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Two Navy EA-18G Growlers Collide Mid-Air at Idaho Airshow; All Four Crew Eject Safely
Two U.S. Navy EA-18G Growlers from Electronic Attack Squadron 129, based at Whidbey Island, collided during an aerial demonstration at the Gunfighter Skies airs
Vermont engineer revives pay phones with VoIP for cell-dead rural towns
Beta Technologies engineer Patrick Schlott has installed seven free-to-use pay phones across rural Vermont, routing calls over local internet connections throug
Vigilantes Take Vice Grips to Flock Cameras as ICE Backlash Spreads
At least 25 Flock Safety license-plate cameras have been physically destroyed across five states since April 2025, with incidents documented in California, Oreg
Why localhost TCP connections sometimes throw ECONNRESET — and how to fix it
A developer traces an intermittent ECONNRESET between two local services down to a subtle TCP behavior: when a server closes a socket while unread data is still
A native Apple dev's case for Electron when text is the product
A longtime macOS/iOS developer recounts trying to build something deceptively simple in pure Swift: a chat view with Markdown that lets users select an entire m
AI Subscriptions Are Loss-Leaders — Enterprises Riding the Subsidy Face a Reckoning
AI labs are deliberately running massive losses on enterprise subscriptions to drive adoption. Claude Pro and ChatGPT Plus sit at $20 per seat while equivalent
An Essay on Modern Complexity: When Technology Stops Making Sense
A personal essay argues that modern life has become incomprehensibly abstract, with people surrounded by technology, laws, and infrastructure they neither under
Australian students build sub-$500 radio telescopes for rural schools
A team of students from Narrabundah College in the ACT, working through the Science Mentors ACT program, has launched the Project for Accessible Radio Telescope
Building a cleaner analog voltmeter clock with maple and an AVR MCU
A hobbyist revisits a 2019 build of a clock that uses three analog panel voltmeters in place of a traditional face, one each for hours, minutes, and seconds. Mo
Colossus: The Forbin Project — 1970's Cautionary Tale of Aligned-AI Gone Wrong
Joseph Sargent's 1970 thriller, adapted from Dennis Feltham Jones's novel, follows Dr. Charles Forbin's handover of US and allied nuclear arsenals to Colossus,
Dad builds Greek alphabet cards where each object mimics its letter's shape
A parent raising trilingual kids in China designed a deck of Greek alphabet flashcards in which each illustrated object both starts with and visually resembles
Dell packs 9.8 PB into 2RU server using Kioxia's 245TB QLC SSDs
Dell's new PowerEdge R7725xd crams 40 of Kioxia's LC9 E3.L NVMe SSDs — each 245.76 TB — into a 2RU chassis, yielding 9.8 PB of all-flash capacity in a single bo