It may or may not have been a deliberate thing at the time, but it’s definitely true that the Russians have now, three years later, resorted to stripping microchips from consumer electronics to be re… (View Post)

“Into The Groove” is now equidistant between today and “We’ll Meet Again” by Vera Lynn! Okay this gets scary quickly. (View Post)

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)