‘A completely new person’: can surgery help Alzheimer’s patients regain basic skills?
Researchers conducting clinical trial for operation that drains abnormal build-up of two protein types in brain.
Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town | Defector
Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two decades. The resulting stench might haunt an entire community, as it has the…
Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick.
The discovery that chronic inflammation is a cause of myriad illnesses could be this century's biggest medical breakthrough.
The Grate Cheese Robbery - Longreads
How organized crimes fell in love with cheese.
RSS: Read The Internet Without It Reading You
Sometimes, the old ways are better...
The Nasty Slime That Scientists Can't Stop Studying
The slime inside okra is one of the most useful substances researchers have found in any plant on Earth.
Arm’s Cortex A55
Arm’s 5-series cores are meant for tasks where performance barely matters, but power and area efficiency are top priorities.
How a notebook at the bar solved the loneliness crisis
and changed me for the better! probably not physically
git worktree: Work on Multiple Branches at Once
Use git worktree to check out multiple branches in separate directories, handle urgent fixes without stashing, and clean up linked worktrees safely.
China built one eVTOL that transforms into an air-taxi, a firefighter, and a 5-ton hauler - Yanko Design
Car companies figured this out decades ago. You build one solid platform, then you stretch it, armor it, or strip it down depending on who is buying. A pickup and an SUV can share more bones than you would think. AutoFlight just applied the same logic to flying machines, and…
Create a ChatGPT for Your Personal Documents | Aman Kharwal
Learn how to create a ChatGPT for your personal documents using local RAG, Ollama, Chroma, and Hugging Face with this step-by-step tutorial.
What makes good magnet programs attractive?
Gather advanced students, then teach them where they're at
Concrete Is Damaging the Planet, While Defending It From Climate Change
Concrete makes up half of all human-made stuff on our planet. And its use will double, in part to battle climate threats created by the production of concrete itself. Industry can deliver cleaner versions, but how soon? The answer might lie with four Indonesians from a tiny…
What Would It Mean to See a New Color?
Olo can be described as the “greenest green,” though it can never be captured by a camera, Rivka Galchen writes. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision.
How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source - Ars Technica
Tracking smells in turbulent air takes a keen sense of direction and sharp memory.
how to enter side doors
a field guide to jobs, cold emails, and making yourself legible to the right people
Gen Z Is Buying Old iPods to Quit Spotify. Fiio’s $50 Hi-Fi MP3 Player Does It Better. - Yanko Design
I tried to listen to an album last week. The whole thing, start to finish, like a functioning adult in the 90s. I made it four tracks before a Slack ping, a WhatsApp text, and a push notification from Hinge. By track six I was scrolling through IG. I started with conscientiously…
Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: Bridging the Gap Between...
DRAM read disturbance, like RowHammer and RowPress, is a critical robustness issue where accessing DRAM can cause unintended bitflips in other unaccessed DRAM locations. DRAM read disturbance bitflips significantly impact the safe, secure, and reliable operation of DRAM-based…
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How ugliness helps NIMBYs
And how beauty could help get more homes built
NASA Just Spotted a Wandering Black Hole Devouring a Star
NASA Just Spotted a Wandering Black Hole Devouring a Star: Black holes sometimes make a break for it
I Flew in the Douglas DC-3, a WWII Workhorse of Aviation, Over the Amazon
The Douglas DC-3 was mass-produced during World War II. Today, one of the few still remaining transports passengers in Colombia’s jungle.
How We Got to Now PDF Summary - Steven Johnson | 12min Blog
Do you want to learn how Chinese women abort their baby girls today because the Titanic sank in 1912? Or how the bikini trend owes its existence to the Chicago sewer system of the 1860s? Or, say, how mirrors started the Renaissance? Then you will enjoy Steven Johnson’s How We…
The Humble Amoeba Is Smarter Than You Think
The Humble Amoeba Is Smarter Than You Think: A conversation with Nicholas Money, mycologist and author of A is for Amoeba
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Tailscale in the Hugging Face intrusion: The good news and the bad news
An AI agent escaped its sandbox, entered Hugging Face’s infrastructure, and used a stolen Tailscale credential to enroll 181 nodes onto their tailnet. No Tailscale vulnerability was found or exploited—we should have been able to prevent it anyway.
A workout with Notre Dame’s strength coach left me with these 3 lessons (and soreness)
A firsthand look at how the Irish train to endure a 16-game season revealed that there’s more to strength building than the weight on a bar.
How to Install and Configure the AWS CLI on Linux
Install AWS CLI version 2 on Linux, authenticate with aws login or IAM Identity Center, manage profiles, and verify access to your AWS account.
The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores
Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.
Hello, CUDA! Full tutorial on getting started from scratch, with profiling!
Profiling 7 Implementations: Why bad CUDA code makes GPUs slower than CPUs
You and Me and QVC - Longreads
How a home shopping channel became the soundtrack to a friendship.
QVC’s innovation, as well as its biggest challenge, was to make its advertisements seem less like corporate directives and more like recommendations from friends or peers.
Today’s Instagram influencers talk about how and when they use certain products in the same relatable way
The NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony on life after basketball | Psyche Portraits
For 19 years, the NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony mastered the version of himself the world demanded. Retired from basketball, he confronts a harder question: who is he now?
Spinning the 78's | Arctic Outpost Radio AM1270
We are spinning the 78's from the top of the world. Arctic Outpost Radio AM1270
Summer Sounds—Being & Staying Cool — AMERICAN ROUTES
kimi-k3
Kimi K3 is an open-weight, native multimodal agentic model and our most capable model to date.
Inside the First U.S. Aluminum Smelter in 46 Years
The first new U.S. primary smelter since 1980. What it is, how it works, and where its inputs come from.
The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.
In the Age of AI, the Analog Restaurant Feels Radical
As backlash grows to AI-generated food photos and flyers, some restaurants are leaning into a distinctly handmade approach
To me, a restaurant that employs AI art is capitulating to the culture of slop, akin to reheating premade food from Sysco. It’s impossible to square with a value system that cares about craft and integrity.
Signature Profile - Chef Knife (K-tip)
Each knife is made to order and ships in approximately 1-2 weeks. When Geoff started designing knives, he wanted something classic. The k-tip has a straight spine, and the last 2” from the tip breaks down to the end. Exactitude and finesse come together in the K-Tip blade, ideal…
Forgotten Atlas - Heat exchangers
Heat Exchangers: Designing the titans that hold up our world.
Despite recent successes, rapid reuse of Starship remains a tough nut to crack - Ars Technica
NASA has not made substantial investments in thermal protection research for decades.
Red Rocks: Our destiny and China
Seventeen Chinese elements control the world.
The Great Chinese Oil Mystery
America’s greatest rival is single-handedly averting a global energy crisis. No one knows how the country is doing it—or why.
Zillow just revised its home price forecast for over 400 housing markets—see the map - Fast Company
Zillow slightly upgrades its national home price outlook—predicting that over the next 12 months, U.S. home prices are likely to shift +0.0%.
Why America’s Rarest Coin Can Never Be Bought | TheCollector
The “ruby slippers” of coins, the 1849 Liberty Head Double Eagle, is so rare that it is essentially priceless.
Flat Enough? Warpage Management Gets Harder In Advanced Packaging
As packages get larger and thinner, warpage is becoming a process-control problem rather than a simple flatness spec.
RisingEdge.pro | Learn Hardware Design Interactively
Learn digital hardware design in the browser: write VHDL, Verilog and SystemVerilog, run real simulations, read waveforms, and see your RTL synthesized to a netlist. The skills behind FPGA and ASIC design, no installation required.
Visa used Mythos to hunt for bugs in its own payment network, then open-sourced the harness that made it possible
Rajat Taneja explains why Visa open-sourced the AI harness that found critical bugs in its payment network, and the new metric it built to verify fixes work.
High Bandwidth Flash: The Full Report
Why HBF for inference decode fits, what it does to the DRAM and NAND markets, a worked cost model, who moves first, and risks
Beth Mathews Design — Parts List Draft Paper Font Bundle
Parts List Draft Paper Font Bundle