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Would you trust the FAA's new AI to manage flights? Air traffic control in America still runs on floppy disks and Windows 95, and the FAA just spent $875 million building an AI called Smart to replace it. Airline CEOs rushed to Washington to convince the FAA to pilot the AI on a limited region before rolling it out to every flight in America simultaneously. Alex breaks down what Smart is supposed to do, why the old floppy disk system was actually secure by virtue of being unhackable, and why moving flight management to the cloud opens up an attack surface the old system never had. Sometimes it's not crazy to stick with the floppy disks. #FAA #AirTrafficControl #Aviation #Cybersecurity #LegacySystems

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How robots Terminator-plunge into 75 tons of molten steel Figure AI got six 20-minute windows to send its humanoid robots running into a 75-ton electric arc furnace of molten steel, with one shot and no practice runs. Alex from Speedify breaks down how Arnold Schwarzenegger’s suggestion on Twitter fits in, why Figure scrapped its two-year-old 2024 F.02 robots this way (the company says taking them apart was too much work), and why the lithium-ion batteries had to stay in so the robots could run and jump on their own. That made the stunt explosive enough that no US foundry would touch it over insurance, so it ended up in Finland. Getting the robots to see well enough to land in the metal turned into a full software development project. #tech #figureai #humanoidrobot #robotics #Terminator2

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How did Oracle almost kill Java, and how did OpenJDK bring Java back? Alex breaks down the critical moments when Oracle’s control, licensing changes, JVM stagnation, and a massive lawsuit with Google over Android’s use of Java APIs threatened the programming language’s future. The open-source community, working with Sun Microsystems’ release, revived Java with modern JVM optimizations, garbage collection improvements, and new features that keep it competitive with C++, Rust, and Go. The ecosystem recovered with features like faster JVMs, real-time extensions, and renewed enterprise trust, bringing Java back into competition with languages like C++, Rust, and Go. Now, Java 25 has made Java programming exciting again for many engineers and developers. #techtalk #programming #softwaredeveloper #technology #oracle