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As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors  —  The proliferation of cheap, powerful GPS jammers has airline operators, shipping firms and militaries alike scrambling for navigation alternatives

OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal


Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI taking its contract has now claimed OpenAI’s most senior hardware executive. Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI in […]



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‘npx workos’

My thanks, once again, to WorkOS for sponsoring this week at DF. npx workos is a CLI tool, replete with cool ASCII art, that launches an AI agent, powered by Claude, that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integration directly into your existing codebase. It’s not a template generator. It reads your code, understands your stack, and writes an integration that fits.

The WorkOS agent then type-checks and builds, feeding any errors back to itself to fix. See how it works for yourself.

Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)

Daniel Boffey / The Guardian:
Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub  —  Iran's targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare

Mega Evolutions are Pokémon's most annoying battle gimmick

Mega Evolutions have been part of Pokémon battles since 2013 — and have been annoying the entire time. Here's why