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121. Mind-altering 'brain weapons' no longer only science fiction, say researchers
UK academics say latest chemicals are ‘wake-up call’ and urge global action to stop weaponisation of neuroscience
122. Where is my von Braun Wheel?
If we ever want to live in space, we need to work out a way of creating artificial gravity.
123. A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice
124. Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud investigation
Brazil’s Federal Police have indicted 31 suspects for fraud and land-grabbing in a massive criminal carbon credit scheme in the Brazilian Amazon, according to Brazilian national media outlet Folha de S.Paulo. It is the largest known criminal operation involving carbon credit fraud to date in the nation. The police probe, called Operation Greenwashing, was launched […]
125. Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons
The maker community worried Qualcomm would kill the Arduino ethos. New T&Cs confirm the community's worst fears. Here's what's at stake, what Qualcomm got wrong, and what might still be salvaged.
126. Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal
The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal
127. Google begins showing ads in AI Mode (AI answers)
Google has started rolling out ads in AI mode, which is the company's
128. I turned my PC into a Linux gaming console
When Valve announced the new Steam Machine, I was genuinely excited. I’m not an avid gamer myself. I built a solid PC thinking I would get back into gaming, ...
129. Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB
DuckDB v1.4 ships database encryption capabilities. In this blog post, we dive into the implementation details of the encryption, show how to use it and demonstrate its performance implications.
130. What Killed Perl?
131. Breakthrough in Antimatter Production
132. Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain.
133. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key
Voting system required three keys. One of them has been “irretrievably lost.”…
134. Theft of the Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria
135. Vortex: An extensible, state of the art columnar file format
An extensible, state of the art columnar file format. Formerly at @spiraldb, now an Incubation Stage project at LFAI&Data, part of the Linux Foundation. - vortex-data/vortex
136. What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? (2013)
Edward Hasbrouck, The Practical Nomad
137. Apple's Problem with Bodies
I tried to ship a wellbeing journal and discovered the App Store still isn’t sure whether the human body is health, lifestyle, or sin.
138. Android/Linux Dual Boot
139. Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification
A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox
140. What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?
November 11, 2025 – “In a funny way, it was really the fact that writing is far too solitudinous an activity that gave us The Paris Review. Along with the CIA, of course.”
141. How to Identify a Prime Number Without a Computer
For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years later
142. Loose Wire Leads to Blackout, Contact with Francis Scott Key Bridge
143. 40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page
144. Measuring Political Bias in Claude
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
145. Bret Victor the Future of Programming (2013) [video]
"The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing."Presented at Dropbox's DBX conference on July 9, 2013.A...
146. The Next Opioid Crisis
147. What AI Is Really For
After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the
148. Apple shows how much faster the M5 runs local LLMs compared to the M4
A new post on Apple’s Machine Learning Research blog shows how much the M5 improved over the M4 when it comes to running a local LLM.
149. #!magic, details about the shebang/hash-bang mechanism on various Unix flavours
150. Hyundai wants its EVs to charge as fast as petrol cars refuel
Charging still needs to be supercharged, says Hyundai's tech boss