Auterion CEO explains how autonomy will change the face of warfare
interview The war in Ukraine is increasingly becoming a battle of drones, and defense software firm Auterion has just won a $50 million Pentagon contract to supply 33,000 AI-powered “strike kits” that aim to augment Ukrainian UAVs and push them to the front lines.…
:format(jpeg):fill(f8f8f8,true)/s3/static.nrc.nl/taxonomy/e9195f4-Roelants%252C%2520Carolien%25201280%2520x%2520768.png)
:format(jpeg):fill(f8f8f8,true)/s3/static.nrc.nl/bvhw/wp-content/blogs.dir/114/files/2022/11/jensma-folkert-202211051280-homepage-1.png)
/s3/static.nrc.nl/images/gn4/data135519023-792ee8.jpg)
SergioQ79 - Osanpo Photographer - has added a photo to the pool:
"Centro Souvenir di Kirishima (Kankō Sentā)"
Un tempo punto di riferimento per chi arrivava da fuori, oggi è solo una sagoma dimenticata ai margini della vegetazione. Il Centro Turistico di Kirishima, specializzato in souvenir e shochu locale, è rimasto impigliato in un’epoca che non ha più visitatori. L’edificio sembra sospeso: la natura sta lentamente reclamando spazio, mentre le insegne arrugginite raccontano silenziosamente di un tempo in cui qui passava gente. Un cartello prometteva spedizioni nazionali: oggi, neanche una cartolina. Il tutto ha il sapore degli anni '80 o '90, quando la funzionalità aveva priorità estetiche discutibili ma genuine.
「霧島観光センター」
かつて観光客のための拠点だったこの建物は、今や緑に飲み込まれつつある忘れられた存在。地元の焼酎やお土産を扱っていた霧島観光センターは、時が止まったように佇んでいる。自然が建物に忍び寄り、錆びた看板がかつての賑わいを静かに物語っている。「全国発送承ります」という看板も、今では誰も入らない扉を守るだけ。80〜90年代の、素朴で実直な時代の香りが漂う。
"Kirishima Souvenir Center (Kankō Sentā)"
Once a local reference point for travelers, now just a forgotten shell being swallowed by greenery. The Kirishima Tourist Center, once proud to offer local shochu and trinkets, stands frozen in time. Nature creeps in, and rusted signs whisper stories of a different era. A sign once offering nationwide shipping now guards a door no one enters. It breathes the flavor of the 80s or 90s, when form followed a peculiar but authentic function.
SergioQ79 - Osanpo Photographer - posted a photo:
"Centro Souvenir di Kirishima (Kankō Sentā)"
Un tempo punto di riferimento per chi arrivava da fuori, oggi è solo una sagoma dimenticata ai margini della vegetazione. Il Centro Turistico di Kirishima, specializzato in souvenir e shochu locale, è rimasto impigliato in un’epoca che non ha più visitatori. L’edificio sembra sospeso: la natura sta lentamente reclamando spazio, mentre le insegne arrugginite raccontano silenziosamente di un tempo in cui qui passava gente. Un cartello prometteva spedizioni nazionali: oggi, neanche una cartolina. Il tutto ha il sapore degli anni '80 o '90, quando la funzionalità aveva priorità estetiche discutibili ma genuine.
「霧島観光センター」
かつて観光客のための拠点だったこの建物は、今や緑に飲み込まれつつある忘れられた存在。地元の焼酎やお土産を扱っていた霧島観光センターは、時が止まったように佇んでいる。自然が建物に忍び寄り、錆びた看板がかつての賑わいを静かに物語っている。「全国発送承ります」という看板も、今では誰も入らない扉を守るだけ。80〜90年代の、素朴で実直な時代の香りが漂う。
"Kirishima Souvenir Center (Kankō Sentā)"
Once a local reference point for travelers, now just a forgotten shell being swallowed by greenery. The Kirishima Tourist Center, once proud to offer local shochu and trinkets, stands frozen in time. Nature creeps in, and rusted signs whisper stories of a different era. A sign once offering nationwide shipping now guards a door no one enters. It breathes the flavor of the 80s or 90s, when form followed a peculiar but authentic function.
I bought a 15” Apple Macbook Air M4 a few months ago and I love it. Of course, I loved my previous computer (an M1 Macbook Air) too, but bumping up the screen size and quality has been a game-changer for me. More speed and memory is great too for running virtual machines and waaayyy too many tabs in Chrome. And it’s still super portable.
Just the other day I urged a friend (hi, Alex!) to upgrade from an older Intel Air, so when I saw that Amazon was selling M4 Airs for a discount, I figured I’d share the good word with you folks as well:
- Apple 2025 MacBook Air 15-inch Laptop, M4 chip, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Storage. $1,199.00 (-14% off). This is the one that I have, in sky blue, which really isn’t blue so much as a vibrant, slightly shimmering gray.
- Apple 2025 MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop, M4 chip, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD Storage. $799.00 (-20% off). This is the 13-inch base model and $800 is an absurdly low price for so much computer, especially in the age of the mad king’s tariff scheme.
If you click through to either of those, there are more models with differing amounts of memory, hard drive, etc. Oh and all of them come with a 12-megapixel camera so you’ll look sharper on the screens of others during Zooms or FT calls, for better or worse. (via daring fireball)
Anthropic has also been in discussions with the Qatar Investment Authority and Singapore's sovereign fund GIC about participating in the round, the person said. The new financing would mark a significant jump in valuation for the company and cement its status as one of world's leading AI developers. Anthropic was valued at $61.5 billion in a $3.5 billion round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners earlier this year.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
