Infrastructure

The desk’s Infrastructure file

• Oct 27, 2026 · TELECOM

  T-Mobile's T-Mix Plans Make Your Next Phone Compete With Netflix

  Plans start at $55 a month in November, and a new iPhone uses up two Picks for the length of its three-year payment plan.

• Oct 9, 2026 · AEROSPACE

  Half the Satellites Starlink Dodges Don't Share Their Paths, SpaceX Says

  Starlink has steered around about 650 active satellites in recent months, some within tens of meters, a SpaceX executive said.

• Oct 8, 2026 · SHIP DATE

  Microsoft's Nvidia-Powered Surface Laptop Ultra Ships Oct. 16 for $2,600

  Preorders are open for the first Surface on Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, with 24GB of memory and 512GB of storage to start.

• Aug 23, 2026 · SHIP DATE

  A camera-drone cleared the FCC on August 9. Its drone half can't ship to L.A.

  The HoverAir Versa cleared the Federal Communications Commission on August 9, 2026 as a camera, not a drone. The Verge reported on August 21 that the FCC listing is gone and U.S. backers can no longer add the Flight Kit.

• Aug 12, 2026 · Web infrastructure

  A Font That Swaps “horse” for “potato” Got Over 90 Percent of Pages Rejected by AI Scrapers in Its Creators' Tests

  ShieldFont uses ligatures — not Unicode tricks — to show readers one sentence and hand crawlers another. Ars Technica's August 12, 2026 write-up carries the numbers, and the caveats.

• Aug 12, 2026 · Telecom Policy

  One Nomination, a 3-1 FCC: The Quorum Math Behind Trump's Empty Fifth Seat

  Danielle Thumann Severs would give Chairman Brendan Carr a third Republican vote. The Democratic vacancy stays open — and telecom law is the reason the last Democrat is still there.