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Starlink Speed Cap Disrupts Ukraine’s Fast Combat Drones Without Warning

Ukraine says SpaceX quietly capped Starshield terminals at 100 mph, causing connection drops and forcing combat-drone missions to be disrupted.

Elisabeth Braw’s new book Undersea War examines how cable damage, sabotage fears, and gray-zone conflict threaten the systems powering global connectivity.

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A new LMU study finds people credit responsive AI with awareness but still reserve consciousness for humans, exposing a stubborn biological bias.

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Marvel’s newest Hulk is Beaker from The Muppets, transformed by gamma radiation and Pym Particles in a gloriously chaotic crossover comic.

J.K. Rowling reads from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at the Easter Egg Roll at the White House in 2010

A new BBC documentary series will examine J.K. Rowling’s rise, Harry Potter’s cultural impact, and the controversies surrounding the author.

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Apple’s new Home Collection brings LG and Schneider Electric cameras, locks, thermostats and sensors into one Apple Home ecosystem led by HomeView.

Marvel’s Zodiac will be a dark, globe-spanning Disney+ spy thriller, with London production planned for 2027 and a mysterious comic-book connection.

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Your older graphics card may have more life left in it. These settings, maintenance tips, and upscaling tools can raise frame rates without costly new hardware.

James Webb’s view of galaxy cluster XLSSC 122 reveals an unexpectedly dense dark-matter core and the earliest known intracluster light in the cosmos.

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A hacked Gemtek W1700K router becomes a receive-only SDR, streaming up to 320 Msps of raw radio data over 10GbE to a Linux PC.

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Reverse engineer Maurice Heumann used AI coding agents to rebuild Modern Warfare 2’s 2009 PC binary into playable source, raising hard questions about copyright.