I left state secrets on the train - I'm proof you can recover from the biggest mistake of your lifehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmwyz4g4ln4no
Top civil servant Richard Jackson recounts that fateful day and how he recovered in the aftermath.
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A good TA: pricelesshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145291/a-good-ta-priceless
These are images of quizzes I took in 3.091, Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry, in the fall of 1980. One is my very first exam at MIT, and getting 49 out of 100 was a soul-crushing experience. I can still picture the TA, Leszek Pawlowicz, PhD ’87, returning my paper. He had a big smile on…
SpaceX says big AI growth fueled revenue jumphttps://www.theverge.com/science/1014150/spacex-q3-2026-earnings
SpaceX announced revenues of $14.6 billion in its Q3 earnings on Tuesday, which it says was a growth of 161 percent year-over-year "fueled by our Super Intelligence (SI) segment and accelerated growth in Connectivity." While its Space division posted a $7 million loss in income from operations, its Connectivity group posted income from operations $2.4 […]
Amazon is phasing out Fire HD tablets, but not without some big discounts firsthttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1014565/amazon-fire-hd-10-tablet-deal-sale
Amazon recently announced it’s phasing out its Fire HD tablets in favor of much pricier Alexa Tablets. While the days of getting an affordable, but good tablet from Amazon seem to be coming to an end, you can still get a fantastic deal on the ad-supported Amazon Fire HD 10. It has dropped to a […]
‘Too big to not fail’: Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providershttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/20/power-outage-google-datacentre-london-widespread-disruption
Our dependence on internet services of a few key tech companies leaves us vulnerable to cloud failures, bugs and more, experts say It happened again. A power outage hit a datacentre in London , and things cascaded from there: multiple banking services faltered, court hearings were put on hold and patients reported temporary glitches on the NHS app. The datacentre in question was in Google’s europe-west2-b zone, one of more than a dozen “zones” that the US search giant maintains in Europe to service its clients. Continue reading...
Giant ‘heat storms’ are scorching the Earth. This is the story of the biggest one on record. - Reutershttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMihgFBVV95cUxNQWpOMDVtV3hJb3gtblZzNWJzSTBXcDR6R1dWczYwM3RTd05PWDNaazEwc1VoY2YyeHRKbEhYbXhfN1Z4ejhzV1U4eXBoNGMxdHkxZHh3WGpmRFI5UV8tRUhTUWJjLUZNZTR2S3h4R0JNN0xmQ1ZmS1FQbVNEWDk1Y2N1Q1IwUQ
Giant ‘heat storms’ are scorching the Earth. This is the story of the biggest one on record. Reuters
