Denmark quietly killed its Collabora pilot after government employees using the open-source Office alternative could not reliably exchange files with colleagues still running Microsoft Office. The program was abandoned without announcement. The fix was obvious to anyone who has tried this before: a partial migration guarantees compatibility failures. Moving the entire government to Open Document Format simultaneously would have sidestepped the problem, but that is a government-wide mandate, not a departmental experiment.
Frustrated smart TV users are using Claude and similar AI tools to connect to Android-based TVs over ADB, uninstall ad-serving packages, and sideload custom launchers. The results look impressive on social media. They are not technically impressive. It is standard Android development work, automated by a language model. The Verge piece is worth reading because it correctly deflates the hype while still documenting that real users are solving a real problem.
Engineers successfully removed the masts of the SS Richard Montgomery off Sheerness, England, a WWII-era wreck holding an estimated 1,400 metric tons of deteriorating explosives since 1944. The masts were approaching collapse into the hull, and experts warned that impact could trigger a blast large enough to threaten life and property onshore. The masts are gone. The 1,400 tons of ordnance are not. Read the Guardian piece for the full scope of what actually removing those munitions will require.
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