Thursday, May 2, 2024

New Humble Bundle featuring audiobooks that blur the "lines between RPG logic and genre fiction"

Starts with "Speedrunning the Multiverse" for $1.

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Lego minifigures series 26, the sci-fi-themed series, is up for preorder

Six pack for $29.94 at Amazon.

Great story about a Ukrainian operation to steal a new Russian vehicle covered in radio jammers

The opportunity:

when Russian tanks began rolling toward the front line with a giant new jammer—actually, clusters of multiple jammers—in recent weeks, Ukrainian drone operators were interested. Very interested.

If the new jammers worked, the Ukrainian operators would need to develop countermeasures.

Their chance to find out came earlier this month, when a Russian T-72 festooned with jammers ran over some barbed wire just east of Ukrainian positions in Terny, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast. The wire prevented the tank’s driver from turning fast enough to avoid a collision with a BMP fighting vehicle.

Soon, a Ukrainian drone zoomed in and exploded. The drone didn’t badly damage the 51-ton tank, but it did spook the three crew. They bailed out—and then got killed by more drones.

Planning for the heist then began...

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Topps is selling a card featuring the beekeeper from last night's Dodgers game



Shop.

Northrop Grumman's Manta Ray underwater drone




"The extra-large UUV . . . is designed with several payload bays of multiple sizes and types to enable a wide variety of naval mission sets."


From a few weeks ago:

A fire overnight largely destroyed a busy fire station in Los Angeles



(A terse summary)