Featured Links - March 4, 2023

Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.

Sparkles on the bay

• Two giant US telescopes threatened by funding cap. "Thirty Meter Telescope and Giant Magellan Telescope might need to compete for survival in face of federal spending limit."
• Look for these 9 red flags to identify food that is ultra-processed. "Free yourself from the grip of ultra-processed food by looking for these signs on the package label."
• Fiber optic cables transport petabytes of data every second around the world — scientists say they could also save lives by detecting tsunamis early. "Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have discovered a novel technique that can turn undersea power and telecom cables into arrays of environmental sensors, opening the door to extensive ocean monitoring."
• DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses. "Feds once again fix up compromised retail routers under court order." 
• The invisible campaign to censor the internet. "There’s an enormous and largely invisible campaign to use fraudulent notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove critical articles from the internet. We don’t know who is running the campaign, but we do know it’s facilitated by Google’s amazingly trustworthy approach to DMCA complaints made by companies that don’t exist."
• How Embedded Linux is used in spacecraft. "George Emad kicks off a series of posts to see how Embedded Linux is used in outer space. The Linux OS has gain some popularity in the space domain in applications including spacecraft, nano satellites, and astrophotography."
• Behind F1's Velvet Curtain. "If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the p"addock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever."