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Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which gave employees around the world space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-sh

Microsoft shuts the door on The Garage, the central program behind its hackathon and maker spaces
Microsoft is winding down The Garage, the 17-year-old program behind its Global Hackathon and employee maker spaces, according to an internal FAQ. Some Garage spaces could be restricted to employees as early as Friday, and Microsoft says the hackathon team is reimagining the event.

Trump says Starlink access restored,
but Ukraine reports more interruptions

The president said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk lifted restrictions on Ukraine’s access to Starshield,
but Ukrainian soldiers said the service was still disrupted Friday.
https://www.

Trump says Starlink access restored, but Ukraine reports more interruptions
The president said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk lifted restrictions on Ukraine’s access to Starshield, but Ukrainian soldiers said the service was still disrupted Friday.

Sources: SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure firm to secure a minimum of 80K US cell sites, as it eyes a wireless carrier launch (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Eleven days after Ukraine's Starshield terminals started mysteriously malfunctioning,
there is still nobody in Washington who will take responsibility,
while Trump administration officials continue pointing fingers firmly at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
https://…

Analysis: Ukraine’s Starshield access is still crippled, and no one is taking the blame
Eleven days after Ukraine's Starshield terminals started mysteriously malfunctioning, there is still nobody in Washington who wants to take responsibility, while Trump administration officials continue pointing fingers firmly at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 23 that U.S. President Donald Trump had ordered Musk on Oct. 21 to lift the restrictions on Ukraine's Starshield terminals, claiming Trump was "frustrated the system's speeds remained capped at around 100 mi

"Bullshit universities: the future of automated education"
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02340-8
"[…] The dream that AI could teach students effectively neglects the importance of ‘learning how’ in order to ‘learn that’, that teachers are also role models, and t…

My brother described headless guitars as invoking a kind of body horror among guitarists, similar to the reflexive feelings that surround the subject of amputation, and I can't help thinking he's right.
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“Guitarists with other brands will play their Strandberg at home then get on stage with their signature guitars”: Ola Strandberg on the fight to change the public perception of headless guitars
Headless guitars are on the up, but they are still shunned by a large portion of guitar players

What’s Earth’s dominant species by mass?
https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/27/whats-earths-dominant-species-by-mass/

This doesn't add up. According to a UK government spokesperson:
"NCSC was able to make 50,000 proactive notifications [before public disclosure] to advise business and other organisations on what actions they should take" regarding the #PHP debacle.
But I am yet to hear of a single PHP-using site, either in the UK or elsewhere in the world, that hasn't been completely caught on the hop by this.
#php2shell

Hoe zou het voelen om te weten dat door jouw besluit tientallen mensen gedood worden?
Ukraine Loses Starlink Access as Musk Says Zelenskiy Went “Too Far” | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/216600/ukraine-loses-starlink-access-musk-z…

Cool! TIL from a chatbot — #Voyager spacecraft “landmark” incoming, November 18th!
(We need a better word for this) #NASA