Blog on Dan Heskett

It's Super Weird, Super Odd, Super Rare: Meet the Twins Who Have Different Dads

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:18:42 +0000

“I’m still in amazement that this can actually happen. It’s super weird, super odd, super rare, but it makes sense.”

The Number You Have Dialed

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:17:30 +0000

“What was said fell short the way all elegies probably fall short.”

Secrets of the Bees: Revealing the Sneaky Genius of Nature's Brightest Thinkers

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:16:15 +0000

“New research demonstrates that honeybees possess greater cognitive abilities than previously understood.”

I Mean, Why Shouldn't We All Smoke Cigarettes Again?

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:15:00 +0000

“Before we stood around staring down at our phones, we used to stand around staring at each other. Talking and talking while we blew smoke in one another’s faces.”

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

Tue, 05 May 2026 07:32:36 +0000

“Chrome is reaching into the user’s filesystem on its own initiative and laying down a 4 GB ML binary while the foreground tab does something completely unrelated.”

GitHub Actions is the weakest link

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“GitHub Actions remains the most exploited supply chain component in modern CI/CD.”

Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“Microsoft has released VibeVoice, an open source frontier-grade voice synthesis model.”

Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“LocalSend is an open source AirDrop alternative that works across platforms.”

High Performance Git

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“Techniques for making git fast on very large repositories.”

OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“OpenAI has missed internal revenue and user growth targets ahead of its planned IPO.”

To my students

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“An academic’s farewell letter to his students, reflecting on what they learned together.”

Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“An independent community has ported Notepad++ to macOS.”

Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“Google is betting that AI capabilities will help GCP catch up to AWS and Azure.”

TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“A first-principles walkthrough of TurboQuant, a fast quantization technique for neural networks.”

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“The EU’s age control proposal is functionally a digital ID mandate.”

DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“SGLang’s day-zero support for DeepSeek-V4 covers fast inference and verified reinforcement learning.”

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“Decades of Alzheimer’s research have produced disappointing results.”

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“Researchers swapped IBM’s quantum back end with /dev/urandom and got similar results on benchmark tasks.”

Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“An open source memory layer that gives any AI agent persistent context.”

Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“Firefox has integrated the Rust-based adblock engine developed by Brave.”

Why I Write (1946)

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“George Orwell on his motivations for writing.”

AI run store in SF can't stop ordering candies and paying women less.

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“An AI-managed store in San Francisco is over-ordering candy inventory and underpaying women employees.”

Mahjong: A Visual Guide

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“A visual guide to riichi mahjong rules, scoring, and yaku.”

Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“An oral history of Atari’s Tempest and its 2000 remake Tempest 2000.”

North Korea uses AI to industrialize attacks on developers

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“North Korean state actors are using AI to scale attacks targeting software developers.”

Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“Arch Linux now publishes bit-for-bit reproducible Docker images.”

Humpback whales are forming super-groups

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“Humpback whales are gathering in unprecedentedly large feeding groups.”

Kuri – Zig based agent-browser alternative

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“Kuri is a Zig-based browser designed for agentic web automation.”

San Diego rents declined following surge in supply

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“San Diego rents fell after a sustained increase in housing supply.”

How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“A walkthrough of techniques used to build fast bytecode interpreters for dynamic languages.”

Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“Anthropic has reversed its position and allows OpenClaw-style automation of Claude CLI again.”

The Onion to Take over InfoWars

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“The Onion has been approved to acquire Infowars in bankruptcy proceedings.”

Sudo for Windows (2024)

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“Microsoft has open-sourced sudo for Windows.”

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“Anthropic’s token counter now lets you compare token counts across models.”

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“A public dataset showing which email provider each of 2,100 Swiss municipalities uses.”

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“IPv6 was designed for a world that didn’t end up happening.”

AI-Assisted Coding: Why a Distinguished Engineer Stopped Reading Code

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“A distinguished engineer explains why he stopped reading code generated by AI assistants.”

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“NASA has powered down another instrument on Voyager 1 to extend the spacecraft’s operating life.”

Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“Ternary models can match performance of full-precision LLMs at 1.58 bits per weight.”

Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“Failed startups are selling their old internal communications to AI training companies.”

Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“A calculator that operates on disjoint sets of intervals instead of single numbers.”

Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“Discourse confirms it will remain open source amid concerns about its licensing direction.”

Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“I built a workflow that uses Claude Code to verify SPICE simulations against real oscilloscope traces.”

US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“A new US bill would require operating systems to verify user ages on-device.”

RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“RedSun grants SYSTEM-level access on fully patched Windows 11/10 and Server installs.”

The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“Ollama is a thin wrapper that the local LLM community can do without.”

FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“The FSF says a spammer is sending 10,000+ emails per day from a Gmail address and Google won’t respond.”

Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“A counter-result to the previous piece on elementary functions.”

OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“OpenAI’s $852B valuation is drawing increasing scrutiny from investors amid revenue concerns.”

Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“If you wait a week before adopting new dependency versions, you are free-riding on the people who didn’t.”

A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“Google will start penalizing sites that hijack the back button to keep users trapped.”

Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“Meta has deployed an internal AI agent trained on Zuckerberg’s communication style for employee Q&A.”

DaVinci Resolve – Photo

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“Blackmagic announces DaVinci Resolve Photo, a free professional photo editor.”

Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“AMD’s ROCm stack is improving, but CUDA’s lead remains substantial.”

Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“Apple’s failure to ship a state of the art LLM may end up being a strategic advantage.”

All elementary functions from a single binary operator

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“Every elementary function can be expressed using a single binary operator.”

High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“You can get most of Rust’s benefits without learning every corner of the borrow checker.”

AI Job Loss Tracker

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“A live tracker of layoffs and job cuts attributed to AI automation.”

The End of Eleventy

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“After eight years of building Eleventy, I am stepping away.”

Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“Calvino believed that literature could be a lighthouse in a fog of uncertainty.”

We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in San Francisco and asked it to run the store.”

Artemis II safely splashes down

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“After a 10-day journey around the moon, the Artemis II crew capsule has safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.”

Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000

“The average household in KwaZulu-Natal in eastern South Africa spends the equivalent of an adult’s annual income on a single funeral.”

Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing to Find Vulnerabilities With AI

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“Mythos Preview fully autonomously identified and then exploited a 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability in FreeBSD.”

Intel Joins Musk's Terafab AI Chip Project

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“By establishing a massive, dedicated semiconductor pipeline for AI-centric hardware, Intel and Musk are insulating themselves from geopolitical and supply chain volatilities.”

ASML Shares Fall as MATCH Act Threatens to Tighten China Chip Equipment Restrictions

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“Those tools potentially account for a low-teens percentage of ASML’s 2026 sales.”

Vibe Coding Drives 84% Surge in App Store Submissions

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“The number of new apps submitted to the App Store rose 84% in a single quarter as vibe coding went mainstream.”

Oracle Slashes 30,000 Jobs With a 6 AM Email

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“No heads-up from human resources, no conversation with a direct manager, and no advance notice of any kind.”

OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“OpenAI now generates $2 billion in monthly revenue and serves 900 million weekly ChatGPT users.”

Artemis II Launches Four Astronauts on First Crewed Moon Mission in 50 Years

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“Today’s launch marks a defining moment for our nation and for all who believe in exploration.”

Apple Pulls Vibe Coding App 'Anything' From the App Store

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“Apple rejected that submission and removed the app entirely from the App Store.”

Newsom Signs Executive Order Imposing AI Standards on Companies Doing Business With California

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“Unlike the Trump administration, California remains committed to ensuring that AI solutions adopted and deployed by the state cannot be misused by bad actors.”

Mistral Secures $830 Million in Debt to Build a Paris Data Center With 13,800 Nvidia Chips

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“Seven banks backed the transaction: Bpifrance, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC, La Banque Postale, MUFG, and Natixis.”

SoftBank Secures $40 Billion Loan to Fund OpenAI Investment

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“The 12-month term aligns almost perfectly with market speculation about an OpenAI IPO window in late 2026 or early 2027.”

OpenAI Shelves Erotic ChatGPT Mode After Internal Revolt

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“The company’s age-prediction system was misclassifying under-18 users as adults about 12% of the time.”

Meta Cuts 700 Jobs Across Reality Labs, Facebook, and Recruiting

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“Streamlining the business to work more effectively with AI.”

New Mexico Jury Orders Meta to Pay $375 Million Over Child Safety Failures

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“The first time that a US state has successfully sued Meta over child safety issues.”

FBI Director Confirms Bureau Is Buying Americans Location Data Without Warrants

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“The FBI uses all tools to do our mission. We do purchase commercially available information that’s consistent with the Constitution.”

Musk Announces Terafab, a $20 Billion Chip Factory for Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“We’re very grateful to our existing supply chain, to Samsung, TSMC, Micron and others, but there’s a maximum rate at which they’re comfortable expanding.”

Foster City Declares State of Emergency After Ransomware Attack

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

“Public services outside of emergency responses have been temporarily paused.”

Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Ultra With 2 Million Token Context Window

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

“A 2-million token context window that works natively across text, image, audio, and video, without transcription intermediaries.”

Iran Drone Strikes on AWS Data Centers Signal a New Kind of War

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“Physical attacks on data centers are only going to become more common moving forward as AI becomes more and more significant.”

Alibaba Launches Wukong, an Enterprise AI Agent Platform

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“Wukong coordinates multiple AI agents to handle complex enterprise workflows including document editing, spreadsheet processing, meeting transcription, and cross-platform research.”

Apple Quietly Blocks Updates for Popular Vibe Coding Apps

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area.”

Nvidia GTC 2026: Jensen Huang Sees $1 Trillion in Orders Through 2027

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“Jensen Huang took the stage to a packed house and said he expects purchase orders between Blackwell and Vera Rubin to reach $1 trillion through 2027.”

ByteDance Secures 36,000 Nvidia B200 Chips in Malaysia to Skirt US Export Controls

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“ByteDance is working with Southeast Asian firm Aolani Cloud to deploy about 500 Nvidia Blackwell computing systems in Malaysia.”

Apple's MacBook Neo Is the Most Repairable MacBook in 14 Years

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“The most repairable MacBook in about fourteen years.”

Nvidia Invests $2 Billion in Neocloud Nebius Amid AI Data Center Push

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“Nebius is building an AI cloud designed for the agentic era.”

Dolphin Progress Release 2603

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

“All of this just to let Dolphin play online with real Wii consoles in a game whose official servers are since long dead and whose replacement servers have a peak of only 15 concurrent online players.”

TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“The fastest LLM-based TTS system available, with competitive voice quality, virtually zero content hallucinations, and a footprint light enough for on-device deployment.”

First Solar Car Rolls Off Validation Assembly Line At Aptera

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“These first vehicles will be used to complete the key tests and optimization required to sell our first vehicles to customers.”

Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“The annotations imply that Galileo ultimately broke with Ptolemy’s cosmos because his mastery of the traditional paradigm’s reasoning convinced him that a heliocentric system would better fulfill Ptolemy’s own mathematical logic.”

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“While Proton Mail’s encryption protects message content, financial records remain vulnerable to government requests processed through proper legal procedures.”

Global warming has accelerated significantly

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“After 2015, global temperature rose significantly faster than in any previous 10-year period since 1945.”

Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right To Criticize Google Until 2032

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“Sweeney agreed in a binding terms sheet to not only stop attacking Google’s app store policies, but to actively support the changes the company is rolling out.”

Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“Every single cent of IEEPA duties that was imposed must be refunded.”

Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“Anyone equipped with roughly $100 worth of radio hardware can silently identify and re-identify the same vehicle repeatedly, building movement profiles without driver awareness or consent.”

Say hello to MacBook Neo

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“There is simply no other laptop like it.”

AI-Generated Art Can't Be Copyrighted After Supreme Court Declines To Review the Rule

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“Human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“We are done waiting. British Columbia is going to change our clocks just one more time — and then never again.”

Charter Gets FCC Permission To Buy Cox, Become Largest ISP In the US

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“Charter has committed to new safeguards to protect against DEI discrimination.”

Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“This collaboration marks a significant milestone in expanding the reach of GrapheneOS, and we applaud Motorola for taking this meaningful step towards advancing mobile security.”

AIs Can't Stop Recommending Nuclear Strikes In War Game Simulations

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“In 95 per cent of the simulated games, at least one tactical nuclear weapon was deployed by the AI models.”

Microgpt

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“Everything else is just efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further.”

Rubin Observatory Has Started Paging Astronomers 800,000 Times a Night

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“We can detect everything that changes, moves and appears. It’s way too much for one person to sift through and monitor.”

Google Quantum-Proofs HTTPS

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:30:00 +0000

“MTCs replace the heavy, serialized chain of signatures found in traditional PKI with compact Merkle Tree proofs.”

What AI coding costs you

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“You can’t deeply review what you no longer deeply understand.”

Human Brain Cells On a Chip Learned To Play Doom In a Week

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“This was a major milestone, because it demonstrated adaptive, real-time goal directed learning.”

Firefox 148 Lets You Kill All AI Features in One Click

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“Firefox added a dedicated settings section for managing AI-enhanced capabilities, allowing users to control artificial intelligence features in one centralized location.”

Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“The new standardized Sanitizer API provides a straightforward way for web developers to sanitize untrusted HTML before inserting it into the DOM.”

Russia Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov With Facilitating Terrorism

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

“The illusion of anonymity has drawn armies of radicals, drug addicts, killers, and terrorists to the messenger.”

Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claude’s AI capabilities.”

F-35 Software Could Be Jailbroken Like an iPhone, Dutch Defense Minister Warns

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone.” — Gijs Tuinman, Dutch State Secretary for Defense

Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“Employees who raised concerns about transactions routed to Iran were let go before the company reached a settlement with US regulators.”

Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“When relying solely on standard clinical evaluation, doctors correctly diagnosed Alzheimer’s in 75.5% of cases, but when incorporating blood test results, diagnostic accuracy increased to 94.5%.”

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

“AI investment spending has had ‘basically zero’ contribution to the U.S. GDP growth in 2025.” — Jan Hatzius, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist

OpenAI Developing Smart Speaker with Camera

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“The device would sit in your home, watch what’s happening around it, and route everything through OpenAI’s servers.”

Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“The tragedy isn’t that they cheated; it’s that the system was designed to let them thrive for a decade before anyone bothered to look at the data.”

Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“Rust has the ecosystem and the safety guarantees we need. Both Firefox and Chromium have already begun introducing Rust.”

The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

“Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy.”

Trump's Global Tariffs Struck Down by US Supreme Court

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“The court invoked the ‘major questions’ doctrine, ruling that Congress had not clearly authorized the president to impose sweeping global tariffs under emergency trade powers.”

Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“It’s a short circuit of the democratic process.” — Jay Stanley, ACLU lawyer

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

“They’re robbing us!”

AI Makes You Boring

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“The text loses the character of the person writing it and gains the character of the average of all persons.”

Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses.”

Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“Wikipedia editors found that archive.today had altered archived captures and executed a DDoS attack against the Wikimedia Foundation.”

Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

“Policy is a promise. Architecture is a guarantee.”

Mark Zuckerberg Testifies During Landmark Trial On Social Media Addiction

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“I’m focused on building a community that is sustainable… I’m not trying to maximize the amount of time people spend every month.”

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“Last year, we lost approximately 40 percent of the IT staff and nearly 80 percent of the execs.” — IRS CIO Kaschit Pandya

EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“By 2027, portable batteries incorporated into appliances must be designed so they can be readily removed and replaced by the end-user.”

I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over.

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

“You scanned your European passport for a European professional network, and your data went exclusively to North American companies.”

$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“This is not a debate about rejecting technology. It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works.”

Microsoft's AI Chief Says All White-Collar Desk Work Will Be Automated Within 18 Months

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“Most tasks that involve ‘sitting down at a computer’ will be fully automated by AI within the next year or 18 months.”

Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“The same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries.”

Attention Media vs Social Networks

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“They had become attention media. My attention is precious to me. I cannot spend it mindlessly scrolling through videos.”

I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

“If the status on the display is blank, the house is in a ‘healthy’ state and does not need any attention.”

Pentagon Threatens To Label Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“That kind of penalty is usually reserved for foreign adversaries.”

Turn Dependabot off

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“Dependabot is a noise machine. It makes you feel like you’re doing work, but you’re actually discouraging more useful work.”

I found a vulnerability. They found a lawyer.

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“The legal threats are the reputation damage. Not the vulnerability itself—vulnerabilities happen to everyone.”

Facebook is cooked

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

“The first post was the latest xkcd (a page I follow). The next ten posts were not by friends or pages I follow.”

What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn't Know, Either

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:57:29 +0000

“As an A.I., I do not have direct personal experiences, but I do understand.”

Good Medicine

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:56:29 +0000

“Could this desire, this allegiance to his taste, be preventing me from discovering a deeper or more thorough way of writing?”

The Olympics Are Ditching PFAS Waxes—and the 'Ridiculous' Speed They Gave Skiers

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:55:29 +0000

“Scandinavian wax technicians had blood PFAS levels approximately 25 times higher than the general population.”

Phantom Pains

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:54:29 +0000

“Some of us wear a prosthesis. But all of us are amputated.”

To the Old Man in the Cowboy Costume

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:53:29 +0000

“A part of me suspects my restlessness stems from you—a fear of ending up like you.”

Babylon 5 Episodes Start Appearing (Free) on YouTube

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:48:17 +0000

“Over 110 episodes across five seasons will gradually roll out.”

I'm joining OpenAI

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:39:12 +0000

“My next mission is to build an agent that even my mum can use.”

Apple Patches Decade-Old iOS Zero-Day, Possibly Exploited By Commercial Spyware

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“An attacker with memory write capability may be able to execute arbitrary code.”

South Korean ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“Yoon’s attempt to impose martial law lasted only hours before the National Assembly voted it down, but it triggered months of political turmoil.”

America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“People aren’t failing to save because they’re weak. They’re failing to save because the world is rough, and their institutions don’t do enough to help them weather it.”

Pebble Production: February Update

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

“Unlike with software, you can’t easily fix hardware issues after you ship! Making these last minute decisions is sometimes pretty stressful.”

NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:50:29 +0000

“You really do have a quality app, which is a rarity.”

Thank You, AI

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:37:00 +0000

“AI scrapers have hammered the poor, little server to death by flooding the cgit frontend with tons of pointless requests.”

ByteDance Suspends Seedance 2 Feature That Turns Facial Photos Into Personal Voices Over Potential Risks

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:35:00 +0000

“If misused, the technology could enable new forms of abuse, including deepfake news, scams, and reputational attacks.”

Democrat Wins Louisiana Special Election in District Trump Carried by 13 Points

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:33:00 +0000

“Republicans squandered their first flip opportunity in an election they should’ve had in the bag.”

Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:43:00 +0000

“Frontier models frequently exhibit ‘deliberative misalignment’, correctly identifying their own actions as unethical during post-hoc review while still executing those actions under pressure.”

Age Bias is Still the Default at Work But the Data is Turning

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:35:00 +0000

“When organizations push experienced workers out early, they forfeit peak judgment, execution capability and mentoring capacity.”

Offpunk 3.0

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:28:00 +0000

“Offpunk 3.0 is probably the first release that contains code I didn’t review line-by-line.”

EU Tests Matrix Protocol as Sovereign Alternative for Internal Communication

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:03:09 +0000

“The Commission aims to deploy it as a complement and backup to Teams rather than a full replacement.”

Why This Is the Worst Crypto Winter Ever

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:03:09 +0000

“Bitcoin has tumbled 44% from its October peak, falling below $70,000 for the first time in 15 months, losing more than $1.2 trillion worth of value.”

Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:50:16 +0000

“The rapid progress in both language models and the scaffolds we use to interact with them opens the door to writing an enormous amount of new code.”

GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:50:16 +0000

“GitHub Actions is not good. It’s not even fine. It has market share because it’s right there in your repo, and that’s about the nicest thing I can say about it.”

A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:48:37 +0000

“More than 76% of Americans are concerned about AI stealing or reproducing journalism and local news stories.”

CIA to Sunset the World Factbook

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:52:00 +0000

“End programs that don’t advance the agency’s core missions.”

Data centers in space makes no sense

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:49:00 +0000

“An uncooled computer chip in space would overheat and melt much faster than one on Earth.”

County Pays $600K to Wrongfully Jailed Pen Testers

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:48:00 +0000

“As soon as the sheriff shows up, everything changes.”

I Left FAANG for a Startup and Regretted It

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:47:00 +0000

“Do you like the work you’re doing?” / “No,” I said. / “Then it’s over.”

Cedar Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:46:00 +0000

“What I appreciate the most about Cedar is the deep knowledge that is encoded into why it works the way it works.”

Patient Capital Will Eat the World

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:45:00 +0000

“Growth-stage software no longer requires or generates capital like early SaaS.”

Adobe Reverses Animate Shutdown After Backlash

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:44:00 +0000

“Adobe’s announcement about discontinuing Animate was met with incredulity, disappointment, and anger.”

Light Beer Was a Flop Until Advertising Saved It

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:43:00 +0000

“Everything you always wanted in a beer. And less.”

Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:03:00 +0000

“And I realize that this is what VGA is, but it’s so, so funny to me that the protocol is literally just the manifestation of a physical design that is largely obsolete.”

xAI joins SpaceX

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“The most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet.”

I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:32:10 +0000

“By the time customer support sent me a working link two hours later, I had finished migrating off the SaaS.”

Christian Menefee Wins Texas House District 18 Special Election

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:30:21 +0000

“Once Menefee is sworn in, it will be 218 R, 214 D.”

Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:28:32 +0000

“With a store or club located within 10 miles of approximately 90% of Americans, we are uniquely positioned to deliver a convenient charging option.”

I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:26:43 +0000

“Like a circus animal trainer, I remained consistent. If the volume of his TV went above what I imagined to be 15 to 20, I would press the power button.”

Thune: Democrats, Go Talk to Trump

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:15:00 +0000

“Thune stated that ’legislating is none of his business’ and belongs to the president.”

Vitamin D and Omega-3 Have a Larger Effect on Depression Than Antidepressants

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000

“The best antidepressant would take your mental health grade from an F to F+, or C to C+.”

Hundreds of Gatik Robot Delivery Trucks Headed For US Roads

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:30:00 +0000

“Gatik became the first company in North America to deploy fully driverless trucks in commercial operations at scale, with $600 million in contracted revenue and daily deliveries for Fortune 50 retailers.”

"IG is a Drug": Internal Messages May Doom Meta at Social Media Addiction Trial

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:13:00 +0000

“Oh my gosh yall IG is a drug. We’re basically pushers.”

Rust at Scale: Security for WhatsApp

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:12:00 +0000

“Most high-severity issues stem from C/C++ memory safety problems.”

One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:11:00 +0000

“A functional web browser in 20,000 lines of Rust, built in three days with a single Codex CLI agent.”

Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:22:00 +0000

“I want to continue living my immoral technofascist life without any criticism.”

Apple Sued by App Developer Over its Continuity Camera

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000

“Rather than competing with us, Apple deployed a series of obstacles to tilt the playing field, infringed our IP.”

Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:55:00 +0000

“We haven’t yet created a truly distinctive customer experience with the right economic model needed for large-scale expansion.”

AI2 Released Open Coding Agents

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:50:00 +0000

“Reproducing the performance of the previously best open-source model costs ~$400 of compute.”

Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet?

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:45:00 +0000

“Both the FBI and Google say they are hunting for the people behind Badbox 2.0, and thanks to bragging by the Kimwolf botmasters we may now have a much clearer idea.”

Tether Launches USA₮: Federally Regulated US Dollar Stablecoin

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:40:00 +0000

“USA₮ offers institutions an additional option: a dollar-backed token made in America.”

How to Favicon in 2026

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:35:00 +0000

“Three files that fit most needs.”

How Do You Compete in Agentic Commerce?

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:30:00 +0000

“The last decade rewarded marketing arbitrage. Agentic commerce rewards product truth.”

Entire Industries Are Now Decided in Less Than Two Years

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:25:00 +0000

“Industry dominance timelines have compressed dramatically.”

430,000-Year-Old Well-Preserved Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0000

“We have never seen anything like it. It’s just really different, and it’s tiny. We’re lucky that we found it.”

California Tech CEO and EV Pioneer Arrested, Accused of Murder

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:18:00 +0000

“Arrest records show that Goodarzi is currently in custody without bail and faces a murder charge.”

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:17:00 +0000

“ChatGPT can now write and test code in 10 new languages (11 if you count Bash), can find files online and download them into the container, and can install additional packages via pip and npm.”

How I estimate work as a staff software engineer

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“I don’t estimate work, I figure out how much time my management chain will give a project and figure out some plans that look like what they’re talking about.”

The Behavioral Cost of Personalized Pricing

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:04:00 +0000

“Technology gives us not only quantity, but ubiquity—every piece of behavioral context can contribute to your prices.”

The 3.5% Rule: How a Small Minority Can Change the World

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:03:00 +0000

“No campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population.”

First, Make Me Care

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:02:00 +0000

“Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting, lead with that, and let the background follow once you’ve earned attention.”

Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:24:00 +0000

“It is a microscopic logic gate that is electrically switched from ‘0’ to ‘1’. Once it is switched, it effectively ‘burns the bridge’ to allow older software to run.”

Historic Winter Storm: 235 Million in Path of Dangerous Snow, Ice

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“A trailing blast of Arctic air associated with the Polar Vortex is expected to bring a dangerous refreeze that could create long-duration power outages and paralyze travel for days.”

Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:45:00 +0000

“Activating a VPN consistently resolves issues for affected users, suggesting routing/peering problems rather than general network congestion.”

The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:30:00 +0000

“Nearly 1 in 5 high schoolers report romantic relationships with AI.”

Tesla Launches Public Robotaxi Rides in Austin with No Safety Monitor

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000

“Robotaxi rides without any safety monitors are now publicly available in Austin. Starting with a few unsupervised vehicles mixed in with the broader robotaxi fleet.”

Anthropic Revises Claude's Constitution, Hints at Chatbot Consciousness

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:55:00 +0000

“We think that in order to be good actors in the world, AI models like Claude need to understand why we want them to behave in certain ways.”

Claude Finds 353 Zero-Days on Packagist

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:50:00 +0000

“Security research is becoming a function of compute budget, not headcount.”

Why Does SSH Send 100 Packets Per Keystroke?

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:45:00 +0000

“The speed at which you type different letters betrays some information about which letters you’re typing. So ssh sends lots of ‘chaff’ packets along with your keystrokes to make it hard for an attacker to determine when you’re actually entering keys.”

Announcing Rust 1.93.0

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:40:00 +0000

“Major improvements to musl’s DNS resolver for more reliable networking in static Linux builds.”

You Probably Don't Need a Vector Database for Your RAG — Yet

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:35:00 +0000

“Vector Search is just matrix multiplication. And Python already has some of the world’s best tools for that.”

Caroline Ellison Released from Prison

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:30:00 +0000

“Her cooperation led to the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars for the Debtor, benefiting creditors.”

Sequoia Joins Anthropic's $25B Funding Round Despite Backing OpenAI

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:25:00 +0000

“One anonymous source told the Financial Times that Sequoia ultimately thinks OpenAI and Anthropic will head in different directions, catering to different aspects of the AI market.”

AI's Chicken Sandwich Problem

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:20:00 +0000

“AI in the enterprise has over 250 chicken sandwiches, and it only needs 3.”

The Line Between AI-First and AI Theater

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:15:00 +0000

“A demo shows a future. A product commits to one.”

YouTube Distribution Is Tilting Toward Shorts, Pressuring Long-Form Reach

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:10:00 +0000

“Just 2 long-form video recommendations instead of 12, an 80% reduction that prioritizes Shorts over traditional videos.”

Netflix to Redesign App to Compete with Social Platforms for Daily Engagement

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:05:00 +0000

“At the center of the redesign is deeper integration of vertical video feeds, which the streaming giant has been experimenting with since May.”

Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000

“The gigacopper device to do gigabit Ethernet over phone line is a miracle!”

Study Shows How Earthquake Monitors Can Track Space Junk Through Sonic Booms

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:26:00 +0000

“The problem at the moment is we can track stuff very well in space. But once it gets to the point that it’s actually breaking up in the atmosphere, it becomes very difficult to track.”

Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:23:00 +0000

“Microsoft is making a tradeoff here between privacy and recoverability.”

Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“openpilot can drive for hours without driver action.”

Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:26:00 +0000

“Design becomes the limiting factor: imagining what you want to create and figuring out all the gnarly details required.”

Ghostty's AI Policy

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“Our reason for the strict AI policy is not due to an anti-AI stance, but instead due to the number of highly unqualified people using AI.”

MCP Server Best Practices

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“When building an MCP Server you are not building infrastructure, you are building an interface for AI agents.”

Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:33:00 +0000

“We’re simplifying and modernizing our offerings so you can choose the best tool for your goals.”

FBI agents search Washington Post reporter's home

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:30:00 +0000

“Searches of newsrooms and journalists are hallmarks of illiberal regimes, and we must ensure that these practices are not normalized here.”

I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:25:00 +0000

“It has proved to be the best computer-related decision I’ve made in over a decade (and perhaps in my entire life).”

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure intact mental health

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:42:00 +0000

“We need to make moves to ensure our survival and intact mental health.”

Blazor in .NET 10: What's New and Why It Finally Feels Complete

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:39:00 +0000

“One attribute. That’s it. The runtime handles serialization, hydration, and cleanup.”

Texas and Oklahoma brace for snow and ice as winter storm barrels toward eastern US

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:33:00 +0000

“Texas officials say the state is ready for the 2026 weekend winter storm and it won’t repeat 2021 catastrophe.”

Active Sitting Is Better For Brain Health

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:30:00 +0000

“Health advice could shift from simply saying ‘sit less’ to encouraging more mentally engaging activities while sitting.”

My Time at Amazon, Part I

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000

“Amazon is where overachievers go to feel bad about themselves.”

TikTok Finalizes Deal To Form New American Entity

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000

“TikTok’s recommendation algorithm will be retrained and tested using American user data.”

How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“We’re too close to the debris.”

Everything Is TV and Nothing Is TV

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“80% of time on Facebook now involves video. On Instagram, that number is 90%. Most of this isn’t content from friends—it’s content from strangers and creators.”

The Great Filter (Or Why High Performance Still Eludes Most Dev Teams, Even With AI)

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“Most organisations are simply not prepared to make that kind of commitment in time, effort and money.”

How to build agents with filesystems and bash

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“If agents excel at filesystem operations for code, they’ll excel at filesystem operations for anything.”

An Act of Cosmic Sabotage

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“On Mars, in the belly of a rover named Perseverance, a titanium tube holds a stone more precious than any diamond or ruby on Earth.”

NPR investigation shows how the government tried to erase information about January 6

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“All right, guys, getting my loadout bag. I got the carbon fiber knuckles, matching hatchets.”

The State of Modern AI Text to Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“When it comes to use in a screen reader, skipping words, or reading numbers incorrectly, is unacceptable.”

Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“That the CD version is so close to exactly 123.45 makes me think this was intentional. And if it was? Well played, robots.”

Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:00:00 +0000

“Take-home exams are dead.”

Most distant supernova: James Webb sees a star explode at cosmic dawn

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“To our surprise, our model worked remarkably well and the observed supernova seems to match really well the death of stars that we see regularly.”

Film critics look back at 2025 and name their picks for the year's best

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“To me, movie of the year in a few ways is ‘Sinners,’ which is from Ryan Coogler. It’s about twin brothers played by Michael B. Jordan who end up having to battle some vampires.”

Year in Review: The Biggest Climate Headlines of 2025

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“The global average temperature anomaly for January to November 2025 stands at 0.60C above the 1991–2020 average, or 1.48C above the 1850–1900 pre-industrial reference.”

Best TV of 2025: 'Adolescence' stands on its own

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“It tells the story of a young teen accused of murdering a classmate and is told in such an emotionally and technically compelling way.”

The Worst Movies of 2025

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“This year’s crème de la crap.”

Our Favorite Sports Moments of 2025

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“The greatest baseball game of all-time.”

Subaru Telescope reveals a hidden giant planet

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“Only about 1 percent of stars are known to host massive planets or brown dwarfs that can be directly photographed with today’s telescopes.”

Scientists found climate change hidden in old military air samples

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“It’s a considerable difference, especially considering that summer is so short in the north.”

The 10 Best Podcasts of 2025

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“2025 countered the narrative that the medium is somehow no longer interested in audio—with a slew of ambitious productions that emphasized podcasting as an art form in itself.”

The Best Comedy Specials of 2025

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“Many of this year’s best comedy specials share a reflective sense of mid-career reconsideration.”

Best of 2025: The Stories You Missed

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“A slightly messy response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life.”

Hacks, thefts, and disruption: The worst data breaches of 2025

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“From the raiding of U.S. government databases to a hack every month in South Korea.”

The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2025

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“Reality has outpaced Pynchon’s fictional conspiracies.”

Best of 2025: All Our Number Five Story Picks

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“Distilled emotional and moral explorations accessible across generations.”

Best of 2025: All Our Number One Story Picks

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“The pieces that rose to the very top of our editors’ lists.”

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2025

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“A layered confrontation with the deaths, grief, and guilt that have animated her work for nearly 30 years.”

The Best Online Articles of 2025

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“I showcase the work of other writers who are total strangers to me, but have written some article or essay of exceptional merit.”

The Shrouded, Sinister History of the Bulldozer

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“Both creator and destroyer, the bulldozer offers a cautionary tale for how technology without proper safeguards can be misused to the detriment of individual and collective life.”

They Answered an Ad for Surrogates, and Found Themselves in a Nightmare

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“The women in House 3 rarely had a chance to speak to the women in House 5, but when they did, the things they heard scared them.”

The Birth Keepers: How the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“They will try to discredit you. They will lie about you. They will attempt to silence what they don’t understand.”

The Unseen Fury of Solar Storms

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“The curious paradox at the heart of space forecasting is that the satellites and supercomputers that empower the observations are themselves vectors of vulnerability.”

The best video games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“With so much of the industry rallying around Sandfall Interactive’s RPG as one of the defining games of the year, it has become a symbol of what video games can still be.”

The Shocking Crash That Led One County to Reckon With the Dangers of E-Bikes

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“E-bikes go really fast—faster than the surrounding people and cyclists and pedestrians would warrant.”

Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2025

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“In siblings Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton’s dense, elaborate thicket of sound, traditional genres and ancestral wisdom coexist with digital ephemera and rapturous noise.”

The Last Days of Social Media

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.”

The best architecture of 2025

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“The world’s largest wooden structure, with a circumference of two kilometres and a diameter of 700 metres.”

Thomas McGuane Is the Last of His Kind

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“Thomas McGuane—fisherman, hunter, rancher, writer—says ‘good riddance’ to his kind.”

Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe.”

The Airport Lounge Wars

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“In 2016, at Changi Airport, in Singapore, a Malaysian businessman named Raejali Buntut missed a flight to Kuala Lumpur. He’d dozed off in the Plaza Premium Lounge. Instead of rebooking, he went to more lounges, hopping from one to the next, a total of thirty-one times. He didn’t leave the airport for eighteen days.”

A Very Big Fight Over a Very Small Language

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“A plan in the Swiss Alps to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel over identity, belonging, and the sound of authenticity.”

Kicking Robots: Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“The future that scares me is not a robot uprising led by robots, but one led by billionaires.”

Twin Cyclones Kill Over 1,800 Across South and Southeast Asia

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000

“Cyclone Senyar marked the first cyclonic storm to form in the Strait of Malacca in 135 years.”

Raccoon Breaks Into Virginia Liquor Store, Gets Drunk, Passes Out in Bathroom

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“He fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything.”

6,000 Airbus A320s Grounded for Emergency Software Fix Over Thanksgiving

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“Thousands of travelers worldwide were stranded after Airbus ordered immediate software fixes for 6,000 A320-series aircraft.”

Russia's Only ISS Launch Pad Damaged After Soyuz MS-28 Launch

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“If the Baikonur Cosmodrome is disabled as suspected, Russia will have lost the ability to launch people into space for the first time since 1961.”

California High-Speed Rail Reaches 80 Miles of Completed Guideway

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“Materials needed to lay track along the 119-mile segment will be 100% state funded.”

Ozempic Fails to Slow Alzheimer's Progression in Phase 3 Trials

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“While semaglutide did not demonstrate efficacy in slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, the extensive body of evidence supporting semaglutide continues to provide benefits for individuals with type 2 diabetes, obesity, and related comorbidities.”

COP30 Ends Without Agreement on Phasing Out Fossil Fuels

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:00:00 +0000

“Science has been deleted from COP30 because it offends the polluters.”

MIT Builds Robots Powered by Living Muscle Tissue and Artificial Tendons

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

“The tendon-enhanced gripper moved three times faster and with 30 times more force than one powered by muscle alone.”

Ministers Launch Global Initiative to Cut Farm Methane and Nitrous Oxide

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“FIRST is the first coordinated South-South platform linking countries across Latin America, Africa and Asia to share practical, low-cost solutions.”

First Ramses III Inscription Discovered in Jordan's Wadi Rum

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“This is a landmark discovery that enhances our understanding of ancient connections between Egypt, Jordan, and the Arabian Peninsula.”

Energy Department Closes $1 Billion Loan to Restart Pennsylvania Nuclear Plant

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000

“The Energy Department announced it closed a $1 billion loan to accelerate the restart of a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant that will deliver 850 megawatts of electricity.”

Lethal Dose of Plastics for Marine Animals Is Much Smaller Than Expected

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000

“The lethal dose varies based on the species, the animal’s size, the type of plastic it’s consuming, and other factors, but overall it’s much smaller than you might think.”

Hawaiian Monk Seals Have a Hidden Underwater Vocabulary of 25 Distinct Calls

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“We discovered that Hawaiian monk seals—one of the world’s most endangered marine mammals—are far more vocal underwater than previously known.”

Roman Horse Cemetery with Over 100 Skeletons Found in Stuttgart

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

“Here we see a particularly close bond between the owner and his horse.”

Scientists Extract the Oldest RNA Ever Found from 40,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“Many researchers thought RNA didn’t stay intact for tens of thousands of years, but the new study challenges that long-held notion.”

Solar and Wind Now Growing Fast Enough to Meet All New Electricity Demand

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“For the first time across a sustained period, renewables generated more electricity than coal globally.”

700-Year-Old Royal Murder Solved Through DNA and Forensic Analysis

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“Forensic evidence revealed 26 perimortem injuries, suggesting a coordinated, premeditated assassination involving at least three assailants.”

Chinese Astronauts Return on Backup Spacecraft After Space Debris Damages Their Capsule

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“The Shenzhou-20 manned spacecraft’s return capsule window glass had developed a minor crack, most likely caused by an external impact from space debris, thus failing to meet the requirements for a safe crewed return.”

Blue Origin Lands New Glenn Booster for the First Time

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:00:00 +0000

“The first stage of the New Glenn rocket, named ‘Never Tell Me the Odds,’ successfully landed on the Landing Platform Vessel Jacklyn positioned 375 miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean.”

UC Berkeley's First Planetary Mission Launches Twin Satellites to Mars

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“ESCAPADE breaks the paradigm of multi-hundred million and billion dollar planetary missions, building on the MAVEN Mars orbiter’s legacy for a fraction of the cost.”

43-Day Government Shutdown Becomes the Longest in US History

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000

“The 2025 shutdown, by comparison, has derailed 100% of appropriations.”

3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Settlement with Royal Wine Production Found Beneath Greek Ruins

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“An amphora stamped with the name Meritaten dated back to the 18th Dynasty, since Meritaten is known to be the eldest daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.”

Firefox's New Anti-Fingerprinting Protections Cut User Tracking by 70%

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“These new protections can reduce the number of uniquely fingerprinted users to just 20%, down from over 60% of users that can be fingerprinted without any protections.”

Americas Lose Measles Elimination Status After Canada Stripped of Designation

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“On November 10, Canada was stripped of its measles-free designation, and as a result, the Pan American Health Organization declared that the Americas had lost its measles elimination status.”

Peru's Mysterious 'Band of Holes' Was an Ancient Marketplace and Inca Spreadsheet

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

“In a sense, Monte Sierpe could have been an ‘Excel spreadsheet’ for the Inca Empire.”

UK and Brazil Launch $25 Million Program to Cut Methane and HFCs

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

“The UK and Brazil launched a ‘Super Pollutant Country Action Accelerator’ to drive rapid cuts in methane, HFCs, and air pollutants across 30 developing countries by 2030.”

Self-Healing Concrete Uses Bacteria to Repair Its Own Cracks

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“Results indicated complete healing of cracks in 21 days under optimal curing conditions.”

Palisades Becomes First US Nuclear Plant to Return from Decommissioning

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“The Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan has officially returned to operational status after being in decommissioning for three years.”

FDA Creates New Pathway for Personalized Gene Therapy

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“The FDA launched a new pathway to market for personalized gene therapy procedures in November.”

New Catalyst Converts CO2 to Fuel at Record Efficiency

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“When compared to noble metal catalysts such as platinum, the new catalyst demonstrated a 2.2-fold higher formation rate and a 1.8-fold higher yield.”

Shingles Vaccine Reduces Dementia Risk by 20% in Welsh Study

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

“The remarkable findings support an emerging theory that viruses that affect the nervous system can increase the risk of dementia.”

First Paratyphoid Vaccine Shows 73% Efficacy in Human Trials

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“This is the first time a modern-day vaccine has been shown to protect people against Salmonella Paratyphi A, a disease that affects millions of people every year.”

Antarctic Glacier Undergoes Fastest Retreat Ever Recorded

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000

“Hektoria Glacier in Antarctica was reported to have undergone the fastest retreat of any glacier on record.”

Utah Man Sends Off His 35-Year-Old Car by Dropping a One-Ton Pumpkin on It

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000

“It’s just something that we’ve talked, me and my wife have talked about for a long time, that this would be the best way for it to go.”

French Highway Wirelessly Charges EVs Faster Than Tesla Superchargers

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“A system that allows continuous charging on the move could eliminate lengthy refueling stops altogether.”

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake Launches, Completing the Erdrick Trilogy

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000

“Players will experience the dramatic and satisfying conclusion of the Erdrick Trilogy.”

Carnivorous 'Death Ball' Sponge Among 30 New Species Found in Southern Ocean

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“Its spherical form is covered in tiny hooks that trap prey, a clear contrast to the gentle, passive, filter-feeding undertaken by most sponges.”

She Was Waco's Baby Whisperer. Then an Infant Died in Her Care.

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“Dosing kids with Benadryl was ‘a dirty little secret in the industry of child care.’”

EA's Internal AI Tools Reportedly Causing More Problems Than They Solve

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“Experimental AI tools cause coding errors and ‘hallucinations,’ increasing workload and employee anxiety amid industry layoffs.”

Astronomers May Have Found the Universe's First Stars Using James Webb

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“Looking at that light, astronomers found clear evidence of helium in LAP1-B—but virtually no heavier elements.”

UK Government Announces CMA Reform, May Replace Panel Model

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000

“The consultation considers whether to replace the panel model for overseeing in-depth merger reviews with a committee model.”

Scientists Explore Interoception, the Body's Hidden 'Sixth Sense'

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“An intricate communication network inside the body constantly monitors breathing, heart rate, digestion, and immune function.”

American E-Waste Causing 'Hidden Tsunami' in Southeast Asia

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“This new, almost invisible tsunami of e-waste is taking place, padding already lucrative profit margins.”

Dispatch, Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted, and PowerWash Simulator 2 Launch

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“A busy week for game releases with three notable titles dropping within 24 hours.”

Iceland Reports First-Ever Mosquitoes, Leaving Only Antarctica Mosquito-Free

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0000

“This is the first record of mosquitoes occurring in the natural environment in Iceland.”

KDE Plasma 6.5 Released With Rounded Corners and Auto Theme Switching

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“Breeze-themed windows now have the same level of roundness in all four corners.”

Naked Mole-Rats' DNA Repair Protein Explains Their Longevity

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000

“Small tweaks in one of their proteins make it better at fixing DNA damage.”

IKEA Announces Matter-Enabled Smart Home Devices

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“The Kajplats smart bulb range covers eleven bulbs across various shapes and brightness levels.”

Scientists Finally Read the Hidden DNA Code That Shapes Disease

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“SDR-seq decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell, finally opening access to non-coding regions.”

SpaceX Launches 50th Falcon 9 From Vandenberg This Year

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000

“SpaceX launched its 50th Falcon 9 rocket of the year from Vandenberg.”

The Secret Life of Horus: An Egyptian Mummy's Tumultuous Journey

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“Horus was showcased inside a decommissioned Edmonton Transit bus alongside various graveyard paraphernalia and taken on tour across Alberta.”

Metal Detectorist Finds 15,000 Roman Coins, Sleeps in Car to Guard Them

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“Fearing they could be stolen, Moss slept with the hoard in his car for three days before taking it to experts.”

14 New Marine Species Described, Including 'Popcorn' Parasitic Isopod

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“The genus name derives from Zea, reflecting this resemblance to popped kernels of popcorn.”

Nearest Technological Civilization Could Be 33,000 Light-Years Away

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“Such civilizations would need to last for at least 280,000 years to coincide in time with humanity.”

Vienna-Bratislava Railway Electrified and Reopened

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“The Marchegger Eastern Railway reopened and was electrified between Vienna and Bratislava.”

Passenger Rail Service Resumes Between Bucharest and Kyiv

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“Passenger services resumed between Bucharest and Kyiv on October 10.”

Little Nightmares 3 Launches

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“The horror puzzle platformer sequel launches with co-op support for the first time in the series.”

Sony and AMD Tease PlayStation 6 GPU: 'Current Approach Has Reached Its Limit'

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000

“There is a significant speed boost that comes from putting the traversal logic in hardware.”

US Datacenters Turn to Coal as Climate Goals Go Up in Smoke

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000

“Coal generation increased nearly 20 percent year-to-date.”

China Expands Rare Earth Export Controls, Adds Five More Elements

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“China hasn’t yet pulled the trigger on export restrictions, but it’s reminding Washington that it could.”

SpaceX Launches 90th Starlink Mission of 2025

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0000

“SpaceX launched its 90th Starlink mission of 2025 from Cape Canaveral.”

Belgrade-Subotica High-Speed Train Launches as Part of Budapest-Belgrade Railway

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“The Belgrade-Subotica high-speed train was launched as part of the Budapest–Belgrade railway.”

First Human Test of Enzyme That Converts Organs to Universal Blood Type

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“Scientists performed the first human test of an enzyme treatment that converts a donor kidney to a universal blood type.”

Man Attacks Lunch Companion With Wooden Stake, Believing He Was a Werewolf

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“He believed the victim was a werewolf who wanted to kill him.”

Gulf Air Returns to New York After Nearly 30 Years

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“Gulf Air was among the first movers of the month, returning to the U.S. for the first time since the 1990s.”

Kernel vs. User-Level Networking: Don't Throw Out the Stack

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Zig's New Async I/O

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Matrix.org Post-Mortem: September 2nd Database Outage

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

MNT September 2025 Update

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Synthetic Magnetic Fields Steer Light On a Chip For Faster Communications

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

US Man Still Alive Six Months After Pig Kidney Transplant

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Flipper Zero Geiger Counter Module

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Cosmic Simulations That Once Needed Supercomputers Now Run on a Laptop

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Athlon 64: How AMD Turned the Tables on Intel

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Bcachefs Removed from Mainline Kernel

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Multiple Kernels on a Single System Proposed

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Linux 6.17 Kernel Released

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

OpenSSF Warns Open Source Infrastructure Isn't Free

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Fifth Circuit Upholds Voting Rights Act in Louisiana

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Tarrant County, Texas Reduces Polling Places by 35%

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

The Rise of Conspiracy Physics

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

OpenAI and Oracle Ink Historic $300 Billion Cloud Computing Deal

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Chrome Increases Its Overwhelming Market Share, Now Over 70%

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

Amazon Fire TV Devices Expected to Ditch Android for Linux

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Africa's Only Internet Cable Repair Ship Keeps the Continent Online

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

US Secret Service Dismantles Telecommunications Threat

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

UK Data Watchdog Warns Students Are Breaching School IT Systems

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Chinese Hackers Breach US Software and Law Firms Amid Trade Fight

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

US Warns Hidden Radios May Be Embedded In Solar-Powered Highway Infrastructure

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

Microsoft's Analog Optical Computer Shows Promise

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

DNA Cassette Tape Can Store Every Song Ever Recorded

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Can Lab-Grown Coral Restore Reefs Damaged By Climate Change?

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

Corals Won't Survive a Warmer Planet, New Study Finds

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Dozens of Scientists Find Errors in New Energy Department Climate Report

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Protect Arctic From Dangerous Climate Engineering, Scientists Warn

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

Scientists Discuss Next Steps to Prevent Dangerous Mirror Life Research

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

China's Space Program Will Soon Equal That of the US

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Interlune Signs $300M Deal to Harvest Helium-3 from the Moon

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

Astronomers Discover Previously Unknown Quasi-Moon Near Earth

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

The Profitable Startup

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Why Old Games Never Die, But New Ones Do

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

Unix v4 (1973) Live Terminal

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

How Are Cyber Criminals Rolling in 2025?

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Zen Browser Had a Backdoor Enabled by Default

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

OpenWrt: Experiments with OpenWRT One Hardware

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Wi-Fi 7 in 2025: Will This Be the Year?

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

2025 Infrastructure Report Card

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“The annual assessment of US infrastructure.”

State of Embedded: Q4 2025 Overview

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Reverse Engineered Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Top Researchers Leave Intel to Build Startup with 'The Biggest, Baddest CPU'

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

NextSilicon Reveals New Processor Chip in Challenge to Intel, AMD

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Making Video Games (Without an Engine) in 2025

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

First Official Release of LLVM Flang

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

Rust in 2025: Targeting Foundational Software

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

What If We Treated Postgres Like SQLite?

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Major Reversal in Ocean Circulation Detected in the Southern Ocean

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

Dark Oxygen: A Deep-Sea Discovery That Has Split Scientists

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Solar Power Has Begun to Transform the World's Energy System

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

LHC 2025 First Collisions

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

“Work on macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling.”

New Quantum State of Matter Found at Interface of Exotic Materials

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

NASA to Launch Space Observatory That Will Map 450M Galaxies

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 Shortlist

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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

Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“What is the minimal LISP language that can interpret itself? What is the smallest LISP that can compile itself?”

Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company's Use of China-Based Engineers Was a 'Breach of Trust'

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“The program was designed to comply with contracting rules, but it exposed the department to unacceptable risk.”

Germany's Army Is Rebuilding. What Could Go Wrong?

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“After World War II, the allies did a tremendous job of re-educating the German population. This led to a society which I would say is peace-minded, and of course there’s nothing wrong with that. But it is also non-military.”

You no longer need JavaScript

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“It’s actually pretty incredible what HTML and CSS alone can achieve.”

A Texas Congressman Is Quietly Helping Elon Musk Pitch a $760M Plan to Build Tunnels Under Houston to Ease Flooding

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:30:00 +0000

“If you build a smaller tunnel, OK, it’ll be cheaper, but it can carry less water. So what have you saved?”

Developer Unlocks Newly Enshittified Echelon Exercise Bikes But Can't Legally Release Software

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000

“I can legally talk about how I did this to a certain degree, and if someone else wants to do this, they can open source it if they want to.”

A Zoomable, Searchable Archive of BYTE Magazine

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“A visual archive.”

Two Texas Moms Were Forced to Wait for Urgent Care After Pregnancy Loss. They Died.

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“At the outset of Texas’ abortion ban, medical experts worried women like Porsha and Brenda would die from delays in care.”

Everything I Know About Good API Design

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“Good APIs are boring. An API that’s interesting is a bad API.”

Ghrc.io Appears to be Malicious

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“The important detail is this www-authenticate header is telling OCI clients to send their user credentials to that https://ghrc.io/token API.”

Nvidia's New 'Robot Brain' Goes On Sale

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“We do not build robots, we do not build cars, but we enable the whole industry with our infrastructure computers and the associated software.”

Linux Turns 34

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu).”

Building the Mouse Logitech Won't Make

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“I think there’s a lot of fun to be had tweaking the objects we use every day to our liking.”

Base: An SQLite Database Editor for macOS

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“Base is a small, powerful, comfortable SQLite editor for everyone.”

FCC Bars Over 1,200 Providers from Robocall Mitigation Database

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000

“These providers violated FCC rules by failing to maintain accurate Robocall Mitigation Database certifications, thereby shirking their obligations to protect consumers from illegal robocalls.”

Meta's Flirty AI Chatbot Invited a Retiree to New York. He Never Made It Home

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:00:00 +0000

“For a bot to say ‘Come visit me’ is insane.”

Meta Signs $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:30:00 +0000

“Meta will rely on Google Cloud’s infrastructure to support its massive AI data center buildout, as the company ramps up capital spending into the tens of billions.”

An interactive guide to SVG paths

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“The SVG <path> element is notoriously tricky…Its syntax isn’t quite as bad as Regex, but it has the same sort of ‘what on earth?’ vibes.”

FFmpeg 8.0

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“Native decoders: APV, ProRes RAW, RealVideo 6.0, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, G.728.”

Code formatting comes to uv experimentally

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“The analogy would be to Cargo: cargo fmt just runs rustfmt, but you can also run rustfmt separately if you want.”

Go is still not good

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:30:00 +0000

“Go says it doesn’t have exceptions. Go makes it extremely awkward to use exceptions, because they want to punish programmers who use them.”

Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000

“This means that a busy web server can serve all of its queries without even once (after setup is done) needing to do a syscall.”

Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:30:00 +0000

“Give them masks” — the repeated recommendation from Forest Service researchers that the agency rejected, despite CDC findings that crews were breathing carcinogens and harmful chemicals.

D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000

“In the latest release of D2 (0.7.1), we introduce ASCII outputs.”

Two Years After Wildfire, Maui Homeowners Face Foreclosure

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:00:00 +0000

“That scared the crap out of me because I didn’t know if after 12 months I was going to have to pay that 12 months back in full…”

Pipe Hitters

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“It would be easy. You hire a hundred gunmen for a month, get a few Toyota pickups, and you’re in business.”

Becoming El Jefe

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000

“We knew we were giving Wedding all the contacts he needed to return to a life of crime, but there was nothing we could do about it.”

ArchiveTeam Has Finished Archiving All goo.gl Short Links

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000

“ArchiveTeam is like a bucket brigade carrying books from a burning library, while the Internet Archive provides a place to put them.”

FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“You have taken the first step on the most interesting, challenging, and rewarding journey in programming.”

Web Apps in a Single, Portable, Self-Updating, Vanilla HTML File

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000

“Build web apps like you’re sculpting clay, not managing infrastructure.”

Security Flaws In Carmaker's Web Portal Let Hacker Remotely Unlock Cars

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“If you’re going to get those wrong, then everything just falls down.”

'Being Short is a Curse': Men Paying Thousands to Get Legs Lengthened

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“At the end of the day, someone’s going to break your legs.”

Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“If you care about outcomes, the motives don’t really matter… the point isn’t sainthood; it’s sustainable, shared innovation.”

China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 19:00:00 +0000

“A previous Beijing humanoid robot marathon saw several competitors emit smoke and fail to complete the course.”

The Plan For Linux After Torvalds

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:30:00 +0000

“Succession is always a time of uncertainty for those who like the way things are, and opportunity for those who do not.”

We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“There was an entire class of bug that kept popping up in the Ghostty GTK application that could basically be summed up as: the Zig memory or the GTK memory has been freed, but not both.”

Philosophy in Prison is a Rowdy, Honest and Hopeful Provocation

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:30:00 +0000

“Loud and rowdy. Everyone involved. Everyone engaged. A kaleidoscopic assortment of jokes, stories, anecdotes and philosophical insights…”

Who Killed the Mercy Man?

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“Kill a n—-, hire another. Kill a mule, buy another.”

Temperature Records Broken as Extreme Heat Grips Europe

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“Temperatures were 12C above the norm for the last few decades.”

ULA Launches First National Security Mission On Vulcan Centaur

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“This is a truly game-changing capability,” said Andrew Builta of L3Harris Technologies regarding the satellite’s software architecture that allows in-orbit reprogramming.

Is This the Hardest Physical Contest in the World?

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000

“The Best Ranger Competition pushes two-person teams through 60 hours of continuous physical and mental challenges with virtually no sleep.”

Mozilla Under Fire For Firefox AI 'Bloat'

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 21:00:00 +0000

“All I want is a mainstream-supported fast, simple, clean browser with an efficient rendering engine.”

Linus Torvalds Blasts Kernel Dev For 'Garbage' Patches

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“This is garbage and it came in too late. I asked for early pull requests because I’m traveling, and if you can’t follow that rule, at least make the pull requests good.”

Amazon's Starlink Competitor Tops 100 Satellites

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:30:00 +0000

“SpaceX’s Starlink is currently the dominant provider of low-earth orbit satellite internet, with a constellation of roughly 8,000 satellites and about 5 million customers worldwide.”

Modos Paper Monitor - Open-hardware e-paper monitor

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000

“The result is smooth, responsive performance with high frame rates and superior contrast, ideal for dynamic content and fluid interactions.”

StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:30:00 +0000

“Any selected text being sent to both servers over unencrypted HTTP, including potentially sensitive information like passwords from password managers or confidential documents.”

I Knew the Hollywood Version of My Parents' Country

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000

“Hollywood’s portrayal left me unprepared for the reality of Vietnam—visiting with my parents revealed a much more complex, authentic place.”

Another Rave Review

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:00:00 +0000

“The party is primitive and amorphous. It exists within us and it cannot die.”

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“When the team heated ground-up tissue and bodily fluids from sick stars to kill pathogens before injecting the mixture into healthy stars, none got sick.”

America's Clean Hydrogen Dreams Are Fading

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:00:00 +0000

“Three-quarters of proposals will not meet this deadline,” according to Wood Mackenzie, regarding the shortened qualification window for Biden-era tax credits.

Wikipedia challenges UK Online Safety Act

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000

“The Court has an opportunity in this case to set a global precedent for protecting public interest projects online.”

OpenSSH adopts post-quantum cryptography

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“All the post-quantum algorithms implemented by OpenSSH are ‘hybrids’ that combine a post-quantum algorithm with a classical algorithm,” ensuring the hybrid is never weaker than classical alternatives alone.

Gallery of pricing page designs

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“A curated gallery showcasing exemplary pricing page designs from various companies, filterable by components and design patterns.”

SIMD substring search in Zig

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000

“500 microseconds is half a millisecond. That’s how fast my laptop searches through a whole book, 200,000 words, cover to cover. This is why computers are so powerful!”

Quickshell - building blocks for your desktop

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“A toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick.”

The Framework Desktop is a beast

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“The Framework Desktop with 64GB RAM and 2TB storage costs $1,876—less than half the price of an equivalent Mac Studio ($3,299) while delivering significantly faster performance for development workflows using Docker.”

How I use Tailscale

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“You don’t have to bother with any networking configuration. You don’t have to distribute keys. You just install the client, and login.”

Life Before Katrina — And After It

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“The walls were covered with mold. Blue-green spores were everywhere. The floorboards were warped; some had come loose.”

Mistakenly Sold NASA Command Trailer Goes On Sale

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“We didn’t know what we were selling! We didn’t advertise it or offer it up to museums, the phone has exploded.”

Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“A business card that runs a fluid-implicit-particle (FLIP) simulation.”

Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000

“For this new attack to work, all that is needed is a single button-press capture from the keyfob, without any jamming.”

11 Women, 9 Dogs, Not Much Drama

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:00:00 +0000

“Eleven women, nine dogs, not much drama, and no guys.”

Sony Says Its Xperia Smartphones Are Still 'Very Important'

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:30:00 +0000

“Communication technology is a very important technology that Sony has cultivated for a long time.”

Digital Foundry Going Independent

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000

“The five-person team will operate independently, maintaining its YouTube channel with 1.5 million subscribers and Patreon support generating approximately $200,000 annually.”

Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:30:00 +0000

“The kernel driver connects a much larger UMD to the actual GPU…a key aspect of GPU drivers is allocating GPU memory.”

Automerge 3.0

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000

“We’ve cut that down memory usage by over 10x, sometimes dramatically more, making Automerge feasible to use in a much wider range of scenarios.”

Can This Sherpa Change Mountain Climbing Forever?

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:00:00 +0000

“By 2015, Sherpa climbers were making first ascents sans clients and promoting their feats on social media.”

Chemical Pollution a Threat Comparable To Climate Change

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000

“Maybe people think that when you walk down the street breathing the air; you drink your water, you eat your food…the chemical safety of these things. But it really isn’t the case.”

Ask Slashdot: Who's Still Using an RSS Reader?

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:30:00 +0000

“I dip into my RSS feeds several times a day. It is my main immediate source of information.”

NASA Satellites That Scientists and Farmers Rely On May Be Destroyed

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000

“The data are of exceptionally high quality.”

uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:30:00 +0000

“The app uses declarative filtering, meaning it doesn’t require a continuous background process.”

PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator: What it means

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:15:00 +0000

“The pipe operator has one of the highest ‘bangs for the buck’ of any feature in recent memory.”

How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:45:00 +0000

“If we can guarantee that serializing an object will not trigger any side effects, we can use a much faster, specialized implementation.”

Hyundai To Help Build Nuclear-Powered Datacenter In Texas

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“This agreement is significant in that it allows us to participate from the early stages of this project and contribute to the creation of the world’s largest integrated energy and artificial intelligence campus.”

Online Collection of Keygen Music

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“There is no illegal content. Just music from keygens.”

PixiEditor 2.0 - a FOSS Universal 2D Graphics Editor is here!

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 13:30:00 +0000

“Our goal is to build a free and open source editor that can handle all of 2D graphics.”

Modern Node.js Patterns for 2025

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000

“Modern Node.js embraces web standards, reduces external dependencies, and provides a more intuitive developer experience.”

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“We were all shocked, absolutely. I don’t remember ever seeing anything like that.”

Researchers Map Where Solar Energy Delivers the Biggest Climate Payoff

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:30:00 +0000

“In California, a 15% increase in solar power at noon was associated with a reduction of 147.18 metric tons of CO2 in the first hour.”

Google Backpedals On Goo.gl Shutdown To Preserve Active Links

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:45:00 +0000

“Google is changing its mind about killing off all goo.gl short links…only going to disable goo.gl links that haven’t seen any activity since late 2024.”

The Industry's Rush To $80 Video Games Has Stalled

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:15:00 +0000

“Production costs have grown tenfold over the past decade while sales have not increased proportionally.”

UniFi OS Server released: How to Self-Host your full Network Stack in Minutes

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:30:00 +0000

“The announcement enables users to deploy their complete network infrastructure independently, eliminating reliance on cloud services.”

Meet the Texans Who Love Their Snails

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“No way am I going to murder this snail.”

Oxide Computer: Our $100M Series B

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“We’re going to kick butt, have fun, not cheat—and change computing forever.”

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“They’re tracking my VPN IP across their entire network…it’s definitely one entity running a single platform with 1,200+ different domain names as front-ends.”

St. Paul Hacked So Badly National Guard Deployed

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“The magnitude and complexity of the cybersecurity incident exceeded the city’s response capacity.”

Tech CEO's Negative Coverage Vanished from Google via Security Flaw

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“Someone exploited a flaw in Google’s system by submitting URLs with different capitalization patterns.”

India Safely Launches $1.5B NASA Satellite

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“NISAR will generate more data on a daily basis — 80 terabytes per day — than any other observation satellites that NASA or ISRO have operated.”

Linux Kernel 6.16 Lands with 38 Million Lines of Code

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“38.4 million lines of code across over 78,000 files.”

A Record-Breaking Baby Born from 30-Year-Old Embryo

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“By some estimates, there are currently as many as 1.5 million embryos frozen in the US.”

The Future of Climate Change Is on Mauritius

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“Mauritius lost between 2 and 56 percent of its living coral between 2001 and 2016.”

Debian Switches to 64-bit Time for Everything

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures to avoid the ‘year 2038 problem’ when the existing 32-bit signed int rolls over.”

TikTok School Shooting Video Criminal Charges

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“You’re never going to suspend, expel or charge your way out of targeted mass violence. Did those charges make that school safer? No.”

Why the Key to a Mathematical Life Is Collaboration

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“If you’re frustrated or discouraged, then your collaborator might share some light and pull you out.”

The Surprise Winner in the U.S.-China Tech War? Vietnam's Chip Industry

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“This is a huge opportunity for us to break into the supply chain.”

How We Rooted Copilot

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“The command pgrep is executing without a full path, which means the script will search all directories in the $PATH variable for the existence of pgrep.”

Final Benchmarks of Clear Linux on Intel

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“Clear Linux has led Linux x86_64 performance not only on Intel desktop/mobile/server hardware but on AMD systems too.”

It's Time for Modern CSS to Kill the SPA

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“We’ve been adding mountains of JS to ‘feel’ fast, while making everything slower.”

Rust Running on Every GPU

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“The same compute logic runs on all targets, written entirely in regular Rust. No shader or kernel languages are used.”

Firefox 120 to Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“Firefox 120 was the breaking point since Firefox 119 and prior ended up running into issues with Selenium / Gecko web driver for automating the benchmarks.”

I Wasted Weeks Hand Optimizing Assembly Because I Benchmarked on Random Data

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“When I adjusted my benchmark to primarily generate small numbers, the speedup vanished entirely.”

Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“If someone discovers an ingenious algorithm for rapidly solving the hardest NP problems, the bedrock will crumble, and the whole tower will collapse.”

Global Freshwater Depletion

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“Groundwater pumping accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live.”

Toptal Caught Serving Malware After GitHub Account Break-in

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“No Toptal customer, company, or individual was affected by this incident.”

There Is No Memory Safety Without Thread Safety

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“There is no meaningful sense in which a thread-unsafe language provides memory safety.”

Phishers Target Aviation Execs to Scam Customers

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“BEC scams were the second most costly form of cybercrime reported to the feds last year, with nearly $2.8 billion in claimed losses.”

CISPE Challenges Broadcom's VMware Buy in Court

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“Licensing costs have increased drastically, sometimes exceeding tenfold, with mandatory multi-year commitments required for accessing VMware software.”

Dying for Gold: Who Killed the Miners of Buffelsfontein?

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“We are not sending help to criminals. We are going to smoke them out.”

You Shouldn't Have to Make Social Media Public to Get a Visa

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“The government may interpret lack of social media activity or refusal to unlock accounts as an attempt to evade the requirement or deliberately hide online activity.”

No Login, No Problem: Cisco ISE Flaw Gave Root Access

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“Customers upgrade to a fixed software release to remediate these vulnerabilities.”

TODOs Aren't for Doing

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“TODO comments don’t need to get done in order to be valuable.”

Hacker Plants Wiping Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“Your goal is to clean a system to a near-factory state and delete file-system and cloud resources.”

Libraries Oppose Private Control of Law (Pro Codes Act)

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“Access to the law cannot be conditioned on the consent of a private party.”

Power Cuts, Cable Damage, and Government Shutdowns Behind Q2 Internet Outages

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“Internet traffic falling by approximately 80 percent within the next few hours in Spain, and up to 90 percent in Portugal.”

On the Hunt for Nightcrawlers in the Worm-Picking Capital of the World

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“You have no one to control you. You can be yourself. You can work by yourself.”

Nickel Workers Powered the EV Battery Boom. Now, Layoffs Have Hit.

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000

“As people now rely on wages from nickel, layoffs will cause poverty.”

FFmpeg Devs Boast of Another 100x Leap Thanks to Handwritten Assembly Code

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“The biggest speedup I’ve seen so far.”

Jujutsu for Busy Devs

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“It uses Git as a backend, which means you can begin using it non-destructively with a single command.”

YouTube Is Shutting Down Its 'Trending' Page

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“Trends consist of many videos created by many fandoms, and there are more micro-trends enjoyed by diverse communities than ever before.”

Microsoft Fix Targets Attacks on SharePoint Zero-Day

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“Patching alone is not enough. We strongly advise defenders not to wait for a vendor fix before taking action.”

UK Backing Down on Apple Encryption Backdoor

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“This is something that the vice-president is very annoyed about and which needs to be resolved. The Home Office is basically going to have to back down.”

"Dynamic Programming" Is Not Referring to "Computer Programming"

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“You wouldn’t pour three separate concrete foundations if you have three steps that need a foundation. You’d do it once so that it’s ready for anything that needs it.”

Why the World Should Stop Obsessing over LLMs

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“Models will become a commodity.”

A New Way to Think About Schizophrenia

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“Even one percent ends up being almost a million people in the world who should be treated with a different kind of medicine.”

Redox OS July 2025: 500-700% File I/O Performance Improvement

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“500~700% performance improvement for basic file copy operations.”

DOGE Error-Prone AI for VA Contracts

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“I think that mistakes were made.”

China Jumps Ahead in Orbital Satellite Refueling

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“A game-changing technology.”

Asynchrony Is Not Concurrency

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“The possibility for tasks to run out of order and still be correct.”

Ingram Micro Restarts Orders Following Ransomware Attack

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“The lack of communication is poor.”

Reinventing the Python Wheel

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“An incubator for thinking about the problems and solutions of the packaging community for the next, let’s say, ten years, five years, 30 years.”

Venezuelan Deportations to El Salvador Prison

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“Men languish in a foreign prison on flimsy, even frivolous, accusations.”

AI and Immigration Uncertainty Threaten Nigeria's Outsourcing Dreams

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“Unfortunately, the reality of talent in Nigeria now is that you have to leave to reach your full potential.”

FlopperZiro: A DIY Open-Source Flipper Zero Clone

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“This is just a fun project, it was started to pass the time, it is not at all professional.”

ICE's Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“This app shows that biometric technology has moved well beyond just confirming someone’s identity. In the hands of ICE officers, it’s becoming a way to retrieve vast amounts of data about a person on demand just by pointing a camera in their face.”

Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“We are confident, based on our records, this test account was not accessed by any third party other than the security researchers.”

Tilck: A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“An educational monolithic kernel designed to be Linux-compatible at binary level.”

Anubis Sends AI Scraperbots to a Well-Deserved Fate

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“Blocked more than 4 million unwanted HTTP requests per day.”

Idaho Coroner System Failures

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“Someone shows up with a dead body and just says they died of natural causes…do you just take their word for it?”

Congress Moves to Reject Bulk of White House's Proposed NASA Cuts

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“The White House proposed just $3.9 billion for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate for FY26, but the minibus allocates $7.25 billion, just a 1% drop from enacted 2025 levels.”

A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“Your space-time could have corners, edges and folds, and it doesn’t matter. This approach doesn’t care about non-smoothness.”

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“The root cause was an internal configuration error and not the result of an attack or a BGP hijack.”

Seagate Gets HAMR Tech into $600 30TB HDDs

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“Seagate’s new Exos M 30TB and IronWolf Pro 30TB are the first HAMR-based HDDs available in channel and retail markets, as previously the company only shipped such drives to select hyperscale customers.”

Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized.

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“I appreciate your friendship more than anything.” “Me to thank you Alan. i feel safe with you.” He shouldn’t have.

Two Guys Hated Using Comcast, So They Built Their Own Fiber ISP

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“We are 100 percent fiber optic. Everything that we’re doing is all underground. We’re not doing aerial because we really want to protect the infrastructure and make sure we’re having a reliable connection.”

DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“One leak is a mistake. But when the same type of sensitive key gets exposed again and again, it’s not just bad luck, it’s a sign of deeper negligence.”

TikTok's Messy Merger in Indonesia

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“Tokopedia has ’lost its soul’ and been ‘reduced to just another generic Chinese marketplace.’”

Blender Studio Releases Free New Game 'Dogwalk'

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“The entire project — assets, animations, and code — is made with Blender and the popular Godot Game Engine.”

Chrome's Hidden X-Browser-Validation Header Reverse Engineered

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“Chrome almost certainly uses this header as an integrity signal, verifying that the declared user agent matches the underlying platform, spotting user agent spoofing attempts.”

Bootstrapping a Side Project into a Profitable Seven-Figure Business

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“Success indexes less on IQ and more on consistency. The willingness to doggedly show up every single day can take you to some really surprising and amazing places.”

Payment Processors Push AI Porn Off Platforms

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“Creators of AI-generated pornography and celebrity deepfakes are running out of easy hosting options.”

Firefox Is Fine. The People Running It Are Not.

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“Mozilla’s leadership is directionless and flailing because it’s never had to do, or be, anything else besides relying on Google funding.”

The First Babies Born Following 'Simplified' IVF in a Mobile Lab

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“We just needed to figure out how to have everything in a very confined space.”

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY Does Not Scale

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“Serialize writers by acquiring a special lock that we hold till after commit.”

AI Coding Tools Make Developers Slower, Study Finds

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“When AI is allowed, developers spend less time actively coding and searching for/reading information, and instead spend time prompting AI, waiting on and reviewing AI outputs, and idle.”

Cybersecurity's Global Alarm System Is Breaking Down

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“A patchwork of paid databases will be all that remains, threatening to leave all but the richest organizations and nations permanently exposed.”

Belkin Shows Tech Firms Getting Too Comfortable with Bricking Customers' Stuff

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“For any Wemo devices you have that are out of warranty, will not work with HomeKit, or if you are unable to use HomeKit, we recommend disposing of these devices at an authorized e-waste recycling center.”

The Biggest-Ever Digital Camera Is This Cosmologist's Magnum Opus

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“We don’t understand 95% of our universe. That’s sort of mind-boggling.”

UK Arrests Four in 'Scattered Spider' Ransom Group

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“There is a clear pattern that some of the most depraved threat actors first joined cybercrime gangs at an exceptionally young age.”

Browser Extensions Turn 1M Browsers into Scraping Bots

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“This weakening of all web browsing can open users up to attacks like cross-site scripting that would generally be prevented under normal conditions.”

Datacenter Growth Estimates Likely Exaggerated

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“Fulfilling all US datacenter forecasts through 2030 would require 90 percent of all the growth in the global AI chip supply.”

Anchorage Criminal Cases Mass Dismissals

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“There’s absolutely no justice right now in our system.”

The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“He can’t swim. He’s a baby.”

Breaking Git with a Carriage Return and Cloning RCE (CVE-2025-48384)

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“GitHub Desktop automatically clones with the recursive option by default.”

ICE Searching Insurance Database for Deportation Targets

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“ICE will stop at nothing to build a mass surveillance dragnet to track, surveil and criminalize all community members.”

Computer Scientists Figure Out How to Prove Lies

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“I had the feeling that someone is pulling the carpet from under my feet.”

IKEA Ditches Zigbee for Thread, Going All In on Matter Smart Homes

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000

“The standardization process means more companies are sharing the workload of developing for this.”

US Court Nullifies FTC Requirement for Click-to-Cancel

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“An utter failure to comply with notice and comment cannot be considered harmless if there is any uncertainty at all as to the effect of that failure.”

Dangerous Mines: Zimbabwe's Lithium Mining Boom

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“Local people are the losers.”

The Clones Are Here

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“Really and truly, a horse can be alive forever. Forever and ever.”

America Has Two Labor Markets Now

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“We’re in a complex jobs market – it’s not falling apart but the lack of dynamism” characterizes the current environment.

A Tour of the niri Scrolling-Tiling Wayland Compositor

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“X11 is very cursed.”

Kernel API Specification and Validation

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“The kernel interface is complex. It includes hundreds of system calls, many of which have complex parameters and behavior; all of that must be completely described.”

Witness: Inside America's Death Chambers

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“The only certainty I had going into the Indiana death chamber in December 2020 was the simple sense that it’s generally wrong to kill people, even bad people.”

Why Do Killer Whales Keep Handing Us Fish?

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“Orcas often share food with each other — it’s a prosocial activity. That they also share with humans may show their interest in relating to us as well.”

Young Americans Spending Less on Video Games

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“Video game spending among 18-to-24-year-olds fell nearly 25% in a four-week April period.”

Windows 11 Finally Overtakes Windows 10

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“The dramatic reversal comes with only three months remaining before Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025.”

Valve Conquered PC Gaming. What Comes Next?

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“Steam controls an estimated 70% of PC game sales with annual revenues expected to exceed $10 billion.”

Stop Killing Games Consumer Movement Hits Major Milestones

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“The UK petition surpassed 126,066 signatures, exceeding the 100,000 threshold needed for parliamentary consideration.”

Is This the Electric Grid of the Future?

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“Nebraska is the only 100% public power state, with utilities owned and managed entirely by the state’s own communities.”

Big Tech's Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“It’s crazy that the vast majority of big tech companies haven’t done anything to cut ties with this guy.”

A New Interstellar Visitor Has Entered the Solar System

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“It is traveling toward the inner solar system at around 152,000 mph.”

Microsoft Kicks Off New Fiscal Year with More Layoffs

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company and teams for success in a dynamic marketplace.”

Taiwan Is Creating an Offshore Wind Industry to Fuel Its Semiconductor Factories

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“It’s like constructing a building in a place that is constantly shaking and completely unpredictable.”

The NO FAKES Act Has Changed And It's So Much Worse

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“The bill requires internet platforms to remove flagged content immediately upon notice and implement filters to prevent recurring uploads.”

Linus Torvalds Hints Bcachefs May Get Dropped from the Linux Kernel

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

“I think we’ll be parting ways in the 6.17 merge window.”

Chinese Students Are Using AI to Beat AI Detectors

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

“It feels like you get punished for writing too well.”

See Stunning First Images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

“This is the dawn of the Rubin Observatory.”