Independent garages are screwed with a lot of new cars, with things like radar sensors for active cruise control being classified as safety-critical systems that can only be installed and calibrated … (View Post)

“Right to repair” means that the manufacturer is compelled to sell the tools required to fix their products, in the case of cars that means letting independent garages buy the computers as well as th… (View Post)

Last week Ukraine bombed Engels airbase in Russia, and it was on fire for a week with much of the fuel storage destroyed. After six days of trying to contain the fires by the Russians, it got bombed … (View Post)

Sad news about the passing of actor and comedian Tony Slattery, only 65 years old. Those of us who grew up in the ‘90s will remember him as part of the British version of the improv show “Whose Line … (View Post)

Ha, so it seems that a Russian ship might have taken out another undersea cable in the Baltic - except that it was the wrong one, and there’s now major internet outages across Russia as a result. htt… (View Post)