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A power cut is trending in the UK, with searches surging around a London electricity outage. Separately, power was shut off to more than 3,000 homes after what engineers described as a potentially dangerous situation, with crews working to restore supply. Residents have been reporting disruption, and people are searching for updates on when electricity will be back.

The American Enterprise Institute argues that US policymakers should tackle housing affordability by making it easier to build starter homes, rather than loosening lending standards or relying on financial engineering. The think tank's position frames expanding supply of smaller, cheaper homes as the real fix, warning that credit-side remedies risk inflating prices without helping first-time buyers.

A developer writing the KiwiEngine series has published entry number 43, focusing on how applications communicate with the outside world. The piece argues that no application can live entirely inside itself: requests, form submissions, API calls and webhooks must come in, while responses, JSON payloads and errors go back out. Readers following the series are discussing how the engine handles this boundary between internal logic and external input.

Startup CScale is arguing that AI data centers at gigawatt scale can keep operating even when optical lasers fail, a claim about resilience in the interconnects linking massive AI computing fleets. The bet targets one of the practical engineering worries facing companies building enormous AI factories, where component failures multiply as campuses grow. Details on funding, partners or deployments remain unclear.