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Dassault Aviation and OHB team up to propose to ESA the VORTEX-S multipurpose space plane, capable of round-transport to space stations and of autonomous orbital free flyer missions, together with a number of other European partners.
The Department of War CTO claims "American Innovation” when showing LUCAS drone, but there's not much American about it.
LUCAS was reverse-engineered from an 🇮🇷 Shahed 136.
The Shahed itself was Iran's response to Israel's Harpy whose design was acquired from 🇩🇪Dornier.
The German Drohne Anti-Radar was designed to detect and destroy enemy radar installations, but never used operationally by the German Army.
Europe Invents
Europe Innovates
But Europe fails to produce at scale
This changes now
@bartgroothuis For what its worth, Mythos has been demonstrated to not have that unique capabilities since the UK AI Safety Institute demonstrated that other leading edge models performed similarly:
“a second model, from a different developer, now reaches a similar level of performance on our cyber evaluations.”
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-openais-gpt-5-5-cyber-capabilities
An important point too is that tooling is almost more important than the model, and Europe has a leader in Czech Republic based AISLE:
https://aisle.com/blog/aisle-matches-anthropic-mythos-on-freebsd-zero-days
RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116537775916354050
"Radical”?
Swedish Einride has been doing this since at least 2017
European Synthetic Aperture Radar imaging from ICEYE is world-leading.
Near-real-time satellite imagery of moving targets, no matter if the sun shines or if there are clouds.
The French military revealed recent images from the #ORION exercise, showing what appears to be the monitoring of a Russian S-300/400 air & missile defense site
https://www.iceye.com/blog/how-space-based-isr-supports-dispersed-combat-operations
Hybrid bonders are all the rage at fabs around the world that produce high-bandwidth memory & AI chips.
The world leader in hybrid bonding is a 🇳🇱 company called Besi.
Today, we pay tribute to Richard Fierkens who passed away on Sunday. He founded Fico Toolings, laying the groundwork for Besi.
Fico started in 1956 from a workshop in Herwen, producing molds for simple plastic products such as coat hangers and milk crates.
https://bits-chips.com/article/richard-fierkens-1935-2026-a-forgotten-dutch-chip-pioneer/
You know how hard it is to pickup signals from low-earth orbit? Very hard!
You know how hard it is to pickup a signal from a device from geostationary orbit? So much harder!
Congrats to the players involved in the European Space Agency’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications programme for developing the world’s first direct-to-device media broadcasting capabilities from geostationary orbit.
