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Verizon is dealing with a voice service disruption hitting customers along the East Coast, with outage reports spiking around four PM Eastern time. It appears more contained than the major January two thousand twenty six outage, but affected users are struggling to make basic calls while the carrier works to restore service.
That story connects to a broader conversation happening online right now, where a blog post arguing that "code was never the hard part" has drawn over two hundred twenty eight points and more than one hundred fifty comments on Hacker News. The author pushes back hard, making the case that dismissing the craft of programming — especially in an AI moment — undervalues real technical skill and experience.
And in a story that feels almost too on-the-nose for a tech broadcast, Mark Zuckerberg's yacht was reportedly nearby when a skiff got stranded in Alaskan waters — and it was a cruise ship that ultimately helped the crew. The detail has taken on a life of its own online, becoming something of an accidental metaphor for conversations about wealth, responsibility, and who actually shows up.
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