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Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) continues to show robust growth in adoption driven by increased digital transformation efforts within our government as well as boosted adoption by industry. One area specifically benefiting from MBSE adoption is enterprise architecture (EA). In a previous post, Modeling Capabilities with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), we discussed one of the EA domains—capabilities, and the benefits of modeling them. In this blog post, we explore another domain of EA, the usage of services as an architectural concept that provides a method for successful alignment of business and IT entities.Modeling services will help practicing business-, enterprise-, and solution-architects…

Florian Gilcher, co-founder of Ferrous Systems and the Rust Foundation, speaks with host Giovanni Asproni about the application of Rust in mission- and safety-critical systems. The discussion starts with a brief overview of such systems, and an introduction to Rust, emphasizing aspects that make it well-suited for critical environments. Florian and Giovanni then discuss how Rust compares to C and C++ — two widely used languages in this sector. They proceed to outline important factors that companies should consider when assessing whether to move from C or other languages to Rust. The episode also touches on Ferrocene, an open-source Rust…

X-Plane is a popular flight simulator developed by Laminar Research. It features a first-principles physics engine, realistic aircraft systems, and a wide variety of aircraft. We wanted to understand the engineering that goes into creating a flight simulator so we invited Ben Supnik on the show. Ben is a software engineer at Laminar and he’s been working on X-Plane for the past 20 years. He joins the show with Kevin Ball to talk about X-Plane and his career working on the simulator. Kevin Ball or KBall, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and…

On Monday, researchers at cybersecurity giant Kaspersky published a report identifying a new spyware called Dante that they say targeted Windows victims in Russia and neighboring Belarus. The researchers said the Dante spyware is made by Memento Labs, a Milan-based surveillance tech maker that was formed in 2019 after a new owner acquired and took over early spyware maker Hacking Team. Memento chief executive Paolo Lezzi confirmed to TechCrunch that the spyware caught by Kaspersky does indeed belong to Memento. In a call, Lezzi blamed one of the company’s government customers for exposing Dante, saying the customer used an outdated version…

Quantum computing has long held promise as the next era in information processing, with applications in drug discovery, finance, and encryption. But it’s only in recent years that the technology has edged closer to commercial viability. With that, a new demand has emerged in the job market: engineers capable of designing, building, and maintaining the next generation of supercomputers. As big tech firms, governments, and investors pour money into building scalable quantum machines, jobs in the now-niche sector are expected to grow. Market data from The Quantum Insider suggests that 250,000 quantum computing jobs globally will need to be filled…

The story of the park begins in 2014, when Enrique Peña Nieto, the president of Mexico at the time, announced plans for a new transport hub for Mexico City. It would be built on the largely dry bed of Lake Texcoco, the body of water that had once surrounded Mexico City’s ancient ancestor, Tenochtitlán, the center of the Aztec empire. The marketing promise was that NAICM would be one of the greenest airports in the world. The terminal, designed by Norman Foster—winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1999 and the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts in 2009—was going…

Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest hurricanes in history, made landfall in Jamaica yesterday with winds at 185 miles per hour, putting it firmly in Category 5. The storm is responsible for at least seven deaths as of Wednesday morning.Ahead of landfall, the National Hurricane Center issued a blunt warning for 2.8 million Jamaicans on Tuesday: “THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION! TAKE COVER NOW!”The capitals and exclamation points are warranted. Hurricane Melissa is an extraordinary storm, even among the many massive, fast-growing, devastating cyclones that have been erupting in the Atlantic Ocean in recent years.Already, it’s the…

Prediction market Polymarket is getting ready to make its way back into the US in the next few weeks, and Bloomberg says the company plans to focus mainly on sports betting. People familiar with the plans, who asked not to be named because the information is confidential, said the first trades will likely happen by the end of November, although the platform will not be open to everyone right away. If the timing holds, Polymarket could take advantage of the busiest stretch of US football and basketball. As of now, neither Polymarket nor the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has responded…

Currently, most large language models break text down into thousands of tiny units called tokens. This turns the text into representations that models can understand. However, these tokens quickly become expensive to store and compute with as conversations with end users grow longer. When a user chats with an AI for lengthy periods, this challenge can cause the AI to forget things the user has already told it and get information muddled, a problem some call “context rot.” The new methods developed by DeepSeek (and published in its latest paper) could help to overcome this issue. Instead of storing words…

India’s free digital payments revolution has upended how money moves — but not how fintechs make it. Now, Flipkart’s fintech arm Super.money is partnering with Kotak811, the digital offering of one of India’s top commercial banks, Kotak Mahindra Bank, to change that, bundling UPI payments, savings, and secured credit into a single account aimed at turning usage into profit. The partnership aims to issue about 2 million secured credit cards in the next 12 months — roughly 60 percent to first-time borrowers — and 5 million within 2 years. Super.money, which already serves 10 million active users, expects the Kotak…