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Arms Race and Code Wars: $350M hypersonics, push to sink cartel boats, China demos modular short-range air defense, and Ruby vs. rings-over-syscalls
Castelion raises $350 million to scale hypersonic missiles
SpaceX alumni powered Castelion grabbed a $350 million Series B to ramp its Blackbeard hypersonic weapon, bankroll a large-scale factory, and set the table for Army integration. Silicon Valley velocity meets Pentagon purchasing, and yes, someone named a missile after a pirate. The hypersonic arms race just got another venture-backed assembly line.
Hegseth backs lethal strikes on suspected cartel boats in the Caribbean
Fox host Pete Hegseth defended a Pentagon anti-drug campaign in which U.S. forces have hit dozens of vessels and killed at least 87 people. Officials describe the actions as necessary interdictions. The rising toll, coupled with the word suspected, demands clear answers on intelligence thresholds, rules of engagement, and accountability.
China airs test of modular short-range air defense system
CCTV-7 showcased Gobi Desert live-fire footage of a previously unseen platform launching surface-to-air missiles. The modular launcher hints at plug-and-play point defense, flexible and mobile. As usual, state TV delivered flawless triumphs on cue, and independent performance data was left on the cutting room floor.
Is Ruby still a serious language, or just Rails tinted nostalgia
Wired argues the industry moved on, citing dynamic typing footguns, lagging tooling, and sluggish performance, with Twitter’s Scala pivot offered as Exhibit A. Ruby’s rank has slipped and many firms are rewriting or sidelining it, yet Rails still delivers fast product velocity and a mature ecosystem that powers giants like Shopify. Verdict, it is serious when your priority is speed to market and well worn libraries, less so if you prize raw throughput and strict types. Language wars remain the only sport where everyone swears they are data driven while arguing from vibes.
Post-POSIX I/O, rings rule and syscalls drool
From NVMe queues to virtio virtqueues to Linux io_uring, modern I/O converges on shared-memory rings, batching, and minimal syscalls. The payoff is massive throughput and tighter latency. The bill is complexity, memory ordering headaches, portability wrinkles, and bigger blast radii when things go sideways. Translation for developers, learn the rings or keep waiting in line.
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