Blue Ghost Watches Lunar Eclipse from the Lunar SurfaceFirefly’s Blue Ghost lander’s first look at the solar eclipse as it began to emerge from its Mare Crisium landing site on March 14 at 5:30 AM UTC. (Credit: Firefly Aerospace)
After recently landing at the Moon’s Mare Crisium, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander craft was treated to a spectacle that’s rarely observed: a total solar eclipse as seen from the surface of the Moon. This entire experience was detailed on the Blue Ghost Mission 1 live blog. As the company notes, this is the first time that a commercial entity has been able to observe this phenomenon.
During this event, the Earth gradually moved in front of the Sun, as observed from the lunar surface. During this time, the Blue Ghost lander had to rely on its batteries as it was capturing the solar eclipse with a wide-angle camera on its top deck.
Unlike the Blood Moon seen from the Earth, there was no such cool effect observed from the Lunar surface. The Sun simply vanished, leaving a narrow ring of light around the Earth. The reason for the Blood Moon becomes obvious, however, as the refracting of the sunlight through Earth’s atmosphere changes the normal white-ish light to shift to an ominous red.
The entire sequence of images captured can be observed in the video embedded on the live blog and below, giving a truly unique view of something that few humans (and robots) have so far been able to observe.

You can make your own lunar eclipse. Or, make your own solar eclipse, at least once a day.

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Kaito AI and founder Yu Hu's X social media accounts hackedKaito AI, an artificial intelligence-powered platform that aggregates crypto data to provide market analysis for users, and its founder Yu Hu, were the victims of an X social media hack on March 15.In several now-deleted posts, hackers claimed that the Kaito wallets were compromised and advised users that their funds were not safe.According to DeFi Warhol, the hackers opened up a short position on KAITO tokens before posting the messages in the hopes that users would sell or pull their funds, which would have crashed the price and created profits for the threat actors.The price of the KAITO token dips, presumably due to a short position. Source: CoinMarketCapThe Kaito AI team regained access to the accounts and reassured users that Kaito token wallets were not compromised in the social media exploit."We had high-standard security measures in place to prevent [the hack] — so it seems to be similar or the same as other recent Twitter account hacks," the Kaito AI team added.This recent exploit is the latest in a growing list of social media hacks, social engineering scams, and cybersecurity incidents plaguing the crypto industry.Source: Kaito AIRelated: Kaito AI token defies influencer selling pressure with 50% price rallyVigilance is key: some of the latest scams and exploits to impact cryptoPump.fun's X account was hacked on Feb. 26 by a threat actor promoting several fake tokens, including a fraudulent governance token for the fair launch platform called "Pump."According to onchain sleuth ZackXBT, the Pump.fun incident was directly connected to the Jupiter DAO account hack and the DogWifCoin X account compromise.On March 7, The Alberta Securities Commission, a Canadian financial regulator, warned the public that malicious actors were using fake news articles and fake endorsements featuring the likeness of Canadian politicians to promote a crypto scam.The scam, known as CanCap, played on fears of a trade war between Canada and the US to lure unsuspecting victims into investing in the project, which the scammers claimed had the support of Canadian leader Justin Trudeau.An example of a Lazarus social engineering scam where the hackers pretend to be venture capitalists experiencing audio-visual issues. Source: Nick BaxCrypto executives are also sounding the alarm on a new scam from the state-sponsored Lazarus hacker group, where the hackers pose as venture capitalists in a Zoom meeting.Once the target is in the meeting room, the hackers would claim they were experiencing audio-visual issues and redirect the victim to a malicious chat room where the user is encouraged to download a patch.The patch contains malicious software designed to steal crypto private keys and other sensitive information from the victim's computer.Magazine: Lazarus Group’s favorite exploit revealed — Crypto hacks analysis

You Too Can Do the Franck-Hertz ExperimentWe talk about quantum states — that is, something can be at one of several discrete values but not in between. For example, a binary digit can be a 1 or a 0, but not 0.3 or 0.5. Atoms have quantum states, but how do we know that? That’s what the Franck-Hertz experiment demonstrates, and [stoppi] shows you how to replicate that famous experiment yourself.
You might need to translate the web page if your German isn’t up to speed, but there’s also a video you can watch below. The basic idea is simple. A gas-filled tube sees a large voltage across the cathode and grid. A smaller voltage connects to the grid and anode. If you increase the grid voltage, you might expect the anode current to increase linearly. However, that doesn’t happen. Instead, you’ll observe dips in the anode current.
When electrons reach a certain energy they excite the gas in the tube. This robs them of the energy they need to overcome the grid/anode voltage, which explains the dips. As the energy increases, the current will again start to rise until it manages to excite the gas to the next quantum level, at which point another dip will occur.
Why not build a whole lab? Quantum stuff, at a certain level, is weird, but this experiment seems understandable enough.

Amazon’s Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud, starting March 28Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be sent to the company’s cloud. Ars Technica reports that on Friday, Amazon sent an email to customers who have “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” enabled on their Echo smart speakers and […]
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Gracie Abrams & Her All-Female Team to Be Honored by Alicia Keys at "She Is The Music"On March 27th, She Is The Music (SITM) will bring together industry leaders at The Peppermint Club in Los Angeles for a powerful evening celebrating 50 impactful women in the music industry. Each of the 50 honorees will share their spotlight with another woman in the business, reinforcing the importance of lifting each other up and creating more opportunities for women at every level.Global superstar and She Is The Music co-founder Alicia Keys will honor one of music’s fastest-rising stars, Gracie Abrams and her team for their groundbreaking achievements in an industry where female-led teams are still the exception rather than the norm. As part of the celebration, each honoree will receive one of Barbie’s newly unveiled Career Of The Year: Women In Music dolls, a Musical Artist and Tour Manager duo created to spotlight women in the music industry.While women continue to dominate music’s biggest cultural moments, the leadership behind the scenes still skews overwhelmingly male. That’s why She Is The Music’s mission—to increase the number of women working in all facets of music—has never been more urgent. The event will bring together artists, executives, and advocates to recognize women who are shaping the future of the industry and pushing for a more inclusive landscape.Gracie Abrams said, “Being surrounded by such an incredible team of women has changed the way I see everything. They’re not only insanely talented in their individual capacities, but also intentional about supporting each other. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn from each of them. I’m deeply honored to be recognized by She Is The Music, an organization that has done so much to acknowledge and uplift women in this industry. I hope our team is a small example of what’s possible when women support each other and build together.”Alicia Keys added, “Gracie Abrams and her incredible team are living proof of what happens when women uplift each other—when we step into our power, we change the game. In an industry where female-led teams are still the exception, their success is a reminder that we belong in every room, at every table, leading every conversation. She Is The Music is about breaking barriers, opening doors, and making sure the next generation of women in music don’t just have a seat at the table—they build the table.”Universal Music Publishing Group Chairman and CEO and She Is The Music co-founder Jody Gerson said, “Women supporting women is at the very core of She is the Music’s mission. Creating a sisterhood of accomplished women and the next generations of working women across all facets of the music industry is our collective path forward to success.  We are delighted to host our inaugural Women Sharing the Spotlight and to celebrate so many wonderful women in our business.  We are also making a powerful statement by honoring Gracie Abrams and her team for embodying the spirit of sisterhood.  This recognition is not only well deserved but also a testament to the fact that women in our industry can reach the highest levels of success on their own terms—especially when they uplift and support one another in meaningful ways.”As part of the evening’s program, TuneCore CEO Andreea Gleeson and USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Founder Dr. Stacy L. Smith will take the stage to present key findings from the newly released Inclusion in the Music Business report, a study that takes a hard look at who holds power in music—and why the pace of progress remains far too slow.The Inclusion in the Music Business report, conducted by USC Annenberg’s Inclusion Initiative in partnership with Believe and TuneCore, aligns with She Is The Music’s overall mission and comes at a time when DEI programs are facing increasing scrutiny across corporate America—making its findings even more urgent. The study examines 2,793 executives across 106 music companies and reveals a stark reality about who holds power in music:•  84.2% of the most senior executives at major music companies are white men.• Only 13.2% of CEO/President roles are held by women.• Just 5.3% of top executives are women of color—an unchanged figure since 2021.The full report can be viewed HERE.“In recent years, our work has shown that women and people of color are increasing their presence on the popular charts as artists,” said Dr. Stacy L. Smith, the study’s lead author. “But this progress is not matched by the executive ranks that are responsible for the business of music. It is clear that there are still real discrepancies in who gets to lead.”“We can’t afford to sit back and wait for this issue to fix itself,” said Andreea Gleeson. “Artists are pushing boundaries and redefining music every day—it’s time for the executive ranks to reflect that same diversity and innovation.”The She Is The Music event will bring together artists, executives, and advocates to celebrate women leading change in music while underscoring the work still needed to create true equity. With Gracie Abrams and her team of women being honored and TuneCore and USC Annenberg presenting new research on executive disparities, the night will serve as both a recognition of progress and a call for continued industry-wide action.The She Is The Music event is made possible through the support of industry leaders who share the mission of creating a more inclusive music business. The Hollywood Reporter serves as the event’s exclusive media partner, with Live Nation Women also lending their support to champion women in music.The post Gracie Abrams & Her All-Female Team to Be Honored by Alicia Keys at "She Is The Music" first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

Pi Hand is a Digital Display of a Different SortHackers enjoy a good theme, and so it comes as no surprise that every time March 14th (Pi Day) rolls around, the tip line sees an uptick in mathematical activity. Whether it’s something they personally did or some other person’s project they want to bring to our attention, a lot of folks out there are very excited about numbers today.
One of our most prolific circumference aficionados is [Cristiano Monteiro], who, for the last several years, has put together a special project to commemorate the date. For 2025, he’s come up with a robotic hand that will use its fingers to show the digits of Pi one at a time. Since there’s only one hand, anything higher than five will be displayed as two gestures in quick succession, necessitating a bit of addition on the viewer’s part.
[Cristiano] makes no claims about the anatomical accuracy of his creation. Indeed, if your mitts look anything like this, you should seek medical attention immediately. But whether you think of them as fingers or nightmarish claws, it’s the motion of the individual digits that matter.
To that end, each one is attached to an MG90 servo, which an Arduino Nano drives with attached Servo Shield. From there, it’s just a matter of code to get the digits wiggling out the correct value, which [Cristiano] has kindly shared for anyone looking to recreate this project.
If you’re hungry for more Pi, the ghostly display that [Cristiano] sent in last year is definitely worth another look. While not directly related to today’s mathematical festivities, the portable GPS time server he put together back in 2021 is another fantastic build you should check out.

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Spitfire Audio’s Swarms collection brings together three of its standalone libraries – and is inspired by fine artSpitfire Audio’s new Spitfire Swarms collection brings together three of its standalone libraries – Harp Swarm, Marimba Swarm, and Mandolin Swarm – into a unified collection for Kontakt Player.
The Swarms collection is suited to composers and producers looking to craft cinematic soundscapes, game scores or other intricate orchestral compositions. It creates choirs from rarely grouped instruments, arranged around AIR Studios, Lyndhurst Hall – offering nine harps, a marimba orchestra, plus 18 mandolins, charangos and ukuleles.

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According to a press release shared with MusicTech, the ‘Swarms’ concept is inspired by Pointillism – a technique of neo-impressionist fine art developed in 1886 by artist Georges Seurat, “whereby the use of discrete tiny dots of pure colour become blended in the eye of the viewer with the aim of producing a greater degree of luminosity and brilliance of colour”. Musically, Swarms mirrors the technique to create a fuller range of tones, achieved as small discrete short notes that coalesce in the ear of the listener.
Users can experiment with a range of articulations (long tremolo, short tremolo, long pluck, short pluck, or harmonic pluck, for example), and can toy with user-mixable Close, Tree, AMB. (Ambient), and OUT. (Outriggers) microphone positioning.
Everything has been originally recorded through an array of vintage microphones via Neve ‘Montserrat’ pre-amps to a Studer two-inch tape machine and onwards into the digital domain (at 96K via Prism AD converters) by engineer Jake Jackson, one of the UK’s biggest names in film-score engineering and mixing.

Paul Thomson, Spitfire Audio’s co-founder and composer, comments, “These ‘Swarms’ are incredibly useful, both when you want to play longer, slow-moving chords that have an internal movement and bubbling sound instead of using pads or traditional orchestral longs, and also when you want a percussive sound unlike anything you’ve ever heard before.” He adds, “Having nine harps or nine marimbas is such a unique texture to have as another invaluable tool to make your music stand out and sound different.”
Find out more about Swarms over at Spitfire Audio.
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