Tabloid reports linking 10 missing and dead scientists spur FBI probe
The US is investigating a possible conspiracy after at least 10 scientists connected to US nuclear secrets and rocket technology went missing or died under shadowy...
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Fallout: New Vegas dev says it could’ve been set in New Orleans because ‘the vibe was so cool, the flavor was cool, [it would’ve been] so sweet’
Get Obsidian on that New Orleans idea stat.
Read moreHow to Merge PDF Files in the Browser Using JavaScript (Step-by-Step)
Working with PDFs is something almost every developer needs to know how to do. Sometimes you need to combine reports or invoices, or simply merge multiple...
Read moreStop Begging Big Tech To Fix Your Social Media Experience. You Can Do It Yourself.
Disclaimer: This post talks about Bluesky and an offering from Bluesky and I am on the Bluesky board. Take everything I say with whatever size grains...
Read moreNASA Astronaut Anil Menon to Discuss Upcoming Launch, Mission
NASA astronaut Anil Menon participates in a spacewalk training session at NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, Texas, ahead of his upcoming mission...
Read moreThere’s no memory crisis in space, as astronauts on the ISS are getting new laptops with 128 GB of RAM and a seriously beefy specs sheet
Everyone loves upgrade day, don’t they?
Read moreSomeone has apparently snaffled up 31 WordPress plugins and wedged a backdoor in each one
Don’t blog without the proper protections in place, folks.
Read moreAutoAdapt: Automated domain adaptation for large language models
At a glance Problem: Adapting large language models to specialized, high-stakes domains is slow, expensive, and hard to reproduce. What we built: AutoAdapt automates planning, strategy selection (e.g., RAG vs. fine-tuning),...
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Ubuntu Rust Coreutils Audit Revealed 113 Issues, Ubuntu 26.10 Aims For “100% Rust Coreutils”
Ahead of tomorrow’s Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, Canonical published a blog post today outlining the state of Rust Coreutils for its premiere in this long-term support...
Read moreDesigning Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann
Stream the latest episode Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for...
Read moreGoogle Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000+ bill despite $7 budget, thanks to forgotten API key in published project — attacker put in 60,000+ requests and blasted through $1,400 spending cap
Jesse Davies, an Australian AI consultant and founder of Agentic Labs, was caught unawares when their Google Cloud bill ballooned to more than 2,500 times their...
Read moreReviving Teletext for Ham Radio
Once upon a time in Europe, television remote controls had a magic teletext button. Years before the internet stole into homes, pressing that button brought up...
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