Last week, the news was full of stories of Jack Sweeney as well as his Twitter-bot that tracks the comings as well as goings of different billionaires in their personal jets. This caught the interest of the billionaire-iest of them all, one Elon Musk, who took exception to the 19-year-old’s accomplishment of data integration, which draws from a number of public databases to infer the place of Elon’s plane. After Jack carefully laughed off Elon’s measly offer of $5,000 to take the bot down, Elon ghosted him — quite childish habits for the richest guy on the planet, we have to say. however Jack may just have the last laugh, as an Orlando-based personal jet chartering business has now provided him a job. seems like his Twitter-bot as well as the resulting kerfuffle is a genuine resume builder, so job-seekers ought to take note.

Here’s hoping that you have a much better retirement plan than NASA. The area company revealed its end-of-life plans for the worldwide area station this week, the details of which will just be a run-up to the 2031 de-orbit as well as accident landing of any type of staying debris into the lonely waters of point Nemo. The company obviously sees the progressively political handwriting on the ISS’s aging as well as in some cases perforated walls, as well as acknowledges that the next phase of LEO area research study will be brought out by a fleet of industrial area stations, none of which is close to existing yet. politics aside, we’d like to dig into the technical details of the plan, as well as see precisely what will be salvaged from the station before its fiery demise, if anything. The precise technique of de-orbiting as well would be fascinating — seems like the station would requirement rather a bit of thrust to put on the brakes, as well as may requirement the assist of a sacrificial spacecraft.

“You break it, you repair it,” is a viewpoint that we Hackaday types are most likely much more comfortable with than the general public, who tend to leave repair work of damaged gear to professionals. however that viewpoint seems to be at the core of Google’s new Chromebook repair work program for schools, which encourages trainees to repair the Chromebooks they’re breaking in record numbers these days. Google is offering assistance for institutions on setting up total Chromebook repair work facilities, including physical design of the shop, organization of workflows, as well as total repair work info for at least a couple of prominent brands of the stripped-down laptops. Although the repair work are restricted to module-level stuff, like swapping power supplies, we still like the noise of this. Here’s hoping that something such as this can set off an rate of interest in electronics for trainees that would otherwise never believe to open up something as challenging as a laptop.

Back in July, we took note of a disturbing report of an RTL-SDR enthusiast in Crimea who was arrested for treason, obviously based on his rate of interest in tracking flights as well as otherwise tracking the radio spectrum. Now, as things appear to be heating up in Ukraine again, our buddies at RTL-SDR.com are renewing their cautioning to radio lovers in the area that there may still be risks. then as now, we have bit rate of interest in the politics of all this, however because of the previous arrest, we’d state it pays to be cautious with exactly how some hobbies are perceived.

And finally, aside from the previously mentioned flight-tracking dustup, it’s been a difficult week for Elon as well as Tesla. Not only have 817,000 of the costly electric cars been recalled over something as easy as a wonky seatbelt chime, however one more 54,000 vehicles are likewise being recalled for a software application bug that triggers them to disregard stop indications in “Full Self-Driving” mode. We’re not sure if this video of this Tesla hell-ride has anything to do keeping that bug, however it sure illustrates the point that FSD isn’t truly prepared for prime time. then again, as a former Boston resident, we can quite safely state that what that Tesla was doing isn’t truly that much different than the meat-based chauffeurs there.