### New cracks emerge in Elon Musk's Twitter Twitter closes its internal Slack and seems a bit scattered on the engineering front. https://www.platformer.news/p/new-cracks-emerge-in-elon-musks-twitter ### U-2 Pilot’s Selfie Flying Alongside Chinese Spy Balloon Leaks (The War Zone) https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/selfie-of-u-2-pilot-flying-alongside-chinese-spy-balloon-leaks Follow on/more detailed coverage: https://dragonladytoday.com/2023/02/21/the-u-2-and-balloons-some-history-and-some-thoughts/ ### Research raises questions: Are instruments taken to Mars sensitive enough to find life? (The Register) Researchers study a valley in Chile and think that instruments may not be able to detect the 100 million year old remnants of life there. https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/21/research_mars_instruments/ ### Amazon mandates return to office for 300,000 corporate staff (The Register) >Amazon boss Andy Jassy is demanding a return to the office for the "majority" of the company's 300,000-strong corporate workforce, with an expectation that employees will spend "at least" three days on site each week. https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/20/amazon_mandates_return_to_office/ ### Unless things change, first zettaflop systems will need nuclear power, AMD's Su says (The Register) https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/23/amd_zettaflop_systems_nuclear/ ## Media ### Series 13, Episode 1 - The noise that blue makes | Full Episode | Taskmaster Taskmaster Series 13 just started landing on YouTube, it's off to a great start. I'm not familiar with any of the contestants but they seem great so far and tasks are very good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv_q0RMaV6Y ### 478 Which Villain Could You Represent (and win) in Court? (Plumbing the Death Star) One of the more lucid PtDS's https://www.sanspantsradio.com/478-which-villain-could-you-represent-and-win-in-court/