Here's how the system to report problems in ICE detention has failed immigrants — Critics say it is the reason why more detainees are risking their lives to protest inhumane conditions and legal rights violations, in the form of widespread hunger strikes.
Saying goodbye to asm.js — Disabling asm.js optimizations in SpiderMonkey
Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack — A fake-interview scam tried to backdoor my machine with PinpinRAT, hidden in a malicious TypeScript patch. Analysis of the attack, payload, and indicators of compromise.
Billions of triangles in minutes — Early this year, NVIDIA released their new raytracing technology, RTX Mega Geometry, alongside an impressive Zorah demo. This demo was distributed as a ~100 GB Unreal Engine scene - that can only be opened in a special branch of Unreal Engine,…
Jon Rahm part of a 5-way tie for lead at PGA Championship — After Saturday's third round, Ryder Cup teammates Jon Rahm and Ludvig Aberg were part of a five-way tie for the top spot at warm and blustery Aronimink Golf Club, where the PGA Championship heads into its final round on
“Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest — and Grok committed 180 crimes and — “Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest — and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days.”
When "idle" isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug — We investigated a bug where CUBIC's congestion window became pinned at its minimum floor, causing a performance to plummet. The fix involved correctly measuring idle periods to distinguish RTT wait times
Apple pushes UK court to lift secrecy around encryption backdoor order - 9to5Mac — Apple challenged the UK government’s refusal to publicly confirm whether it has issued an order requiring the company to provide access to encrypted user data.
A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers — They should be fixed now. Hopefully.
Apple brings encrypted RCS chats to iPhone — Look for the “Encrypted” text when talking with your Android friends.
Vivo’s X300 Ultra has the best cameras in any phone — It’s my new favorite camera
What's Under Your Feet in New York City? — A tour of the subsurface in NYC ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: http://sendcutsend.com/practicalengineering The underground of New York is almost a city within a city. We kind of get used to having…
Apple's AirTag-Sized AI Pendant: Five Features Rumored So Far — Apple is developing a wearable AI device that's been described as a pin or pendant, and that could compete with a similar AI product coming from OpenAI's Jony Ive. It wasn't clear if the wearable would actually make
Exploiting the Tesla Wall Connector from its charge port connector - — Exploiting the Tesla Wall Connector from its charge port connector -
Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax — Money is another reason to leave Substack.
Let’s talk about encrypted reasoning — This is a quick post I wanted to write about a hobby project I spent a weekend on. It has little to do with real cryptography, and mostly doesn’t expose a particularly exciting vulnerability.…
Apple Releases HomePod Software 26.5 — Alongside iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, and macOS Tahoe 26.5, Apple has released new HomePod 26.5 software for the HomePod and the HomePod mini. The update comes a little over a month after Apple released HomePod Software 26.4. According to Apple's
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.
Japan's New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights To The US A Reality - BGR — A team of engineers from Japan has completed a successful ground combustion trial of a ramjet engine designed for a Mach‑5 hypersonic aircraft.
Google is changing how it judges AI models for Android coding, updates list with Fable 5 — Google is changing how it tests AI models for Android coding following new rankings led by Fable 5. Google released...
732 bytes of Python just borked every Linux machine on earth… — CodeRabbit's new Slack Agent lets you manage your team's agentic workflow right in Slack - https://coderabbit.link/fireship-agent A 100% reliable logic flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel and an AI tool wrote an
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Apple Developer App Gets Liquid Glass Makeover and New WWDC 2026 Stickers — Apple today updated its Apple Developer app, introducing a Liquid Glass redesign and giving developers some WWDC-themed stickers that can be used in the Messages app. The Apple Developer app has a revampe
Stocks Rally, Yields Fall After Fed Hikes Rates, Signals More to Come — Jonathan Ferro, Lisa Abramowicz and Annmarie Hordern speak daily with leaders and decision makers from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. No other program better positions investors and executives for…
How we scale PgBouncer in ClickHouse Managed Postgres | ClickHouse — PgBouncer is single-threaded, so a single process caps out at one CPU core no matter the box size. See how ClickHouse Managed Postgres runs a peered fleet of PgBouncer processes with so_reuseport to scale…
Google’s most sophisticated foldable: Pixel 11 Pro Fold — Pixel 11 Pro Fold is our latest foldable with a thinner and lighter design, a new main camera, and enhanced intelligence tools.
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
A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore’s law — Researchers led by Qing Cao have demonstrated a scalable way to directly and sequentially stack high-performance silicon circuits. This advance marks a critical step toward realizing the full potentia
One man just liberated Fable... and now it’s illegal — Take BlueDot's Future of AI course for free - https://bluedot.org/fireship Just three days after the release of Claude Fable, the US government stepped in and banned it in the name of national security. But why? #coding #pr
Waymo robotaxis are headed to Munich | TechCrunch — Germany's autonomous vehicle regulations have made it a hotspot for autonomous vehicle testing and eventual commercial robotaxi deployment.
Modos Color E‑Paper Monitor Pushes Open‑Source Displays Further — After dev kit success, Modos’ cofounders offer an e-paper monitor
Safari's latest trick could be automatically organizing your tabs into groups - Engadget — Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said Apple could introduce Organize Tabs feature with the next major software update.
The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Really Means — Lava lamps are cool, but there are better ways to get random numbers.
NFL suspends two officials for player incidents — The NFL suspends officials Jeff Seeman and Adrian Hill for instances of unprofessional conduct towards a player.
Southampton kicked out of play-offs: Justice or harsh decision? — Southampton will be playing in the Championship next season after they were expelled from the play-offs following their admission that they spied on three league rivals this season.
DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression · zartbot — A deep dive into the DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash technical report: CED, CSA2, HSI, Single-Pass mHC, Engram and FP4 KV Cache — how the KV cache was compressed to just 890 bytes per token.
'Too early' to talk IPO, Redwood Materials' incoming CFO says | TechCrunch — The battery-recycling and energy-storage company has hired former Tesla finance chief Deepak Ahuja, reuniting him with former Tesla CTO JB Straubel.
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.
zkGolf: golf zero-knowledge circuits, verified in Lean — A competition to build the cheapest zero-knowledge circuits, proven correct in Lean 4.
Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months — Can AI save us from the AI industry’s endless thirst for water? Outlook not so good.