The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy - Include Security Research Blog — In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by
Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless — Yesterday, June 15, 2026, a small and unimportant announcement appeared in Apple developer news: New domain for Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email. Long story short: now both Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases…
I ported Kubernetes to the browser | ngrok blog — Almost 100,000 lines of LLM-generated code in 2 months, and none of it is slop.
Data centers’ energy demand threatens Trump’s “Made in America” plan — Squeeze on Rust Belt electricity bills threatens Trump’s manufacturing plan.
The Invincible Spirit of Edmonia Lewis — A first-of-its-kind exhibiton honors the pathbreaking artist's Black and Indigenous ancestries.
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…
A new type of pixel — Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed pixels that can not only create images, but also analyse them. In the future, this could lead to the development of devices that function as camera and display at the same time.
Engineering a $1 Cup of Lemonade #AdobePartner — No denying the video turned out better than the lemonade. @Adobe
Papa Johns Is Getting Into Drone Delivery—but Not for Pizza — A new collaboration with Alphabet’s Wing will only deliver sandwiches. It demonstrates the tricky parts of taking to the sky.
‘Being human helps’: despite rise of AI is there still hope for Europe’s translators? — A booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing – but they could be needed for a while longer yet
A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt — Let’s Encrypt is committed to a post-quantum-safe Web PKI. The path we’re planning to take is Merkle Tree Certificates (“MTCs”), a new approach that adds post-quantum authentication to the web without sacrificing the speed and reliability
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.
Internal Combustion Engine – Bartosz Ciechanowski — Interactive article explaining how an internal combustion engine works.
British army told to stop non-essential training exercises to save money — Units in the UK not preparing to be deployed have been told to cut back on training exercises due to cost pressures.
Tracking Costco Gas Prices During a Global Fuel Crisis — I reverse-engineered Costco's gas price API and built a live tracker covering every US warehouse, right as a Strait of Hormuz scare sent fuel prices climbing.
Apple Events - Special Event Stream — Watch the Apple event online.
Miso-Peanut Chicken and More Recipes We Made This Week — Like zucchini blossom pizza and staff-favorite broccoli salad.
Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted | TechCrunch — Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company's devices more seamless.
A global workspace in language models — Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.
Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac - Low End Mac — Jef Raskin founded the Macintosh project at Apple, which led to the development of the Apple Mac and the popularisation of the graphical user-interface. He was Apple employee #31 and left the Macintosh team in mid-1981 afte
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I Stole a Car Using a Baby Monitor — Get your CrunchLabs box today: Creative Kit (Ages 6-10): https://crunchlabs.com/CarTheftCK Build Box (Ages 8-12): https://crunchlabs.com/CarTheftBB Hack Pack (Ages 14+): https://crunchlabs.com/CarTheftHP Thanks to these folks for providing…
The Smallest Brain You Can Build — A perceptron explained from scratch in Python, with interactive demos. Learn weights, bias, the decision boundary, epochs, learning rate, and why we normalize data.
Xi Says China’s Backing for Kim and North Korea Won’t Change — President Xi Jinping said China’s commitment to its friendship with North Korea, support for Kim Jong Un’s leadership and determination to safeguard the two countries’ common interests “will not change,” Xinhua News…
Here’s how to get the U.S. Mint’s $1 coin honoring Steve Jobs - 9to5Mac — Tomorrow, May 12, marks the public sale of the U.S. Mint’s latest American Innovation $1 coin, which honors Steve Jobs as California’s representative in the program.
Ingo Blechschmidt (@iblech@mathstodon.xyz) — So. For the past few days I've been deep in a fun and very rewarding, but also extremely scary debugging saga. To cut a long git-bisecting story short: Since Linux 6.9 (May 2024), the tool that locks the laptop's drive on suspend…
Read the US account of unreleased 14-point Iran ceasefire memorandum — US official gives clearest account yet of deal set to be signed by US and Iran Friday; Iran has not confirmed text.
OpenFOV — Webcam head tracking for iRacing — OpenFOV uses your webcam to control iRacing's in-game FOV. Unlocks VR-style functionality for your monitor!
Fences, not ambulances! | Kari Sutton | TEDxQUT — Equip children with the resilience and emotional intelligence required to navigate challenges, bounce back from setbacks, and thrive. Kari is an accomplished author, educator and researcher with more than 30 years’ experience in…
NYT Connections hints and answers for August 16. Tips to solve 'Connections' #1162. — Everything you need to solve 'Connections' #1162.
Venmo privacy finally being fixed eight years after 'alarming' fails - 9to5Mac — Problems with Venmo privacy were first highlighted way back in 2018. A security researcher demonstrated how the API could be...
LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps — The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after…
Watch: Drone delivers first Amazon parcels in UK — The tech giant says it hopes to slowly expand the service as the demand for ultra-fast deliveries grows.
Supersonic Flight Returning To US After Half-Century Ban — The U.S. is clearing away regulations for a new era of supersonic flight, promising faster long-distance travel without the boom.
A new era for AI Search — We shared the next step in our journey to bring together the best of a search engine with the best of AI.
The Weird Orbit of the ISS — Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Minnesota is pulling troops early from D.C., as pressure grows on Michigan — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is pulling his National Guard early from Washington, D.C. as the chorus against Democratic governors sending troops to the city amid President Trump's ongoing deployment grows…
What is Date::ITALY? — Exploring the Date::ITALY Ruby constant, Julian day numbers, and the history of the Gregorian calendar switchover.
Russia drops record number of glide bombs on Ukraine as casualties pile up — Moscow's troops suffer high rate of losses as Zelenskyy renews air campaign against Russia.
Leaking YouTube Creators Private Videos — Bug Bounty Hunter & Researcher
Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux FLOSS Drivers
A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there right now — Crying in the shower. Taking mental health leave. This is what it’s like to work at the tech giant during the AI job apocalypse.
'I'm speechless' - Kane reacts to England's victory over Mexico — A very hoarse sounding England captain Harry Kane gives his reaction to England's 3-2 victory over Mexico and praises the fans support.
AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable — security feature vanishes after newer AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silent when pressed about the change
How Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets | Quanta Magazine — A graduate student recently harnessed the complexity of mathematical proofs to create a powerful new tool in cryptography.
I finally found a use case for OpenClaw… — Get up to 67% off OpenClaw VPS hosting with Hostinger's one-click template. Use code FIRESHIP for an extra discount - https://hostinger.com/openclawfireship Back in January, OpenClaw's wild rise triggered a nation-wide Mac mini shortage
How To Crush an Egg with Your Bare Hand — New CrunchLabs toys are available in stores now!
Polaroid’s silhouette tease tells us who its next product is for, but gives away little else — The company has been hard at work on advertising its products to people nostalgic for offline summers (and perhaps ones spent playing Pokémon).
The SECRET to Fighting Laundry Stains #TidePartner — The SECRET to Fighting Laundry Stains #TidePartner
NASA Fuel Cell Tests Pave Way for Energy Storage on Moon — NASA’s Glenn Research Center is advancing a novel regenerative fuel cell system to revolutionize power generation and energy storage for future Moon missions.
Pakistan cricketer Nawaz sanctioned after cannabis-related positive test — Nawaz admitted the violation and that the substance had been used in a manner unrelated to sporting performance.
Situational Awareness and the Impending Market Volatility — Situational Awareness is a canary, not a divergence: the AI stock market is over-leveraged and over-concentrated. Call it the KOSPIfication of the NASDAQ.
Record low price: Save $45 on the MTG x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Draft Box — Walmart is a solid backup if stock runs out.
MacBook Neo Processor Benchmarks: A18 Pro CPU vs M1 and M4 — A18 Pro processor in the $599 MacBook Neo. Geekbench 6 scores 3,569 single-core, between M3 and M4. Full CPU benchmarks, power draw, and thermal analysis.
International cyber attack disrupts swath of universities and schools — A hacking group breached the academic software Canvas, used by thousands of schools and universities across the globe.
Robot demos have a dirty little secret... — Omnigent is an open source meta-harness to run all your AI agents in one place. Try it free - https://bit.ly/4fXzeo8 I spent last week at MIT's CSAIL lab learning where the frontier of robotics actually is. Here's my…
Google Chrome lands on Arm64 Linux (with Widevine DRM) — Google Chrome now has an official Arm64 Linux build, including for the Raspberry Pi, available via Google's Debian and RPM repos with Widevine DRM support.
Appreciating Exif | Brent Fitzgerald — The '90s-era digital camera metadata format, still useful in 2026.
US-Iran MoU set to expire; Hamas urges pressure on Israel over Gaza deal — Hamas calls on Board of Peace to 'compel' Israel to accept the Gaza peace plan after meeting Jared Kushner in Cairo.
Japan’s 30-Year Bond Auction Risks Adding Fuel to Debt Selloff — Japan’s 30-year government bond auction Thursday will test investor appetite as a global selloff pushes long-dated yields to their highest levels in almost two decades.