2026-05-06
Visions in Glass
A struggling antique dealer discovers a strange crystal that reveals a living, detailed vision of an alien world—likely Mars. Obsessed, he secretly studies it with a scientist, uncovering evidence of...
There is no evidence you should reapply sunscreen every 2 hours.
It’s incredible how many consensus guidelines dissolve when you look closely at them. If you listen to any authority on the subject of sunscreen, you will hear it endlessly repeated...
Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors
MoD eyes Middle East exports after desert trials of Cambridge Aerospace system
Your work diary
Five short entries a day. It’s easy to imagine that if you do this 200 workdays in a row, your career will advance. And it makes it easier to prepare...
This Entrepreneur Just Built the Most Structurally Honest Review Platform in the World
Liners is a new software review platform built by Faturoti Kayode that removes human bias using nine AI agents to manage listings, rankings, and fraud detection. Unlike traditional platforms, it...
Texas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Pass Legislation That Could Have Protected Residents From Deadly Floods
The post Texas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Pass Legislation That Could Have Protected Residents From Deadly Floods appeared first on ProPublica.
How Latency, Drift, and Cost Quietly Undermine Data Pipelines
A pipeline can stay green while latency widens, data drift corrupts meaning, and cloud costs compound treat lag, freshness, schema stability, distribution checks, and bytes scanned as one causal chain,...
HiveMQ and TimescaleDB: It Just Works!
Using HiveMQ, an industrial plant streamed real-time SCADA data to external machine learning models to fix a failing dosing process. The flexible MQTT pipeline made it easy to add new...
Planning and land searches hit by IT problems in 3 councils following SaaS migration
EXCLUSIVE: Searches go missing, house sales fall through, and a 5G mast erected by mistake
Building An Ancestor Simulation #2
For Context on Gift Economies and the previous version of this simulation: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iJnFNrcmuT5id3Ju4/a-simulation-of-social-groups-under-a-gift-economyGithub for this project: https://github.com/orthogonaltohumanity/Ancestor-Simulation/tree/mainAncestor simulations have been a concept thrown around for years now so let's build...
CertiK Is Funding Web3's Cybersecurity Defense Rails as Anthropic's Mythos Changes the Game
\ CertiK puts $50,000 into Ethereum's Quadratic Security Fund at exactly the moment Anthropic's Mythos rewrites the threat model for every blockchain in existence. \ Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview...
$131 Million Confiscated: Inside Crypto's Largest Law Enforcement Partnership
Crypto exchanges are becoming key players in global financial crime enforcement. In 2025, Binance processed over 71,000 law enforcement requests and helped confiscate $131 million in illicit funds. With 1,500+...
Why Consensus IP Data Fails AdTech Teams
AdTech platforms often rely on consensus-based IP data that prioritizes agreement over accuracy. As internet infrastructure evolves, this leads to geo-targeting errors, fraud detection gaps, and optimization inefficiencies. Measurement-based IP...
RGB Laser Projector Does Colorful Asteroids and Much More
Have you thought about building a galvonometer-based laser projector, but don’t know where to start? There are a lot of resources out there, but you could do worse than to...
CatGun: Victory Mission G
CatGun: Victory Mission G was a manga-style shoot-em'-up game developed around 1995-1996 by the game developer duo PixelHazard (consisting of programmer Arjen Wagenaar and artist Luc S. Verhulst, who both...
Psychopathy: The Types
Archetypal clusters: Who are you?This is the sixth article in a series on understanding psychopathy. Previous articles covered the framework, biology, environment, psychological structure, and empathy mechanisms. This article presents...
The Cost of Correctness in “Real-Time” Systems Like Kafka and Spark
"Real-time" with Kafka and Spark is controlled delay, not instantaneity. Kafka batches for durability; Spark processes streams as micro-batch jobs with watermarks and checkpoints. Exactly-once requires the sink to cooperate....
GetThis
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ChatGPT for Google Sheets
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AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops - which could cost 500,00 tokens per click
Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper Amazon Web Services has let AI agents loose in its cloudy WorkSpaces virtual PCs.…
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