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searches Tineye

https://www.deviantart.com/fu-reiji/art/get-on-all-fours-bitch-586490896

...has a reference to "Shido".

Searches for "shido" and "dog girl".

This video looks like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A68WEdTNbQ

Based on that, and the 2015 dates that Tineye finds for this image, it looks like it's from the 2013 anime TV series based on the Date A Live manga.

End-to-end encryption for DMs

I mean, you can use GPG.

Britannica's print edition bit the dust in 2010:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for 'British Encyclopaedia') is a general-knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It has been published since 1768, and after several ownership changes is currently owned by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The 2010 version of the 15th edition, which spans 32 volumes and 32,640 pages, was the last printed edition.[1] Since 2016, it has been published exclusively as an online encyclopaedia at the website Britannica.com.

Printed for 245 years, the Britannica was the longest-running in-print encyclopaedia in the English language.

...but the World Book Encyclopedia is still doing printed editions:

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

The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia.[1] World Book was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually.[1] Although published online in digital form for a number of years, World Book is currently the only American encyclopedia which also still provides a print edition.[2] The encyclopedia is designed to cover major areas of knowledge uniformly, but it shows particular strength in scientific, technical, historical and medical subjects.[3]

World Book, Inc. is based in Chicago, Illinois.[1] According to the company, the latest edition, World Book Encyclopedia 2024, contains more than 14,000 pages distributed along 22 volumes and also contains over 25,000 photographs.[4]

I have to admit that I've never bought a print copy of the World Book myself, though I did grow up with one.

Tokyo and London are confirmed as the company’s first international markets

Apparently their software is capable of driving on the left.

they don’t do any first-hand investigation of basic info that is clearly shared or copied from other USG agencies.

Specifically the World Factbook people probably don't, but I'm sure that least some of the estimates will come from the CIA, because they're going to be the ones who are going to be responsible for same.

But what I'm saying is that they aren't going to be closing the analysis guys down, just the public publication of that information. And the analysis part is going to be the bulk of the budget.

The thing is that it's a reference work; a major part of the value is that it's current. Old versions are going to decline in usefulness.

The White House has moved to cut staffing at the CIA and the National Security Agency early in Trump’s second term, forcing the agency to do more with less.

Dammit, I liked using the World Factbook.

I seriously doubt that they're saving all that much money. They have to gather the data anyway for CIA use; this just meant that the public got to benefit from some of it too.

I don't know if "GPUs" is the right term, but the only area where we're seeing large gains in computational capacity now is in parallel compute, so I'd imagine that if Intel intends to be doing high performance computation stuff moving forward, they probably want to be doing parallel compute too.

Amazon’s Fallout countdown delivers possibly the only thing more pointless than a New Vegas or Fallout 3 remaster

I'd buy a remaster.

There was something of a to-do a couple years ago when some researchers were trying to see how strong encryption satellites were using and whether they could break it and discovered that a number of of satellite operators weren't bothering to encrypt things at all.

EDIT:

This might be more recent than that:

https://www.kratosspace.com/constellations/articles/the-state-of-satellite-encryption

A new study from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Maryland has performed the most comprehensive public exploration into geostationary (GEO) satellite security yet, logging large amounts of unencrypted data being broadcast across 411 transponders on 39 GEO satellites, which were intercepted with a simple commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish costing a few hundred dollars.

The problem with kinetic kill anti-satellite weapons is that they create debris clouds. Unless the satellite is at a low altitude and about to de-orbit, that's generally bad.

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

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

Top debris creation events, August 2024

#1: Fengyun-1C 2007 3,549 fragments Intentional collision (ASAT)

EDIT: And apparently that debris cloud from that anti-satellite weapon test is believed to have taken out a Russian satellite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_missile_test

In early 2013, the Russian concept satellite BLITS collided with what is believed to be a piece of debris from Fengyun-1C, was knocked out of its orbit and soon afterwards data retrieval from the satellite ceased.

The official expressed concern that sensitive information — notably command data for European satellites — is unencrypted, because many were launched years ago without advanced onboard computers or encryption capabilities.

According to the article the satellites that were shadowed were:

That wasn't that long ago relative to encryption being done on computers.