GPS is certainly handy when it works, but in wartime militaries jam it, and in peacetime they practice jamming it.

I have been reporting on the risks of domestic military GPS interference tests for years. Sadly, the NTSB is now investigating a fatal crash that may have a connection to jamming from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. spectrum.ieee.org/gps-crash-pr...

Safety Officials Probe Army GPS Jamming in Fatal Air Crash

Two pilots and two nurses died in medevac crash during electronic warfare tests

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Here's my story about @tsbcanada-mirror.bsky.social report into the Titan implosion. Lots of missed chances to inspect the sub, including a boarding of OceanGate's support ship by armed officers from Canada Border Services Agency (not previously reported). www.wired.com/story/canada...

Canada Missed Chances to Inspect OceanGate’s Titan Before Fatal Implosion

A new report shows that government agencies failed to communicate and includes recommendations for stronger oversight in a bid to avert future disasters.

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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has released its report into the Titan implosion. Its conclusions echo the US Coast Guard: OceanGate avoided regulations & had no real knowledge how long its non-standard carbon fiber hull would last. Full story to follow www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports...

Only FIFA would sell me a branded clear stadium bag that is TOO LARGE to take into the stadium today.

Seattle! If you're free next Friday or Saturday, support live arts & science at Centrifuge: 5 world premiere short plays imagined by professional playwrights & science writers. I'll be introducing one of the plays. Theater off Jackson @ 730pm. Pay what you can. theatreoffjackson.org/event/centri...

- firefighters do safety drill at Boring Company tunnel and get chemical burns/permanent scars - ff say they weren't warned - Boring Co blames firefighters - NV OSHA cites Boring Co - Steve Davis calls NV Gov office, has meeting - citations/proposed fines go away techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/f...

Firefighters received chemical burns at Elon Musk's Boring Company construction site | TechCrunch

The firefighters had to be treated at a hospital and received permanent scars, according to a report from Fortune. But the Boring Company was not fined after it met with state officials.

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I went to the launch of the world's first new subsea habitat in 40 years. The Vanguard will be deployed near the Florida Keys early next year and DEEP, the company behind it, promises more and larger sea bases soon... www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/07/1...

The first new subsea habitat in 40 years is about to launch

Unveiled by the buzzy startup Deep, Vanguard will let teams of scientists live and work on the seabed for a week at a time.

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MIT Tech Review's 10 Climate Tech Companies To Watch is always worth a read. This year, I was lucky enough to write about one - Kairos. No flashy fusion gadgets or improbable designs, just a sensible, safer fission reactor that could make a real difference. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

New from me: first read of the US Coast Guard report into the OceanGate Titan implosion. It's a litany of mistakes, evasions, and corner cutting, for which CEO Stockton Rush gets much of the blame. www.wired.com/story/us-coa...

US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible Implosion Singles Out OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush

A report on the death of five people in the Titan submersible blames design, maintenance, and inspection flaws for its failure. “It all came back to Mr. Rush,” the head of the investigation told WIRED...

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We sat down with @rcalo.bsky.social , a professor at the iSchool with a joint appointment at the University of Washington School of Law, to discuss some of the most pressing challenges at the intersection of law and technology, as well as his upcoming book. Read the full Q&A: bit.ly/46o522i

Q&A: Ryan Calo on why 'we need to take a page from the Amish'

Ryan Calo holds a joint appointment as a professor in the Information School and as the Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor at the UW School of La...

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A colourised photo of the Graf Zeppelin over Rio de Janeiro in 1930? Nope. It's LTA Research's 'Pathfinder 1' over San Francisco Bay in 2025. An excellent, new article just out by @meharris.bsky.social‬ writing for the @spectrum.ieee.org journal. Can't wait to book passage. (📸 LTA Research) | 🛩️ 🎈 🥇

LTA Research's Massive Airship Combines Luxury and Sustainability in a Big Way

The age of airships returns with LTA Research's Pathfinder 1, a 124-meter helium giant, soaring over San Francisco Bay. Funded by Google cofounder Sergey Brin, this milestone marks a step towards sust...

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I was lucky enough to be the first journalist to see the completed Pathfinder 1, the prototype next-gen helium airship from Sergey Brin's LTA Research, now flying over SF Bay. I also had a sit down with the startup's CEO, Brett Crozier. Story in IEEE Spectrum: spectrum.ieee.org/lta-research...

I'll be on BBC News at 1245 Pacific/845pm UK time to talk about the new BBC/Discovery OceanGate documentary, Implosion. Netflix is also releasing a documentary, Titan, in a few weeks, which I had a hand in. www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

Here's my last story for Anthropocene Magazine: a look at Deep Fission, a startup hoping to deploy subterranean fission reactors a mile underground. Deep nuclear could be cheaper and safer than today's light water reactors - with built-in waste disposal www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/nucl...

Happy Twin Peaks Day, my friends ☕️

Please please please do not start using FOIA systems as a form of protest. No one outside of a handful of FOIA officers at most will ever see it, and it'll just clog things up for anyone actually trying squeeze valuable information out of the government.

89% of the world’s population want their govts to “do more” to fix climate change. However, those 89% don’t know that they are the overwhelming majority — that most other people on Earth also want govts to take stronger climate action #ClimateAction www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Globally representative evidence on the actual and perceived support for climate action - Nature Climate Change

Global support and cooperation are necessary for successful climate action. Large-scale representative survey results show that most of the population around the world is willing to support climate ac...

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Some personal news: I'm excited to expand my OceanGate reporting into a book, tentatively titled The Deep End, and doubly excited to be working with Norton, one of my very favourite publishers. Busy times ahead!

At the risk of stating the obvious, there's nothing "efficient" about simply ceasing government services. That's called "failure."

the text-only NPR site is an absolute delight for someone who's trying to simultaneously lessen my consumption of news while still staying somewhat abreast of current events: text.npr.org

Anyone other journalists getting cancellations of (non-political) interviews with people in US federal departments/facilities? I was told the Dept of Energy has ordered a media blackout.

Some personal news: TechCrunch and I have decided to part ways. It's been a learning experience and I met a lot of great folks while I was there. I'm on the hunt, so if anybody is looking for an experienced newsroom leader with a history of training up young reporters to break news, give me a shout.

NEW: Given Musk’s role advising President-elect Donald Trump on ways to slash regulations and government oversight, Boring and the Vegas Loop project might be a harbinger for the country. w/ City Cast Last Vegas

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight

Given Musk’s role advising President-elect Donald Trump on ways to slash regulations and government oversight, Boring and the Vegas Loop project might be a harbinger for the country.

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I was among those who covered the immediate aftermath of the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Politicians may not want to talk about. But it happened. Here's how it was captured by the insurrectionists themselves. projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...

What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol

ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.

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Interesting! 2 involuntary disengagements and 7 safety-related voluntary disengagements coast to coast

Alex Roy@alexroy144.bsky.social · 2y ago

Eight years ago, Elon Musk claimed Teslas would be capable of driving coast-to-coast without human intervention by the end of 2017. The Cannonball Run Is The Nurburgring of Autonomy. So we set a record in a Tesla.

This kind of gamesmanship with public records requests does not serve the public interest. Is it illegal? Maybe, but agencies know that news orgs (and especially freelancers) have fewer and fewer resources to fight.

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2y ago

Another anti-transparency practice from the Seattle Police Department: Not only do they "group" multiple records requests into one megarequest, if you fail to pick up even one installment of even one request "on time" (say, if you go on vacation), every request you've ever filed goes in the garbage.

My latest for @anthropocenemag.bsky.social - when it comes to carbon, should the polluter always pay? www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/12/shou...

Does the road to clean energy run through dirty mines?

You can’t scale green power without scaling gray industry.

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When people talk about Kash Patel and Trump "going after" journalists it doesn't just mean suing or trying to arrest them. It also means filing demands for information about their reporting and embroiling them in legal proceedings they have nothing to do with.

Loads more extra detail in the story, including links to Russian espionage, propaganda outlets and more

She Was a Russian Socialite and Influencer. Cops Say She’s a Crypto Laundering Kingpin

Western authorities say they’ve identified a network that found a new way to clean drug gangs’ dirty cash. WIRED gained exclusive access to the investigation.

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