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On Thursday, a volcano erupted for the second time this year in southwestern Iceland. This was reported by the Icelandic broadcaster RUV. The eruption occurs just three weeks after the last eruption. A significant increase in seismic activity near Fagradalsfjalla on the Reykjanes Peninsula occurred at 5:20 am, and magma came to the surface around […]
The M-class solar flare, which occurred in the area of sunspot AR3575, caused extensive shortwave radio communications outages in the South Pacific. In Australia and Southeast Asia, sailors and radio amateurs reported signal loss at frequencies below 30 megahertz within an hour of the peak of the outbreak. There were also short-term power outages in […]
Apple researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence model that allows users to describe what they want to change in a photo in simple language. At the same time, you can correct images without even touching the photo editing software. The MGIE (MLLM-Guided Image Editing) model, which Apple worked on in collaboration with the University […]
Ukrainian cruise missiles of French-British production Storm Shadow/SCALP flew over the positions of the Russian S-400 air defense system in the temporarily occupied Crimea. The corresponding video was published by the Telegram channel “Dossier of a Spy.” The video was reportedly recorded on January 31. It should be reminded that the command post of the […]
On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department agreed to sell Poland balloons with early warning and reconnaissance radars. The maximum value of the deal is estimated at USD 1.2 billion. According to the US procedure for selling arms and military equipment abroad, the State Department’s recommendation will now go to Congress. If the congressmen do not […]
An international team of researchers discovered 18 tidal star destruction events (TDEs) by supermassive black holes that had previously gone unnoticed due to dust in space. These phenomena occur approximately once every 10,000-100,000 years in each galaxy and are accompanied by a huge release of energy. According to scientists, due to dust that hides radiation […]
SpaceX plans to launch a new batch of its Starlink Internet satellites into orbit on February 9, if weather conditions are favorable, says Space. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink satellites is scheduled to launch no earlier than 02:56 Kyiv time from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. SpaceX will broadcast the launch live […]
Ukraine received air defense systems based on the Supacat HMT truck from the UK. This is the first time such an anti-aircraft system has appeared on video. The video was posted by @front_ukrainian on Twitter. The video shows a system with MBDA’s AIM-132 ASRAAM missiles. It is known that the Armed Forces of Ukraine use […]
Russia has a lot of An-2 airplanes, the so-called “corn growers.” If the plan is implemented, it will create an additional burden on Ukraine’s air defense. Along with the Prana Network hackers’ information on the cost and number of Russian Shaheds, the same source released documents on Russian plans to unusually use An-2 (corncob) aircraft […]
The Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung reports that hackers have hacked about 3 million smart toothbrushes to use them for a DDoS attack. The attack was quite effective. It blocked the work of the Swiss company for several hours, causing millions of euros in losses. There are not many details. All we know is that the […]