Elon Musk’s fans must be frightened this week, because they finally have the opportunity to buy a collectible and slide under the bust of their idol: a document signed by the man himself.

We are not sure what to use as a collective noun for Musk's obsessives. Maybe it's an "illusion"?

In the case of auctions, the items to be auctioned are essays reportedly marked and graded by Musk when he was an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The future CEO of Tesla brandished a red pen, signed on paper and scored the answers.

Ironically, Musk seemed to object to the language used by students when he defined his "exit strategy."

Student Brian Thomas got a concise "graphic" from Musk and deducted points, "This is a viable way to end operations when fans are affected."

Thomas wrote a detailed letter of provenance for this item. So far, Musk has not responded to our request for comment.

The annotated and initialed coursework is estimated at the auction to be more than $4,000 (will end on Wednesday), although the current maximum bid after 17 bids is $1,481.

Musk sold $1 billion worth of Tesla stock last week. After reports surfaced last month about SpaceX’s challenges in producing the Raptor engine needed for the company’s Starship rocket, Musk is likely to use Some of its own graphic languages.

Musk’s company-wide email (a copy of which has been obtained by CNBC) warned that if Starship does not fly regularly, the consequences will be disastrous. The rocket has not yet entered orbit, and each prototype launcher requires 39 Raptor engines. The plan is that Starship will be reusable.

Getting into orbit is quite a challenge, despite the weekend Musk reminded the world of past publicity stunts: "My car is currently orbiting Mars."

Astronomer Jonathan McDowell of the Astrophysical Center corrected the billionaire, which might irritate Musk’s fans.

Well, no. It orbits the sun and occasionally passes the orbit of Mars. It's not the same thing.

A Twitter user commented in a (now deleted) tweet: "Who died and made you a rail cop?"

In response, McDowell replied coldly: "Johannes Kepler." ®

Registration Debate Welcome to the latest registration debate, where authors discuss technical topics and readers choose the winning arguments. The format is simple: we propose a proposal, the arguments of the proposal will be carried out on Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against will be carried out on Tuesday and Thursday. Within a week, you can use the polls embedded below to vote for which party and choose whether you are for or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, and the arguments for pros or cons are the most popular.

This week’s proposal is: A unified and unknowable software environment can be realized. We discussed a question: Can the industry have a truly open, unified, and agnostic software environment in HPC and AI that can span multiple computing engines?

Defending the bill today is Rob Farber, a global technical consultant and writer with a broad background in HPC and developing machine learning technology, which he applies to national laboratories and commercial organizations. You can contact Rob at info@techenablement.com.

Maybe one day—maybe—zero trust will solve many of our network security problems. But now, if you want to ensure that there are no eavesdroppers on your network, you need a virtual private network (VPN).

Commercial VPNs have only one small problem: many of them are not trustworthy. So, what can you do? Well, running your own is of course the open source answer. And, today, the VPN you choose is the built-in VPN of Linux: WireGuard.

Why is WireGuard instead of OpenVPN or IKEv2? Because it is easier to implement while maintaining security and providing faster speeds. Moreover, when it comes to VPN, the most important thing is to balance speed and security.

Those of us who are afraid of being enslaved by the robot overlord in the future may have another reason not to sleep at night: The engineers have shown some legless, soft breeds and have made some major leaps.

Animated pancake-like robots have demonstrated their ability to perform a series of failures in a way that their creators-Chinese software robotics engineers-describe as "fast, continuous, and directional jumps".

"Jumping is an important motor function that can expand the navigation range, overcome obstacles, and adapt to unstructured environments," said Chen Rui of Chongqing University and Pu Huayan of Shanghai University.

Intel has updated what it says allows the implementation of "software-defined silicon" (SDSi) code.

Chipzilla put some of the SDSi code into the Linux kernel in September 2021, describing it as a technology that allows users to activate the sleep function in silicon. This code outlines the process of enabling new features by verifying a cryptographically signed license.

David E. Box, a Linux developer working at Intel, published a new article on the Linux kernel mailing list explaining the second version of the Intel SDSi code.

The Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology of Korea has provided some suggestions to large technology companies on how to make their services appropriately flexible, and has increased the obligation to notify users when they fail—in Korean.

This guide applies to Google, Meta (Facebook's parent company), Netflix, Naver, Kakao and Wavve. Everyone was told to improve response to failures by strengthening preemptive error detection and verification systems, and to create a backup storage system that supports fast content recovery.

The guide provides methods that Big Tech can use to measure user load and then plan accordingly to ensure that their services remain available. The uptime requirements are not specified.

Microsoft has extended its Secure-core concept applied to PCs in 2019 to include servers, Windows Server, and Azure Stack HCI.

Secured-core believes that Microsoft cooperates with hardware manufacturers to ensure that their products include TPM 2.0 modules, secure boot is enabled by default in the BIOS, and dynamic root of trust is used for measurement technology, allowing the use of Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) and AMD's Secure Virtual Machine (SVM).

Once these elements are in place, Microsoft believes that hardware is more difficult to attack based on firmware and less prone to running unverified code.

Microsoft has released an update to its ancient Notepad text editor.

Dave Grochocki, lead project manager for Windows Inbox Apps, wrote that Microsoft's favorite feature is the new dark mode.

"This is a hot issue in the community, and we hope you like this gorgeous new theme as much as we do," Grochocki said with a smile, explaining that you can enable and fiddle with fonts on the new settings page. If you have done this elsewhere, Notepad will also record your favorite system themes and use a dark mode.

Alibaba's DAMO Academy has demonstrated a chip that stacks logic and memory in 3D, and Chinese media believe it represents an architecture that can break the bottleneck of von Neumann.

Dharma Academy is the blue sky research institution of Alibaba. Founder Jack Ma dedicated it to "discovery, adventure, motivation and prospects" when it was launched in 2017.

The Chinese media Pandaily and ScienceNet both reported on the chip-the former linked to the now-deleted post on the Weibo website Weibo as evidence.

NASA announced on Tuesday that, nearly two decades later, it has upgraded its near-Earth asteroid monitoring algorithm to more accurately simulate dangerous space rocks.

The new system called Sentry-II is more powerful than its predecessor Sentry. Astronomers working at the Space Agency's Near-Earth Object Research Center can now automatically calculate the thermal effects that propel the asteroid's orbit, which may rush the asteroid toward our parent star.

The so-called Yakovsky effect describes the subtle and gradual changes in the movement of an asteroid as it is heated by the sun. When the asteroid spins, the side of its surface exposed to the star will be heated. As it continues to spin, the hot zone enters the shade and cools down. Infrared energy radiates outward; photons carry momentum and generate tiny thrust on the asteroid. For a long time, these little kicks can change their path and knock them out of their original tracks.

Mehta was sued in a class action lawsuit on Tuesday for allegedly amplifying hate speech and helping the Myanmar military to genocide the Rohingya. The compensation amounted to US$150 billion.

The case was led by an anonymous Rohingya refugee living in the United States and accused the entity, formerly Facebook, of inciting hatred and causing actual harm to the main Muslim group for many years. Not only did the social media platform ignore hate speech posts, but the service’s algorithm allegedly actively promoted anti-Rohingya propaganda as hundreds of thousands of people fled Myanmar to escape persecution.

Facebook has already acknowledged its role in this movement, with an estimated 25,000 people killed and 700,000 forced to leave the country. The lawsuit also occurred after former employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked internal documents that showed how its algorithm puts participation above safety.

Trendforce said in a study this week that the shortage of power management chips is worsening and is preventing companies from manufacturing cars, personal computers, and items with batteries or switches.

The cost of a power management IC is only a few cents, and it is a cheap chip that contains display drivers and USB-C components that are in short supply. These chips are as important as CPU or memory for personal computers and other electronic products.

In the past 20-odd months, with the advent of electric vehicles and the growing demand for personal computers and consumer electronics, the demand for PMICs has reached its peak. Trendforce expects prices to rise by 10% to a six-year high of $0.23.

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