Russian frigate Admiral Essen’s electronic warfare and radar systems damaged by drone strike in Novorossiysk Bay: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/04/russian-frigate-admiral-essens-electronic.html
British Home Office plans to immediately begin seizing asylum seekers’ mobile phones and sim cards without the need for an arrest
have been condemned by a solicitor and anti-torture campaigners.
People who arrive by small boat and are sent to Manston processing centre in Kent will from Monday be eligible for searches for electronic devices, a minister has said,
with technology on site to download data.
Officials will be allowed to search inside the mouths of detainees…
These chunky toggle switches are nice - they can have upto 4 sets of contacts, each of which seem to have a bunch of poles each. These are momentary but there are some latching. Given the 'under license from Ericsson' label I assume they came off some comms kit originally. Now, I've just got to figure out how to mount them to something other than a panel.
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⚡ Anomalous electronic state opens pathway to room-temperature superconductivity
#superconductivity
Flux, which offers an AI-powered platform to design PCBs for electronic devices, raised $37M, including a $27M Series B led by 8VC and a $10M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/27/exclusive-flux-backed-8vc-raises-3…
Idiocy. Georgia's touchscreens are BALLOT MARKING DEVICES that print out a human-readable, electronically readable paper ballot The ballots then are fed to a machine counter whose accuracy is WAY better than humans. Hand-marked paper ballots are a recipe for chaos.
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Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Happy New Year everyone. While species are often named out of respect for famous people, one had never been named for a TV series. This changed in 2018 when scientists at University College of London named a Southern Ocean cocolithophorid phytoplankton "Syracosphaera azureaplaneta" after Sir David Attenborough's BBC Blue Planet series. They look lik…
Sources: HP, Dell, Acer, and Asus are considering sourcing memory chips from Chinese chipmakers; HP and Dell are currently qualifying DRAM products from CXMT (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supply-chain/h…