude.substack.com/p/qu

    #pqc #nist #cryptography #q_day #postquantumcryptography #quantum
  33. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    A sneak peek inside the glorious life of a high-tech Data Center Engineer - HINT - it ain't that glorious!

    Decommissioning Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Sierra Supercomputer. wired.com/story/why-sierra-the

    #computing #supercomputer #sierra #cpu #gpu #dehydration
  34. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Beware the software "Lock-In" effect!

    New AI agent templates from Anthropic for financial services firms are the thin edge of the wedge for establishing Lock-In by Anthropic - IMHO.

    Each template is designed to be "customized" with a firm's internal standards.

    This is a the same go to market used by traditional enterprise software vendors (Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Cisco, etc. etc.) Once created and deployed - these systems are next to impossible to remove/replace!

    Deployment "options" complete the Lock-In by tying a company's software environment to the underlying 3rd party provided production infrastructure - which is also a risk to be carefully assessed. qz.com/anthropic-ai-agents-fin

    #anthropic #aiagents #financialservices #lockin #risk #customization
  35. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Say this quickly three times - magnetoplasmadynamic thruster!

    NASA/JPL successfully tested a new magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) ion thruster spacecraft engine that runs on lithium metal vapor.

    Ion engines accelerate ions — charged atoms — out through a nozzle to provide thrust, hence they are often described as using "electric propulsion" and are 25 times more powerful that current engines that burn chemical propellant.

    The test showed the electric propulsion system capable of operating at power levels up to 120 kilowatts. space.com/astronomy/mars/nasa-

    #nasa #space #spacecraft #mpdengines #magnetoplasmadynamic #ions
  36. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Smart Phone Bans in schools failed to positively impact academic outcomes based on research published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

    Strict phone bans resulted in a meaningful decline in student cellphone us - duh! But test scores have not increased on average, and at first, banning phones led to higher suspension rates.

    The research included more than 40,000 schools between 2019 and 2026. Over time, students in schools with strict bans reported a greater sense of personal well-being, however, the bans did not improve student attendance or perceptions of online bullying. nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/did-

    #smartphones #phonebans #mobility #students #academics #cellphone
  37. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Get away from my Crypto!!

    62% of survey respondents do NOT trust the Trump administration to oversee the crypto industry, according to CoinDesk. The poll also has 73% of the public opposing senior government officials having personal business dealings in the industry. The poll surveyed equal numbers of Democratic and Republican voters. coindesk.com/policy/2026/05/03

    #crypto #cryptoregulation #coindesk #voters #governance
  38. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Marcus Aurelius Monday! Selected Quotes!

    Drum Roll! Here is this week’s quote from Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius – known as the "Philosopher King".

    "Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging."

    #famousquotes #wordstoliveby #marcusaurelius #philosopherking #romans #lifelessons
  39. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Can you say IPO shenanigans!

    Accountability Black Box, Class A & Class B super shares, Financial Engineering and an explicit warning that the corporate structure “will limit or preclude your ability to influence corporate matters and the election of our directors,” - looks a recipe to reward one person and one person only.

    thestreet.com/technology/space

    #spacex #ipo #corporategovernance #law #finance #investors
  40. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Is this legal??

    Autonomous AI Agent "Manfred AI" autonomously formed its own corporation, obtained an IRS Employer Identification Number, (that allows it to legally operate as a business, hire staff and obtain licenses), secured an FDIC-insured bank account and a crypto wallet.

    Operating under the persona “Manfred Macx,” it is designed to trade crypto and can already transact in more than 30 cryptocurrencies, moving funds between its bank account and digital wallet. coindesk.com/tech/2026/05/01/a

    #crypto #manfred #manfredai #cryptowallet #cryptotrader #ai
  41. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Follow the Data! If you do, AVOID prediction markets like the plague.

    Researchers examined EVERY trade on PolyMarket from 2023 to 2025 >> 1.72M accounts and $13.76B in trading volume and discovered that ~ 3% of traders account for most price discovery aka these traders consistently predict outcomes and move prices in the right direction. The rest - the remaining 97% of traders mostly do not, and are on the losing side of trades.

    This analysis indicates that prediction markets DO NOT work because of "collective wisdom" of crowds, they work because of who is informed > also known a Insiders! coindesk.com/markets/2026/04/2

    #predictionmarkets #polymaket #kalshi #betting #gambling #insidertrading
  42. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    What gets posted to the Inter-Web stays on the Inter-Web - FOREVER! Apparently Mr. Musk has not learned this lesson.

    Discussion about converting OpenAI to a for-profit entity started in 2016, and Musk flip flopped live in court saying “We are not pursuing AGI right now" he recently posed on X “Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI.” techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/on-t

    #openai #ai #agi #lawsuit #forprofit #notforprofit
  43. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Canada Updates Space Launch and Re-Entry Regulations in Canada Space Launch Act.

    New regulations have strict de-orbiting mandates for controlled re-entries for non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) within five years after operational life.

    Includes potential liability for debris affecting Canadian airspace, and Operators must submit debris mitigation plans, register for space situational awareness, and prove compliance. satnews.com/2026/04/29/canada-

    #canada #space #spacelaunchact #satellites #spacecraft #re_entry
  44. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Quantum Networking Advances

    Researchers have teleported a photon’s state between two separate quantum dots over a 270-meter open-air link aka the properties of one photon were transferred to another through quantum teleportation. BOOM! sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

    #quantum #quantumnetworking #photons #teleportation #quantumstates #communications
  45. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Tesla "Full Self Driving" (FSD) reeks of being an endless quagmire! Some reports are calling FSD snake oil.

    In 2019, Tesla started installing Hardware 3 (HW3) in its cars, which was claimed would support “Full Self-Driving” (FSD).

    Now., Tesla admits HW3 does not have the capability to achieve unsupervised FSD. Tesla still owes millions of owners with the hardware upgrades to convert all HW3 cars to HW4 — yes, lawsuits are flying around bigly. futurism.com/advanced-transpor

    #tesla #fsd #fullselfdriving #autonomousdriving #autonomousvehicles #ev
  46. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Tracking BitCoin "Q-Day".

    Researcher cracks 15-bit elliptic curve key, aka an Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Key using public quantum hardware and is awarded the “Q-Day Prize bounty" of 1 BTC.

    BitCoin and Ethereum utilize ECC - the larger 256 bit key - specifically the secp256k1 curve, for securing wallets and transactions. decrypt.co/365444/bitcoin-q-da

    #bitcoin #cryptography #ethereum #crypto #cryptocurrencies #encryption
  47. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    X launching long ago promised Financial App? Well Maybe - Sort of...

    "‘X Money" rollout coming. Reports suggest people have been testing the service, and X says it will have “competitive perks,” such as 3% cash back on, a savings account offering 6% interest, an X-branded metal debit card emblazoned with the user’s @ handle, and free transfers of funds from peer-to-peer.

    BUT - regulation hurdles still remain where a financial app of this sort must be authorized in all 50 states, which has reportedly been slowing things down. gizmodo.com/xs-everything-app-

    #x #financialservices #moneyapp #xmoneyapp #cashback #debitcard
  48. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Marcus Aurelius Monday! Selected Quotes!

    Drum Roll! Here is this week’s quote from Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius – known as the "Philosopher King".

    "Life is short—the fruit of this life is a good character and acts for the common good."

    #famousquotes #wordstoliveby #marcusaurelius #philosopherking #romans #lifelessons
  49. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Weekend Reading!

    Check out this TechAptitude Post on "Quantum Networking Ready For Prime Time" which dives into how Quantum networking leverages the unique properties in quantum mechanics of superposition and entanglement to transmit quantum information (qubits) between devices.

    Quantum networks hold the potential to enable fundamentally new capabilities, including ultra-secure communications. techaptitude.substack.com/p/qu

    #quantum #quantumnetworking #quantumcomputing #superposition #entanglement #security
  50. BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻 @BrentD ·

    Traditional Media and Digital Native Creators - where does this relationship go in the future? Here is a review of possible collaboration models - it is mildly interesting. :-) digitalcontentnext.org/blog/20

    #media #publisher #creator #digitalnative #creatoreconomy #collaboration