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+ Arc Technica Science: Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species—The massive Toba eruption seems to have had little climate impact. [Category: Science, climate change, eruption, geology, Mount Toba]
+ Arc Technica Science: DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists—Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data. [Category: AI, Science, atlantic hurricane season, dee...
+ Arc Technica Science: The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow—Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun's corona. [Category: Science, astronomy, concorde, Eclipse]
+ Arc Technica Science: How snails engineer their slime—Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus. [Category: Science, Biology, colloids, mater...
+ Arc Technica Science: The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface—We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see. [Category: Science, astronomy, astrophysics, solar telescope, Sun, vortex...
+ Arc Technica Science: Trump is losing his war on wind power—A court rules that a hold on all wind projects clearly violates the law. [Category: Policy, Science, Department of Defense, Energy, law, lawsuit, rene...
+ Arc Technica Science: Large genome models used to design new viruses—The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus. [Category: AI, Science, bacteriophage, Genome, Genomics, large genome mo...
+ Arc Technica Science: Parasitic zombie-ant fungus thrives in mosses, too—This may help fungi survive host scarcity and explains why infected hosts prefer the mosses as death sites. [Category: Science, Biology, botany, Cordy...
+ Arc Technica Science: This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay—"The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed." [Category: Science, El Niño, hurricane season, science,...
+ Arc Technica Science: D-Wave shows off its new entry in quantum computing race—Company noted for building quantum annealers now also making gate-based hardware. [Category: Science, Computer science, D-Wave, dual-rail qubits, Phys...
+ Arc Technica Science: Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed—Also: Cyborg diving suits for cockroaches, why sleepy sperm whales blow bubbles, Betelgeuse's companion star. [Category: Science, ancient DCA, animal ...
+ Hack a Day: Transmitting Analog Video Via Frikkin’ Laser Beams—Transmitting analog video via photons is old hat: thats how everything started, after all, back in the day with over-the-air TV. Up the frequency of t...
+ Hack a Day: Continously Extruding 3D Printed Tubes with Compressed Air—[Jan] of [Roetz 4.0] has a unique approach to multi-material 3D printing: he’s designed an extruder which takes two different materials and extrudes o...
+ Hack a Day: Whatever Happened to the Computer of Tomorrow, Anyway? The Xerox Alto Story—Youve almost certainly heard of the Xerox Alto, the machine that pioneered the desktop-mouse-keyboard interface and inspired Steve Jobs to produce the...
+ Hack a Day: Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera—For whatever reason, [Jeremy] wants to photograph bees in flight. This is one of those things that doesnt seem that hard until you try to do it. Hes g...
+ Hack a Day: High-Density Parchment Paper Papertronics with Laser-Carved Hydrophilic Channels—Paper as a substrate for electronic circuits is not very common, but promising for flexible circuits with low cost and easy recyclability. That said, ...
+ Hack a Day: Track Bird Visitors With a Raspberry Pi and a USB Mic—Avian Visitors is a lovely project by [Teddy Warner] that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds have been visiting your home...
+ Hack a Day: Grading Tomatoes with an ESP32 and ML—If youve ever worked with produce, you might know about grading. In addition to deciding if, say, a strawberry is good or not, they also have to sort ...
+ Hack a Day: Robotic Screw and Bolt Sorter Seeks a New Challenge—As someone who disassembles and repairs hardware, [Aad] eventually ended up with a huge collection of mixed bolts and screws. This led to creating the...
+ Hack a Day: Junkbin, a Way to Efficiently Reuse Your Old Electronics—We all have that bin in the corner of our shops the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we are totally gonna do something with...
+ Hack a Day: Tim Hunkin’s History Of Arcade Machines—There was a particular treat at the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, as [Tim Hunkin] delivered a talk on the history of arcade machines. ...
+ Hack a Day: Want Energy Efficiency? Dude, You’re Getting a Dell!—With a title like Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously., the latest video from [Jeff Geerling] makes some pretty bold claims. But as wed expect...
+ Hack a Day: The BBC Tetris Companion—[Leaded Solder] took on an interesting challenge. The BBC, apparently, produced a game console known as the BBC Bridge Companion that connected to you...
+ Hack a Day: Block, shmock — Just Pump Water Over The Chip—If youre water cooling a PC, its generally accepted that you need some interface between the coolant and the chips a water block of copper or aluminu...
+ Hack a Day: This Filesystem is Born to Fail—Sandboxing a Linux process usually means spending a lot of effort deciding what it isnt allowed to see. You might put it in a mount namespace, bind-mo...
+ Hack a Day: Hacking a $6000 Cotton Candy Machine to Fully Control It—Having a fully automated cotton candy vending machine in your possession is a great thing, but not if you do not have full access to its software. Wit...
+ Hack a Day: Chernobyl’s Robots, or the Hackathon From Hell—When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plants #4 reactor experienced an extreme criticality event on that infamous day in 1986, the resulting steam explosio...
+ Hack a Day: Hackaday Podcast Episode 381: Airless Tires, Full-color Prints, and 28 MW of LEDs—This weeks Hackaday podcast is a European affair again, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List on a summer evening to review the week. And we have...
+ Hack a Day: Music is Back on Optical Disk in This Plex Server—Given that the no doubt totally sustainable build-out of data centers has sent both solid state and magnetic hard drive prices soaring, though, [WNY O...
+ Hack a Day: This Week in Security: Claude Gets Hacking, Hotel WiFi, and NPM Compromised Again—kMaybe feeling left out from the questionable hype train of Our AI models cant be trusted, Anthropic has released reports that their Claude model has ...
+ Hack a Day: FlipBuddy is Borg, You Will Be Assimilated—When you think about it, time is all weve really got. Where to go from there is ultimately up to you. Maybe you use an app to track every task, read m...
+ UPI Science: Houthis attack Saudi refinery, Yemeni Red Sea port at Mokha—Firefighters in Saudi Arabia extinguished a fire at the state-owned oil company Aramco early Sunday, after Houthis claimed the attack.
+ UPI Science: Israel rejects 15-point plan to disarm Hamas, withdraw Israeli troops—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel rejects a U.S.-backed 15-point plan to disarm Gaza and withdraw Israeli troops from the enclave.
+ Wired: The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate—There’s no perfect way to transfer possession of your digital assets to your loved ones after you’re gone. But there are things you can do now to make...
+ Wired: 4 Best Compression Boots: Therabody, Hyperice, and More (2026)—Whether you’re training hard, traveling often, or dealing with poor circulation, these are the best compression boots for anyone looking for better mu...
+ Wired: Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How—There are endless ways to record and transcribe your virtual meetings with AI. Here’s an option that’s free and open source. [Category: Gear, Gear / H...
+ Wired: TCL Note A1 Nxtpaper Review (2026): A Hybrid Tablet for Taking Notes and Watching Video—TCL’s hybrid tablet-digital notebook tries to be the best of both worlds, and it mostly succeeds. [Category: Gear, Gear / Reviews, Gear / Products / T...
+ Wired: The 12 Best Anime to Watch if You Think You Hate Anime—Japan’s strongest media export makes a solid case for your attention span. Here’s what to watch. [Category: Culture, Culture / Movies, Culture / TV]
+ Wired: 8 Best Workout Headphones & Earbuds: Beats, Bose, Apple (2026)—Not every great pair of headphones belongs in the gym. These do, thanks to their secure fit, durable design, and impeccable sound. [Category: Gear, Ge...
+ Wired: These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes—A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth. What should we make of a multi-...
+ Wired: The Sharpest Image Ever Taken of the Sun Reveals a Hidden Phenomenon—The photograph, taken in visible light, made it possible to observe for the first time the tiny plasma vortices that had been predicted for more than ...
+ Wired: Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation—A draft rule reviewed by WIRED would prevent the census from counting undocumented immigrants. To protect against “distortions,” it would also bar que...
+ Wired: Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket—The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared images that show the gash on the surface. It’s pretty small. [Category: Science, Science / Space]
+ Wired: The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is $550 Off Its Retail Price Today—My favorite budget laptop, the HP OmniBook 5, has an OLED screen and gets great battery life, despite being just $750 right now. [Category: Gear, Gear...
+ Wired: Best Gaming Laptops (2026): Razer, Asus, Dell, and More—You don’t want any old gaming laptop. Here’s my take on which to get, based on hundreds of hours of testing. [Category: Gear, Gear / Products, Gear / ...
+ Wired: Xteink X4 Pro Pocket E-Reader Review (2026): Fun but Limited—Xteink’s new X4 Pro e-reader is its best yet, but the lack of an ebook store can be limiting. [Category: Gear, Gear / Reviews, Gear / Products / Home ...
+ Wired: Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed—Plus: A judge rules cell tower dumps unconstitutional, water utility hacks spread to a dozen states, a phishing email opens a missile-parts supplier’s...
+ Wired: How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs—New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to tu...