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The Pentagon is now putting artificial intelligence to work on congressional reports, and not quietly. Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael is actively encouraging the department's one point five million workers to use GenAI dot mil, with officials openly boasting about using the tool to draft official government documents. It raises real questions about accountability and accuracy when AI writes the briefings that inform lawmakers.
Shifting from policy to preservation, a reverse engineering project targeting the classic DOS flight simulator F-Fifteen Strike Eagle Two is calling for volunteer test pilots. The team needs people willing to run the game on original DOS hardware or accurate emulators to help document its behavior. It is painstaking, fascinating work — the kind of effort that keeps software history alive before it quietly disappears.
And rounding out today's show, a developer has released Rlsgate, a command-line tool designed to catch Supabase row-level security misconfigurations before they reach production. If you have ever shipped a database policy that quietly exposed more data than intended, you understand why this kind of pre-deploy safety check matters. It is a small tool solving a genuinely costly problem.
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