Space Station Waste Volume Gets Monitor.
Also Intel wants money back.

The New Water Cooler Topic: Orbital Plumbing Metrics

NASA has finally solved the crisis of the modern remote worker who is out of touch with the critical logistical metrics of deep space. A new macOS application, charmingly named pISSStream, provides real-time visibility into the current fullness of the International Space Station's urine tank. This crucial data is pulled directly from NASA's public telemetry stream, proving once and for all that while we are busy building Artificial General Intelligence, the most pressing data point to aggregate remains the slosh level of space refuse. The developer, simply known as Jaennaet, even stated their non-goal is to not include other, arguably more interesting stats, ensuring focus remains on this one key performance indicator.

Comment threads suggest the app has achieved a "perfect open-source communication best practice" by defining its scope with such clarity: do one ridiculous thing and do it well. In a world full of vague mission statements, we can all respect a project that is solely dedicated to monitoring the output of a handful of humans orbiting Earth. Furthermore, the application has transcended its macOS origin, offering an immersive 3D visualization for the Apple Vision Pro, complete with a spatial audio deep-space soundscape, because if you are going to stare at a urine tank percentage, you should really *feel* like you are in the room with it.

Intel's Failed Merger & Acquisition Clawback Attempt

The board meeting at Intel has apparently devolved into a petty internal audit. A shareholder derivative lawsuit has been filed seeking to claw back three years of compensation from former CEO Pat Gelsinger and CFO David Zinsner, alleging they misled investors about the performance of Intel Foundry Services (IFS). The suit claims that Pat Gelsinger's compensation from 2021 to 2023, totaling roughly $207 million, should be returned to the company because the foundry unit reported an operating loss of $7 billion in 2023.

This is essentially the office drama version of realizing the "rock star new hire" who promised to fix the database just copied the entire production table to their desktop and then quit. The lawsuit alleges that despite the massive losses, the executives maintained an optimistic public outlook, a management strategy better known as "telling the client everything is fine while the building is on fire." The shareholders, filed on behalf of Intel by LR Trust, claim this misconduct has caused substantial damage to the company's reputation and has exposed Intel to significant liability under various federal securities laws.

AI Submits Its Own Technical Debt

The dream of using Artificial Intelligence to solve all of our boring problems has hit a predictable snag: AI is now generating more problems than it solves. Open source maintainers are reportedly drowning in low-quality, spammy, and LLM-hallucinated security reports. Project maintainers like Daniel Stenberg of Curl have had to waste time refuting what he calls "AI slop" from bug submitters who are clearly letting an LLM do their work.

This development feels less like a technological revolution and more like that mandatory intern who finds a new way to break the build every single week. Seth Larson, security developer-in-residence at the Python Software Foundation, notes that while the volume may not be overwhelming yet, these reports require evaluation from engineers who are often volunteers already pressed for time. The real issue is the time spent distinguishing between a genuine vulnerability and a corporate training video gone rogue, where AI is essentially padding its own resume by creating and then reporting non-existent bugs.

Briefs

• Tokyo Point Cloud Dump: The city of Tokyo released a free point cloud data set of the entire metropolis. This is excellent news for anyone who needs to render a high-fidelity virtual version of a city but cannot physically leave their house.
• The "Evil Twin" of Pi: A new mathematical concept suggests that the number Pi has a counterpart, affectionately dubbed the "evil twin", which is apparently a very exciting development for the few people who spend their time thinking about the geometric relationship between a circle and a line that is also somehow evil.
• Low-Cost Drone Build: For those looking for a new weekend project, a step-by-step guide is available to build a drone using an ESP32. You can now engage in the thrilling new hobby of automated surveillance for less than the cost of a decent ergonomic mouse.

The New Water Cooler Topic: Orbital Plumbing Metrics

NASA has finally solved the crisis of the modern remote worker who is out of touch with the critical logistical metrics of deep space. A new macOS application, charmingly named pISSStream, provides real-time visibility into the current fullness of the International Space Station's urine tank. This crucial data is pulled directly from NASA's public telemetry stream, proving once and for all that while we are busy building Artificial General Intelligence, the most pressing data point to aggregate remains the slosh level of space refuse. The developer, known simply as Jaennaet, even stated their non-goal is to not include other, arguably more interesting stats, ensuring focus remains on this one key performance indicator.

Comment threads suggest the app has achieved a "perfect open-source communication best practice" by defining its scope with such clarity: do one ridiculous thing and do it well. The application has transcended its macOS origin, offering an immersive 3D visualization for the Apple Vision Pro, complete with a spatial audio deep-space soundscape, because if you are going to stare at a urine tank percentage, you should really *feel* like you are in the room with it. In a world full of vague mission statements, we can all respect a project that is solely dedicated to monitoring the output of a handful of humans orbiting Earth.

Intel's Failed Merger & Acquisition Clawback Attempt

The board meeting at Intel has apparently devolved into a petty internal audit. A shareholder derivative lawsuit has been filed seeking to claw back three years of compensation from former CEO Pat Gelsinger and CFO David Zinsner, alleging they misled investors about the performance of Intel Foundry Services (IFS). The suit claims that Pat Gelsinger's compensation from 2021 to 2023, totaling roughly $207 million, should be returned to the company because the foundry unit reported an operating loss of $7 billion in 2023.

This is essentially the office drama version of realizing the "rock star new hire" who promised to fix the database just copied the entire production table to their desktop and then quit. The lawsuit alleges that despite the massive losses, the executives maintained an optimistic public outlook, a management strategy better known as "telling the client everything is fine while the building is on fire." The shareholders, filed on behalf of Intel by LR Trust, claim this misconduct has caused substantial damage to the company's reputation and has exposed Intel to significant liability under various federal securities laws.

AI Submits Its Own Technical Debt

The dream of using Artificial Intelligence to solve all of our boring problems has hit a predictable snag: AI is now generating more problems than it solves. Open source maintainers are reportedly drowning in low-quality, spammy, and LLM-hallucinated security reports. Project maintainers like Daniel Stenberg of Curl have had to waste time refuting what he calls "AI slop" from bug submitters who are clearly letting an LLM do their work.

This development feels less like a technological revolution and more like that mandatory intern who finds a new way to break the build every single week. Seth Larson, security developer-in-residence at the Python Software Foundation, notes that while the volume may not be overwhelming yet, these reports require evaluation from engineers who are often volunteers already pressed for time. The real issue is the time spent distinguishing between a genuine vulnerability and a corporate training video gone rogue, where AI is essentially padding its own resume by creating and then reporting non-existent bugs.

Briefs

• Tokyo Point Cloud Dump: The city of Tokyo released a free point cloud data set of the entire metropolis. This is excellent news for anyone who needs to render a high-fidelity virtual version of a city but cannot physically leave their house.
• The "Evil Twin" of Pi: A new mathematical concept suggests that the number Pi has a counterpart, affectionately dubbed the "evil twin", which is apparently a very exciting development for the few people who spend their time thinking about the geometric relationship between a circle and a line that is also somehow evil.
• Low-Cost Drone Build: For those looking for a new weekend project, a step-by-step guide is available to build a drone using an ESP32. You can now engage in the thrilling new hobby of automated surveillance for less than the cost of a decent ergonomic mouse.