For nearly five decades, the Boeing E-3 Sentry has been the eye in the sky of the US Air Force. Once a fleet of 31 jets, the number of these sophisticated Airborne Warning and Control System airframes has dwindled to half that number. Now, the 16 survivors are on theContinue Reading
Sean Duffy, the US Secretary of Transportation, has today announced that the latest air traffic controller hiring window will open at midnight on Friday, April 17. Only a small percentage of applicants make it all the way through to the FAA Academy and eventually into a career as an airContinue Reading
Integrals Power has secured funding under the UK government’s DRIVE35 Scale-up Feasibility Studies competition to assess scaling its LFP and LMFP cathode active material production—a program the company calls Project CATMAN. The study will map the manufacturing pathway from Integrals Power’s existing 20 tonne/year UK pilot line to a 100Continue Reading
Gas and diesel prices are causing many a fleet operator to take another look at the EV options available. With impeccable timing, Workhorse Group, a North American manufacturer of electric trucks, step vans, shuttles and buses, has announced a limited-time pricing promotion on its W56 electric step van lineup. EffectiveContinue Reading
Ubuntu raises its minimum RAM to 6GB despite global shortages, calling it an honesty bump for modern web browsing and multitasking…Read MoreContinue Reading
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In short: CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic on April 10, 2026, giving the Claude maker access to Nvidia GPU capacity across US data centres for production-scale AI workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal arrives one day after CoreWeave announced a $21 billion expansion of its Meta partnership…Continue Reading
If you care about privacy and don’t take too well to governments and Big Tech companies snooping on your messages, then Session has probably come up at some point. It’s a free, open source, end-to-end encrypted messaging app that doesn’t ask for your phone number or email to sign up.Continue Reading
France’s national digital directorate, DINUM, has announced (in French) it is moving its workstations from Windows to Linux. The announcement came out of an interministerial seminar held on April 8, organised jointly by the Directorate General for Enterprise (DGE), the National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI), and the StateContinue Reading
In case you’ve been asleep, what appears to be an increasingly mentally unstable Traitor 47 has further destabilized the middle east with a war nobody asked for or wanted. Most U.S. media coverage of The Traitor’s disastrous Iran war hasn’t been great, but they’ve still occasionally managed to communicate theContinue Reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officers arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home on Friday and then making threats at the company’s headquarters, police and the company said. Officers went to the home shortly after 4 a.m. because someone hadContinue Reading
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Fraunhofer IISB has developed a 750 kW permanent-magnet traction motor for hybrid-electric regional aircraft, hitting 8 kW/kg power density through a combination of thin-lamination electrical steel, hairpin windings and direct oil-spray cooling. The machine uses NO15 (0.15 mm) electrical steel—a thin-lamination grade that reduces eddy current and AC losses atContinue Reading