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31. Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds
A new study finds patients who listen to music during surgery wake faster and need fewer painkillers.
32. Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D
I posted a WebGL demo to twitter and it blew up! This post talks about how it works under the hood.
33. ML-KEM Mythbusting
What is this? There have been some recent concerns about ML-KEM, NIST's standard for encryption with Post-Quantum Cryptography, related standards of the IETF, and lots of conspiracy theories about malicious actors subverting the standardization process. As someone who has been involved with this standardization process at pretty much every level, here a quick debunking of…
34. Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration - penpot/penpot
35. Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans
36. Inspired by Spider-Man, scientists recreate web-slinging technology
We all have moments as kids watching Spider-Man and imagining what it might feel like to shoot a thread into the air and have it grab something, bringing it
37. Voyager 1 Is About to Reach One Light-Day from Earth
After nearly 50 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to hit a historic milestone. By November 15, 2026, it will be 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km)
38. Linux Kernel Explorer
Interactive Linux kernel source code browser with guided learning paths and comprehensive kernel exploration tools.
39. The State of GPL Propagation to AI Models
When GitHub Copilot was launched in 2021, the fact that its training data included a vast amount of Open Source code publicly available on GitHub attracted significant attention, sparking lively debates regarding licensing. While there were issues concerning conditions such as attribution required by most licenses, there was a particularly high volume of discourse suggesting…
40. Willis Whitfield: A simple man with a simple solution that changed the world
Whitfield, former Sandia physicist, first sketched his idea for clean room technology while on an airplane in 1960.
41. G0-G3 corners, visualised: learn what "Apple corners" are
42. My car charger can boil water really fast [video]
That title might be the best effort I can pull off.Other stuff:Technology Connections on Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/techconnectify.bsky.socialTechnolog...
43. 'A step-change': tech firms battle for undersea dominance with submarine drones
As navies seek to counter submarines and protect cables, startups and big defence companies fight to lead market
44. Technical Deflation
45. China's BEV Trucks and the End of Diesel's Dominance
China’s electric heavy truck boom signals a freight transition as low cost BEVs outpace diesel and gas across short haul markets. Exports are rising.
46. Project Cybersyn
47. Functional Data Structures and Algorithms: a Proof Assistant Approach
48. ZZ9000 multifunction card for Zorro Amigas
The ZZ9000 is an expansion card for Zorro Amigas and offers HD resolution graphics, USB, network and flickerfixer functionality.
49. Galaxies Struggle to Grow in Crowded Environments
New research shows how a galaxy's surroundings influence its development. Its size, shape, and growth rate are all affected. It's all based on
50. A DOOM vector engine for rendering in KiCad, and over an audio jack
51. GitLab scan finds 17,000 secrets in public repos, leading to $9000+ in bounties
I scanned every public GitLab Cloud repository (~5.6 million) with TruffleHog, found over 17,000 verified live secrets, and earned over $9,000 in bounties along the way.
52. The Input Stack on Linux: An End-to-End Architecture Overview
Let's explore and deobfuscate the input stack on Linux. Our aim is to understand its components and what each does. Input handling can be divided into two parts, separated by a common layer. We’ll try to make sense of all this, one thing at a time, with a logical and coherent approach.
53. Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being 'AI free'
As big publishers suggest generative AI is the future of game development, indie devs are using anti-gen-AI statements to stand out.
54. DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
An 8-bay DIY NAS with 10GbE networking, TrueNAS 25.10.0.1, an Intel N355 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a smallish form factor that occupies less than 20 liters of your office space.
55. 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
56. Migrating the Main Zig Repository from GitHub to Codeberg
57. Dare (Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe)
A new era for supercomputing in Europe The DARE project aims to boost European digital transformation by developing novel computing and AI technologies Latest updates from DARE Nothing Found Nothing Found Creating the next generation of processors Based on open source and highly adaptable tools
58. Around 500M PCs are holding off upgrading to Windows 11, says Dell
The Windows 11 transition is a lot slower than the upgrade to Windows 10.
59. Last Issue of "ECMAScript News"
60. Internet Handle