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.
Codex bundles LibreOffice — I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in …
Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil — "This is right now making history — making history for Spectrum, making history for Isar, making history for Europe."
The World behind words - Misconception | Parveen: Padalkar | TEDxWestberry School Tenali Youth — Every big achievement begins as an idea that may look like delusion to others. Through my entrepreneurial journey, I share why going from 0 to 1 is the hardest stage, how moving…
macOS 26.5 adds new way to control your Mac’s power state via switches - 9to5Mac — macOS Tahoe 26.5 was released today and includes an interesting new ‘Power control’ setting for Mac desktops.
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display — One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights
Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves | TechCrunch — Adaption's new AutoScientist tool is designed to let models adapt to specific capabilities quickly through an automated approach to conventional fine-tuning.
CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company — There’s a deep, forbidding moat that surrounds Nvidia—and it has nothing to do with hardware.
Why single Ebola death in Kenya has sparked fears of wider African spread — According to the WHO, the Kenyan patient first got sick in the DRC, where the patient had been living, and was treated there.
Hacking OpenAI — A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repositories
PewDiePie didn't trust Big AI... so he built his own — Namespace is actually the fastest way to run your GitHub Actions (and more). Try it for free - https://namespace.so/github-actions PewDiePie is building Ajax, an uncensored AI model he trained at home after OpenAI banned…
Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users | Alex4D — After not seeming to have a clear go-to-market strategy for their creativity apps over the last 15 years… Apple are […]
Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 — I found my old reMarkable 2 paper tablet, bought in 2021, it had sat unused for ~4 years or so. The device was in a sorry state:
Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk — The first note in an independent robotics research project: a complete tabletop manipulation setup—industrial arm, two cameras, teleoperation, and a software stack built from scratch—for under €5,000.
Ethereum Researchers Warn AI Could Crack Crypto Before Q-Day — Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has backed a warning from Ethereum researcher Justin Drake that advances in artificial intelligence could threaten the cryptographic algorithms used to secure crypto wallets.
Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones — Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.
The 3 must-have Ryobi tools you can't find at Home Depot — Collect them all.
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
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.
Google TV Streamer's sequel showcases a struggling smart home — We broke the news this week that a next-gen Google TV Streamer is incoming, but it also arrives as Google’s...
I tried the most ridiculous Wi-Fi "life hacks" on the internet—these are the 5 that actually worked — Who would've thought some of these things actually work?
Cyberdecks, Going Analog, Permacomputing, Medieval Guilds, and the Arts and Crafts Movement — People are moving away from corporate controlled tech, and making their own. How the designs of cyberdecks are being driven by women. And how medieval guilds, Luddites, and the Arts…
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream — The long way around to screen sharing.
Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100’ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid — “Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”
Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots — To bring whooping cranes back to the eastern US, pilots in crane costumes led chicks south in ultralight aircraft for 15 years. What worked, and what…
Concerns over Palantir hiring more than 30 senior UK Government officials — US tech surveillance firm Palantir has hired 32 senior UK government and public sector officials since 2012, it has been reported ...
Apple is reportedly partnering with LG to launch a smart lock, thermostat, and doorbell | TechCrunch — Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.
English football agrees trial to end goalkeeper tactical timeouts — English football is set to implement a radical trial to try to eradicate the goalkeeper tactical timeout this season, BBC Sport can reveal.
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.
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
Securing services with Rootless Containers — Some tips to improve security in applications deployed as containers.
Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Lens Repair & Analysis | Salvaged Circuitry — I stumbled across a broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Art lens for a very cool $58.65 USD that I simply could not resist. I've been eyeing an AF lens in the 50mm range for my recent endeavors with L-mount cameras and this looke
When did Google get so f-ing weird? — I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
Microsoft backs away from Copilot PC branding as OEMs abandon the label — In a new interview, Microsoft Surface CVP confirms that its new Surface PCs are no longer called Copilot+ PCs, but will still support all Copilot+ features.
Apple WWDC 2026: The 7 biggest announcements — A standalone app for Siri, iOS 27, new features for Safari, and more.
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 — Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.
US Customs supervisor busted for stealing Core i7 CPUs, RAM, and hard drives from Homeland Security PCs, damage estimated at $105,800 — stolen tech swapped with inferior hardware and cashed out on Newegg
RTX's Pratt & Whitney Canada advances hybrid-electric technology development — Ground testing of flight-standard engine and propeller for RTX Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstrator begins in Quebec LONDON, July 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Farnborough International Airshow– Pratt &…
iOS end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling today in beta - Engadget — Look for the new lock icon in your Android chats.
Apple's iOS 26.5 Update Patches More Than 50 Security Flaws — The iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5 updates Apple released today address more than 50 security vulnerabilities, which means it's worth updating soon if you haven't done so already. Apple's security support document outlines a
Carbon-Aware Pricing — Live — The cleanest hour should be the cheapest. A live daily measurement of the CO₂ that carbon-aware electricity pricing would save.
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
Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims — Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
Self-Parking Car in 500 Lines of Code | Trekhleb — Training the car to do self-parking using a genetic algorithm
Crows remember your face for years — but apparently they also hold grudges and tell other crows about you. So that one time I startled a crow at the park was basically a lifetime commitment.
Plant Life exhibition imagines a future where "plants return as the dominant source" — The latest exhibition at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) explores humanity's relationship with the plant world through design.
A Greyscale iPhone Setup that Works in Everyday Life ⋅ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fabian Hemmert — I'm driven by the belief that we must not sacrifice our humanness for technology.
Audible thinks you want to have an AI-generated conversation with Dracula's beleaguered servant — The platform is rolling out "Interactive Stories" starting with Bram Stoker's classic.
Obsidian Plugin Abused in Social Engineering Campaign to Deliver New PHANTOMPULSE RAT — A sophisticated campaign is abusing the Obsidian note-taking app to deliver a new RAT, PHANTOMPULSE, to targets in the finance and crypto sectors using social engineering and malicious plugins
Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice — Luanti has been removed from Google Play due to a DMCA notice from Tracer.AI. We have filed a counter-notice, but this isn't the first time.
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung’s Processing-in-Memory (PIM) — In-memory compute with LPDDR5X
Bitcoin Payment Processor | OpenNode — A simple Bitcoin payment processor for any business. Accept Bitcoin payments, receive Bitcoin donations and send Bitcoin payouts all on the OpenNode platform.
From Daguerreotypes to Digital: National Portrait Gallery Celebrates 50 Years of Collecting Photography — The photo collection now makes up nearly half of the museum’s holdings.
Microsoft Execution Containers: Policy-driven containment for AI agents — Agents are unlocking enormous productivity gains for customers, but their ability to work across files, networks, and applications can introduce new security risks. This can leave customers feeling like…
Global Debt Toolkit Faces Fresh Test in Senegal — Senegal is using the Group of 20 Common Framework to rework its debt, a fresh test for the global toolkit to help poor nations avoid chaotic defaults. The African nation is aiming to use an improved version of the framework to…
I swapped 5 Samsung Galaxy apps for better alternatives, and I'm not going back — Galaxy's built-in apps aren't always the best tool for the job.
GitHub - shiihaa-app/shiihaa-breath-detection: Live breath detection and biofeedback using a phone microphone. On-device, no speech analysis, no raw audio upload. — Live breath detection and biofeedback using a phone microphone. On-device, no speech analysis, no raw audio upload.
Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming — Security pros warn YellowKey claim could make stolen laptops a much bigger problem
Trump beats Si to set up Selby tie at Shenzhen Open — Judd Trump defeats Si Jiahui 5-2 to set up a mouthwatering quarter-final meeting with Mark Selby at the Shenzhen Open.
How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal chats — Signal recently launched Automatic Key Verification, a feature that helps validate that your chats are secure without requiring direct safety number comparison. Trail of Bits built and operates one of the three…