WATaBoy: JIT-ing Game Boy Instructions to Wasm Beats a Native Interpreter — A Game Boy emulator that runs faster than a native interpreter by dynamically recompiling SM83 to WebAssembly, effectively making JIT possible on iOS.
The Memory in Your Thumb Drive Could Fix AI's Big Problem — High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights
Top Stories: iOS 26.5 Coming Soon, Goodbye $599 Mac Mini, and More — With Apple preparing to unveil iOS 27 and related updates at WWDC in just under a month, iOS 26.5 and friends are now right around the corner with some minor tweaks before we get our first look at the next major
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...
3 riveting Netflix documentaries to watch this weekend (July 31-August 2) — Betting big on predictive markets, a '90s bank robber with movie-star flair, and a campus tragedy revisited.
The Hidden Engineering of Runways — A few of the things I love about runways 🌌Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/Practical-Engineering 🚆Watch The Logistics of X: https://nebula.tv/thelogisticsofx?ref=practical-engineering Errata:
Data centers’ energy demand threatens Trump’s “Made in America” plan — Squeeze on Rust Belt electricity bills threatens Trump’s manufacturing plan.
SELECT * FROM internet.blogposts - Paul's Leaflets — Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.
Airbus launches new flight test programme for Wing of Tomorrow — Airbus is launching a new flight-test campaign to evaluate the performance of high-span wings for next-generation single-aisle aircraft.
Tether: Linux + iPhone
Women's Super League quiz: How well do you remember this season's WSL? — With one round of Women's Super League fixtures to go it's time to check if you've been paying attention.
I have experienced racism a thousand times - Lamine Yamal — Barcelona winger Lamine Yamal says he has experienced racism "a thousand times", because people are unaware their comments or behaviour are offensive.
Streamline your summer travels — get 30% off Nomad eSIM data plans with this Mashable-exclusive code — That's one less thing to worry about.
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
Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root — A security issue in Omarchy’s default Docker configuration meant that essentially every program running in the user’s desktop session could escalate to root without a password, sudo, or a privilege prompt. If you use Omarchy, the…
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…
Fire TV is quickly becoming the worst streaming option for homelabbers — A tinkerer favorite is losing its open side as Amazon locks down Vega OS, forcing homelabbers to rethink setups.
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10: When a Door Closes, a Window Opens — We recently published an exploit chain for the Google Pixel 9 that demonstrated it was possible t...
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Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries and it could be a major breakthrough — In a real win for Earth Day, it has been reported that scientists in Japan have developed a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
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.
Why DMARC's new "np" tag can fail with DNSSEC — How DNSSEC compact denial can prevent DMARC's new np policy from being applied and which providers and implementations are affected.
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.
How We Built The ISS — Get Nebula for 50% off with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/realengineering Watch this video ad free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realengineering-the-insane-engineering-of-the-iss Links to everything I do: https://beacons.ai/brianmcmanus Get your R
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born — Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
GitHub - shiihaa-app/shiihaa-breath-detection: Live breath detection and biofeedback using a phone microphone. On-device, no speech analysis, no raw audio upload. — Live breath detection and biofeedback using a phone microphone. On-device, no speech analysis, no raw audio upload.
What It Takes to Leave Earth | Naazmi Tarannum | TEDxCMRIT Hyderabad — Space teaches us to question what we take for granted and stay curious. Astronauts show that success comes from discipline, preparation, teamwork, and resilience—not fearlessness. Seeing Earth from space…
Air Theremin — play a theremin with motion or bare hands — Tilt your phone, or wave both hands at the camera: spread them for volume, raise them for pitch. Note snap, cave reverb, oscilloscope and audio recording. Built with the Web Audio API.
Counting Fast in Erlang with :counters and :atomics — Two BEAM escape hatches for counting fast—shared, mutable, off-heap integer arrays. How :atomics and :counters work, what they guarantee, and when to reach for each.
spent three hours debugging why my code wouldn't run — turns out i'd been staring at the error message the whole time and just reading it as a different word
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.
Jolla Phone (October 2026) — The independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it.
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 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…
Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter — Adventures in programming, hardware, DSP, and chiptune
Deals: TCL Android tablets from $150, Z Fold 7 $500+ off, Lenovo Legion 5i OLED laptop $550 off, Android Auto units, more — Alongside the ongoing pre-order deals on the new Google Fitbit Air, today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by some affordable...
Instagram privacy tech turned off - what does this mean for DMs? — The platform said it would remove end-to-end encrypted messages, a major U‑turn by parent company Meta.
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
"iT woRKs BeTter in THe aPp!!" — The monkey-punchers at Google never quite seem to finish any of their apps. There's always some useful bit of work left undone, or showstopping bug which remains unfixed, a thousand jagged edges as yet unsolved by the greatest minds of their…
Recreating an Ancient Pump (with no moving parts) — Designing and building a pulser pump ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: http://sendcutsend.com/practicalengineering Primal Space video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLaLpMeOyHk A pump with n
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.
Adafruit Industries - Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! — electronics, open source hardware, hacking and more...
Mechanical TV Lab — Live Nipkow Disk Simulator — Physics-accurate Nipkow disk simulation running live in your browser. Baird 30-line, Jenkins 48, German 180-line, CBS Colour.
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…
GitHub - HelixDB/helix-db: HelixDB is an OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust. — HelixDB is an OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust. - HelixDB/helix-db
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?
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.
NVIDIA and LG Group Build an AI Factory to Advance Physical AI, Mobility and AI Infrastructure — New AI factory to serve as the foundation for LG Group’s robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies and GPU cloud services.
This Viral Data Center Sounds Like Satan’s Buzzsaw — My God, the looks on the faces of the people who have to live next to this...
waylandcraft - Minecraft Mod — Wayland Compositor in Minecraft
The most expensive software bug in history... — Get $100 in Hyperagent bonus credits when you sign up for a paid plan - https://www.hyperagent.com/fireship100 In 2012 Knight Capital lost $440 million dollars because of a rogue feature flag. What did we learn from that mistake?…
Apple Releases watchOS 26.5 With New Pride Luminance Watch Face — Apple today released watchOS 26.5, the fifth major update to the watchOS 26 operating system that came out in September. watchOS 26.5 comes a month and a half after Apple released watchOS 26.4. watchOS 26.5 can be
3 award-winning Netflix movies to watch this weekend (September 18-20) — Bring the variety to your watch list.
TikTok is letting UK users pay to remove ads — Following in Meta’s footsteps.
Why AI’s Inference Boom Is Forcing a Rethink Of Chips and Memory — Today’s tidal wave of queries is forcing hardware makers to pivot
Benchmarking Tesla GPUs - esologic — Decommissioned enterprise tesla GPUs are widely available and extremely cheap. In this post, I benchmark tesla GPUs to see if they are useful
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.
Xorshift Generators - Alan Zucconi — A deep dive into xorshift generators: the most popular family of algorithms to generate pseudo-random numbers.
Rakuten Kobo Returns to U.S. Retail as Sales Double — Best Buy is now stocking Kobo’s e-readers, which have been absent from U.S. retail since its partnership with Walmart ended in 2024. CEO Michael Tamblyn identifies several factors that have “galvanized” interest in the…
Chipmaker CXMT becomes mainland China's most valuable listed firm — The company's shares soared by 470% in its market debut, as the AI boom drives chip demand.