Eric Ness

With a $600 satellite dish and open-source software, UCSD & UMD researchers intercepted cleartext IP traffic from 50% of GEO satellite links — voice calls, grid data, in-flight WiFi, retail systems, even military assets. - satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontloo...

YouTube video by Marcus Hutchins Did The Secret Service Really Foil A Plot To Destroy New York's Cellphone Infrastructure?

If you’ve ever wondered where endless scam calls come from… SIM farms. USSS just shut a few down. That’s good news. But no, they weren’t going to knock out every phone in New York. - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBZj...

My advisors and I finally submitted our next paper! #PhDChat

Orbio Earth just open-sourced their full methane detection pipeline—models, tools, synthetic-plume engine & validation notebooks—for Sentinel-2, Landsat 8/9, and EMIT. #Methane #ClimateTech #OpenSource - orbio-earth.github.io/Project-Euca...

How do we track water flowing through rivers from space? This major review says: 1–3 day revisit. Resolution down to 30–100 m widths. Must include width, slope, & velocity. Flood forecasting + water management depend on it. #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #WaterResources doi.org/10.1029/2024...

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

The Trump administration is pushing NASA to kill two critical climate satellites. The Orbiting Carbon Observatories track CO₂ globally — data vital to scientists, farmers, and even oil companies. Cost? Just $15M/year. #ClimateScience #EarthObservation futurism.com/white-house-...

The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis A new analysis suggests that the Cybertruck might lead to 17 times more fatalities than the infamous Ford Pinto.

"At the current rate of horrible fiery deaths, FuelArc projects the Cybertruck will have 14.52 fatalities per 100,000 units — far eclipsing the Pinto's 0.85. " - futurism.com/the-byte/cyb...

How to Overlay a Heatmap on a Real Map with Python | Towards Data Science Visualizing historical tornado trends

Want to overlay a heatmap on a real map using Python? This guide walks through visualizing EF3–EF5 tornado trends across the U.S. with NOAA data, grid-based bins, and Matplotlib. Bonus: how to include tornado endpoints too!
#geospatial #Python towardsdatascience.com/how-to-overl...

Sea Surface Salinity Datasets Now Available on the SNWG Earthdata Search Portal | NASA Earthdata Access Sea Surface Salinity with Sea Ice Mask, a NASA Satellite Needs Working Group solution, to discern salinity values close to the sea ice edge.

Just launched: SMAP salinity data V5.0 + V5.3 with ice/ocean flags — available now via NASA’s SNWG Earthdata Portal. Track salinity near the sea ice edge like never before. #SeaSurfaceSalinity #NASAData www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/sea-sur...

Southern Europe’s land and sea sizzles A powerful heatwave has been gripping large parts of southern Europe. This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer on 29 June 2025, reveals t...

A record-breaking heatwave is sweeping across southern Europe and North Africa. Copernicus Sentinel-3 reveals land surface temps far above normal – and the Mediterranean Sea isn't spared either. #ClimateCrisis #EarthObservation www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Global Views of PACE Land Vegetation Data Global view of three major classes of plant pigments observed by the PACE satellite: chlorophylls, carotenoids, and anthocyanins.

NASA’s PACE satellite just dropped a year of stunning hyperspectral data—mapping chlorophyll, carotenoids & anthocyanins globally, every 1–2 days. It's the first time we’re seeing land plants in full spectral color from space. #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation - svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5548/

Exclusive: Bezos-backed methane tracking satellite is lost in space An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos that detected oil and gas industry's emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane has been lost in space, the group that operates it told Reuters on Tuesday.

It appears that MethaneSAT is gone. Launched in March 2024 to track powerful methane leaks, the Bezos-backed satellite veered off course over Norway and lost power. #MethaneLeaks #ClimateChange #MethaneSAT www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Introducing Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro — Now in Public Preview | Microsoft Community Hub Today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro — a turnkey platform that makes it dramatically easier for...

Microsoft just launched Planetary Computer Pro (Public Preview) — a cloud-native geospatial platform built for AI, ML, and massive-scale analysis. 50PB+ of data, now enterprise-ready via Azure. #Geospatial #AI techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/iotblog...

LOL - me too. What's sad is that I just wrote some code for a paper that does this, sort of. This is a better approach, though.

How I Automated My Machine Learning Workflow with Just 10 Lines of Python | Towards Data Science Use LazyPredict and PyCaret to skip the grunt work and jump straight to performance.

A great read on automating your ML workflow in just 10 lines of Python. With LazyPredict + pycaret, you can test over 20 models instantly and compare their performance. #MachineLearning #Python #AutoML towardsdatascience.com/how-i-automa...

YouTube video by Stuckinthe6Ts God Only Knows - The Beach Boys, a cappella

This is even worse - Brian Wilson just passed away. The Beach Boys are probably my all-time favorite band, and Brian Wilson was an absolute treasure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvNX...

YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show Sly And The Family Stone "I Want To Take You Higher" on The Ed Sullivan Show

So sad to hear of Sly Stone's passing. Absolutely loved him and the Family Stone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_x...

ChatGPT just released Codex. You can connect to a GitHub repository, and it will explain the codebase to newcomers, suggest codebase improvements, and identify and fix critical bugs. Then do a pull/merge request! Kind of awesome. chatgpt.com/codex/ #vibecoding #chatgpt #codex

New Satellite Images Capture Mount Etna’s Massive Eruption Satellite images show Mount Etna's major eruption on June 2nd, 2025, releasing a large plume of sulf...

Satellite images show Mount Etna's major eruption on June 2nd, 2025, releasing a large plume of sulfur dioxide & ash. ESA's Sentinel-5P & Sentinel-2 missions captured the event. #MountEtna #News

YouTube video by ThePrimeTime NASAs Coding Requirements Are Insane

NASA’s “Power of 10” for safety-critical code is awesome. No recursion. No dynamic memory after init. No function > 60 lines. Every return value is checked. Brutal but beautiful. Great video review. #CleanCode www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWKa...

YouTube video by Jared Henderson The American Literacy Crisis, Explained

Is America facing a literacy crisis? Not exactly. But 40% of 4th graders can't read at a basic level. And 28% of adults are functionally illiterate. The real problem? It's been bad for a long time—and it's getting worse. But Mississippi shows it's fixable. #reading www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCT...

Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students Trump admin. revoked Harvard's ability to enroll international students, impacting nearly 6,800 stud...

Trump admin. revoked Harvard's ability to enroll international students, impacting nearly 6,800 students. The action follows accusations of harboring anti-American agitators & CCP ties. Harvard disputes claims. #HigherEducation #News

See Flannery O'Connor's Little-Known Visual Artworks That Had Been Collecting Dust in Storage From childhood cartoons to thoughtful self-portraits, the acclaimed Southern writer was always a keen observer of her surroundings

Flannery O’Connor’s once-hidden artworks are on view at her Georgia farm, offering new insight into her creative process. #FlanneryOConnor #ArtExhibition www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

Based on the article I came across yesterday, I put this together. It's an 'LLM-Assisted Project Development Template'. I am unsure if it works entirely, but I will test it out. Not sure if anyone else is playing with this type of development. github.com/Eric-Ness/my...

Sahar’s Coding with AI guide How to treat your AI coding agent (Cursor/Windsurf/Cline) as a human pair programmer and yield the best results

I really like this tutorial – defining .cursor/rules as your AI’s “operating manual” keeps context consistent and cuts down on misfires. #AICoding #PairProgramming - www.aitidbits.ai/p/sahar-ai-c...

Check out creative ways to export your maps from QGIS to Illustrator — then bring them to life with animations in Premiere!
#QGIS #Illustrator #PremierePro #MapDesign - www.chiaraphillips.com/post/make-th...

Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980 NOAA retired its billion-dollar weather disaster database, ending public tracking of extreme weather...

NOAA retired its billion-dollar weather disaster database, ending public tracking of extreme weather costs since 1980. The database will be archived but not updated. #ClimateChange #News

ESA unveils longest-ever dataset on forest biomass As the new Biomass satellite settles into life in orbit following its launch on 29 April, ESA has released its most extensive satellite-based maps of above-ground forest carbon to date. Spanning nearl...

ESA’s new Biomass Dataset v6 delivers the longest-ever satellite-based record of above‑ground forest carbon (2007–2022), mapping trunks & branches at 100 m–50 km resolution. A game‑changer for climate & carbon modelling! #ForestBiomass #ClimateAction www.esa.int/Applications...

Over 90 technician vacancies threaten Doppler radar & surface station upkeep, risking prolonged outages when storms hit. Since Trump’s second term began, @noaa.gov has lost 550+ employees—the same number lost in the previous 15 years combined. #Meteorology - edition.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

So I have been busy working on this as of late. It's been a lot of fun.