I love the 1984 version of Dune but their characters were so over the top! Look at this guy. An orange, necrotic, decaying pedophile billionaire ruler who starts wars in a desert on his own personal whims, all to control an important limited resource that's necessary for commerce and transportation. Talk about unrealistic.

California scientists 'FlyTrap attack' on DJI drones demonstrated — patterned umbrellas lure autonomous drones close enough to be captured or even induced to crash
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/california-scientists-flytrap-attack-on-dji-drones-demonstrated-patterned-umbrellas-lure-autonomous-drones-close-enough-to-be-captured-or-even-induced-to-crash
Adversarial umbrella design “exploits deficiencies in camera-based, autonomous target-tracking technology.” Umbrella also useful if it rains.

Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez: "Trump is someone who will set the world on fire and then blame smoke caused by that. He has been wrong for 18 days of war. I urge everyone to call him out"

Washy and me

I used to hang around the Bell Labs Murray Hill 1127 lab -- where UNIX originated -- sometimes when I was in the area. A fond memory is sitting at a terminal in there (probably a Blit) working on a program back on my L.A. system over the Net. I ran into a complicated C declaration issue. Sitting a few feet away at the next terminal was Dennis Ritchie (dmr) -- a wonderful guy. Well hell, since he created C, who better to ask about this. So I did, and he instantly offered me an elegant solution I would never have thought of. Years later, it occurred to me that this was the closest I'd ever be to getting advice directly from a god.