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Joby Aviation is turning heads in New York City this week, running ten days of electric air taxi demo flights between JFK and Manhattan — a trip that takes about ten minutes in the air. No passengers yet, but the company is testing real routes in real conditions, which is a meaningful step toward making urban air travel something other than a concept video.
On the security front, a piece making the rounds on Hacker News tackles a genuinely thorny problem: how do you safely hand AWS credentials to a local AI agent without opening the door to abuse? As autonomous agents get more capable and more connected to real infrastructure, credential isolation isn't a niche concern anymore — it's becoming a foundational question for anyone building with these tools.
And in a story that feels like it belongs in a different era entirely, an Arizona teacher with dyscalculia has led his students in building a full-scale replica of ENIAC — the world's first programmable digital computer — out of nearly three thousand square feet of cardboard. The original filled a room the size of a whale. So, apparently, does the cardboard version. Next up for him, he says, is NASA's Artemis Two mission.
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