This type of marketing stunt for Claude Code is giving Anthropic value for their acquisition of bun.
Bun is a nodejs frontrunner, and it needs constant marketing effort to stay relevant, because nodejs will continue to follow in bun’s footsteps when it
Since it is paywalled, here are some details from the article:
During a live demonstration seen by Haaretz, TargetTeam showcased Stargetz's interactive map, showing terminals across the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf, India, Russia and China. This also included offshore clusters in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, likely ships.
According to the dashboard, the system was monitoring one million terminals, purportedly providing internet at that moment to 5.5 million devices. Of these, around 200,000 terminals were said to had been "deanonymized" – likely meaning identifying details about the devices or users using them were found.
In the demonstration, the firm showed how one account using a Mexican number was in fact operating from Pakistan and frequently traveling to Iran. The system seems to update at six minute intervals and does not claim to offer real-time tracking. The figures could not be independently verified.
Rayzone sells a similar system for monitoring Starlink terminals, marketed as part of a suite of intelligence tools developed by the firm, including a big-data analytics product capable of "deanonymizing" users. Rayzone's sales are overseen by Israel's Defense Ministry.
The systems exposed here mark a shift from a previous era of satellite surveillance. Leaked documents obtained by Haaretz also reveal a previously unreported product built by Verint – the veteran Israeli cyber intelligence firm that was traded on Nasdaq until recently – codenamed "Starsky."
Marketed to India in 2016, Starsky intercepted traditional satellite phone communications by physically tapping the lines that connected the satellite beams to the target country's physical telephone infrastructure.
Both firms emphasize that their capability rests on fusing together massive collections of data of different types and scales rather than exploiting any vulnerability in Starlink. These likely range from mobile communication data to digital traces left during online browsing or by logging on to social media from a smartphone using Starlink for access. "It's not one source, it's not one sensor – it's connecting many layers of information and big data," a salesman told potential clients.
Though neither company explained how their tech works, it is telling that both also develop and sell advertising-based intelligence, or Ad-INT – a technique that harvests location and device data from the digital advertising ecosystem, first exposed by Haaretz two years ago.
The implication is that unique advertising identifiers – the codes Apple and Google assign every user in order to serve personalized ads – play a central role in tracking Starlink users and in exposing their identities.
.NET seems to have regularly changed the garbage collector over the years and I do not remember any similar surprises in production. I wonder why they have had better experience?
I thought that by now dynamic garbage collection was a known quantity so that making changes, outside of out right bugs, is fairly safe and predictable?
One thing Microsoft does really well is eating its own dogfood and Microsoft feeds a ton of .Net dogs.
So any change to GC starts with massive .Net MSFT code base so they get extremely good telemetry back about any downsides and might be able to fix it in time.
There is almost no dog fooding on Windows development since version 8, Typescript team rather rewrite the compiler in Go, Azure has plenty of Go, Rust and Java projects alongside .NET.
Oh, they really don't dogfood Windows development any longer, regardless of the incentives.
I have my WinRT 8, UAP 8.1, UWP 10, Project Reunion, .NET Native, C++/CX, C++/WinRT, XAML Islands, XAML Direct, WinUI 2.0, WinUi 3.0, WinAppSDK and what not scars to prove how they aren't dog fooding any piece of it in any meaningful manner.
Heck they keep talking about C++ support in WinUI 3, as if the team hasn't left the project and is now playing with Rust instead.
They managed that plenty of early WinRT advocates became their hardest critics, while not believing anything else they put out, like now this Windows K2 project.
I like my programming language flame wars just as much as the next guy but Go is a really easy language to get started with, while also being very fast. It's not just luck
> The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.
Basically complete disregard for the history of programming languages and learnt lessons.
Go fits well close to Oberon released in 1987, or Limbo in 1995, when exceptions and generics were still esoteric features.
Instead they had to reach out to Phil Wadler to help them, as he did previously with Java almost a decade earlier, panic/recover is clunky way to do exceptions, instead of doing enumerations like Pascal in 1976, it needs a a iota/const code pattern, hardcoded urls for source repos, if err all over the place like last century programming, many errors are plain strings, ah and nil interfaces what a great gotcha.
What? If you are talking web development, .Net is just about the same as Go. It's 100% Java OOP type writing but result is same, very performant API server.
Sure, Rust is completely different beast with different target system.
Actually there’s a change to dotnet 9 with how it handles the heap and GC which caused major issues for us.
I’ll confess the reason it hit us so hard is because the code quality was so low and wasteful on allocations that it didn’t hide the problem as well as previous versions.
I remember working on the Windows Update back-end at Microsoft around 2005, and we had a problem where it would freeze up periodically, and not surprisingly that turned out to be caused by GC. But we noticed it before shipping, and we just tweaked some GC parameters.
So I think it was not a big problem for .Net because it gave you enough control over GC, and because people tested their code before putting it in production.
Actually there is a long and storied history of mechanisms created to compel American companies to comply with requests for digital intervention. A good starting point is the concept of the NSL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
Technically the government can force some industries to do some things. (and that's just officially. The singer sewing machine company didn't need to be forced into weapons manufacturing) But, that's a wartime measure, if the government forced every steel mill in the country to produce for them, I'm not sure it'd even have to go to the supreme court.
For those that do not know, this is part of the fallout of this Microsoft investigation from 2025 into the misuse of Azure services in Israel for military purposes:
You do realize that Israeli government officials openly talk about permanent relocation (expel, "voluntary migration", emigration, etc) of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza all the time:
It is likely undervalued right now so it is a good time to invest.
Unfortunately, I am waiting for them to follow in Cloudflare, Github and others leads and lay off 20% of the company "because of AI."
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