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reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification is bringing the Play Integrity API to desktops - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum — GrapheneOS discussion forum
Daniel Ek-backed defense tech Helsing to raise $1.2B at $18B valuation | TechCrunch — Five-year old European military drone startup Helsing is close to raising another monster round.
Watch Musk Loses Case Against Altman Over OpenAI’s Overhaul - Bloomberg — A jury rejected Elon Musk’s claims that OpenAI under Sam Altman’s leadership betrayed its mission to benefit the public by morphing into a for-profit business, finding that he waited too long to sue the com
Super typhoon as wide as France heads to East Asia — As Super Typhoon Bavi approaches, residents in Taiwan, Japan and China have been stockpiling supplies.
Finding Success in Industry as a Chip Designer — Academe and industry require different approaches
Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods | TechCrunch — Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles from driving into flooded roads.
I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet — Since 2020, I've taken on a Steve Jobs alter-ego (on a very, very part time basis, and often for humor purposes ). The firs...
Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for world makers — The world is full of makers. Only a few make the world. Surface Laptop Ultra is for them. For those building the systems, the breakthroughs and the infrastructure the world runs on and gets changed by. The ones who see l
The Soundcore AeroFit 2 Pro are ANC and open earbuds — and they're at one of their lowest prices ever — The deal also applies to the newest colorway in the lineup.
The Los Angeles Aqueduct is Wild — A little tour of the Los Angeles Aqueduct system 🌌Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/Practical-Engineering 🚣Watch The Colorado Problem: https://nebula.tv/thecoloradoproblem?ref=practical-engineeri
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly — ‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker
Microsoft builds its ultimate MacBook Pro rival with the NVIDIA powered Surface Laptop Ultra — Microsoft launches the Surface Laptop Ultra with an NVIDIA RTX Spark chip and 128GB unified memory to challenge Apple MacBook Pro dominance.
How Aldi is taking on US supermarkets with its $4 almond butter — The German supermarket's $9bn US push targets urban hubs like Manhattan. Can its discount model match Walmart?
Bowen: Plan for Hamas to disarm faces big obstacles, yet it offers rare hope for Gaza — The realities of politics, war, zero trust, the deaths of thousands and the destruction of Gaza will make any agreement very complicated.
15 Best Restaurants in Portland, Maine—One of the Most Exciting Places to Dine in New England — Fresh seafood, inventive pizzas, and masterfully made sushi are just a few reasons why this tiny Maine city has such an outsized reputation in the food world.
Google loses fight over record $4.7 billion EU antitrust fine — In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the record-breaking penalty on the grounds that it abused Android's mobile dominance.
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Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more — The kernel's swap subsystem is charged with managing anonymous pages in secondary storage when [...]
Magnetoelectric antenna aims to boost underwater comms 800 billionfold — Most underwater robots lose contact with the surface the moment they descend. But a new antenna technology, borrowed from the physics of medical implants, is rethinking how submarine machines talk to each ot
The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival — In the early 1980s, the personal computer market was a raucous bazaar, teeming with variety. Each distinct type of personal computer—from Atari, Radio Shack, Apple, Commodore, Texas Instruments, an…
Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips — Apple announced a new six-year commitment with Broadcom to design and produce custom silicon components and cutting-edge wireless connectivity technologies.
Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities – Gentoo Linux — News and information from Gentoo Linux
Inside the results: How redistricting shaped Tennessee’s primary election — Tennessee's party primaries saw incumbent Representative Andy Ogles ousted and set up a heated race for District 9.
How NeXT Turned Steve Jobs From Brash Founder to Disciplined Builder — A new book recalls forgotten lessons from his time at NeXT Computer
Update Your iPhone Now for Better Encrypted Messaging With Android — As part of the iOS 26.5 update, Apple’s Messages app can now encrypt texts between some iPhone and Android smartphones.
AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans — Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.
USB Power Delivery: Plugging Into the Benefits — USB Power Delivery (EPD) and USB Extended Power Range (EPR) are the next steps in the technology evolution. When they roll out, devices will charge faster and data will be transmitted faster.
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
Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future | TechCrunch — How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers?
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…
This macOS 27 change is my top quality-of-life improvement - 9to5Mac — macOS 27 Golden Gate‘s top quality-of-life improvement for me so far involves a welcome Messages fix when logging in to my Mac.
The most efficient gas-powered SUV of 2026 costs less than you'd think — You don’t always need a hybrid to save big at the pump.
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…
Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw — The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert said.
The Memory in Your Thumb Drive Could Fix AI's Big Problem — High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights
Tim Cook among CEOs confirmed for President Trump’s China trip - 9to5Mac — The White House has reportedly confirmed that Apple CEO Tim Cook will be among the executives accompanying President Trump on his trip to China this week.
There's a database of every chip vulnerability discovered since 1995. You can filter by processor, year, severity — and see exactly which ones never got patched.
The Rise of Defense Tech in Europe | Fiona Murray | TEDxBoston — NOTE FROM TED: This talk only represents the speaker’s personal views and business approach to defense technology and development. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give TEDx…
Millions of WordPress sites just got hacked... again — Warp is the agentic development environment born out of the terminal. Download Warp for free today at → https://go.warp.dev/fireship Someone spent $100k buying a massive collection of WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor
How to Demolish a Bridge — The complex engineering involved in demolishing the I-74 Mississippi River Bridge. 🌌Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/practical-engineering 🚣Watch The Anatomy of:…
One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V — A homebrew PC and mini-mainframe were only the warm-up for Yuri Zaporozhets' latest operating system
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
Emily Doyle on the Subtle Tyranny of Realism — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. My grandmother suffers from dementia. I could say that her sense of reality is unstable, but that would be misleading. It …
The new TI 5532 chips are NOT 5532s we've used for decades — Saw this today on Wayne Kirkwood's site: EDIT! Ian came up with a workaround to get to Wayne's site: https://tinyurl.com/5epdzbxv One link he posted is really interesting....first post showing major differences. htt
Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week? — There’s something about restarting my Mac on a …
2026.19: Earning & Spending — The best Stratechery content from the week of May 4, 2026, including what we learned from Big Tech’s first quarter, a conversation with Joanna Stern, and asking what’s next for the Bost…
Meta confirms thousands of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot — Meta fixed the bug that let anyone trick its Meta AI chatbot into resetting the password on Instagram accounts that didn't have two-factor authentication.
Frieve Vinyl Explained — A real-time microscopic physics simulation of a record stylus tracing a vinyl groove.
Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory | jola.dev — Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook
Foreign Traders Sell Biggest Pile of Japan Bonds in Three Years — Overseas investors offloaded the most Japanese bonds in three years in June, official data showed, after a lackluster performance left the debt trailing most of its global peers.
South Korea has hottest day on record amid extreme weather globally — Scientists say the climate crisis driven by human activity is making heatwaves more frequent.
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Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers — state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ promises
Igropyr — a fault-tolerant web server in pure Chez Scheme — Igropyr: crashes heal themselves, code hot-swaps, faults speak a protocol, and dialogues are processes. Erlang-style actors on libuv, written entirely in Chez Scheme.
A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID — The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, raising privacy red flags about Windows' surveillance capabilities.
The Growing Compute Shortage — Over the last few months, we have seen a marked shift in conversations around AI infrastructure, with debate now centered on whether the world can build enough compute fast enough to satisfy demand. Across the AI supply chain, constraints are…
Everyone says PowerToys should be included with Windows—here's why it isn't — PowerToys proves Microsoft's best ideas don't belong in Windows.
Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration — Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a ke [...]
Johnson-Thompson vows she still has hunger to compete — Katarina Johnson-Thompson says if she is "not competitive, I will start asking questions" after finishing 21st at the European Athletics Championships following a difficult season.