If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python? — For the last decade, fast-to-ship beat fast-to-run. Not anymore.
Earth's Radio Bubble: Every Signal We've Ever Sent Into Space — How far have human radio signals traveled? Every broadcast since 1900 forms an expanding bubble visualized with real stellar data and Python.
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...
Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO — You're not the only one annoyed by the hype
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
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.
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
Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers — Ahead of a planned IPO, SpaceX inked a deal to rent compute capacity to Google for $920 million per month for 32 months.
First-generation Chromecast users stressed by devices suddenly failing — Google tells Ars it fixed the first-gen Chromecast bug.
Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF) | schamper.dev — At WWDC 2025, Apple announced macOS 26 Tahoe. One of the new features in macOS Tahoe is a new disk image format: ASIF. Designed for use with virtual machines (its documentation lives under the Virtualization…
Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases — Starlink, SpaceX's top moneymaker, also raised service prices by $5 to $10.
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.
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:…
A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt — Let’s Encrypt is committed to a post-quantum-safe Web PKI. The path we’re planning to take is Merkle Tree Certificates (“MTCs”), a new approach that adds post-quantum authentication to the web without sacrificing the speed and reliability
Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose — Most of the time, the whole point of ZFS is that your data does not get corrupted. But during development you sometimes need the opposite: a controlled, reproducible corruption, so you can watch self-healing kick in, see what a scrub reports, or
Google announces its first-ever discovery of a zero-day exploit made with AI - Engadget — The Google Threat Intelligence Group said its proactive measures stopped a “mass exploitation event.”
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...
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?
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
One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V — A homebrew PC and mini-mainframe were only the warm-up for Yuri Zaporozhets' latest operating system
Sliman Mansour, Painter of Palestinian Hope and Humanity, Dies at 79 — "Our fight now is to tell the world that we are full human beings," Mansour told Hyperallergic in 2023. "We are not less than any other people in the world.”
iOS 26.5 adds end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging, rolling out now - 9to5Mac — iOS 26.5 is now available to everyone after six weeks of beta testing. The update adds fresh wallpapers, new features...
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
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...
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.
Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski — Interactive article about the Moon
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 🐴
Best Buy Tech Fest 2026: Dates and details — The retail wars are heating up a day early.
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.
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.
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…
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
The Smallest Brain You Can Build — A perceptron explained from scratch in Python, with interactive demos. Learn weights, bias, the decision boundary, epochs, learning rate, and why we normalize data.
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.
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 MacRumors Show: Michael Fisher Talks iPhone Ultra — YouTuber Michael Fisher, known as "MrMobile," joins us on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show to talk through key rumors about the "iPhone Ultra" and how the device could compare to rivals. Subscribe to The MacRumors…
Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?
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
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
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://
Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math — Samsung's LPDDR5X-PIM puts compute inside commodity memory, exposing 614 GB/s of bank-level bandwidth for local LLM inference. The silicon works. Quantization, memory layout, and runtime support now stand in the way.
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
TerraPower in Mega Deal with Meta for Eight Natrium 345 MW Advanced Nuclear Plants — TerraPower in Mega Deal with Meta for Eight 345 MW Natrium Advanced Nuclear Plants DOE Awards $2.7 Billion for Uranium Enrichment Oklo, Meta Plan 1.2 GW Nuclear Energy Development in Southern…
Bali is Cracking Down on Photographers Traveling with Tourist Visas — Your photos may be considered illegal 'work.'
Life with PMDD: 'Like the Grim Reaper coming every month' — Women diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric disorder discuss how it impacts their lives.
Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy — Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy.
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…
The Making of Cursor's Icons — A year of drawing, testing, and shipping a complete icon system for the world's favourite coding agent.
Is expensive skin care worth the price? | The Economist — Companies and influencers frequently advertise skin-care products that cost hundreds of dollars per bottle, but are they worth the price tag? Tap the link to read more myth-busting articles on the health and wellness…
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.
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.
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.
The Weird Orbit of the ISS — Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
NYT Connections Sports Edition hints and answers for August 20: Tips to solve Connections #696 — Everything you need to solve Connections Sports Edition #696
GitHub - HelixDB/helix-db: HelixDB is an OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust. — HelixDB is an OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust. - HelixDB/helix-db
Fire TV devices now get Alexa+ for free, no Amazon Prime required — Your streaming stick and TV just became a better value.
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...
Real Madrid's José Mourinho defends Vinícius Júnior from 'bullying' — José Mourinho has defended Vinícius Júnior, saying the star is "bullied" after he clashed with Espanyol players and the crowd during Real Madrid's 2-1 LaLiga win on Saturday.
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.
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.…