2026-08-04
Electric Boat’s 27,000 Workers Are What Makes the US Navy’s Nuclear Submarine Force One Of A Kind
General Dynamics Electric Boat received the largest award in its 127-year history on July 29, 2026: a $76.6 billion package that includes $42.1 billion for nine Virginia-class attack submarines, $29.5...
US Navy Iowa-Class Battleship USS Wisconsin: 57,000 Tons, 9 Sixteen-Inch Guns, and Not One Round Ever Fired at an Enemy Battleship.
USS Wisconsin was built in Philadelphia in 1,177 days and launched on December 7, 1943, two years after Pearl Harbor. The Iowa-class battleship screened Halsey's carriers and shelled Japan, fired...
Energizing a Vacuum Tube Flip-Flop Module of the IBM 604
Taking a break from ogling microscopic features in Intel’s semiconductor processors, [Ken Shirriff] is back to instead poking at decidedly macroscopic pluggable modules from the 1948 IBM 604 Electronic Calculator....
Dave Bautista reportedly 'in talks' to take over the role of Kratos in Amazon's God of War series
Ryan Hurst had to leave the show after a severe on-set injury.
Dia becomes Arc
On Friday, I had an automatic update install for Dia, and it brought keyboard shortcut and trackpad gestures for switching between spaces. As someone who uses Dia on a daily...
US Navy Battleship USS Tennessee Survived Pearl Harbor Because USS West Virginia Was Moored Beside Her and Took the Torpedoes Hits
USS Tennessee was moored inboard of USS West Virginia on December 7, 1941, and survived because her neighbor absorbed the torpedoes. Two armor-piercing bombs struck her turrets, fires from USS...
China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic
For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition
Clears
Move beyond AI coding to Agentic Software Delivery Discussion | Link
This Is How Observability Starts - With Modeling Pipeline Runs
Learn why modeling pipeline runs as first-class entities is the missing foundation for reliable observability in ETL and data processing systems.
The original ethernet cable was canonically '1968 Corvette yellow' to distinguish it from a power cable—because you literally had to drill into it to install it
Accidental electrocutions were on the mind back in the 1980s.
[Sponsor] MCP vs. REST: The Right Way to Connect Agents to Your API
REST serves the developers building against your API. MCP serves the agents now trying to use it. Most teams treat these as competing standards and have to pick one. They’re...
Rindler
Automate the web work your team does by hand Discussion | Link
Attackers Can Subliminally Implant a Backdoor at Low Sample Count Without Prompt Access
Work done at Redwood Research, quick, non-exhaustive update on results from a larger project. Thanks to @SebastianP for the initial pitch and feedback throughout and to @egan for comments on...
John Ternus Has Rehired Former Hardware VP Laura Legros
Juli Clover, MacRumors: Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus is rehiring Laura Legros, a former vice president of hardware engineering who retired from Apple in 2022, reports Bloomberg. Legros previously managed...
Doctor Who's most controversial pairing officially returning next month — but there's a catch
There are always more stories for The Doctor and their companion - and a brand-new one featuring Thirteen and Yaz is just around the corner.
2026-08-03
Big Walk ignores 'friendslop' trends, and is better for it
A co-op game for friends with attention spans.
The Information on Apple’s Unusual Use of iCloud for Confidential Work
Aaron “Homeboy” Tilley, reporting for The Information (paywalled without gift links, alas, but MacRumors has a summary): When new employees join Apple, the company often issues them an iPhone and...
Selective Identity
Generally, when you have an identity of X, you are likely to be influenced to stay within the socially acceptable boundaries of identity X. Identity boundaries can often be destructive,...
Xbox's disc-to-digital plan could start in August, new leaks say
Recent leaks provide a roadmap of Xbox's apparent disc-to-digital program, and fans could get a confirmation sooner than expected.
Why biological weapons are scary, and what we can do about it
What’s the biggest thing you think you can take in a fight? According to a YouGov poll, 6% of Americans reckoned they could beat a grizzly bear bare-handed. But lest...
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