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GitHub has made its Code Quality service generally available, and the timing is deliberate. As AI-generated code floods repositories, the tool combines deep analysis with automated fix suggestions, targeting the kind of quiet maintainability problems that compound over time. It's a signal that the industry knows AI writes fast but not always well.
Meanwhile, the FCC is moving to ban LiDAR-equipped DJI drones — the same devices it previously approved. The proposal has left buyers and businesses in an awkward spot, caught between a regulator reversing course and hardware already on the market. The underlying tension between national security concerns and commercial drone adoption is only getting harder to resolve.
And perhaps the most unexpected infrastructure story in recent memory: Harry Potter fans successfully pressured engineers to reroute a four hundred thirty million pound undersea cable away from a Welsh beach where devotees have long marked a makeshift grave for the fictional house elf Dobby. The cable now takes a longer path, a reminder that public sentiment — even fictional sentiment — carries real engineering weight.
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