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Britain's Royal Air Force has confirmed it is using ground-based lasers and jammers to temporarily blind and disrupt hostile satellites during sensitive military operations. The revelation comes alongside a government estimate that losing GPS access could cost the UK economy roughly one point four billion pounds every single day, a figure that underscores just how deeply positioning technology is woven into modern economic life.
Shifting to the financial world, Brazil's regulated fund operator is now mirroring ownership records of selected investment funds onto the XRP Ledger, a blockchain network handling roughly four trillion dollars in assets. Crucially, the existing database remains the official record, so this is less a revolution than a quiet experiment in whether public ledgers can serve as a parallel layer of institutional trust.
And for developers who miss the dungeon crawls of the late nineties, a new open-source project called Termablo brings Diablo-style roguelike gameplay entirely into the terminal. No graphics engine, no installer, just a command line and the kind of obsessive game loop that has a way of consuming entire afternoons. Sometimes the most interesting tech is the kind built purely for love of the craft.
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