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A Chinese materials firm is making waves in the defense world with a spray-on radar-absorbing coating that cuts reflected radar power by fifty percent. That's a significant number — stealth technology has historically cost billions, and bringing that capability down to something approaching affordability raises serious questions about the future of aerial detection.
Shifting to a quieter but equally important conversation, a researcher building grassroots technology proposals has acknowledged something worth sitting with — that distributing ideas only in English, only through established channels, is itself a kind of structural bias. The project is now publishing proposals in Portuguese and other languages, taking them directly to local organizations. It's a small move that reflects a larger reckoning about who gets to participate in shaping technology.
And on the security beat, a painful reminder that human behavior remains the weakest link in any system. A new account details an organization storing passwords directly in Active Directory description fields — plaintext, accessible to anyone with basic network access. It's the kind of oversight that sounds almost impossible until you realize how often convenience quietly defeats policy.
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