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The Pentagon's F-35 program is drawing fresh scrutiny tonight. A new report from the Government Accountability Office found that only twenty-five percent of the over eight hundred aircraft fleet is fully mission capable, with systemic software bugs and chronic hardware failures undermining a program that has cost taxpayers one point six trillion dollars.
On a quieter but genuinely interesting front, a startup called Superserve is tackling a real problem in the world of AI agents — how do you give an automated system access to sensitive APIs without actually letting it see the credentials? Their new tool injects secrets at runtime inside a sandboxed environment, so the agent can act but never read the key. It's a small idea with meaningful security implications as agent-based workflows become more common.
And for those of us who never quite mastered the subjunctive, a developer named Ben Kaiser has quietly released Better Grammar, a free browser-based practice tool aimed at adults. No accounts, no subscriptions — just exercises designed for people who want to sharpen written communication on their own terms. Simple, useful, and refreshingly unmonetized.
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