Sena Kizildemir Simulates Disasters to Prevent Building Collapses
When two airplanes hit the World Trade Center in New York City on 11 September 2001, no one could predict how the Twin Towers would react...
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US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers
Collecting fallen (or “shed”) elk antlers is a popular pastime in elk-heavy places like Montana, but it’s usually a pretty low-tech, on-the-ground affair. That’s why last...
Read moreKubernetes v1.35: Restricting executables invoked by kubeconfigs via exec plugin allowList added to kuberc
Did you know that kubectl can run arbitrary executables, including shell scripts, with the full privileges of the invoking user, and without your knowledge? Whenever you...
Read moreFighting Food Poisoning With A Patch
Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough to spit it out. Other times,...
Read moreOpen Source Retrieval Infrastructure Can Fix AI’s Production Gap
While big models captured all the early glory with their larger context windows, greater parameters and more power, the reality on the ground for many enterprise...
Read moreVideo Friday: Robots Are Everywhere at CES 2026
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming...
Read more2026.02: AI Power, Now and In 100 Years
(@bscholl) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle;...
Read moreBig GPU & Kernel Update Headed to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
A new hardware enablement (HWE) will roll out to users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS this month, ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS point release due on...
Read moreIs Orion’s heat shield really safe? New NASA chief conducts final review on eve of flight.
WASHINGTON, DC—This week, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said he has “full confidence” in the space agency’s plans to use the existing heat shield to protect...
Read moreTailwind Creator Says AI Played a Role in Downsizing
Tailwind CSS, the popular CSS framework, laid off three engineers — 75% of its engineering team — on Monday. In a personal podcast posted to the...
Read moreHackaday Podcast Episode 352: Visualizing Sound, and Windows 11 Is a Dog
This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a...
Read moreThese 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found
Poisoned arrows or darts have long been used by cultures all over the world for hunting or warfare. For example, there are recipes for poisoning projective...
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