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General Motors is taking its familiar Silverado pickup truck somewhere new — the battlefield. GM Defense is set to begin testing unmanned Silverado thirty-five hundreds for the U.S. Army starting in twenty twenty seven. These autonomous military variants represent a significant push to bring commercial vehicle platforms into defense applications, raising real questions about how civilian technology gets adapted for combat environments.
Shifting from the desert to the absurd, someone has gotten Doom running inside a DNS database, and the achievement is exactly as unnecessary and brilliant as it sounds. DNS, the system that quietly translates web addresses behind the scenes, was never meant to render a first-person shooter. One of the protocol's original pioneers called it, quote, deliciously horrible, or else horribly delicious. At this point, Doom running on unexpected hardware is less a stunt and more a tradition.
And in Malaysia, a popular Chinese-made car has been pulled from sale after a rather alarming pattern emerged — the wheels were falling off. Regulators moved quickly to ban new sales of the model after multiple incidents, a reminder that rapid automotive expansion into new markets sometimes outpaces the quality controls that buyers reasonably expect.
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