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31. PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism
32. Inflatable Space Stations
If we ever want to live in space, we need to work out a way of creating artificial gravity.
33. Unison 1.0 Release
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
34. ICE Arrests the Press
A photographer was arrested while covering a protest outside an ICE facility and trying to recover his impounded camera equipment.
35. Bad UX World Cup 2025
Build a bad date picker and win a shit trophy! Presented by Nordcraft.
36. Broccoli Man, Remastered
A breakdown of how I used modern AI tools (Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana) to create a new version of a Google cultural classic.
37. 3 things to know about Ironwood, our latest TPU
Google’s seventh-gen Tensor Processing Unit is here! Learn what makes Ironwood our most powerful and energy-efficient custom silicon to date.
38. Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance"
39. LPLB: An early research stage MoE load balancer based on linear programming
An early research stage MoE load balancer based on inear programming. - deepseek-ai/LPLB
40. Mary Beard: Hollywood Lied to You About Ancient Rome. Here's the Truth
41. Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
42. OpenAI needs to raise $207B by 2030 so it can continue to lose money
43. Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds
Novo Nordisk’s shares fell 6% on the news.
44. UK intends to scrap jury trials for majority of court cases
A confidential memorandum from Justice Secretary David Lammy has exposed the Government's intention to eliminate jury trials for the majority of criminal cases, restricting them solely to murder, rape, manslaughter and matters of public interest
45. Nearby peer discovery without GPS using environmental fingerprints
I propose a peer discovery technique to detect nearby devices by comparing similarity in their observed environments, such as WiFi or Bluetooth networks. Using locality-sensitive hashing and private set intersection, peers can compare their environments without disclosing the full details. With sufficient similarity between environments, peers can conclude they are near each other.
46. Modder who put Thomas the Tank Engine into Skyrim flips the bird at lawyers
I sometimes feel like I need to milk a particular joke until its inevitable demise
47. The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your data
48. How the Atomic Tests Looked Like from Los Angeles
49. What Now? Handling Errors in Large Systems
50. The history of Indian science fiction
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
51. Using an Array of Needles to Create Solid Knitted Shapes
52. IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education
53. It is ok to say "CSS variables" instead of "custom properties"
TPAC 2025 just ended, and I am positively tired. Attending it remotely, my sleep schedule is chaotic right now. I have many ideas for CSS-related posts in my list of ideas for November, but almost all of them require at least some amount of research and crafting demos. Well! I found one note that I wanted to expand on, and which sounds tiny enough to be able to finish it in my altered state.
54. Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
HelixGuard provides open-source research on supply chain malware and vulnerability intelligence. Advanced threat detection tools and datasets for the security community.
55. A million ways to die from a data race in Go
56. Meta Execs Privately Compared Instagram to Addictive Drug, Court Filing Shows
Meta knowingly downplayed the addictive nature of social media as part of a broader effort to conceal the impacts on teenage mental health, according to a new court filing.
57. US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm
U.S. banking giants including JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Morgan Stanley are working to identify what data was stolen in a recent cyberattack on a New York financial firm.
58. Most Stable Raspberry Pi? 81% Better NTP with Thermal Management
59. Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC
Goodbye ChromeOS, hello Aluminium OS: Here's everything we know about Google's plans to bring Android to PCs!
60. Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry?
Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology. Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology.