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4. Defence Industrial & Technological Cooperation

EU-NATO Innovation Hub: Create a collaborative tech hub focused on AI, quantum, space-based surveillance, and cyber—building off #DIANA & the EU’s #EDA.

Secure Supply Chains: Diversify & reinforce European defence supply chains—less reliance on non-EU NATO countries.

Transatlantic Contingency Planning: While planning for US disengagement, maintain avenues for selective cooperation (NORAD-style airspace coordination, cyber intel sharing) 7).

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It was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses.

“We were not interested in killing operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity. On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”

Yuval Abraham reports: 972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli

(to follow) 🧶#longThread @palestine @israel @ethics @military @idf @terrorism

+972 Magazine · ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in GazaThe Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
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The US is selling #Greece $ 8.6 bn worth of fighter planes. As a deal sweetener, Biden is throwing in, for “free”, a bunch of military vessels / vehicles / planes.

All this hardware is U.S. military surplus—and Biden can dispose of it under a U.S. legal authority called “excess defense articles.”

The law caps annual #EDA transfers at $500 million. The same law doesn’t dictate the value the president assigns to surplus weapons.

forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024

Forbes · Joe Biden Is Arming Greece So Greece Can Arm Ukraine—And Pro-Russia Republicans Can’t Stop HimBy David Axe

I recently got email from an account manager (what us simpletons call a "salesperson") with #Altium , an #ElectronicDesignAutomation ( #EDA ) software company that I bought a rather expensive mid-range product from about 10 years ago.

I've never been able to use #AltiumDesigner without it crashing.

(I believe the root of problem is that the product is built upon the Delphi language and run-time executable, which appears to be an unsupported zombie product of the late compiler maker #Borland .)

The person suggested that I buy a software maintenance subscription (in addition to what I've already spent on a perpetual license) so that I may upgrade to the latest version. Based on my past experience with Altium, I'm not confident that this will fix my problem, or be more productive than literally flushing hundred-dollar bills down the toilet.

Lately I've been warming up to #KiCAD and I expect to make my next #PrintedCircuitBoards with it. It's a pretty intuitive tool (with a few quirks so far, all tolerable).

Question for those more qualified than me to say: At 50MHz, is it sufficient for a signal pin on a 2.54mm grid of pins (such as in a DIN 41612 connector) to be diagonally adjacent to a ground pin, or does it need to be horizontally adjacent?

Like, is this good enough?

SIG  SIG  SIG
SIG GND SIG
SIG SIG SIG
SIG SIG SIG
SIG GND SIG
SIG SIG SIG

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@gsuberland After 25 years in #EDA, any book recommendations I would have will be grossly obsolete, but drop me a DM if you have occasional questions about EDA tool flows (my specialty is ASIC layout, a/k/a Place & Route, with sides of logic synthesis and static timing analysis).