Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20 billion valuation | TechCrunch — Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.
Apple Is Going to Raise Device Prices — but When? — Link to: https://x.com/markgurman/status/2067741507273289766
Cybersecurity in the post-mythos era: Keep calm and carry on! — As some of those fears, uncertainties, and doubts about Mythos are starting to feel real, what can we do about it? Paradoxically, I believe that little needs to change in what we’ve been doing for years.
Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many? — Oura users' data is not end-to-end encrypted and can be handed to the government. Will the wearable tech maker say how often it turns over data?
A researcher tracked 500,000 code commits across GitHub and found that the worst bugs don't come from complexity—they come from tired developers committing at 3am.
FlightAware dropped its lawsuit against Kalshi after just one day — FlightAware's case against Kalshi has been voluntarily dismissed "without prejudice against all defendants."
GrapheneOS Speech Services version 2 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum — GrapheneOS discussion forum
BHP Shares Fall After $2.3 Billion Writedown on Potash Mine — BHP Group shares fell after the company flagged a $2.3 billion writedown on its giant potash mine in Canada due to cost and time overruns for an expansion of the project.
After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch — The Pebble Time 2 isn't like other modern smartwatches, and that's precisely why I think it's the best smartwatch I've worn in years.
Orbit · Real-time satellite tracker — Point your camera at the sky to find the ISS, satellites, planets, constellations, and orbital debris in augmented reality.
Can PSG do a three-peat and win six trophies this season? — Paris St-Germain aim to start their season as they hope to end it - by winning a European trophy.
LLM Networking with MikroTik — I’ve been refraining from saying ‘vibe networking’ or ‘vibkrotik’ or some other abomination, but it is true - I have been using LLMs to setup a few networks these last few months, and things have generally gone over swimmingly.
Mythology — Myths are a part of every culture in the world and are used to explain natural phenomena, where a people came from and how their civilization developed, and why things happen as they do. At their most...
Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more — The kernel's swap subsystem is charged with managing anonymous pages in secondary storage when [...]
The World Clock — Times across the globe at a glance.
New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic — A digital billboard company now has the technology to make 3D ads on moving trucks. Thanks, I hate it.
Iran anthem protest: Female footballers ‘proud’ to become Australian — Fatemeh Pasandideh and Atefeh Ramezanisadeh refused to sing Iran anthem at Asian Cup, now granted Australia citizenship.
Google Health kills the Fitbit we knew, but maybe that's not a bad thing — Alongside its new Fitbit Air, Google this week announced that the Fitbit app is dead, to be replaced by “Google...
The Ultimate Puff Pastry Pizza Hack! — Say goodbye to soggy puff pastry crust! In this video, check out this simple French technique to make the ultimate bite-sized puff pastry pizza poppers. Learn how to get that perfect flaky, crispy crunch in every single bite.
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
Spike Jonze’s Explosive Skate Video That Changed Filmmaking | EPICLY LATERD — Spike Jonze changed what skate videos could look and feel like, bringing a filmmaker’s eye and a willingness to push things way past the comfort zone. From mentoring young collaborators on set to…
GitHub - minh-ton/reynard-browser: An experimental Gecko-based web browser for iOS 13+. — An experimental Gecko-based web browser for iOS 13+. - minh-ton/reynard-browser
OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team as part of a 'streamlining' process — As part of a restructuring, OpenAI reportedly disbanded a team that assesses the potential for catastrophic risks with its models.
GitHub - GrieferPig/esp32-s31-linux: Porting MMU Linux to ESP32-S31 — Porting MMU Linux to ESP32-S31. Contribute to GrieferPig/esp32-s31-linux development by creating an account on GitHub.
Unprecedented Times — Listen: I am not ungrateful. I have always known I am the luckiest girl on earth. I was born in America, for starters, in the belly of the empire instead of its jaws—and I was even born at all. Rig…
A Watchdog Group Says Yosemite Is Using Flock Cameras — DeFlock claims that Yosemite National Park has installed the controversial surveillance technology. The NPS says the cameras are part of a system to monitor congestion and parking.
Watched someone make risotto by refusing to stir it, said the constant motion was corporate anxiety behavior, somehow it was better 🍚
Florencia Galarza's Soccer American Dream #newyork #soccer — Florencia Galarza for “Soccer’s American Dream: Portraits of Soccer in New York City” Subscribe to VICE Sports here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-Sports Follow VICE Sports here: Facebook: https://facebook.com/VICES
Exploiting Volvo/Eicher’s fleet management platform to gain control over all users and vehicles — VE Commercial Vehicles’ My Eicher platform had a critical vulnerability that let you take over anyone’s account and gain control over their vehicle fleets.
Netanyahu Rejects US-Backed Hamas Disarmament Proposal — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a proposal by US-backed mediators for disarming Hamas, saying "Israel does not accept the 15-point document". Bloomberg's Dan Williams breaks down the developments.…
Opposition MP hurls eggs at Kosovo Prime Minister — An opposition lawmaker threw eggs at acting Prime Minster Albin Kurti during a parliamentary session.
This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers — SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to
Meta brings legal challenge against UK media regulator over fees — Meta said Ofcom's calculations were "disproportionate"; the regulator said it would defend its position.
My Mother Is Dying. Does That Mean I Have to Do Everything She Asks? — I don’t want to say no to everything, but I would like that option sometimes.
What Job Interviews Taught Me About Kubernetes — So I've been job hunting lately. Reading job postings, doing interviews, talking to engineering teams at like a dozen companies. And I noticed...
Horizons Middle East & Africa 8/10/2026 — Horizons Middle East & Africa is your daily spotlight on one of the world's fastest-growing regions. Live from Dubai, we bring you the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews, with a special focus on MEA. All…
Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri – narracomm
THE FEAR OF THE LABEL | Yara Al Khateeb | TEDxBrummana HS — This talk is mainly about how language and labels influence the way people think. It explains that the same idea can receive different reactions depending on the word used to describe it. Labels can shape how we judge…
Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next? — Solar railways could soon become commonplace in Europe, following a successful trial in Switzerland.
The U.S. just approved a giant space mirror to test ‘sunlight on demand.’ Low Earth orbit is getting weird — From space hotels and artificial meteor showers, to a new giant mirror that reflects sunlight to Earth — low-Earth orbit is getting weird.
Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let them use it to train AI — Samsung has started showing Samsung Health users a controversial notice requiring them to consent to their data being used for AI training if they want to keep their data from being deleted.
The Footballer Who Defied Hitler #darkhistory #untoldstory — The Nazi soccer team that Hitler built, and the Austrian legend who refused to play for it… This is a wild World Cup story. Hitler annexes Austria, purges the Jewish players from their World Cup team (the…
there's this yoga instructor who documents every pose she's ever taught — with photos from like 1995 onward — and you can filter by body type, injury, whatever you need. it's weirdly moving to scroll through 30 years of the same asana evolving 🧘
Rory McIlroy 'lost' after finishing 66th in FedEx Cup playoff — Rory McIlroy expressed concerns about the state of his game after finishing above only two other players in the FedEx Cup St. Jude Championship, saying he felt "lost."
my server is a phone now — rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home.
Pay-to-Play vs Paid-to-Develop: Why the US Loses #soccer #football #futbol — Let’s make sure the USA never develops talent like Messi, Lamine Yamal or Vini Jr… by changing nothing. If we do want to change, it will require examining how the rest of the world develops & finances…
Worlds hardest jigsaw vs. puzzle machine (all white) — Keep exploring at https://brilliant.org/stuffmadehere. Get started for free, and hurry—the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription. If you're looking for a workstation check out Puget Systems. They rock: h
P Rod Day in Venice, CA #goskate — what do you love most about skateboarding? Subscribe to VICE Sports here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-Sports Follow VICE Sports here: Facebook: https://facebook.com/VICESports Twitter: https://twitter.com/VICESports Instagram:…
Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it | nns.ee — Abusing an unauthenticated Bluetooth protocol to turn a PC speaker into a Rubber Ducky.
T-Mobile is giving away the Apple iPhone 17 for free this weekend — how to claim — Samsung and Google are getting all the attention right now, but won't somebody think about Apple?
UK to turn cooler with rain after exceptional heat and dry spell — After and exceptional summer of heatwaves and drought, the weather will turn wetter and cooler this week, as Simon King explains
How to sequence your own DNA at home — I have now sequenced my own genome 5 times with an Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION. This means collecting them from a swab, prepping them for sequencing, running them through a sequencer, then doing analysis over them.
Streamline your summer travels — get 30% off Nomad eSIM data plans with this Mashable-exclusive code — That's one less thing to worry about.
Diana Ejaita’s “Before the Plunge” — A moment of stillness.
Inside Baltimore’s Kinkiest Restaurant — Since opening last fall, Kink Cafe's growing popularity represents a shift in how the public engage with BDSM culture.
How to reinvent yourself—from a scientist-turned-magician | Kevin Quantum | TEDxManchester — As a magician, Kevin is obsessed with transformation — not just turning cards into coins, but genuine personal transformation. Drawing on lessons from reality television, he explores…
Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI’s Soaring Cost — SAP says it needs to “be disciplined in how we spend.” That includes still freezing hires and travel. Unless it's to do with AI, of course.
Here's how Apple could make its Hide My Email feature even better for iCloud+ users - 9to5Mac — Introduced in iOS 15, Hide My Email is an iCloud+ feature that does exactly what it says on the tin...
Coroner: Grizzlies' Brandon Clarke died from effects of cocaine, heroin — Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke's death has been ruled an accident due to heroin and cocaine, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's office announced Friday.
Odd Lots: NYT’s CEO on Media Brands in the Age of AI (Podcast) — In the last decade, the New York Times has remade itself many times over. It has done that through acquisitions — The Athletic, Wirecutter, and the ever-popular Wordle — and by navigating all the different…