"Can you actually buy routers made in America? As of April 2026, the answer to this question appears to be no. Even American-based companies like Google and Netgear do not manufacture their routers in America, instead using factories in Vietnam, Taiwan, and China" - www.bgr.com/2141210/can-...
"In an exciting recent development, NASA has reported that a mysterious FM radio signal has been detected... coming from Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon... NASA officials have stated that they unfortunately believe the signal is of natural origin" - blog.sciandnature.com/2025/06/nasa...
Jose Ossa and Giovanni Cruz, film students at Cal State Dominguez Hills, were documenting a protest at LA’s Metropolitan Detention Center on March 28 when they were detained in a LAPD kettle and put in zip ties.
"Arena Physica is releasing Atlas RF Studio Beta, a lightweight instance of our Atlas platform, for AI-driven RF component design powered by a research preview of our foundation model for electromagnetics" - www.arenaphysica.com/publications...
"Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo unveiled a hardened wireless receiver that can withstand prolonged exposure to radiation... this chip was primarily designed to allow robots to work in contaminated areas for decommissioning nuclear reactors" - www.tomshardware.com/networking/r...
"Treetops Emit Ultraviolet Sparkles During Thunderstorms. Researchers Just Filmed It in Nature for the First Time... Coronae also emit light in the visible part of the spectrum. But... the relatively dim background light of a thunderstorm obscures it" - www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
Satirical graphic showing colorful MacBook Neo laptops with a bold banner reading “Urgent Recall Notice,” claiming Apple is recalling the device due to “unintended serviceability,” with humorous reasons like easy access and an iFixit repairability score of 6.
Apple has issued an emergency recall for the new Neo laptop after discovering a critical design flaw: it’s repairable.
Internal testing revealed the device contains replaceable parts and a battery that comes out without adhesive. Unacceptable for their standards.
US, 2 of 2: "the president... can express his own views as he sees fit. He may not, however, use his governmental power to direct federal agencies to exclude plaintiffs from receiving federal grants or other funding in retaliation for saying things that he does not like" www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
US, 1 of 2: "A federal judge in Washington, DC, ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump's executive order cutting funding to NPR and the PBS was a violation of their First Amendment rights... He described the cut to funding as 'viewpoint discrimination'." - www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
2 of 2: Artemis launch freqs: Space Coast UHF: 444.925 MHz (FM mode) for local audio, as listed by !NASA and !Talk of Titusville.
NASA "V" Circuits (Audio Only): 321-867-1220, -1240, -1260, or -7135. ("V band' is IEEE's designation for 40-75 GHz so it isn't clear where to find NASA's "V circuits")
1 of 2: On Facebook, Charlie Talmadge provided these frequencies for monitoring tomorrow's Artemis launch: Amateur SSTV: 437.55 MHz FM (primary), 437.92 MHz (backup), per !Libre Space Community.
Space Coast VHF: 146.94 MHz (FM mode) often carries launch audio, per !NASA and !Talk of Titusville...
The BBC's commercial division (called Storyworks) is being criticized for partnering with Saudi Arabia's sovereign investment fund to produce programs "greenwashing" Aramco and praising the kingdom's liberal policies re women - www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
"Radio signals at the edge of extreme stars come from far beyond their surfaces... it suggests that nearly all gamma-ray millisecond pulsars also emit radio waves, even if those signals may be faint or difficult to detect" - phys.org/news/2026-03...
UK/US: "The BBC is 'corrupt, fraudulent news', US President Donald Trump said, as he accused the broadcaster of editing his speech with artificial intelligence (AI)... Trump also criticised the BBC’s coverage of the US war on Iran as 'so inaccurate'” - www.breakingnews.ie/entertainmen...
"FCC moves to block new foreign-made routers.
Since most router makers use overseas manufacturing, it's unclear which manufacturers would actually be clear to continue selling their products" - www.pcworld.com/article/3096...
remember that one time a train derailed in Ohio and literally nobody died but it was a news story for like a full week and Pete Buttigieg had to personally answer for it?
The FCC has banned importation & sale of all Internet routers manufactured outside the US unless national security agencies approve. Does not apply to already imported/owned devices. News release: docs.fcc.gov/public/attac... Thanx to Experimental Radio News for the tip.
"The Quest to Build a Radio Telescope that can Hear the Cosmic Dark Ages... LuSEE-Night, short for Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment–Night... will be launched from Florida aboard a SpaceX rocket and carried to the moon’s far side [by] Blue Ghost Mission 2" - spectrum.ieee.org/lunar-radio-...
US: "Recent FCC frequency reclassifications could be the first steps in expanding publicly available GMRS & FRS allocations... [The 46/49 MHz] frequencies used by old cordless phones are severely underutilized." Might they be re-allocated for GMRS & FRS? - www.notebookcheck.net/New-public-G...
US: FCC chairman proposes "a policy designed to ensure reliable spectrum access for what he described as 'weird space stuff'... emerging ventures such as orbital laboratories, in-space satellite repairs and privately operated inhabitable spacecraft" - www.spaceconnectonline.com.au/satellites/7...
Video recording & written testimony from the 17 March 2026 Senate Subcommittee on Telecommunications & Media hearing on “US Leadership at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2027: Strategy and Challenges Ahead of Shanghai” - www.commerce.senate.gov/2026/3/u-s-l...
In a paper published in Nature Photonics, researchers at the University of Twente describe an ultra-sharp wideband radio filter. A thin coating of tellurium oxide on a standard silicon nitride chip responds to modulated laser light to produce stable clean radio signals - phys.org/news/2026-03...
US: "With the shuttering of CBS News Radio, nearly 700 stations will need a new national news partner. Todd Starnes is considering filling that gap... 'If anyone at CBS News Radio is looking for employment—send me a message,' Starnes wrote in a post on social media" barrettmedia.com/2026/03/20/t...
US: "CBS News said Friday it will shut down its storied radio news service after nearly 100 years of operation, ending an era... Today, CBS News Radio provides material to an estimated 700 stations across the country... The service will end on May 22" - apnews.com/article/cbs-...
US: "Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr threatened to revoke broadcasters' licenses over coverage of the Iran war, after President Trump accused news outlets of 'intentionally misleading' the American public" - www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
2 of 2: "To outside observers, it looks like no data is being sent at all. Only a receiver with the right equipment can pick up the hidden message. Because the very act of communication is invisible, the method makes signals almost impossible to intercept or hack" - www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
1 of 2: "Engineers at UNSW Sydney and Monash have developed an innovative way of sending hidden information that’s hard to intercept... the system works by making signals blend perfectly into the background of natural heat radiation" - www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
"Judge Voids Mass Layoffs at Voice of America.
The ruling, which said that Kari Lake’s appointment to oversee VOA’s parent agency was invalid, was a major rejection of President Trump’s attempts to dismantle the government-funded news group" - www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...
Rohde & Schwarz is offering a free Worldwide Spectrum Allocations Poster, beautifully designed & updated to reflect the ITU 2020 Radio Regulations and changes from WRC-19 - www.rohde-schwarz.com/us/solutions...
