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Happy New Year, Albony Mirror Network has had tremendous growth in 2025.
Total traffic served in 2025 ~6.1 PB (Petabytes)
MVPs being
1. DEL2 node: 3.19PB
2. AJL node: ~2PB
3. HYD node: 349.75TB
Let's see what 2026 has in mind :)
#AlbonyMirror #Linux #FOSS
Shrirang Kahale retweeted
A fuel pot got stuck inside India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam. The cause was a steel rail nobody could see.
Fuel goes into a transfer pot that rides up an inclined track submerged in liquid sodium. The pot stopped about 950 mm short of its lowest position. Sodium is opaque, so no camera could look.
IGCAR built an ultrasonic scanner in-house: a 13.8 m tube with 4 sodium-proof transducers at its tip. After rehearsing in a spare unit filled with water, they scanned the mechanism inside the sodium and built a 3D picture.
One of the two 31-degree tilting rails had come off its brackets. BARC says that needs all 16 fixing bolts to have failed.
The rail had to come out without draining the sodium.
BARC designed a remote machine of 300+ precision parts, run from the reactor top by mechanical shafts. 205 drawings were released in sequence, and BARC's Central Workshop built it in 55 days.
Concept to deployment took 4.5 months.
It was rehearsed on a full-scale mock-up at BHAVINI. On 6 September 2025 the machine pulled the rail out on the very 1st attempt, with the sodium still in place and the core at 180°C. Fuel loading then resumed through a separate route.
The machine was rehearsed in water. It did the job blind, inside sodium.
Bharat is rising. 🙏🙏
P.S. Sodium is the liquid-metal coolant in a fast reactor. It is opaque, so nobody can see inside it.
Sources: IGCAR Annual Report 2025; BARC Newsletter, Sept-Oct 2025.
Photo: BARC's rail retrieval machine with its argon flask after removal from the core.
Shrirang Kahale retweeted
we didn’t take him seriously until it happened
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.
At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.
We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
Just found out about a draft for Happy Eyeballs algorithm v3 which expands connection racing from just choosing between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to also racing modern transport and application protocols like QUIC and HTTP/3. Seems interesting.
Shrirang Kahale retweeted
#BREAKING Estado de saúde dele ainda é desconhecido!
Comandante indiano é considerado herói após impedir copiloto de derrubar Boeing 737 que atingiu 1.100 km/h
aeroin.net/comandante-indian…
Shrirang Kahale retweeted
#WATCH | Indian Coast Guard (ICG) successfully averted a major incident at sea, rescuing a distressed foreign chemical tanker, MT Seagull 9, approximately 37 nautical miles East-South-East of Paradip, Odisha.
The Belize-flagged vessel, carrying 9,000 Metric Tonnes of palm oil with 23 crew members onboard, issued an urgent distress call at about 0730 hrs on 27 Sep 2026 following main engine failure and rapid ballast tank flooding, which caused the ship to tilt dangerously.
Responding swiftly, ICGS Vishwast was immediately dispatched to the scene. Demonstrating high operational readiness, a specialist ICG Damage Control Team boarded the unstable vessel under challenging conditions. Deploying submersible de-flooding pumps and advanced damage-control equipment, the team swiftly arrested the leakage, blanked two damaged seawater pipelines, and contained a third fractured line.
To reinforce the operations, the Indian Coast Guard has also diverted a Pollution Control Vessel (PCV) and an additional Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) to the location for augmented pollution response and continuous, round-the-clock monitoring of the situation.
Through seamless coordination between ICGS Vishwast's specialized team and the vessel's crew, concurrent cargo transfer and de-flooding operations were executed, effectively stabilizing the tanker and eliminating the threat of capsizing.
Simultaneously, ICG Dornier aircraft launched from Bhubaneswar for real-time aerial surveillance. A minor palm-oil sheen initially observed near the vessel on 27 Sep was confirmed fully dissipated during follow-up aerial sorties on 28 Sep. Strict pollution-response protocols remain active to safeguard the marine ecosystem.
In a synchronized multi-agency effort, Paradip Port Authority tug Dolphin took the stabilized MT Seagull 9 under tow towards the anchorage area off Paradip. Main engine repairs are currently underway with assistance from ICGS Vishwast’s technical team.
ICGS Vishwast, alongside the deployed specialized assets, remains on scene maintaining an active sentinel watch and providing continuous operational support.
(Video: Indian Coast Guard)
Shrirang Kahale retweeted
Checkout my blog post on Airtel's plan on RPKI RoV for it's Indian downstream routes - anuragbhatia.com/post/2026/0…
#bgp #RPKI #RoV
Shrirang Kahale retweeted
Getting independent IP address space is only the beginning. Running it is the real work.
At @apnic’s #APNIC62, I gave a lightning talk on “The Solo Operator’s Administrative Reality”—what it actually takes to operate your own ASN and Internet number resources as a solo network operator.
APNIC/RIR fees and budgeting. IPv4 and IPv6. BGP operations. IPTTTH. DDoS and prefix withdrawals. WHOIS and privacy. Incident response. Host/device responsibility. Legal liability.
Independent IP resources. Personal responsibility.
Watch the talk: youtu.be/U5Ej3F72Vvc?t=2508
#IPTTTH #BGP #IPv6
Shrirang Kahale retweeted
Flight acceptance hot test of CE20 cryogenic engine earmarked for the C32 upper stage of upcoming LVM3 mission at uprated thrust conditions of 220kN is successfully carried out at ISRO Propulsion Complex, Mahendragiri on September 09, 2026.
Performance of the LOX Tank Pressurization Module (LTPM) meant for the C32 stages for Gaganyaan missions was also successfully demonstrated in this test.
Crazy
Shrirang Kahale retweeted
Updates from the NTSB on the runway overrun of the 21 Air 767 in Miami. All times = number of seconds before end of the Flight data recorder.
-0:30: Nose gear + Right main landing gear touchdown at 158 kt ground speed
-0:23: brakes applied, 146 kt
-0:19: Left MLG touchdown, 134 kt
-0:15: Brakes released, 120 kt; throttles “increased to values consistent with go-around thrust”
-0:11: throttles reduced to idle, brakes reapplied, 117 kt
-0:07: Lateral, longitudinal, and vertical accelerations change, 96 kt
-0:00: Final ground speed 65 kt
“No indication in the reported data that speedbrakes or thrust reversers were deployed.”
Shrirang Kahale retweeted
Continuing the relief effort in Nepal.
Another Indian Air Force C-17 aircraft took off carrying 37.5 tonnes of relief supplies including medicines and food items.
#Nepal #HADR #HADROps #IndiaNepal #NeighbourhoodFirst
@DefenceMinIndia @SpokespersonMoD
@HQ_IDS_India
@adgpi
@indiannavy
@NDRFHQ
Neighbours. Friends. First Responders. 🇮🇳🇳🇵
In response to the devastating flash floods in Nepal, the #IAF has swiftly deployed a C-130J aircraft carrying 10 tonnes of essential relief materials and medical supplies.
Additional air effort by C-17 and C-130 aircraft will transport further relief supplies, with helicopters earmarked for rescue and evacuation operations.
From the skies to the ground—responding with speed, agility, and precision, delivering hope when it matters most.
#Nepal #IAF #HADR #HADROps #IndiaNepal #NeighbourhoodFirst #HumanitarianAssistance
@DefenceMinIndia @SpokespersonMoD
@HQ_IDS_India
@adgpi
@NDRFHQ
Shrirang Kahale retweeted
A second flight has just taken off, carrying 37.5 tonnes of HADR material, medicines & food packets for Nepal.
India remains in close and continuous touch with the Nepalese authorities. We will continue to strongly support the ongoing relief efforts.
🇮🇳🇳🇵
Shrirang Kahale retweeted
People forget how old this tech is
PoC in 2017 useable against router and hard drives
cyber.bgu.ac.il/xled-malware…
But it goes back to at least 2002
wired.com/2002/03/blinking-l…
PDF
applied-math.org/optical_tem…
I got to work with these exfil methods in 2012 to 2014 with varied success
Researchers pulled a 256-bit encryption key out of a device by filming its power LED.
The status light on a smart card reader flickers in sync with the chip's power draw, and that power draw leaks the key. They recovered a full ECDSA key from 16 meters away, through a window, using a hijacked security camera. No malware, no contact, just video of a status light.
The trick: a camera's rolling shutter turns 60 frames per second into 60,000 brightness samples per second.
The light that tells you a device is on tells an attacker what it is computing.
Proof, Ben-Gurion University 2023: nassiben.com/video-based-cry…
