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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.

the audubon society mapped every bird species' range shift over the last century. your backyard's cast of characters has probably completely changed?

the audubon society mapped every bird species' range shift over the last century. your backyard's cast of characters has probably completely changed?

Reform UK benefits ban for foreign nationals would include EU citizens — The move would require renegotiating the UK's Brexit deal and could risk stripping British expats living in the EU of similar rights.

Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning | farnoy.dev — Linux latency on the desktop and in games compared to Windows. Network streaming with Sunshine and Moonlight. Tuning the KWin compositor for lower latencies.

Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season. “Key environmental indicators show that the — Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season. “Key environmental indicators show that the nation is a tinderbox, gripped by widespread drou

GoPro warned it may not survive. The AI memory crunch is killing companies that make things people hold. — Memory prices rose 80-115%. Revenue fell 26%. GoPro warned of "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue. It's exploring a sale or pivot to defence.

Mango Chicken Summer Rolls — Rotisserie chicken makes quick work of these no-cook rolls with a spicy peanut sauce.

Trump sued over Truth Social's $100,000 early access service — The suit challenges Truth Social plan selling early access to Trump's market-moving posts.

Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor — Also, it's a twofer with the GreenPlasma zero-day local privilege escalation.

Manufacturing qubits that can move — It's hard to mix electronic manufacturing and flexible geometry.

Curiosity’s 13 Years of Software Hacks Keeps It Alive on Mars — It takes some special tricks to maintain a robot 200 million kilometers from home

Reverse engineering Android malware with Claude Code - Zane St. John — I pointed an autonomous coding agent at a $35 projector. It found a big RAT.

The Easy Eight Share New Song "19.15.19": Listen — It’s still not totally clear why Charlie Manning Walker decided to end his great Chubby And The Gang project and then immediately start a new band called the Easy Eight, but that’s what he did. The Easy Eight, formerly EZ8, is…

Haiku ❤ Nvidia (porting Nvidia driver for Turing+ GPUs) — Hope eventually will came out!!

Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back — A BBC investigation revealed a simple way to get AI chatbots to spit out misinformation. Google and other AI companies are now trying to fix the problem.

Norway’s 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training — Norway’s National Library is developing a large language model (LLM) that understands the Norwegian ...

Shaking up the coffee world! Entirely new way of making espresso unveiled — Researchers at UNSW Sydney have harnessed the power of ultrasonic sound waves to make espresso-strength coffee with room temperature water, cutting energy use by up to 75%.

lobste.rs is now running on SQLite — 108 comments

#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

Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter — Adventures in programming, hardware, DSP, and chiptune

AI Boom, Debt Surge Fuel Long Bond Pain | Insight with Haslinda Amin 8/18/2026 — Insight with Haslinda Amin, a daily news program featuring in-depth, high-profile interviews and analysis to give viewers the complete picture on the stories that matter. The show features…

Sweet Jeebus, MacOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons From Menu Items — This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has

Sunrisers in qualification contention after comfortable win over eliminated Phoenix — Sunrisers Leeds earn a vital win in the race for qualification by demolishing Birmingham Phoenix, who are subsequently eliminated from The Hundred after a fifth loss in six games.

A blueprint for formal verification of Apple corecrypto - Apple Security Research — With the latest release of corecrypto, we’re publishing our implementations of quantum-secure ML-KEM and ML-DSA algorithms, along with the mathematical proofs we built to assure they are faithful

NEO Radar — Real orbital mechanics for Near-Earth Objects — 141 asteroids tracked this month with real N-body physics. Newton-Raphson Kepler solver, RK4 integrator, JPL Horizons data.

5 weird things Android Auto now lets you do from your car (even though you probably shouldn't) — Your car's dashboard is becoming a distraction machine.

Sunrisers thump Welsh Fire to inch closer to knockouts — Mitch Marsh makes 50 as Sunrisers Leeds post 201-4 at Headingley and beat Welsh Fire by 71 runs to move closer to a place in the knockouts of The Hundred men's competition.

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.

Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip — The would-be AI infrastructure provider aims to solve the problem of rising memory prices in a cost-effective way.

Girl Scout Documentary "Cookie Queens" Is An Unexpected Commentary on Late-Stage Capitalism — A new documentary lets us Tagalong during the cutthroat cookie season

The Best Spotify Alternatives to Ease Your Conscience — There are loads of options for getting new music into your ears if you're fed up with Spotify.

Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway? — How wanting more is not always better

Learning Stories - Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com — Stories from school and college

Learning Stories - Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com — Stories from school and college

Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug — My blog, mostly about programming

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.8 - Steam News — SteamOS 3.8.10 has just been released for all users with the following changes: These notes contain all changes since the previous SteamOS 3.7 stable release. See here for changes since the previous SteamOS 3.8.9 beta…

Some thoughts about Anthropic’s new cryptanalysis results — Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAW…

Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers - Slashdot — Google is removing Chrome's last remaining workarounds for Manifest V2 extensions, effectively ending support for legacy ad blockers such as the original uBlock Origin. 9to5Google reports:…

Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks — Production-version patches are coming online and should be installed pronto.

pico-usb-wifi firmware converts the Raspberry Pi Pico W into a driverless USB WiFi adapter - CNX Software — pico-usb-wifi is an open-source firmware project that converts the Raspberry Pi Pico W into a driverless USB WiFi adapter that works with Windows, Linux,

ESP32-C6 power consumption: Arduino vs Zephyr vs ESP-IDF comparison — Learn from our Arduino, ESP-IDF, and Zephyr RTOS ESP32-C6 power consumption benchmark for most efficient IoT framework.

Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid — Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)

Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic Internet — Cloudflare Wallets will provide AI agents with native payments and verifiable identity on the web. Using the x402 protocol, agents can autonomously purchase APIs and content within clear safety…

Fossil Fuels Are 40% Of Freight Shipping Tonnage, But Half Its Fuel Use - CleanTechnica — Fossil fuels are about 40% of maritime tonnage but roughly half of freight energy, which changes the shipping fuel transition.

Apple Intelligence and Siri — Next-generation Apple Intelligence and Siri AI bring helpful features to iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27.

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.

US Space Force confirms SpaceX will build sensor-to-shooter targeting network — We aren’t trading speed for scale; we are demanding both," says the military's program manager.

Search efforts in Colombia enter ‘final phase’ as quake toll reaches 265 — President de La Espriella promises to set up an emergency fund to help rebuild destroyed hospitals and schools.

Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home — When working on my latest book, The Secret Life of Circuits, I wanted to keep the artwork real.

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.

Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool — The heat generated by the small box of powerful computers is enough to heat the pool about 60% of the time.

Where Do European Country Names Come From? — Word nerd Rob Watts explains where the names of all the European countries come from. Which country is the “land of the rabbits”? Why does Germany have s

Google Health adds two-way Apple Health syncing on iPhone - 9to5Mac — Back in May, the Google Health app launched alongside the new line of affordable Google Fitbit Air health trackers. Google...

Chips Drag Emerging Stocks to April Low, Oil Shields Currencies — The slide in the Asian tech stocks pushed the benchmark for emerging markets to the lowest in three months, though the pullback in oil prices helped shield European bourses and currencies from the selloff.

Global Food Prices Rise to Three-Year High as Supply Fears Build — Global food prices edged higher in July to the highest in more than three years as renewed concerns over key grain export corridors compounded adverse weather across major growing regions.

Trump Touts $3B in Mineral Project to Counter China — During a recent meeting with top industry executives, the US President announced $3 billion in investments aimed at strengthening the domestic critical minerals and mining sector. The initiative seeks to reduce reliance on…

Home | Nature Picture Library — Nature Picture Library offers the best nature / wildlife photographs and videos from the world's finest photographers, to license for commercial and creative use. More than 700,000 high resolution images online, from tigers to turtles and elephants

Stowaway — Ride along with anything in the sky — Every plane and satellite overhead is a seat with nobody in it. Stow away on one — real flights over real terrain, real orbits above it.

A cleaner route to purifying rare earth elements — Rare earth elements like lanthanum, neodymium, and dysprosium are used to build the electric motor in your car, the LED lights in your house, and the MRI machine at your doctor’s office.

Sicilian Pizza — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//tk/photo/2026/07-2026/2026-07-sicilian-pizza/sicilian-pizza-1889_1"> Sicilian-style pizza is hard to pin down. In Sicily, it&#8217;s called sfincione. True Sicilian-style pizza is spongey, has a red…

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