September 2025

“Research challenging the assumption that kernel-bypass networking is always faster than kernel networking.”

“Zig decouples async/await from coroutines, uses a vtable-based Io interface for runtime polymorphism, and solves the function coloring problem.”

“Routine NVMe maintenance caused a RAID failure, then a destructive command on the wrong server wiped the secondary. 51TB PostgreSQL restore from S3.”

“Progress on the RK3588 processor module, the new MNT Quasar module, and USB 3.0 signal integrity improvements for Reform Next.”

“Researchers created synthetic magnetic fields within silicon photonic crystals that steer light with unprecedented precision at 140 gigabits per second.”

“The longest a xenotransplant organ has survived in a living person. The FDA subsequently approved the first clinical trials.”

“A detailed guide for building a Geiger counter module for Flipper Zero, including measurements of uranium ore and radium samples.”

“Effort.jl delivers cosmological simulation results with the same accuracy as supercomputer runs in minutes on standard laptops.”

“Travel eSIMs often route user data through third-party networks including Chinese infrastructure regardless of user location.”

“32 consistent geometric symbols appearing across 52 European caves spanning 40,000 years.”

“AMD bet on backward-compatible 64-bit x86 extension while Intel pursued the incompatible Itanium architecture.”

“The experimental filesystem was removed from the mainline kernel in September 2025.”

“Proposal to allow each CPU to run its own kernel for special-purpose workloads like realtime.”

“New release includes better Spectre mitigation control, live patching on 64-bit Arm, and DualPI2 congestion control.”

“Package registries handle billions of downloads monthly but run on donations. AI agents are making it worse by scraping en masse.”

“The conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld application of the Voting Rights Act.”

“County cut polling places from 331 to 216 and reduced early voting days, citing security and efficiency.”

“Conspiracy-minded content creators attacking mainstream theoretical physics, driven by resentment of scientific authority.”

“OpenAI will purchase $300 billion worth of compute power from Oracle over five years.”

“Chrome has crossed 70% browser market share while Firefox continues to decline.”

“Amazon Fire TV will transition to proprietary Linux-based Vega OS, moving away from Android.”

“The 43-year-old Leon Thevenin maintains over 60,000 kilometers of undersea internet infrastructure.”

“Network of 300+ SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards dismantled near the UN General Assembly.”

“215 school IT breaches since 2022, with 57% carried out by children. One incident involved a seven-year-old.”

“Sophisticated campaign comparable to the 2020 SolarWinds attack, stealing proprietary software to find new vulnerabilities.”

“Undocumented cellular radios found in foreign-manufactured power inverters and battery management systems.”

“An 8-variable analog optical computer using smartphone camera sensors, optical lenses, and micro-LEDs finer than human hair.”

“DNA tape can store 36 petabytes by printing synthetic DNA molecules onto plastic tape with crystal armor coating for centuries of preservation.”

“With 90-99% of remaining coral reefs projected to deteriorate by 2050, scientists are exploring lab-grown coral.”

“If global temperatures keep rising, virtually all Atlantic Ocean corals will stop growing and could succumb to erosion by century’s end.”

“More than 85 scientists issued a joint rebuttal to a DOE report full of errors and cherry-picked data.”

“Over 40 polar scientists warn that geoengineering schemes for the Arctic are dangerous and impractical.”

“Synthetic biologists are raising alarms about ‘mirror life’ organisms with flipped molecular building blocks.”

“Research finds China has made significant progress across all fronts in space exploration.”

“Finnish quantum computing company Bluefors has purchased tens of thousands of liters of Helium-3 from the moon through Interlune.”

“A new quasi-moon named 2025 PN7, about 98 feet across, was discovered near Earth. It may be an ancient lunar fragment.”

“Challenging the binary between VC-backed money-burners and bootstrapped profitability.”

“Comparing game longevity to the Lindy effect and why good games inspire fan servers and mods while others are forgotten.”

“A live terminal emulator running Unix v4 from 1973 in the browser.”

“Attackers crafting specific searches on support sites and buying Google Ads to impersonate legitimate companies.”

“Zen browser, marketed as privacy-conscious, was found to have a serious backdoor. Multiple privacy concerns were practically ignored by developers.”

“OpenWrt’s experiments with ‘OpenWRT One’ and ambitions to compete with SMB firewall vendors.”

“Analysis of Wi-Fi 7 adoption challenges, including Multi-Link Operation requiring separate SSIDs and compatibility issues with services like eduroam.”

“The annual assessment of US infrastructure.”

“A comprehensive overview of the embedded computing landscape, including support tiers for headless appliances, networking, and USB.”

“A complete reverse engineering of the Raspberry Pi CM5 for those wanting to use Pi hardware in embedded applications.”

“Former Intel researchers founding a startup with plans for high-bandwidth memory on-package with 352 AMD Zen 4 cores.”

“A new challenger in the CPU space, though historically special-purpose chips have struggled against mainstream CPUs.”

“Why engines are the easy part of game development, while tooling, content pipelines, and asset management are the real challenges.”

“The first official release of LLVM’s Fortran compiler frontend, Flang, after years of development.”

“Discussion of Rust’s path forward in 2025, including challenges around ABI stability, dynamic libraries, and extern C limitations.”

“Exploring how PostgreSQL’s data directory works across binaries and how it compares to SQLite’s simplicity.”

“Detection of a significant change in Southern Ocean circulation patterns with major implications for global climate systems.”

“A controversial discovery of oxygen production in the deep ocean through non-photosynthetic means.”

“Solar power and HVDC cable technology now allows moving energy across continents, oceans, and time zones.”

“Dashboard and information about the Large Hadron Collider’s 2025 first collisions run.”

“Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), porous materials with extremely high surface area used to speed up reactions and capture molecules.”

“Work on macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling.”

“Researchers discovered exotic states of matter at material interfaces, similar to how antiferromagnets were found in labs before being theorized in nature.”

“NASA’s SPHEREx observatory will scan each object approximately every 6 months during its 2-year mission to map the universe.”

“Gorgeous astronomy photography shots with narratives about the photographers and their work.”