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Chinese manufacturer YOFC has completed a hollow-core fiber transmission trial that pushed fifty-one point three terabits per second across two hundred and six point five kilometers without a single signal regeneration. The technology uses air-filled fiber rather than glass, and the implications for AI infrastructure — which is increasingly starved for bandwidth — are significant.

From infrastructure to culture, Google is running a new commercial imagining the Founding Fathers drafting the Declaration of Independence with help from Google Workspace AI tools. It arrives two hundred and fifty years after the original signing, and it raises a real question about whether this kind of historical revisionism is clever marketing or something that deserves more scrutiny.

And on a lighter note, Command and Conquer Generals — the classic two thousand three real-time strategy game — has been natively ported to macOS, iPhone, and iPad using a framework called Fable. With twenty points and active discussion on Hacker News, it's clear there's genuine appetite for bringing older titles to modern hardware without emulation layers.

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