Peruvian police disguise themselves as World Cup mascots for drugs raid — Police in Peru took a novel approach to clamping down on drug trafficking on Wednesday as they conducted a raid in Lima disguised as the 2026 World Cup mascots.
Wi-Wi Is Wireless Time Sync at 1 nanosecond — At NAB, I found a demo of Wi-Wi STAMP, a wireless time synchronization protocol that came out of Japan's NICT. Wi-Wi stands for Wireless 2Way interferometry, and it uses the 900 MHz band for picosecond-level time sync, and mm-level di
The Sideload 033: You (probably) can't buy the best smartphone cameras — Will welcomes Phandroid Editor-in-Chief Nick Gray to the show to discuss his time with Oppo and Vivo's latest envious flagships.
Tom Brown (@nottombrown) — We’re expanding our partnership with @SpaceX, and will be scaling up on GB200 capacity in Colossus 2 throughout June. Appreciate @elonmusk and the team helping us find good homes for the Claudes.
Best Kindle deal: Save $25 on the Kindle Paperwhite — The clock is ticking on this limited-time offer.
Apple's macOS 27 will fix the most annoying design issues in macOS Tahoe, report says — Call it a "slight redesign."
Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’ — The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.
Peggy Gou And Ayra Starr Connect For New Singles "Wo, man" — Peggy Gou and Ayra Starr have teamed up for the new summer jam “Wo, man.” Built on a hypnotic ’90s house groove, the track combines irresistible melodies with delightfully nonsensical lyrics (“adigidang dang dang di…
Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite bug with TLA+: is dqlite affected? | Ubuntu — Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite bug with TLA+: We model the WAL race condition to reproduce the issue, verify the fix, and analyze if dqlite is vulnerable.
Knicks' Brunson seals Finals MVP honors with 45 points in Game 5 — Jalen Brunson earned NBA Finals MVP honors Saturday night, capping his brilliant series with a 45-point performance for the ages to lead the Knicks to their first title in more than 50 years.
Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell — Behind a cheap Temu doorbell sits an IoT backend where device IDs are sequential and requests are forgeable with a string baked into every firmware. One signed call lifts any device's persistent password and lets anyone on the Inter
TikTok is rolling out an ad-free option in the UK - Engadget — It's the first time an ad-free subscription has been offered in an English-speaking country.
Drug Boat Bust (Full Episode) | To Catch a Smuggler — In this episode of To Catch a Smuggler, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) pursues multiple cases of cocaine smuggled from the Caribbean via maritime vessels. Meanwhile, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers interce
Standing at the Threshold of Change | Qile Charles Xie | TEDxYCYW Shanghai Youth — For years, the speaker viewed chemistry as his anchor, drawn to its logic and the security of a predictable career. But as the university application season approached, he realised that his heart…
Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months — Can AI save us from the AI industry’s endless thirst for water? Outlook not so good.
A tale of two path separators — macOS allows both the slash and colon as path separators, and this caused me no small amount of confusion.
AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs through a BIOS update in July — TSME is coming back after 'valuable community feedback' — The feature was quietly removed through a firmware update on some non-PRO Ryzen CPUs.
Samsung's new wide foldable phone revealed in leaked images — The same source also posted photos of the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra and Z Flip 8.
Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof | Extension Horses
Vivo’s X300 Ultra has the best cameras in any phone — It’s my new favorite camera
Concrete's Greatest Weakness is Time — The challenge of cure time 🌌Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/Practical-Engineering 🏙️Watch 17 Pages: https://nebula.tv/videos/17pages?ref=practical-engineering Concrete is a material that e
“Double Threat” to Private Communications: Undemocratic Chat Control Backroom Deals and Imminent Concessions Spark Relaunch of fightchatcontrol.eu — Civil rights activist Dr. Patrick Breyer warns of an unprecedented "double-attack" on secure messaging ahead of critical Friday…
I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet — Since 2020, I've taken on a Steve Jobs alter-ego (on a very, very part time basis, and often for humor purposes ). The firs...
Trump administration partially lifts export ban on Anthropic's most advanced AI model — Anthropic pulled two new AI models offline after the Trump administration said they were too dangerous for foreigners to use. Rival OpenAI agreed to let the administration vet users of its…
Google’s AI endgame is here… everything you missed at I/O 2026 — Try using Emergent's specialized agents in parallel to build any full-stack application - https://app.emergent.sh/?utm_shift=redirect&via=fireship At Google I/O 2026, Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis set out the ro
Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo — In Argentina, equine cloning in polo is no longer a rarity. It’s now a mature industry — although ethical dilemmas surrounding it persist.
B&H Introduces New Low Prices On 2026 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air — B&H Photo has introduced a handful of notable MacBook Pro and MacBook Air discounts this week, all of which beat the current Amazon discounts on these notebooks. B&H Photo is a trusted authorized Apple reseller t
Hail Mary - Star Map — See a recreation of the Project Hail Mary in-ship navigation computer with accurate star data from the GAIA DR3 mission.
Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical? | flyingpenguin
SpaceX buys AI coding start-up Cursor for $60bn days after IPO — Elon Musk's rocket company has agreed to buy Cursor, which uses AI to automate the process of writing code.
Appreciating Exif | Brent Fitzgerald — The '90s-era digital camera metadata format, still useful in 2026.
The iPad was on Tailscale — In which many suspects are interrogated, and the case is closed on two bugs that are harmless apart and invisible together.
When "idle" isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug — We investigated a bug where CUBIC's congestion window became pinned at its minimum floor, causing a performance to plummet. The fix involved correctly measuring idle periods to distinguish RTT wait times
NASA is set to begin training with a prototype of Blue Origin's crew moon lander - Engadget — The space agency is planning to put astronauts on the moon in 2028.
IAEA demands verification of Iran nuclear ambitions amid ‘statement war’ — Watchdog's call for 'strong system' comes as US and Iran issue conflicting claims over ceasefire negotiations.
Nothing Ear (open) now available in a soft blue color that would look great on phones [Gallery] — Nothing’s Ear (open) earbuds are now available in a blue colorway, and one that’s unique to Nothing’s lineup, for $99....
PlayStation Architecture | A Practical Analysis — An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
The new TI 5532 chips are NOT 5532s we've used for decades — Saw this today on Wayne Kirkwood's site: EDIT! Ian came up with a workaround to get to Wayne's site: https://tinyurl.com/5epdzbxv One link he posted is really interesting....first post showing major differences. htt
A History of IDEs at Google — Laurent Le Brun's blog
High Performance Spaceflight Computing — While legacy processors have enabled some of NASA’s greatest achievements, the next generation of space missions will increase in complexity and length, which
I'm Getting Into Mesh Networks... (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum) — I love networking, a lot. So much so that I've run my own ISP since 2024, complete with its own ASN, IPv4/6 address space, fiber optics, etc. However, do this and you quickly realize how reliant you still
Best power station deal: Save $250 on EcoFlow Delta 2 — Power your whole home whenever you need it most.
I finally found a use case for OpenClaw… — Get up to 67% off OpenClaw VPS hosting with Hostinger's one-click template. Use code FIRESHIP for an extra discount - https://hostinger.com/openclawfireship Back in January, OpenClaw's wild rise triggered a nation-wide Mac mini shortage
'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune — Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data cente
GitHub - alternbits/awesome-cuda-books: A curated list of best cuda programming books — A curated list of best cuda programming books. Contribute to alternbits/awesome-cuda-books development by creating an account on GitHub.
Haaland shows why he's the key to Norway's World Cup dreams — While he has a very talented and capable supporting cast, Norway's dreams of World Cup glory rest on the shoulders, and goals, of Erling Haaland.
Worlds hardest jigsaw vs. puzzle machine (all white) — Keep exploring at https://brilliant.org/stuffmadehere. Get started for free, and hurry—the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription. If you're looking for a workstation check out Puget Systems. They rock: h
this guy taught himself yoga from library books in the 90s and his spine is still doing things that make physical therapists uncomfortable! 🧘♂️📚✨
Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors' — Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound
Former Olympian denies vandalising Washington Reflecting Pool after arrest — Davey Hearn says he was simply touching the new paint at the site out of curiosity and did not remove or alter it.
Cricket: Sooryavanshi, 15, receives jersey for maiden India call-up — Teenage star receives first India shirt from BCCI and is tipped to make his debut in a T20 match in Ireland on Friday.