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Tabloid reports linking 10 missing and dead scientists spur FBI probe

FBI suspects foreign spies may be targeting scientists with access to government secrets.

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Rivian R2 production has started despite tornado damage to factory

The company's all-important mass-market EV is just about ready to start heading to customers.

Physicists think they've solved the muon mystery

Results dash hopes for a fifth force but provide very precise proof of Standard Model and QFT.

New court ruling blocks many of the government's anti-renewable policies

Added layers of review singling out renewable energy have little legal basis.

Dropbox Collaborates with GitHub to Reduce Monorepo Size from 87GB to 20GB

Dropbox reduced its backend monorepo from 87GB to 20GB by optimizing Git delta compression in collaboration with GitHub. The changes improved clone times, CI performance, and developer velocity, highlighting how repository storage inefficiencies can impact large-scale engineering workflows. By Leela Kumili

As EV batteries improve, ChargePoint debuts 600 kW fast charger

The new design is cheaper and will even fit in convenience store parking lots.

Our favorite gear at Sea Otter Classic wasn't the bikes—it was the accessories

A Bluetooth suction-cup rack and a palm-sized tow rope were among our most practical finds.

Investors lost billions on Trump’s memecoin. Another gala won’t fix that.

If Dems take Congress, Trump may face reckoning for “pay-to-play” memecoin galas.

Presentation: Panel: Building a Culture that Works

The panelists share insights on evolving company culture. They discuss leveraging feedback loops, lending social capital, and the friction between legacy bureaucracy and agile engineering. The panel explains how to maintain cohesion in remote teams and use interviews to uncover the true "unmanicured" culture of a firm. By Nicky Wrightson, Suhail Patel, Lesley Cordero, Matthew Card, Natan Žabkar No

Cloudflare Sandboxes Reach General Availability, Giving AI Agents Persistent Isolated Environments

Cloudflare has released Sandboxes and Containers into general availability, providing persistent isolated Linux environments for AI agent workloads. New capabilities include secure credential injection via egress proxy, PTY terminal support, persistent code interpreters, filesystem watching, and snapshot-based session recovery. Active CPU pricing charges only for used cycles. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Article: When a Cloud Region Fails: Rethinking High Availability in a Geopolitically Unstable World

Sovereign fault domains are failure boundaries defined by legal, political, or physical jurisdiction rather than hardware topology. The article maps geopolitical events to known distributed-systems failure modes, argues multi-region should replace multi-AZ as the HA baseline for systems crossing jurisdictions, and outlines design patterns, chaos experiments, and an ALE model to justify the spend.

Cloudflare Outlines MCP Architecture as Enterprises Confront Security and Governance Risks

Cloudflare has outlined a reference architecture for scaling Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments across the enterprise, positioning centralized governance, remote server infrastructure, and cost controls as key requirements for production-ready agent systems. By Matt Foster