2026-09-26 Discoveries

U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

In a 2-1 decision, a federal appeals court upheld the Department of Defense's blacklisting of Anthropic.

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

Ollaya downloads and serves open decision models on your own machine. Typed, calibrated answers in milliseconds, private and open source.

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence.

Ink and Switch interactive homepage

An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.

Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?

The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications. The post Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Sensea underwater camera — Raspberry Pi Official Magazine #170

A trio of young makers created a fantastic Raspberry Pi 3–based underwater camera that investigates water quality and organisms.

Reviving the PoE++ Feature on a Ubiquiti Switch

Recently [The Parallel Port] was asked to take a look at repairing the PoE++ feature on a Ubiquiti switch that otherwise worked fine. This is a pretty nice 24-port rackmounted …

How Else Marie Pade, a Prisoner in World War II, Became Denmark’s First Female…

Before she became a composer of electronic music, Else Marie Pade was a sick child listening to the radio. Frequent kidney inflammations consigned her to bed for long periods of time, which would constitute neither her last nor her harshest experience of confinement. She was still young when the…

Let’s Do Some Leaf-Peeping From Space

Fall foliage from hundreds of miles up

Pi Pico Recreates The Heathkit Pocket Packet

Packet radio is a particularly fun part of the ham radio hobby. Once upon a time, you might have squirted data about the airwaves using something like the Heathkit HK-21 …

On Concrete Remnants of London’s Aylesbury Estate, Harriet Mena Hill Preserves a Community

Harriet Mena Hill is devoted to documenting a community amid demolition. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article On Concrete Remnants of London’s Aylesbury Estate, Harriet Mena…

Perfect Slice

You have one cut to get a perfect slice

How Gentle Tapping on the Shin Heals the Brain

The shin bone’s connected to the… brain?

Investigating a Rare Burnout 3 Beta Disc

These days, it’s pretty easy to buy old retail console games just by hunting online auction sites. It’s much rarer to come across a disc holding a beta version that …

Three Artists and Two Writers On Surrealist Painter Remedios Varo’s Influence

Have you found yourself stunned by the Surrealist works of Remedios Varo? Same. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Three Artists and Two Writers On Surrealist Painter…

SocialGPT

Edit videos by chatting with your timeline

Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git

Distributed, offline-first bug tracker integrated in git - git-bug/git-bug

Platform-independent SIMD in Go

Go 1.27 adds an experimental platform-agnostic SIMD API

Why We Stay Afraid

A newly discovered brain region in mice solves a longstanding mystery about how fear lingers after threats fade

Tellwe

Your coffee cup tells its story.

How video games inspire great UX (2019)

First Principles Thinking

On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly.