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#US #military plans to use counter-drone laser triggered #ElPaso airspace closure
A #Pentagon plan to use a high-energy, counter-drone laser without coordinating with the #FAA about potential risks to civilian #flights prompted Wednesday’s unprecedented airspace shutdown over El Paso, #Texas, multiple sources told CNN.
Those accounts come as the #Trump admin claimed that a #Mexican #cartel drone crossing into #US airspace is what triggered the shutdown.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/us/faa-el-paso-texas-flight-restrictions-hnk
Multiple sources from the federal government & US airlines told CNN that #military activity near #ElPaso, including #US #drones monitoring #cartel operations & the #Pentagon’s planned use of a high-energy laser designed to counter drones, raised immediate concerns for civilian traffic arriving & departing #ELP. #FortBliss & its airfield, #BiggsArmyAirfield, sit just north of the commercial airport, which serves about 100 flights each day.
The FAA’s decision to close the airspace was made without telling the White House first, acc/to sources. The issue became a topic of intense focus inside the West Wing early morning Wednesday, as #Texas lawmakers pressed for answers on why the airspace was suddenly closed without first alerting them.
A #Trump admin official lied Wednesday morning that the shutdown was triggered by #Defense Dept “action to disable” #Mexican #cartel #drones.
When caught doing something stupid, lie.
CNN reached out to the #FAA & White House for comment about the differing explanations. The #Pentagon Wednesday continued to refer to the #Trump admin official’s statement about a drone breach having caused the airspace closure.
Secy of #Transportation #SeanDuffy posted to social media crediting the FAA & #Defense Dept with acting “swiftly to address a #cartel #drone incursion.”
“The threat has been neutralized, & there is no danger to commercial travel in the region,” he posted.
Incursions along the southern border are extremely common & historically do not prompt such airspace closures. In 2024, Air Force Gen. Greg Guillot, the commander of #NORTHCOM, told the #Senate #ArmedServices Cmte that the number of incursions along the #US #Mexico border was “over a thousand” each month.
The #DEA & other US security agencies have used facilities at the Biggs Army Airfield for years as part of efforts to monitor #Mexico based drug #cartel operations.
@adr Granted, just by the hardware parts they'd loose out if they were to sell at €749 (you can thank the #AIbubble as well as #RAM & #NAND - #Tripol #Cartel and lack of #regulation for that).
- OFC #retailers also want their margin, and unless one's in a position like #Apple, the #retail margin will be 10-20% depending on the market, whether it's a #online or in-presence stores or whatever. And that is already a low margin.
Everyone who expects this a €499 box is fucking dellusional at this point, because with the current memory prices and expected developments people would just buy truckloads of them to harvest the #GabeCube for it's #RAM, #SSD & #VRAM and scrap the rest.
- Cuz already we're seeing the #RAM sticks that would be in it to cost €250+ and unlike #Sony or #Microsoft this isn't a #SBC they can sell at a loss unless they want to break their advertising promises and risk expensive #ClassActionLawsuits in #SueHappy #USA and extremely high return rates in the #EU respectably.
If the #GabeCube is competitive priced if not cheaper than equivalent #Desktops and #Servers then we'd see every #business with "strategic procurement" just buy literal truckloads expecting #DRAM & #Flash prices to not come down this upgrade cycle (aka. within 5 years) but still needing some machines to work with as the heightened prices - like the #ChipShortage before - will strangulate the #UsedMarket.
- I kid you not, we'd rather see #scalpers and #businesses equipping employees with cash, credit cards and high-value gift cards just to pick shelves clean (just like it happens) with #GPUs because that shit is now hotter on the black market than "research chemicals" because it has less risk and higher payouts.
So do expect the #Gabecube to cost way more than €749 + VAT and closer to €999 than €749 since #Poland has a low #VAT / #GST rate and is a 'low income' place (compared to the EU-Average)...
- The €749 would've been more realistic by the time it was announced but the €499 never were for any non-closed system subsidized harder than the #PS3.
#Trump admin designated yet another Latin American drug #cartel a ‘foreign #terrorist organization’ [#FTO]
The designation imposes #sanctions on the group & its members & opens the door to potential #military or other action against it.
The #State Dept said Tuesday that the #Colombia based #ClanDelGolfo had been listed as both a FTO & a specially designated global terrorist group, calling it “a violent & powerful criminal organization with thousands of members.”
6 major academic publishers face antitrust lawsuit
The defendants, including Elsevier and Wiley, have done “tremendous damage to science and the public interest,” the complaint alleged.From https://www.highereddive.com/news/6-major-academic-publishers-face-antitrust-lawsuit/727106/The publishers allegedly agreed to make peer reviewing an unpaid job, prevent academics from submitting manuscripts to more than one journal at a time, and bar them from freely sharing their findings during the lengthy peer review process.
#ShermanAntitrustAct #Antitrust #ScientificPublishing #Science #Cartel