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The FCC has moved to ban the sale of new consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers and mobile hotspots made outside the United States. The rule targets foreign-manufactured hardware over national security concerns, and while existing devices are unaffected, shoppers will soon find their options significantly narrowed at retail.
That security-minded push comes with an ironic counterpoint. One of America's leading battery scientists is leaving for Singapore, citing the current administration's policy environment as the reason. It's a quiet but consequential kind of loss — the sort that doesn't make headlines until years later, when the research gap becomes impossible to ignore.
And on a lighter note from the developer community, a piece making rounds challenges what its author calls the cults of test-driven development and generative AI. The argument isn't that either tool is worthless, but that treating them as doctrine rather than trade-offs leads engineers away from actual thinking. It's a provocative read, and the timing feels deliberate.
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