We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies — Bad decisions have turned efficient technology into a driver of light pollution. There is a better way
Mac Mini M6: Retro PC Emulation with 86Box (600MHz PII?!) — The best platform for cycle-accurate retro PC emulation may just be the Mac. The M6 achieved a stable 600MHz clock using a 6.0 derived 86Box build.
The Beam Engine — An Interactive Guide — See how a beam engine works through interactive 3D figures exploring steam, pressure, Watt's condenser, valves, linkages, and the governor.
WATaBoy: JIT-ing Game Boy Instructions to Wasm Beats a Native Interpreter — A Game Boy emulator that runs faster than a native interpreter by dynamically recompiling SM83 to WebAssembly, effectively making JIT possible on iOS.
This Tiny E-Reader Is the Single Best Piece of Technology in Years — The $70 Xteink X3 puts Silicon Valley to shame.
All-time West Indies cricket great Garfield Sobers dies aged 89 — Arguably the greatest all-rounder of the game, Sobers led the West Indies at his peak, breaking Test cricket records.
Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in
The Space Telescope That Will Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Secret — Click this link https://boot.dev/?promo=REALENGINEER and use my code REALENGINEER to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev Watch this video ad free on Nebula:…
Apple updates App Store rules for betting apps in Brazil - 9to5Mac — Following changes to local betting regulation, Apple now requires a Brazilian betting license for fixed-odds betting apps on the App Store.
Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure — We cover a cloud-based AitM attack scenario leveraging service workers and Ultraviolet, and provide detailed phishing hosting statistics across platforms like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, and IPFS.
How to Make Apps and Websites Remove Your Nonconsensual Nudes — Starting May 19, tech platforms in the US will have to start complying with the Take It Down Act. Here's how more than a dozen of the largest platforms are handling takedown demands for your nudes.
Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio | TerminalBytes — Qwen3.8 27B benchmarked on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra: Ollama and llama.cpp numbers, the 1-bit quant tested, RAM math, and the hardware that actually fits.
Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU | The CPU Shack Museum
US prosecutors charge Atlanta man after GrapheneOS phone wipes itself during airport search — The case centers on Tunick's use of GrapheneOS, an open-source operating system that works on Google Pixel phones and lets users enter a passcode to wipe a...
Servus München: Waymo is Coming to Germany — Today, we are excited to announce that Waymo is laying the groundwork for our fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Munich, Germany.
A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID — The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, raising privacy red flags about Windows' surveillance capabilities.
How I Turned My Security Cameras Into an Automatic Bird Identification System with BirdNet-Go — I turned three security cameras into an automatic bird identification system using BirdNet-Go. Now my wife and I can track every bird species that visits our yard in real-time.
G7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump export ban threat — The coordinated release is aimed at heading off further price spikes and avoiding a ban on US diesel exports.
Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+. — Fairphone's CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.
Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006 | Netnod — A single GPS receiver in a Melbourne chassis came back from maintenance believing it was 2006 — and a national mobile network believed it. What went wrong, and why.
A global workspace in language models — Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.
every yoga instructor I've ever met talks about 'listening to your body' but then gets mad when your body says stop.. the contradiction is wild 🧘
The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired — If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today.
Apple has reportedly rejected Touch ID for the Apple Watch for two reasons — Way back in 2020, a patent application revealed that Apple was considering adding Touch ID to the Digital Crown of...
10 Of The Coolest Japanese Gadgets You'll Almost Never See In The US — Sure, we have plenty of neat products in the United States, but a look at these 10 gadgets really suggest Japan is in a consumer tech league of its own.
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An iroh powered smart fan — Putting iroh on a bare ESP32 to build a temperature-driven smart fan you can check on from anywhere.
Drone physics — Equations governing dynamics and control of a multirotor UAV
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours — https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/07/browsers-have-standards-the-app.html
Dispelling the Myth of Cormac McCarthy as Cowboy-Artist — The first biography of the elusive novelist shows how little the lore ever told us about the man — or his art.
I ditched my enterprise homelab server for a simple NAS, and I wish I'd done it sooner — I’m done running a power-hungry enterprise server in my homelab
horse racing analyzed through thermal imaging... watching where they actually burn out versus where the jockey thinks they do 🐴
What Survival Stories Tell Us (and Should We Listen?) — Tales of human resilience in nature bring the thrill of the wild to the comfort of the couch. In our hyper-developed day and age, why do we return to stripped-down tales of survival?
Infographics: Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles, Take 2 - 6IT — The cost of thread context switch, including cache invalidation, can reach up to 3 million CPU cycles RTTI can be quite expensive, with dynamic_cast being up...
Warm Up Your MacBook — Who else hates putting their hands on an icy metal laptop after it's been riding outside in your cold backpack? Here's a one-line solution.
The coolest use for the Vision Pro — One day there will hopefully be a house on this land Over the last year, I admittedly haven’t used my Vision Pro a ton, but fairly recently I discovered a super handy use that it’s absolutely incredible at, provided you have the right…
DeepSeek just cooked again... Big AI is big scared — Take BlueDot's Future of AI course for free - https://bluedot.org/fireship OpenAI just paused its biggest training run in history just as things were getting interesting. Let's dive in. #coding #programming Want more…
How Do Traffic Signals Work? — Practical Engineering — If you live in a major city, I can take a pretty good guess at one of your most common frustrations: traffic. In city driving, the journey is rarely better than the destination. In most cases, we just want to get where…
A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there right now — Crying in the shower. Taking mental health leave. This is what it’s like to work at the tech giant during the AI job apocalypse.
United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name — A ‘certain four-letter word’ sparked a security incident.
Modos Color E‑Paper Monitor Pushes Open‑Source Displays Further — After dev kit success, Modos’ cofounders offer an e-paper monitor
Russia says ready for ‘new ideas’ on Ukraine war that match Putin’s goals — Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov suggests Moscow is eager for the US to revive its support for Russian agenda.
Anthropic begged the world to stop AI… then shipped this — Render is the easiest place to ship full-stack apps and agents. The first 2,000 people to use the code RENDER-FIRESHIP will get $50 in credits: https://dashboard.render.com/register?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic_v
Horses can see almost 360 degrees but have two massive blind spots directly in front and behind them, which explains why they spook at nothing — except it's not nothing, it's literally invisible to them.
Predictions for every NHL team's finish in 2026-27: Why the Panthers will win the Cup — Some fans will wait to watch all the games this season. Readers of this story won't need to!
My 3-Ingredient Mug Cake Is So Easy, I Have It Memorized (Boxed Cake Trick!) — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//tk/edit/skills/2026/2026-10/3-ingredient-mug-cake/3-ingredient-mug-cake-4"> I always have a box of cake mix tucked away in my pantry, but…
History for European spaceflight: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight - Isar Aerospace — By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity’s progress and our planet’s sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to…
The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden - ByteHaven - Where I ramble about bytes — Back in March, I wrote about Bitwarden doubling their Premium price — and specifically how they did it. Buried in a feature announcement. Priced in fake...
Disruption with some GitHub services — GitHub's Status Page - Disruption with some GitHub services.
Zach Cregger’s ‘Resident Evil’ Grossed More in Its Opening Weekend Than the First Film Made in Its Entire Run — Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' earned more in opening weekend than the first film made in its entire run.
India's Dixon Tech Eyes Growth Beyond SmartphonesQ — Sunil Vachani , the Executive Chairman of Dixon Technologies expects the company's EMS rankings to be in the top 5 in the next decade. In an exclusive conversation with BTV's Menaka Doshi, he adds that the company is eyeing…
The Elixir programming language — Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Simple from zero to scale, running on the battle-tested Erlang VM.
Smartphone LED and AI Detect Hidden Cameras — Smartphone LED and AI Detect Hidden Cameras KAISTs SweepLED achieves 94% accuracy with 10,000 won LED device
Endometriosis trial gives hope to millions of women in pain like me — A £2.3m study will look at whether a personalised pain management plan can improve the quality of life of women who have the debilitating condition.
The “$60 Gaming PC” – AMD BC-250 – DevQuasar
La vitesse ne sert à rien si tout le monde ne peut pas avancer | Laurie Mariani | TEDxESTIA — La véritable performance ne consiste pas à aller plus vite que les autres. Elle consiste à avancer ensemble, sans laisser personne derrière. Dans nos entreprises, dans le sport comme…
How One Twitch Chat Message Became Code Execution on a Streamer’s PC – SCRT Team Blog
Powerful storm floods US Northeast, causes power outages — The nor'easter causes another round of flooding in low-lying areas in New Jersey and New York City and knocks out power.
Stray Kids Are Also Boycotting The Grammys — Back in July, the massively popular K-pop boy band BTS announced that they are boycotting next year’s Grammys and refusing to submit any of their music for award consideration. This was a big pivot for the group, who performed on…