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Fifty years ago this week, the Soviet Union launched Salyut five, a military space station that became one of the stranger chapters in Cold War spaceflight. One crew fell ill aboard it, another nearly drowned during their return to Earth, and a third mission failed to dock entirely. Half a century on, it remains a stark reminder of how brutal early space programs could be on the people inside them.
Closer to the present, a developer has done something wonderfully unnecessary and completely compelling — running Swift, Apple's modern programming language, on an Apple two. The original machine dates to the late nineteen seventies, and getting contemporary code to speak to it required genuine ingenuity. It's the kind of project that teaches you more about both ends of computing history than any textbook could.
And on the enterprise side, TechRadar is out with a piece arguing that the real barrier to scaling AI isn't the models or the hardware — it's data governance. Organizations are spending heavily on AI platforms while underinvesting in the unglamorous work of data quality and ownership. The technology is ready, the argument goes. The organizational discipline often isn't.
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