2026-10-02
Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden...
Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden workshop in Paris’s Panthéon and snuck into the building for a whole year to repair an antique clock. “The group...
Petrov Day in Cusco, with a candle
On September 26, I celebrated Petrov Day in Cusco, Peru. Our book club, De Profundis, turned one that night, and I asked for five minutes to speak. Most people in...
The Common Language of Science: Einstein’s Clarion Call to Divided Humanity in a Rare 1941 Recording
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.”
10 New Movies to Watch this Weekend on Prime Video, HBO Max, and Hulu (October 2-4)
This week's movie column has several exciting movies, including an indie art-horror, a Warner Bros. movie that was infamously shelved, and more.
New Fast and Furious Release Now Streaming on Peacock
Fast & Furious gets its strangest crossover yet as LEGO DREAMZzz and How to Train Your Dragon collide in a new Peacock animated special.
How to Get Pokémon's Special Mewtwo 30th Anniversary Card
The Mewtwo promo card drops later this year at select retailers like Best Buy and GameStop
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
★ Apple Is Going to Further Tighten the Screws on Full Disk Access on MacOS, in Response to Agentic AI Apps Running Amok
Hopefully Apple has in mind a solution to this situation that will still enable knowledgeable power users to confirm agreement to a sufficiently scary warning and put their Macs in...
Dialogue with Eliezer Yudkowsky on Neural Networks
On “reversed stupidity”, the success of deep learning, and what a mistaken forecast should change about a model of intelligenceThis began as a Twitter/X thread after I posted a 2007...
Humans are not aligned either
Epistemic status: I don't know much about AI alignment. This is just me thinking out loud.AI use: grammar and minor fixes.Reading about Inkhaven inspired me to try writing something to...
OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small...
OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small robot servers in this Japanese bar are controlled by people who can only work from home because of disability or illness.
58,000-Ton US Navy Iowa-Class Battleship USS Kentucky: $55 Million Spent, She Was 72 Percent Complete and Used for ‘Parts’
Floated out unfinished in 1950 so USS Missouri could be repaired, torn loose by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 and studied as a $178 million Polaris battleship, USS Kentucky never sailed....
5 TMNT Episodes That Prove the Original Was Better Than 'X-Men: The Animated Series'
X-Men '97 puts renewed emphasis on X-Men: The Animated Series, the other mutant-based cartoon from the '90s deserves some more recognition.
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: A Homebrew Computer In Only Three ICs
Homebrew computers don’t have to be retrocomputers, but [Just4Fun]’s all-through-hole, 68008-based “68k-MBC” certainly qualifies, so it is a worthy entry in our ongoing contest. While there are both “full” and...
30 Years Later, Nintendo's Forgotten N64 Racing Game Deserves a Switch 2 Rebirth
Released not long after the Nintendo 64 launched, one great racing game showed what the hardware could do.
8 New TV Shows To Watch This Weekend on Netflix, HBO, and Disney (October 2-4)
This weekend's TV column has some exciting releases, from Netflix's awaited American epic to HBO's new British legal drama.
5 Startup Rules We Broke on the Way to Building a Successful Company
Founders hear plenty of rules about markets, fundraising and growth. Here are five we chose not to follow.
US Navy 45,000-Ton Iowa-Class: Four Battleships, 36 Sixteen-Inch Guns, and Not One Round Ever Fired at an Enemy Battleship.
Their biggest surface fight was a light cruiser and a destroyer at Truk in February 1944. At Leyte Gulf, Third Fleet took Iowa and New Jersey north after decoy carriers...
Google hearts Apple's Swift so much it's pumping out server-side support
After a decade of false starts, Swift is showing backend appeal
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