The 30,000-mile fish finger
There’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label...
The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon
I met with hackers who are building tools to fight the surveillance state.
I'm 19, and I've watched more than 200 brands quietly give up on influencers
UGC Roster founder Gabriele Muratori, 19, explains why the brands growing fastest on his 200+ brand marketplace are shifting from single influencer bets to high-volume, testable creator content fed into paid ads.
Curvature Beziers
Improving on a timeless recipe
Two Brothers Built a Cooler Nobody Asked For. It Became a $2 Billion Status Symbol.
Guy Raz Newsletter – August 27, 2026
Dual-band four-element MIMO antenna array for 5G millimeter-wave communication - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Dual-band four-element MIMO antenna array for 5G millimeter-wave communication
Africa's Wild Dogs Are the Most Hated Carnivores on the Continent. Here's Why Some Conservationists Are Saving Them Anyway
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Meet the team that closely monitors the playful canines, which need help to form diverse packs and stop their numbers from dwindling
How the brain learns to read is an evolutionary mystery—a new study offers clues
Reading hasn't been around for long, evolutionary speaking. Instead, the brain recruits systems evolved for other purposes
How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet.
NVIDIA Unveils NVHBM Memory To Turbocharge AI Chip Speeds By 30%
NVIDIA's NVHBM is a new memory technology that partners can license, offering improved efficiency and performance over standard HBM.
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First Benchmarks Revealed for OpenAI's Jalapeño AI Chip - EE Times
OpenAI revealed first benchmarks for its Jalapeño ASIC, showing up to 1.9× perf/W gains over existing hardware for LLM inference.
Ursula Andress on Nudity: The Story Behind the Bikini
Everyone remembers the white bikini. Here's the real story of how Ursula Andress felt about nudity, and the one thing about fame she couldn't shake.
animation-trigger | CSS-Tricks
The CSS animation-trigger property allows you to delay the start of a CSS animation until a specific trigger occurs.
The Egg That Cannot Be Priced
America's biggest egg company can't set the price of a single egg, which is the whole story, in both directions.
Eggs.org is the home of the Egg Clearinghouse,
It is a clearing mechanism for the slack in the system, and it is tiny.
Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, grep and ripgrep
Changing how eyeglass lenses are made
Eyeglass lenses have been cast, shipped, and ground the same way for decades. Azul 3D is betting that UV-curable photopolymers and 3D printing offer something better
Open Printer
Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade
Inside the Product Everyone Loves to Hate
There’s a single product category that is universally despised by nearly every technology-using human on Earth: the printer.
Air Canada Aeroplan Partner Airlines & Sweet Spots
Aeroplan transfers from all major bank programs. See all 50+ Air Canada partner airlines, award chart, and the best sweet spots to book with points.
How AI search has impacted the web traffic of over 50 advertisers
Data spanning one agency’s entire client roster shows the true impact of AI search on web traffic and conversions.
Tracking a Sanctioned Russian Vessel’s West African Odyssey - bellingcat
Cargo vessel reported to have transported weapons destined for Russian mercenaries has been shuttling between West African ports since March.
d-Matrix Claims 20x Bandwidth Density Over NVIDIA Rubin In New Chip
The company's ideas aren't novel, but it has solved long-standing challenges with 3D DRAM technology.
Why Is Moscow So Weird?
Why so far north? So cold? Why not on a big river or a coast? Why the biggest city in Europe? Why the capital of the biggest country on Earth?
This Billion-Dollar Texas Industry Is a Lot Cooler Than You Think
Ice is essential in so many ways. So why does thinking about it give some of us a case of brain freeze?
Small cells, big mess – why Musk's SpaceX telecom plan won't work
widely ridiculed
But it wouldn't be for your exclusive benefit, instead providing coverage for passersby on Starlink plans
How trust funds made the modern world
What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn? (For English Speakers) | TheCollector
Some languages are harder to learn than others. Difficulty often depends on your first language, so here are the hardest languages for English speakers.
Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling - Punya Mishra’s Web
Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat…
d-Matrix’s Raptor 3D DRAM Achieves SRAM-Class Bandwidth at 1/10th the HBM Power by Dropping PHY & Fusing DRAM Beneath the Compute
d-Matrix's Raptor 3D DRAM delivers 100 TB/s bandwidth at 0.37 pJ/bit, offering a high-efficiency alternative to SRAM and HBM for AI workloads
AI Chip Architectures
A look at AI Chip Architectures. NVIDIA, AMD, TPUs, Trainium, Groq, Cerebras.
wafer-ai/gpu-perf-engineering-resources: A curriculum for learning about gpu performance engineering, from scratch to what the frontier AI…
A curriculum for learning about gpu performance engineering, from scratch to what the frontier AI labs do - wafer-ai/gpu-perf-engineering-resources
The World's Greatest Machine, the Large Hadron Collider, Just Shut Down. Here's Why That's Good News
The Large Hadron Collider has stopped colliding. It will be four years before it starts again.
The Summer Everything Changed For Audrey Hepburn
In 1952, Audrey Hepburn arrived in Rome as a relative unknown to film 'Roman Holiday,' setting in motion a career that would make her an icon.
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung and HBM Base Die Opportunities
Machine learning applications demand ever more memory capacity and bandwidth. Samsung responded by fabricating their HBM base dies on a logic node, which opens up more opportunities
The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn
Our love for telling tales reveals the workings of the mind
Thinking in Python
#55: The New Mexico medevac crash is about more than GPS Jamming
Pilots do not get an asterisk saying "GPS only" on their instrument ratings.
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts - Ars Technica
“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”...
Are Open Models Catching Up?
Comparing open vs. closed models across the eras of frontier models
The brain doesn’t just experience reality. It edits it into a story
Neuroscience is revealing how our brains are wired for narrative
The primary glue for what remains is cause and effect
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Next generation AI attack vectors will be ideas, say Anthropic researchers
Computer scientists have bred self-propagating "mind viruses" that spread from one AI agent to the next through ordinary conversation — no hacking required
DNS Record Types Explained: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and More
DNS record types map domains to servers, route email, publish verification data, and control certificate issuance. See zone-file examples and dig queries.
DNS record cards linking a domain to IP addresses, mail servers, and security policies
MX records route email
What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x — CatalystNeuro
A given level of LLM intelligence costs about a thirtieth of what it did a year ago, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Using Artificial Analysis's measured cost per task, this post traces the falling price of each capability level, explains why cheaper intelligence leads…
A great deal of useful work does not require the smartest model available, but a model that is good enough, applied many thousands of times
At today’s prices a full pass over the corpus costs a little over a hundred dollars with a model whose capability was at the frontier in the spring. At the prices of this past March, the same pass with the same level of capability would have cost several thousand dollars, and a year ago that…
NPO State of the Union
When NPO? Who NPO? Where NPO? Why NPO? Winners, losers, and more.
Why Thailand was never colonized
Diplomacy, reform, and a convenient stone
Mongkut came across a remarkable object: a four-sided, black stone monolith, about a meter high and inscribed with an unusual script. The stone would become known as the Ramkhamhaeng Stele.
The discovery of the Stele was, as it turned out, serendipitous. Over five centuries, European powers colonized virtually every other territory on Earth
12 Best Free Platforms to Learn DevOps with Hands-On
Practice makes a devops perfect.
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Bari Weiss Blew Up 60 Minutes. Now She Has to Fix it.
Inside her battles with the staff and her attempts to overhaul the show.
Lead Belly: The Convicted Killer Who Changed American Music
Huddie Ledbetter served two prison terms for violent crimes and still became one of the most influential musicians America ever produced. The full story of Lead Belly.