2026-06-19
France Left Europe’s Joint Fighter Program to Build the Dassault Rafale Alone — and the Export Numbers Suggest It Was Right
Rafale Won Europe’s Fighter Competition–and the Eurofighter Typhoon Shows Why: For years, military aviation enthusiasts have debated which fighter is superior: the French-built Rafale or the multinational Eurofighter Typhoon. The...
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Turkey Built a Tank to Prove It Didn’t Need Anyone — Then a German Embargo Left It Without an Engine
Turkey's Altay was meant to prove the country could build its own main battle tank and shed its reliance on foreign armor. Then a German arms embargo over Turkey's 2019...
Building A Panel Mount OLED Display
There are a million and one cheap OLED display modules out there. The only problem is, they’re all assembled on bare PCBs with slight differences, and that frustrates efforts to...
Does it feel any different to be reverse-chiral life?
I will examine the concept of chirality (the difference between a right hand and a left hand, generalized) and its relevance to philosophy of mind. Philosophy of mind often deals...
Midjourney's Spa, or when sci-fi tries to become mundane
Midjourney has just announced their jump from being just the "makes funny images" AI company to being the "revolutionises diagnostics and human medicine forever" AI company, as a side gig....
Midjourney's Spa, or when sci-fi becomes mundane
Midjourney has just announced their jump from being just the "makes funny images" AI company to being the "revolutionises diagnostics and human medicine forever" AI company, as a side gig....
MrBeast, James Patterson reveal release for Hunger Games-like thriller
Jimmy Donaldson's Beast Games becomes dystopian real life in this weird book coming September 2026
Reinforcement learning towards broadly and persistently beneficial models
This is an unofficial automated linkpost. We find that reinforcement learning on realistic scenarios targeting beneficial traits can produce broad improvements across dozens of benchmarks measuring aligned and beneficial behavior....
The U.S. Air Force Almost Turned the SR-71 Into a Missile-Armed Interceptor — Then Two of the Three Prototypes Were Lost
Before the SR-71 became a legendary spy plane, the Air Force nearly turned it into a missile-armed interceptor — the YF-12, fitted with fire-control radar and AIM-47 missiles. Only three...
From classroom to credits
From Aerospace to Spider-Man: How an Engineering Degree Paved the Way for a Career in the Arts (and a Sci-Tech Award!) The post From classroom to credits appeared first on...
2026-06-18
The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books...
The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought. “It is a well-known feature of civil society that nervous middle managers...
The U.S. Air Force Retired The F-117 Nighthawk In 2008 — Then I Found Out Why Some Of Them Never Stopped Flying
The F-117 Nighthawk, the world's first stealth aircraft, was officially retired in 2008 — yet a portion of the fleet still flies classified missions from the Nevada desert. Standing before...
2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud
You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute
The distillation double bind: Distilling misaligned models either transfers misalignment or it doesn't
Suppose we have a dangerous misaligned AI that can fool alignment audits, and distill it into a student model. Two things can happen:Misalignment doesn’t transfer to the student. If so,...
Fallout season 3 adds 3 to cast, including Manny Jacinto
The third season of Prime Video's post-apocalyptic series Fallout will begin filming in Los Angeles this month with new cast members.
Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over...
Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown. “This is absolutely crazy. It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That...
Why Global Entrepreneurs Are Treating Second Citizenship as a Business Asset
A secondary citizenship can provide an enhancement of freedom of movement, geopolitical risk or regulations, along with access to banks, thus allowing entrepreneurs to better plan for an uncertain world...
Grok by SpaceXAI for Word
Draft, restructure & tighten wording from panel inside Word Discussion | Link
Instead of wishlisting its game, the developer of my favorite Next Fest demo wants you to play anyone else's: 'There are some genuinely great creators in this fest who deserve the attention'
It's an unconventional marketing strategy, but I'll allow it.
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