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The 6 Phases of a Project Car — The draw of a project car is something special. However, the emotional process of taking a machine that is broken, damaged, busted, faded, or generally just rough around the edges is a rollercoaster that can make even the most experienced a…

Amazon’s Durability — Amazon looked behind in AI in the training era, but is well place in the inference era, thanks to its continued investment in the long-term.

Best Labor Day mattress deals: Save on Purple, Naturepedic, Essentia, Saatva, and more — Get cozy for fall and winter slumber thanks to these deals from Bear, Nectar, Purple, Brooklinen, Naturepedic, and many more.

watched a guy at the campsite spend 20 minutes getting his tent stakes level — turns out he was using his phone's compass instead of a level app 💀 the whole thing was slightly crooked the entire trip

watched a guy at the campsite spend 20 minutes getting his tent stakes level — turns out he was using his phone's compass instead of a level app 💀 the whole thing was slightly crooked the entire trip

Watched someone set up a tent in the dark for the first time. They had the poles going vertical instead of diagonal. I didn't stop them until they were basically building a canvas prison.

Watched someone set up a tent in the dark for the first time. They had the poles going vertical instead of diagonal. I didn't stop them until they were basically building a canvas prison.

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

GB's Fery fights off Bergs and nosebleeds to reach fourth round — British wildcard Arthur Fery beats Zizou Bergs to reach the Wimbledon fourth round and keep home singles hopes alive - despite suffering three nosebleeds.

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.

Internal Combustion Engine – Bartosz Ciechanowski — Interactive article explaining how an internal combustion engine works.

Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream — The long way around to screen sharing.

An interactive tour of the spanning tree protocol — Root election, port roles, proposals and agreements, topology changes: explore RSTP through simulations powered by MSTPD compiled to WebAssembly.

Report: macOS 27 to feature UI tweaks to address some Tahoe design complaints - 9to5Mac — Apple is preparing to roll out a ‘slight redesign’ for the next version of macOS, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman....

Stopping the smart TV from being used against you. — Smart TVs are everywhere! But who is the master? Amid the overall electronics boom thanks to A.I., one piece of electronics is almost unchanged financially. That is the digital display or flat-panel monitor. With good reason!…

Apple Developer app gains Liquid Glass design and WWDC 2026 iMessage stickers - 9to5Mac — There’s a new version of the multi-platform Apple Developer app out today ahead of WWDC 2026. Apple Developer version 11.0...

Europe EV Sales Report: BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share! - CleanTechnica — Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges…

A multimodal adaptive optical microscope for in vivo imaging from molecules to organisms - Nature Methods — MOSAIC is a versatile multimodal microscope that allows seamless transition between various light-sheet, two-photon, label-free and super-resolution modalities. It is demon

map of every backcountry site in the US with elevation, water source, and how many people actually go there. nice for picking somewhere quiet.

map of every backcountry site in the US with elevation, water source, and how many people actually go there. nice for picking somewhere quiet.

Measuring input latency on Linux: X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK - Marco Nett — I built a device to measure end-to-end input latency, then used it to find out what actually moves the needle.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: The apex Android tablet — Starting at $1,400, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra is super expensive. But that's the price you'll have to pay for the best Android tablet.

Sneaker Freaker's resale database tracks every OG Jordan drop and what it actually sold for. The price charts are genuinely humbling.

Sneaker Freaker's resale database tracks every OG Jordan drop and what it actually sold for. The price charts are genuinely humbling.

Vivo’s X300 Ultra has the best cameras in any phone — It’s my new favorite camera

Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt — Thanks for giving me a viable business model Amazon!

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.

GitHub - InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe: An open-source Android app to let you browse YouTube and other services freely. — An open-source Android app to let you browse YouTube and other services freely. - InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe

Apple unveils iPhone Duo — Apple today introduced iPhone Duo, the first foldable iPhone.

Deals: M5 MacBook Pro, M5 MacBook Air, Hue Bridge Pro, more 9to5Mac — The AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4, and all-time low on AirPods Max 2 roll on, but today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is starting...

How a giant battery is transforming a town centre in Cannington, Ontario | BetaKit — The Toronto startup Civic Grid is trying to put a new face on public power sources.

Designer traced back every Air Jordan colorway to the exact moment it dropped. The obsession level is somehow justified?

Designer traced back every Air Jordan colorway to the exact moment it dropped. The obsession level is somehow justified?

GDID Windows - Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN - Korben — As I mentioned earlier, in April 2026, the FBI caught an alleged Scattered Spider member. The guy was hiding his traffic behind a VPN, with IPs across ...

macOS 27 Beta Breaks The Ability To Boot Asahi Linux — Asahi Linux is warning its users from trying out the new macOS 27 'Golden Gate' beta released this week by Apple

49ers coach says his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed — He still takes responsibility, saying ‘you don’t just turn it [driving] over to a computer.‘

Stop AB2047 - California's bill that pulls 3D printers from schools and businesses — A plain-language guide to AB2047 you can share with your school board, PTA, or neighbor. Learn what's at stake and how to take action.

Long Range Wi-Fi — Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits.

How occupational identity shapes who we are | Tomasz Jan Piątkowski | TEDxSecond HS Szczecin Youth — Occupational identity investigates how different roles one might have (like employee, manager etc.) interact in situations in the workplace and outside of it. It also examines…

there's a whole database of sneaker colorways mapped by year and brand—seeing how the palettes shifted from the 90s to now is actually fascinating 🎨

there's a whole database of sneaker colorways mapped by year and brand—seeing how the palettes shifted from the 90s to now is actually fascinating 🎨

Someone reverse-engineered why Nike's QS drops always crack in the same spot. The material science explanation actually makes sense.

Someone reverse-engineered why Nike's QS drops always crack in the same spot. The material science explanation actually makes sense.

Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods | TechCrunch — Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles from driving into flooded roads.

Ex-gang boss sentenced to 40 years for orchestrating Tupac Shakur's murder — The sentence marks an end to the mystery around Tupac's cold case, which has intrigued hip-hop fans for nearly 30 years.

An update on the scraper situation — Our article 'Fighting the AI scraper bot scourge', published in early 2025, discussed the probl [...]

VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines · Issue #7658 · utmapp/UTM — Describe the issue Can't boot VMs with Network Mode set to 'Bridged' on machines with the new Apple M5 Pro I tested the latest ubuntu-24.04.4-live-server-arm64.iso It boots…

To study how chips really work, MIT researchers built their own operating system — The new "Fractal" operating system kernel, developed at MIT, gives researchers a clearer look at how computer chips work internally. It was used to study the branch predictors inside…

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.

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

Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon to share a stage to promote curbs on AI — The poles of U.S. politics are coming together over AI. Sanders and Bannon will appear at the "Pro-Human Assembly" in Washington, D.C., to convince Congress to work faster to curb the impact of AI.

5 ways to repurpose an old Nintendo Wii Remote — It's a good thing you kept those old Wii Remotes this whole time.

Chipmaker CXMT becomes mainland China's most valuable listed firm — The company's shares soared by 470% in its market debut, as the AI boom drives chip demand.

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:…

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An ex-OpenAI researcher just deleted language from the LLM... — Mux is the video API that translates audio and answers questions about your video. Get $50 in free credits: https://mux.com/fireship Ex-OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida spent two years in stealth building Jev, a…

minikotlin — a Kotlin compiler that runs in a browser tab — minikotlin is a from-scratch Kotlin-to-WebAssembly compiler written in C. The compiler itself is compiled to WASM, so the whole toolchain runs client-side. Write multi-file Kotlin in the Studio, hit Run, watch output.

Walmart takes a bite off the cost of Metroid Ravenous physical preorders — The deal brings the physical copy down to the digital price.

How Earthquake Bearings Work — An overview of seismic base isolation for buildings ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: http://sendcutsend.com/practicalengineering Earthquakes are such a challenge in engineering: unpredictable both in time and inte

Google fined $463 million for breaching EU location data rules — Hardly the first time it's run afoul of EU regulations.

Europe’s Fractured Stock Market Finally Gets a Single Data Feed — Europe’s protracted efforts to turn its much maligned markets into a more attractive proposition for investors reach a momentous juncture Monday: the arrival of a consolidated tape.

France to summon Iran envoy after language centre closure in Tehran — Iran accuses the French language centre of conducting 'illegal acts that violated diplomatic conventions'.

‘Wild Wild East’ Review: Jan Holoubek’s Nazi-Era Noir Western from Poland Loses Its Nerve — Jan Holoubek's noir Western 'Wild Wild East' sets up a compelling moral morass but settles for easy answers to its thorny questions. Review.

SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py) | CVE-2026-92973 — A wormable vulnerability allowed anyone able to inject text in a build log on builds.sr.ht (or other instances) to take over accounts who viewed them

Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster | MotherDuck — DuckDB 2.0 alpha vs 1.5.5 on one laptop: recursive CTEs up to 90x, VARIANT 6x faster than JSON text, async I/O 2.4x on S3. What changes, and how to model data to get the speedup. | Reading time: 15 min read

German Energy Ministry Dissolves Key Wind and Solar Division — Germany’s economy and energy ministry has dissolved a key division for liaising with the wind and solar industry, a move that reflects policymakers’ shifting priorities as the country looks to overhaul its spending.

US edge opening session of Presidents Cup — The US begin their bid to win an 11th consecutive Presidents Cup by opening up a 3-2 lead over the International team on day one.

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