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NATO jets intercepted and shot down an unidentified drone over Lithuania yesterday, marking one of the alliance's most direct responses yet to airspace violations in the Baltic region. The incident raises sharp questions about drone proliferation near NATO borders and how quickly autonomous aircraft are becoming instruments of geopolitical tension.
Shifting from hardware to the web's own history, CSS-Tricks — the beloved reference site that taught a generation of developers how to style the internet — appears to be in genuine limbo. Once acquired by Digital Ocean, the site has gone quiet, its future uncertain, which feels like a quiet loss for the open, educational web that so many builders grew up with.
And on the developer tooling front, Microsoft has shipped dot NET eleven Release Candidate one with go-live support, meaning teams can now run it in production. The release locks in C# fifteen and F# eleven as the default language versions and brings meaningful improvements to mobile and desktop testing, signaling that Microsoft's unified platform ambitions are very much still in motion.
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