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Inside the Patriot Wing - January 6 rioters are running their jail block like a gang. They're leaving more adicalized than ever

Early in the evening of July 13 in an isolated cell block of the D.C. Jail, about two miles east of the Capitol Building, a dozen detainees charged with some of the most violent crimes committed on January 6, 2021, were participating in a thousand-burpee challenge. The group made up roughly half of the inmates held in the block, a special unit sequestered from the jail’s other prisoners and known to its residents as “the Patriot Wing.” The challenge was in honor of a former resident of the unit, a fitness evangelist, who had recently been transferred out to serve a five-year prison sentence for attacking police officers with a floor lamp, a shoe, a nightstick, and a spiked club made from a broken table leg and nails.

Neighborhood News: The World's Largest Plumbing Repair - New York City's principal water-supply aqueduct gets a bypass operation.

The Delaware aqueduct, 85 miles end to end, is the longest tunnel in the world. It invisibly brings about half of New York City’s water, just over 500 million gallons per day, down from the Catskills to a holding basin in Yonkers. It’s about as old as Joe Biden, and it has not been drained for repairs since he was in high school. The stretch where it crosses under the Hudson (from Newburgh to Wappinger) passes through crumbly limestone, and it has been leaking for decades, now losing up to 35 million gallons of water daily. The best solution has been, as with many aging circulatory systems, bypass surgery. Getting down there required digging a pair of holes, 900 and 700 feet deep, then boring two and a half miles across to connect them. Two billion dollars and a decade later, that new tunnel is ready to connect to the old, and that means shutting the aqueduct off for eight months. Even just draining it so work can begin is a huge job. This summer, there were practice “dewatering events,” as the Department of Environmental Protection calls them. It’s a winter project because we use less water then.

The System: Zak Cheney-Rice - Kamala's Comedown How the Harris campaign became a grim slog.

After an exuberant summer, an autumn chill has descended on Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. The joyous rallies that were all over the news between mid-July, when Harris replaced Joe Biden atop the Democratic ticket, and the August convention, where she and Tim Walz accepted the party nomination, have quieted into more familiar spectacles. Her once-ascendant polling numbers have stalled and her campaign has become cautious, granting TV interviews mostly to a handful of local news channels in swing states. If the first month of her candidacy was an exhalation after the suffocating defeatism under Biden, the last weeks before Election Day have felt like a collective holding of breath.

Gen II Compact Brushless 1/2" Drill/Driver

I have to confess this review is coming from a fairly biased space-the first generation ONE+ HP Compact Drill is probably my favorite drill I've ever owned.

Lignomat Mini-LIGNO DX/C

One of the hardest things for me to explain as a woodworking instructor is the importance of knowing the moisture content of the wood you're working with.

Excedo Side Table

With one board, you can put together this side table that packs in a bunch of great woodworking techniques.

Metabo HPT 12" Dual Bevel Sliding Miter Saw

In my shop I have fairly high standards for a miter saw.

Ultrashear Flat Top Blade

Several issues back, I introduced our readers to a new lineup of blades from Woodpeckers.

Square Platter with Textured Rim

Adding a bit of texture and colour to a square platter is a great way to dress up a simple design.

BauBuche

This laminated material comes from Germany, and is made of hundreds of layers of European beech.

Inlays with Origin

Origin, the hand-held CNC from Shaper Tools, makes creating inlays effortless.

Deluxe Scriber

There are often times, where there's simply no substitute for the right tool.

Ryobi Compact Barrel Grip Jigsaw

A jigsaw is a great tool for all sorts of quick cuts in the shop. With that in mind, the ONE+ HP Compact Brushless Barrel Grip Jig Saw is just the right size to make it a go-to choice.

THE RACE FOR ADVANCED ENCRYPTION

Strong encryption hasn't always been freely available to the public. Nate Drake tells the story of how the first Data Encryption Standard transformed the cryptography landscape

Rip the perfect media file

MEDIA FILES COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES, and things are further complicated by the fact that video (and audio) files are constructed using codecs, which are required to decode and encode the various streams.

US wants Nvidia & Apple to use Intel's foundries

THE US GOVERNMENT has been busy over the past year or two handing out large subsidies and grants to help boost local silicon manufacturing efforts. Intel was once the undisputed leader in the race for ever smaller and faster fabrication nodes, but after major stumbles in the transition from 14nm-class to 10nm-class technologies, TSMC passed it by.

Apple, AirPods & your hearing health

Can AirPods Pro really be an effective alternative to traditional hearing aids?

The Eagle has landed

Intel's Lunar Lake arrives on the mobile market

iPhone 16 Pro

Bigger and better in almost every way

What's next?

More Apple product releases and upgrades to come

Find files and apps quickly

THE WINDOWS SEARCH TOOL—accessible from the Taskbar—is OK as it goes, but there’s plenty of room for improvement.

WHAT IS ZTNA?

Nate Drake explores the concept of ZTNA and the obstacles businesses face with its adoption

Belkin Auto-Tracking Stand Pro

Get your iPhone to follow your every move

RYZEN 9000 UNLEASHED

Zak Storey puts AMD's latest chips and motherboards to the test

THE ART OF ETHICAL AI

Is the advent of AI a force for good, or a ticking time bomb?

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

AMD's top Zen 5 CPU looks very similar to its predecessor on paper

Gigabyte F027Q2

Speed is of the essence with this OLED screen

AndaSeat Kaiser 4 XL

A chair as big and as comfortable as they come

Acer Nitro 14

AMD puts on a good show, but it still lacks punch

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