FA Cup final: Would Wembley win paper over cracks for Chelsea? — Chelsea have endured a difficult campaign after the departure of two managers and protests among the fanbase - so what would an FA Cup win do for their season?
The Making of Cursor's Icons — A year of drawing, testing, and shipping a complete icon system for the world's favourite coding agent.
Life with PMDD: 'Like the Grim Reaper coming every month' — Women diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric disorder discuss how it impacts their lives.
Dodgers' Ohtani says knee improving but bicep still an issue — While the Dodgers -- including Enrique Hernandez, Edwin Diaz, Blake Snell, Will Smith and Tyler Gasnow -- continue to get healthier, the mound return of Shohei Ohtani remains in question.
Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for world makers — The world is full of makers. Only a few make the world. Surface Laptop Ultra is for them. For those building the systems, the breakthroughs and the infrastructure the world runs on and gets changed by. The ones who see l
Russia charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with ‘aiding terrorism’ — Russia's FSB says Telegram has not pulled content used by Ukrainian intelligence and 'terrorist' groups to plan attacks.
Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones — A startup, together with activists, has launched an open-source drone detection system that links data from participatin...
First-generation Chromecast users stressed by devices suddenly failing — Google tells Ars it fixed the first-gen Chromecast bug.
Texas AG sues Netflix, claiming the streaming service collects user data without consent - Engadget — The case particularly focuses on children’s accounts.
Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO — You're not the only one annoyed by the hype
watched a horse refuse to cross a puddle for 20 mins then casually trot over it backwards?? still thinking about the pettiness 🐴
Haiku ❤ Nvidia (porting Nvidia driver for Turing+ GPUs) — Hope eventually will came out!!
All the bugs they found — Last year I wrote a small WASM runtime in Go. How many security vulnerabilities do you think AI agents found in it?
Top OnePlus Promo Codes: 30% Off This Month — Save 30% with a OnePlus coupon this 2026, plus save up to 10% on earbuds, phones, and more.
I returned to AWS - and was reminded HARD why I left. — I was one of the very first advocates for AWS back when it was brand new - SQS, S3, EC2 SimpleDB - it was a lot smaller back then. In fact I...
Australia’s Housing Market Worsens — Australia's housing downturn is accelerating, with higher interest rates and weaker investor demand driving the biggest home price declines since late 2022. REA Group Senior Economist Anne Flaherty says further falls are likely through…
iOS 26.5: These carriers offer RCS end-to-end encrypted messaging - 9to5Mac — iOS 26.5 is here with RCS end-to-end encrypted messaging. Here’s the list of carriers that currently support the new RCS feature.
Bali is Cracking Down on Photographers Traveling with Tourist Visas — Your photos may be considered illegal 'work.'
The Forgotten Story of How IBM Invented the Automated Fab — Fifty years ago, a brash middle manager had a vision: a chip in a day
#725 – The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast — Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) is a security researcher, author, electronics enthusiast, and calculator collector. He joins Chris to talk about his new book The Secret Life of Circui
3 critically acclaimed Prime Video shows to watch this weekend (August 14-16) — The big guy is back for season 4. Consider watching Reacher and two other Prime Video shows this weekend.
Update Your iPhone Now for Better Encrypted Messaging With Android — As part of the iOS 26.5 update, Apple’s Messages app can now encrypt texts between some iPhone and Android smartphones.
Sonos just launched Live Activities on iPhone - 9to5Mac — The Sonos app on iPhone just added a big new feature: Live Activities. Here are the details on how they work.
This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers — SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to
A farrier discovered horses wear their hooves unevenly on one side depending on whether they're left or right-hoofed. Now I'm wondering which side mine would favor 🐴
Encrypted RCS starts rolling out to Android and iPhone with iOS 26.5 — With the launch of iOS 26.5, encrypted RCS between Android and iPhone is now live. Messages between iOS and Android cannot...
This Jacket Pulls Drinking Water From Thin Air — The advance in fabric technology comes alongside a new benchmark for atmospheric water harvesting.
Precision guided launcher turns noobs into pros — Check out https://brilliant.org/StuffMadeHere/ for a free 30-day trial and 20% off your annual premium subscription! Be sure to subscribe to catch part 2 where I'll be adding computer controlled sights. https://tinyurl.com/sub2smh
Slate's electric pickup comes at a price that should make Ford and Tesla nervous — A shockingly low price could shake up the electric truck market.
Hellishly Slow Level 13 DEFLATE Compression — DEFLATE level 13 is a deliberately impractical libdeflate compression level: the output remains standard DEFLATE, while the encoder spends far more time searching parse, Huffman, and block split choices. On Silesia it saves 86'990…
Here’s what’s new with iOS 27 beta 6 - 9to5Mac — Apple released iOS 27 beta 6 today, giving developer beta testers the next preview update since iOS 27 debuted at...
Sawing a Dam in Half (on Purpose) — A primer on alkali-silica reactions in concrete and one of the more interesting ways we manage it. 🌌Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/Practical-Engineering 🏙️Watch Beyond the Bleachers: https://
UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August — Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war
Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves — In just a few short days, AMD will be showing off their brand new MI400 series of Datacenter Accelerators at their Advancing AI event but before that event comes, we thought it would be fun to attempt to scry the tea leaves that are…
Apple Releases HomePod Software 26.5 — Alongside iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, and macOS Tahoe 26.5, Apple has released new HomePod 26.5 software for the HomePod and the HomePod mini. The update comes a little over a month after Apple released HomePod Software 26.4. According to Apple's
Venmo finally takes privacy seriously — Venmo wants to give users more control over what they share.
Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a tiny $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle — firmware uses only around 50KB of RAM and can answer blocked lookups in 10 milliseconds — This project uses a clever hashing trick to fit over half a million blocked domains into just 4MB of flash memory.
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social) — Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to
How to Demolish a Bridge — The complex engineering involved in demolishing the I-74 Mississippi River Bridge. 🌌Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/practical-engineering 🚣Watch The Anatomy of:…
Aramco Says July Attacks Had No Material Impact on Operations — Saudi Aramco said attacks on its assets last month have had no material impact on its operations, and the company is working to expand its oil export capacity as the Strait of Hormuz remains disrupted by the Iran…
The most interesting "hack" in history... — Railway is the easiest way to deploy anything. Get $20 in free credits - https://railway.com/?referralCode=fireship Last week Hugging Face was hacked. In this video, we'll break down who it was and what they wanted. #coding…
IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and Apple iCloud Private Relay — WebKit-based browsers on iOS and macOS can be configured to route all web traffic through proxy servers, which is how Tor browsers on iOS and our own Psylo work. We found three WebKit features…
HDD Firmware Hacking Part 1 — Do you know how a hard drive works? Come find out with me as I dump, reverse engineer, and modify the firmware on various HDDs and SSDs.
The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker — Some apps are sharing users' health data. New research uncovers which apps lock down your privacy, and which don't.
Ford’s $30,000 electric truck: all the news about the company’s big EV re-do — The automaker is betting big on its Universal Electric Vehicle program, starting in 2027 with the release of a $30,000 electric truck.
Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy — Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy.
The Hidden Engineering Behind the Falkirk Wheel — Some of the hidden details behind this very cool piece of infrastructure. 📢Check out Radiolab's new release about the survivors of Pompeii here: @Radiolabpod The Falkirk Wheel didn’t just reconnect two canals. It reconnected
2026 Fantasy Football Draft Guide: Rankings, mock drafts and analysis — Your one-stop shop as you prep for draft season, including rankings, projections and analysis.
Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for EasyPrint and PrusaSlicer - Original Prusa 3D Printers — For the past few months, the 3D printing community has been poking at a very interesting question: what if a multi-material printer were not limited to the color
The hottest place for startups to strike a deal? The F1 paddock | TechCrunch — F1 Grands Prix have emerged as a new place to see and be seen if you are a founder or investor.
The Bookstore-Slash-Skate-Shop Next to Ballerina Farm — The first book I sell on our first day in business is a used copy of Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School, for seven dollars.
The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over — Creating quantum entanglement inside a solid material is tricky in the lab – but crystals buried in the earth could be growing it naturally. Now one scientist says he has proof he’s found them
Calls for inquiry into Army training college for teenagers after reports of rape and abuse — Four women told the BBC they were sexually assaulted and harassed while attending the Army Foundation College (AFC) at Harrogate in North Yorkshire.
'Apple Upgrade' Pricing: You Can Lease an iPhone Starting at $18/Month — As expected, the Apple Upgrade program launched today, allowing customers in the U.S. to lease most iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac models. While the program is offered by Apple, the leasing is handled…
Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages - AMD GPUOpen — Animate compact tetrahedral cages and reuse static mini-BLASes to ray-trace hundreds of millions of triangles in real time, dramatically cutting per-frame update and memory costs for dense…
Midjourney's next product wants to get inside you... — Try out Retool's new AI app builder to safely connect your apps to your team's data and APIs - https://fandf.co/4e2lDe2 Founder of Midjourney, David Holz, just announced plans to make a new medical imaging device capable…
Mosley Thorold mixes salvaged and natural materials in De Beauvoir home renovation — <p>Local architecture studio Mosley Thorold has updated and extended a Victorian home in east London, using a textured palette of concrete, brick, tiles and metal intended to patina over time.…
Here's how Apple could make its Hide My Email feature even better for iCloud+ users - 9to5Mac — Introduced in iOS 15, Hide My Email is an iCloud+ feature that does exactly what it says on the tin...
Flock's CEO Finally Faced Me After My Wrongful Stop. Here's What I Learned — Flock CEO Garrett Langley sat down to discuss the errors that led to police stopping me and the growing fight over Flock's network of AI-powered surveillance cameras.
Why Roads Get Washboards — The bizarre science of washboards on unpaved roads ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: http://sendcutsend.com/practicalengineering The more we understand the physics of washboarding, the better we can engineer roads that