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    Four astronauts are now inexorably bound for the Moon

    10,427 km, 6,479 mi. Roughly "New York to Tokyo" distance. This also means that Artemis II will break Apollo 13's record for deepest spaceflight, by about 6000km. Also the first woman, person of color, and non-American to leave LEO.
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    Four astronauts are now inexorably bound for the Moon

    The Orion capsule is no longer attached to the upper stage that brought them up, but they were sharing an orbit so it was used as a maneuvering target for tests.
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    Trump FCC prohibits import and sale of new Wi-Fi routers made outside US

    You’re making the mistake of taking their explanation at face value. This rule will be conveniently “delayed” as soon as all the bribe checks clear.
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    Trump FCC prohibits import and sale of new Wi-Fi routers made outside US

    Love to replace my 15W router with a 125W Sandy Bridge. Very efficient.
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    TCL’s German QLED ban puts pressure on TV brands to be more honest about QDs

    If you don't have an extremely bright room, OLEDs tend to be better at the high end. Samsung QD-OLEDs are usually slightly better than LG WOLEDs at the same tier.
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    Microsoft removes even more Microsoft account workarounds from Windows 11 build

    https://cachyos.org/
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    New research claiming passkeys can be stolen is pure nonsense

    Skeptical reporting instead of just regurgitating press releases, sadly rare now.
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    EPA plans to ignore science, stop regulating greenhouse gases

    They know and don't care.
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    Lawmakers writing NASA’s budget want a cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket

    Cancel Gateway and EUS, seems like an easy call as they don’t provide any capability we actually need.
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    The first Corvette hypercar? Chevrolet’s 1,250 hp ZR1X hybrid breaks cover.

    See, Ars does review hybrids!
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    Ars Live: Four space journalists debate whether NASA is really going to Mars

    IMO getting people to Mars and back is a 50-year project if we started funding it at Apollo levels right now. One-way suicide mission could probably be done in the 2040s.
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    FCC threatens EchoStar licenses for spectrum that SpaceX wants to use

    Yep. Tmo had to divest Boost, enough spectrum licenses to create a viable 4th carrier, and like a decade of roaming. Afaik their subscriber count is pretty bad though.
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    Commercial fusion power companies moving toward test systems

    Whatever happened to the LockMart compact fusion project? I'm guessing they shelved it at some point, but it would be nice to get a final readout on the issues they had.
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    Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20 billion search deal on the line

    Perplexity just raised a new round at $18B valuation. Just buy that and get rid of traditional search altogether.
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    Civilization VII, one month later: The community and developers chime in

    Honestly, starting with 4 all civ games have shipped with some kind of major issues. Generally the base game is in good shape after like 6 months but the game isn’t fully complete until the expansion comes out. Couple years later.
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    Report: M4 MacBook Air “as early as this week,” new iPads shortly after

    The M3 airs have been going on sale for about $200 off fairly regularly since the Pros got the M4 update.
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    Review: 2025 Genesis Electrified GV70 is charming, but it needs updates

    Wonder when Genesis is going to get their version of the Kia EV9/Ioniq 9. Seems like an easy win.
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    As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders

    ATV+ just gets you a discount. But you do have to have an Apple account to get the season package.
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    Civilization VII review: A major overhaul solves Civ’s oldest problems

    The DLC plans for this one are obvious and gross (no Ghandi, no UK, etc). Gonna wait for a bundle after the inevitable expansion pack.
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    Google Pixel 4a’s ruinous “Battery Performance” update is a bewildering mess

    You’re not allowed to use the credit on devices that are on sale anyway.