Smelting Bog Ore As It Should Be Done
Sometimes along comes a hack with a personal angle, and in a video showing Irish bog ore smelting, we find an appropriate follow up to a...
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Lemonade Fixes AMD APU Model Streaming, Drops OpenMOSS ROCm As ~40x Slower Than Vulkan
The AMD-aligned Lemonade open-source project for serving as a local AI server released 2026.39.1 today as well as issuing a release candidate of 2026.40 as their...
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YouTube promises custom feeds and a lot more AI later this year
YouTube's next year could change the content you see with a big focus on AI and livestreams.
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A third option is emerging in the fight over AI and your data
Not your keys, not your coins. Not your model, not your data? Over the summer, the tech industry was consumed The post A third option is...
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NASA Aircraft to Make Low-Altitude Research Flights Over Colorado
Agricultural emissions represent an important and understudied part of Earth’s land and atmosphere systems. The FarmFlux mission will deploy more than a dozen sensors to measure ozone, methane, ammonia, particulates, and other pollutants...
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Sometimes it's fun to hit a scorpion with a club for 38 seconds
And we could all stand to remember that.
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Discord launches controversial age-verification system "using the most privacy-preserving approach we could build" months after first delay
Discord delayed the rollout of its controversial age verification system back in February after very loud backlash against the company's plans. Those age checks are now...
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Contrary to some reports, you don't have two brains
A bad press release makes a good excuse to look at how developmental biology works.
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NASA’s Hubble Telescope Reaches Milestone, Looks for Elusive Supernova
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0417 (left of center) on Sept. 19, 2026. This galaxy cluster acts as a...
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AI Agents Teamed Up to Cheat at Blackjack. Their Collusion Is Getting Harder to Spot
A clandestine card-counting operation suggests we may need new ways to spot agent-to-agent deception.
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A Mini’s Infotainment System and the Joys of Aftermarket Car Parts
Although [Arkandas] disclaims any interest in being a ‘car guy’, this is somewhat ironic in light of the sheer amount of modding he has performed on...
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Netflix releases trailer for Brad Bird's Ray Gunn
"It’s film noir and a hard-boiled detective story, but it’s got a lot more comedy and a lot more action."
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