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+ Arc Technica Science: 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. [Category: Science, Biology, brain development, cell fates, develo...
+ Arc Technica Science: Small undersea volcanoes may unleash outsized tsunamis—Post-eruption imaging of the Hunga caldera gives new details of its collapse. [Category: Science, Earth science, eruptions, geology, Hunga, Hunga Tong...
+ Arc Technica Science: Effort begins to fill the void left by terminated US climate report—First paper added to community collection is a roadmap for research. [Category: Science, national climate assessment]
+ Arc Technica Science: Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants—Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director. [Category: Policy, Science, Bhattacharya, grants, NIH, OMB, science funding, Trump, Vought...
+ Arc Technica Science: T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant—Isotope ratios provide a hint that the giants were actively managing temperatures. [Category: Science, Biology, dinosaurs, paleontology, phsiology, wa...
+ Hack a Day: 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 Hackaday expe...
+ Hack a Day: 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 a r...
+ Hack a Day: Forget Trees, add Fins to your 3D Prints Instead—Perhaps one of the most contentious issues in 3D printing is that of supports, both because theyre an uncomfortable reminder of how gravity affects ou...
+ Hack a Day: 2026 Hackaday Supercon: Announcing our First Round of Speakers—Supercon is the Ultimate Hardware Conference™ and you need to be there November 6-8 in Pasadena, California! Below is just the tip of the speakers ice...
+ Hack a Day: How Pixar Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Linux—If you werent already aware, it will probably come as no surprise to hear that the pioneering computer-animation studio Pixar built its early workflow...
+ Hack a Day: A JavaScript OS for the ESP32—Given the incredible power of modern microcontrollers, weve seen quite a few attempts to turn them into more general purpose computers over the years....
+ Hack a Day: Myst on the Atari 2600—Although the Atari 2600 was a hugely popular game console in the late 70s, its hardware specs were limited, to say the least. For a dedicated game con...
+ Hack a Day: Why Raindrops Make for Pretty Good Antennae—A good rule of thumb is that everything that can interact with electromagnetic (EM) radiation is an antenna, which includes our mostly-salty-water-con...
+ Hack a Day: ESP32 Replacement for Lighting Display Controller—As a company, NanoLeaf has been producing modular lights that can be easily snapped together into various geometric shapes for around a decade. Simila...
+ Hack a Day: Dumpster-dived Window A/C becomes Ground-Source Heat Pump—Heat pumps are great, because they pump heat around, and we often dont want heat where it is. Need it somewhere else? Pump it! Its great. Its also a b...
+ Hack a Day: Determining the Body Temperature of Tyrannosaurus rex—One of the most fun challenges in paleontology is determining characteristics of long-dead species like their behavior and body temperature based on n...
+ Hack a Day: Raspberry Pi RAM Restrictions No Big Deal, Frankly—Hacking on Raspberry Pi board internals is one of my favourite topics. I know a bunch of obscure things about these cute little boards. Three years ag...
+ Hack a Day: Digital Upgrade Brings Medium Format Camera Into the 21st Century—Large format cameras can produce amazing shots, but are a bit too bulky to be practical. Medium format is a different story, as [Wenting] demonstrates...
+ Tech Dirt: Copyright Infringement Still Isn’t Theft, Even When A Microsoft Employee Says It Is—You may have seen the headlines about a Microsoft employee calling AI scraping the largest theft of labor in human history. It made the rounds on soci...
+ Tech Dirt: The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got In The Way—This story was originally published by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In the final weeks of 2019, a...
+ Tech Dirt: Daily Deal: The 2026 Complete Firewall Admin Bundle—Transform your future in cybersecurity with 7 courses on next‑level packet control, secure architecture, and cloud‑ready defenses inside the 2026 Comp...
+ Tech Dirt: Inspector General Report: ‘Alligator Alcatraz” Was Nothing More Than An ICE Concentration Camp—The true nature of hastily erected ICE detention facilities especially the so-called Alligator Alcatraz erected in Trump buddy Ron DeSantiss home sta...
+ Tech Dirt: ‘Independent CNN Oversight Board’ To Be Hand Picked By Paramount—Earlier this week we noted how California Democrats fecklessly folded to Paramounts demands and settled the 12-state antitrust lawsuit against Paramou...
+ Tech Dirt: Advertising Is Content: An Absurd Ikea Mod For Skyrim—A theme going on many years here at Techdirt has been the idea that separating content and advertising, as was the traditional model, makes far less s...
+ Tech Dirt: How the Meta Settlement Silences Youth Activism—Since its integration into our digital world, social media has played a pivotal role in youth organizing and social mobilization.&...
+ Tech Dirt: Appeals Court Rejects ICE Detention Policy, Comparing It To WWII Japanese Internment—Ever since Trumps return to office, almost every federal law enforcement agency has been ordered to treat illegal immigration as their first priority....
+ Tech Dirt: Elon Said Fighting CSAM Was “Priority #1.” A NY Times Reporter With A Script Found 75 Known Images.—When Elon first took over Twitter with grand plans to bring back free speech, I tried to help him run through the standard content moderation learning...
+ Tech Dirt: Daily Deal: Soundfreaq Sound Spot II Bluetooth Speaker—The Soundfreaq Sound Spot II combines wireless audio performance, ambient lighting, and relaxing sound features in a compact design built for modern l...
+ UPI Science: Judge blocks deportation of Venezuelan man shot by ICE—A federal judge has ordered that the Venezuelan man who was shot Sunday by an ICE agent in Austin, Texas, must appear at a court hearing Sept. 30.
+ UPI Science: USDA: Meat recalled for lack of inspection, false labels—A meat distributor in North Carolina recalled about 167,639 pounds of raw pork, beef and goat products that weren't inspected by the USDA.
+ UPI Science: Dominican Republic leader seeks more troops to combat gangs in Haiti—The president of the Dominican Republic urged the international community to strengthen the international force used to confront armed gangs in Haiti.
+ UPI Science: Hurricane Polo weakens to Category 4 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast—Hurricane Polo weakened slightly to a Category 4 storm Wednesday, but maintained its major hurricane status.
+ UPI Science: Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years for assault of production assistant—A Manhattan court sentenced disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein to 15 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting Miriam Haley.
+ UPI Science: María Corina Machado seeks return to Venezuela as Rodríguez meets Trump—Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been unable to return to Venezuela despite at least three tries this week and seven in all.
+ UPI Science: U.N. General Assembly: Iranian president accuses U.S. of terrorism, illegal attacks—Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States and Israel for causing global instability in an address to the U.N. General Assembly.
+ UPI Science: Argentina, U.S. agree to boost energy, mineral investments—Argentina and the U.S. will agree to finance projects aimed at boosting Argentine exports of natural gas, critical minerals and other commodities.
+ UPI Science: Argentina takes Falklands claim to U.N., questions inaction—Argentine President Javier Milei reaffirmed Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands before the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.
+ UPI Science: U.S. embassy calls Australia's proposed social media law censorship—The United States criticized a newly proposed law in Australia that would give users the ability to opt out of social media algorithms.
+ UPI Science: Supreme Court rejects request to weigh in on California surrogate case—The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request to take up a case over a custody battle out of California between a couple and their surrogate.
+ UPI Science: Supreme Court to take third look at Missouri redistricted map—The Supreme Court is taking up the legal battle over Missouri's redistricted congressional map after a lower court ruling sided with the new map.
+ UPI Science: Trump administration argues media ban is for national security—The Trump administration responded to a lawsuit by CNN, MS NOW and Politico by arguing that their reporting threatened national security.
+ UPI Science: South Korea's Lee presses for U.S.-North Korea talks at U.N.—South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called Tuesday for a swift resumption of U.S.-North Korea talks, saying the dialogue would help establish lasting...
+ UPI Science: Police: Terror plot targeting Manchester's Jewish community foiled—British police arrested two men, foiling what authorities believe was a terrorism plot targeting Manchester's Jewish community.
+ UPI Science: On This Day, Sept. 23: Congress passes law requiring registration of communists—On Sept. 23, 1950, the U.S. Congress adopted the Internal Security Act, which provided for the registration of communists.
+ UPI Science: Search underway for two 'escaped' New Hampshire inmates—Authorities in New Hampshire are searching for two minimum-security inmates alleged to have escaped from their transitional housing unit this week.
+ UPI Science: DOJ: UCSF Medical School discriminates against White, Asian applicants—The UC San Francisco School of Medicine discriminates against White and Asian applicants in favor of their Black and Hispanic counterparts.
+ UPI Science: Canada pledges $71.4M in assistance for Palestine—Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged $71.4 million in assistance for Palestin, as he seeks to preserve the possibility of a two-state solution.
+ UPI Science: SIU: Suspected gunman in Ontario synagogue shooting dies—The suspected gunman who was shot Sunday in a firefight with police near a southern Ontario synagogue died overnight at the hospital.
+ Wired: 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. [Category: Business, Business / Artificial Intel...
+ Wired: Bentley Wants Its Torcal SUV to Break the Curse of the Luxury EV—The British high-end auto company reveals its first-ever full EV: 330 miles of range, 0 to 60 mph in under 3 seconds, and an orchestra under the hood....
+ Wired: The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs—Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to gov...
+ Wired: YouTube’s Custom Feeds Give You More Control Over the Algorithm—In YouTube’s latest update, viewers can tweak what the algorithm shows on their front page and curate it to a specific vibe. [Category: Gear, Gear / G...
+ Wired: Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw—Meta says it issued a fix for the Muse zero-day vulnerability that would have let attackers do “whatever” they wanted on a victim’s Mac, highlighting ...
+ Wired: The Best Samsung Phones of 2026: Ultra, Fold, Budget—From flagship and budget to flipping and folding, Samsung’s Galaxy range spans the breadth of the smartphone cosmos. WIRED’s here to help you make you...
+ Wired: A Startup Wants to Power Data Centers With ‘Supercritical’ Carbon Dioxide—The technology could strap onto existing gas turbines and make them more efficient—but it wouldn’t do away with their emissions entirely. [Category: S...
+ Wired: This App Makes Your Laptop Screen Look Like Paper—The app Paperman gives your screen some added texture in an effort to make it easier on your eyes. It works best for reading, writing, or otherwise wo...
+ Wired: SmartLabels QR Code Organizing System Review (2026): AI Made Sense of My Junk Drawer—SmartLabels can inventory everything in a photo, but I tested whether its AI could survive the chaos of my busy household. [Category: Gear, Gear / Rev...
+ Wired: Kate Tolo Says Her Quest to Be ‘the Female Bryan Johnson’ Is ‘for Women’—Like her biohacking boyfriend, Tolo is undergoing a grueling regimen of tests—from tracking nighttime erections to subjecting herself to extreme heat ...
+ Wired: AT&T Is Automating Away Jobs—and Its Old Telecom Empire—The telecom giant is eager to show Wall Street that it can do more with less. That means fewer employees, less electricity, and increased automation. ...
+ Wired: She’s 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can’t Have Kids—No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course....
+ Wired: The Organization Fighting Ebola Has Never Been More Worried—The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to be the largest ever. [Category: Science, Science / Health]
+ Wired: 8 Best Space Heaters (2026): Tested, Measured, and Mistreated—These portable heaters will heat a room quickly, quietly, and safely. [Category: Gear, Gear / Buying Guides, Gear / Products / Home]
+ Wired: Kiwibit Bird Feeder 2 Pro Review: Premium but Paywalled—The Kiwibit Feeder 2 Pro delivers action-camera-quality imagery, but too much of the experience is locked behind a subscription. [Category: Gear, Gear...
+ Wired: 30% Off Canon Promo Codes | September 2026—Save an extra 10% or 30% with Canon coupon codes, plus up to $1,600 on cameras, printers, and more this September 2026. [Category: Gear]