Germany's Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy — German semiconductor giant Infineon opened a five-billion-euro ($5.7 billion) microchip plant Thursday, as Europe seeks to bolster its high-tech autonomy.
The Physics Behind the Thumb Trick — _Closed Conduit Hydraulics_ is a place where intuitions don’t always serve you well ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: http://sendcutsend.com/practicalengineering The garden hose is a backyard version of the s
Open Book Touch — A pocketable, front-lit, open source e-reader — for every book, in every language
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‘We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction’ — Climate action group Extinction Rebellion attacks Microsoft data centre construction site, amid growing worker opposition to AI facilities in the Netherlands.
EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation — The EU’s age verification project confirms hardware-bound attestation is mandatory, raising concerns over Linux, custom ROMs, and open-source access.
Announcing TypeScript 7.0 - TypeScript — Today we are proud to announce the availability of TypeScript 7, a 10x faster native port of TypeScript! Since its early days, TypeScript has promised to
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.
The RCE that AMD wouldn’t fix! — Following backlash, AMD agreed to fix an MITM RCE I discovered in Ryzen Master. All in all, it took them over four months to roll out the fix.
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
Tech giant Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as it embraces AI — The cuts are part of a wider trend among tech firms as they spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI.
Skip the portable monitor and use a $25 Fire Tablet as a second (or third) screen instead — I got tired of not having a portable second screen, so I turned an old Fire tablet into a second (and occasionally third) computer monitor.
Elena | Progressive Web Components — Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components.
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Chevron Wants a School District Tax Break for a Data Center Power Plant in Texas — The move could save the oil company hundreds of millions, even as Texas lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers.
Defence sovereignty: Europe races to build the low-cost weapons of future — With Trump wavering on Nato and war in Ukraine, Europe is scrambling to spend billions on weapons such as drones
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.
Hurricane vs. Tiny Houses — A visit to the wave lab to learn about how hurricanes affect coastal structures. ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: http://sendcutsend.com/practicalengineering Engineering is a balancing act; we need structures that ar
Fast Software, the Best Software — Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability
Steam Machine review: Is it worth buying? — After weeks of testing, here's what our experts think of Valve's hybrid gaming PC.
Watch: Moment €9m worth of art stolen from Italy museum — Police released the CCTV footage after the art, which was stolen in March, was recovered.
tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open — How a missing Firestore security rule on tl;dv exposed 181,874 meetings from 84,312 users across 35,003 domains, including live calls I could join uninvited, and how six months of disclosure got me nothing but…
Redis 8.8: New array data structure & open source features — Redis 8.8 is now available in Open Source. Explore the new array data type, window counter rate limiter, streams NACK, and more performance-focused updates.
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
GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension — GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension.
#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
India to Announce Banking Review Committee Soon, Sitharaman Says — India is set to soon announce a high-powered committee to recommend how the banking sector should evolve to support the country’s transformation into a developed economy within the next two decades, the finance…
AI push is putting banks at mercy of tech firms, warns Moody’s — Finance sector will gain from the tech but it will need substantial investment and create risks, says rating agency
Moghis Tales-Stories that Spark Conversations on Conservation | Amoghavarsha P H | TEDxNPSITPL Youth — In "Moghis Tales – Stories that Spark Conversations on Conservation," Amoghavarsha explores how storytelling can inspire people to care about nature and wildlife. Through…
The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground — Practical Engineering — [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The Port of Long Beach in Southern California is the second-busiest container seaport in the United States, a major gateway for…
OnePlus died with a whimper, not a bang — OnePlus is dead – actually for real this time. It’s got me looking back on my experiences with the brand’s...
Online age checks create a pointless privacy risk — New cybersecurity research indicates that one of the world's leading age verification providers collects and shares highly sensitive personal data—including facial photos and device fingerprints—with third parties. The research
Can Netanyahu defy Trump on his Gaza peace plan? — Can Netanyahu risk continuing to defy Trump?
I Discovered a Lost Plane — Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My! Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS — Finger from 1971, Gopher from 1991, and Gemini from 2019. These protocols offer decentralized, terminal-based alternatives to the modern web. The small web's is in a renaissance. On the solarpunk philosophy
We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies — Bad decisions have turned efficient technology into a driver of light pollution. There is a better way
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…
Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves — In just a few short days, AMD will be showing off their brand new MI400 series of Datacenter Accelerators at their Advancing AI event but before that event comes, we thought it would be fun to attempt to scry the tea leaves that are…
Venmo finally takes privacy seriously — Venmo wants to give users more control over what they share.
MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video — An open-weights omni-modal video model with real stereo sound and 2K output — this powerful model is greatly optimized in ComfyUI and can run locally on a 3060.
When Anxiety Takes Over | Oyun-Erdene Erdenebaatar | TEDxGMIT — Whether it's a job interview, an important exam, or a high-stakes presentation, we all experience moments when anxiety takes over and our minds seem impossible to control. In this talk, the speaker explains how…
The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired — If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today.
The Pixel 11 won't be exciting – what do you want next year? — We’re just a few days out from the launch of Google’s Pixel 11 series and, at this point, it’s all...
Carrington tells critics to do 'research' over 'white privilege' post — Chicago Sky guard DiJonai Carrington has told her critics to do their "research" amid the ongoing furore from her on-court confrontation with Indiana Fever's Sophie Cunningham.
Atomically precise mechanosynthesis of carbon structures on hydrogenated Si(100) by inverted-mode STM — The ability to build atomically precise structures on surfaces with complete control over both atomic placement and chemical bonding remains a central challenge in nanoscale fa
OpenAI is so back... GPT 5.6 Sol first look — Try Blacksmith for free to run your GitHub Actions 2x faster - https://www.blacksmith.sh/ OpenAI just released GPT-5.6, which includes their new Sol model that appears to outsmart Claude Fable. But why is it releasing now? And can…
WhatsApp beta previews Liquid Glass changes for message reactions, more - 9to5Mac — WhatsApp is continuing its Liquid Glass redesign on iOS, with the latest TestFlight build revealing work on updated message reactions and context menus.
Samsung will let you block apps that spam notifications with ads — Samsung has a new feature for Galaxy phones that gives users the ability to easily block apps that are spamming...
Data centers’ energy demand threatens Trump’s “Made in America” plan — Squeeze on Rust Belt electricity bills threatens Trump’s manufacturing plan.
Lionel Messi returns to Argentina after father Jorge’s death — Football star Lionel Messi returned to Argentina with his family on Saturday, a day after his father died.
The safest way to store Bitcoin just lost $115 million... — Build, test, and ship real apps in a day with Lovable: https://lovable.link/11vGHox Last week the most secure way to store Bitcoin quickly became the least secure. Let's investigate. #coding #programming Want more…
London Gatwick introduces robotic parking service — London Gatwick is the first UK airport to launch robotic parking. Passengers can keep their keys while autonomous robots park their cars.
An ESP32 based plane radar — Plane radar is a neat little project that pulls nearby ADS-B traffic, plots each aircraft by distance and bearing, and shows the details directly on a cute little screen.
Crystal-shaped sauna rises from former industrial site in Sweden — <p>Stockholm-based artist duo Bigert & Bergström has created a pink crystal-shaped sauna on a remediated industrial site in Skellefteå, northern Sweden. Named Lithium Crystal Sauna, it is the first permanent…
'That's not how it works' - the judge crossing swords with Musk in court — The feud has fuelled a costly showdown between two tech titans.
What happens when you run a CUDA kernel — Tracing one vector-add kernel from nvcc all the way down to the warps that execute it.
Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration — Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a ke [...]
Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row defends his work — Prof Jason Arday admitted errors in his work but said he was not a liar after attracting criticism online.
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Cubs' Edward Cabrera activated from IL, will start vs. Cardinals — The Cubs have activated Edward Cabrera from the injured list in time for the right-hander to start against the Cardinals.