2025-04-13
The F-5E Fighter Was No F-35 or F-22 (But Was a Powerhouse)
As a long-time defense acquisition analyst, one thing that jumped out at me while researching the F-5E Tiger II fighter was its sterling manufacturing record. Â From the first flight of...
Only 200 NGAD Needed: What Everyone Misses on the F-47 Fighter
On March 21, President Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Air Force Chief of Staff General David Allvin surprised the world by announcing a $20 billion contract with Boeing...
Scientists Detect "Strange Filaments" at the Heart of Our Galaxy
Researchers have zoomed in on the area surrounding the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy, and made a fascinating discovery: an alien superstructure of "strange filaments"...
Age of Empires 2's quest to conquer the strategy globe continues unabated as The Three Kingdoms DLC invades ancient China this May
Five new factions, three new campaigns, and camels wearing trebuchets all coming in the expansion.
The U.S. Navy’s Great Nuclear Attack Submarine Shortage Is Real
Not Enough U.S. Navy Submarines? Yes. There must be a way to counteract the growth of the Chinese and Russian navies. China has the world’s largest maritime branch, and Russia...
The Fantastic Optimus Alpha Approach to Data-Informed Retrospectives
TL; DR: Optimus Alpha Creates Useful Retrospective Format In this experiment, OpenAI’s new stealthy LLM Optimus Alpha demonstrated exceptional performance in team data analysis, quickly identifying key patterns in complex...
The Navy’s F-14 Tomcat Had a ‘Bad Engine’ Problem
When the F-14 Tomcat first entered service, it was powered by a pair of Pratt & Whitney TF30 engines that had been designed for the F-111B, which was more multi-role...
F-14 Tomcat vs. F/A-18 Hornet: Did the Navy Make the Wrong Call?
Over 50 years after it first flew and almost two decades after it was retired from service with the United States Navy, the military aviation enthusiast community’s love affair with...
Scientists Intrigued by Tree That Harnesses Electricity to Kill Its Enemies
For trees, lightning strikes are the great leveller. Stick your neck out by growing taller than the rest and you risk getting zapped into oblivion. Hundreds of millions of trees...
China’s Revolutionary J-50 Stealth Fighter Is Built for 1 Mission
The Challenge the U.S. Military in the Sky: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is well-known for its theatrics when introducing a new-generation weapon system, particularly tactical combat aircraft. The...
F/A-XX: The Navy’s New 6th-Generation NGAD Fighter Fails a Key Range Test
The Navy Might Have a F/A-XX Range Problem: The U.S. Navy and its aircraft carriers patrolling East Asia have a problem. They are often in range of Chinese anti-ship ballistic...
Russia’s T-72 Main Battle Tank Was Built for 1 Mission
It Was Built for WWIII Against NATO. It Now Fights in Ukraine: The T-72 main battle tank (MBT) is one of the most iconic and widely used tanks in the...
China’s J-50 6th-Generation Fighter Is Built for Just 1 Mission
Beat the U.S. Military in a War: China has been busy churning out naval ships and aircraft, and two new sixth-generation fighters are going through flight testing. The latest is...
Bottles of "Holy Water" Contaminated With Cholera Send European Tourists to the ICU
Researchers are warning that bottles of "holy water" from a well in Ethiopia could be laced with dangerous bacteria that could cause cholera. As detailed in a new report published...
Four Types of Disagreement
Published on April 13, 2025 11:22 AM GMTEpistemic status: a model I find helpful to make sense of disagreements and, sometimes, resolve them. I like to categorize disagreements using four...
What it’s like working for Elon
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Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 (one of the most popular AI app building tools), and the mind behind foundational JavaScript frameworks like Next.js...
John Romero's brutal megawad Sigil 2 has formally chainsawed its way into Bethesda's Doom + Doom 2 remaster
Doom's unofficial sixth episode is now considerably more official.
Five Ways Your Favorite Stablecoin Could Totally Fall Apart
Explore how DAI maintains its $1 peg through smart contracts, market belief, and simulations—plus key risks affecting stablecoins in volatile DeFi markets.
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