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AI TOOL · blogs.gnome.org · SAFETY SCREENED

Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

After my mother passed away I ended up with a big box full of old film negatives containing photos from childhood family trips and similar. So I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found that the Plustek 8200i was supported under…

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AI TOOL · already-clean.goodfire.com · SAFETY SCREENED

Neural networks are clean

A working hypothesis about neurons, generalization, and the ecology of circuits.

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AI TOOL · krea.ai · SAFETY SCREENED

Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale

Krea 3 is a new image editing model built for production. It keeps your product intact and is priced for volume.

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SCIENCE · Quanta Magazine · SAFETY SCREENED

How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?

Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks in soil trade nutrients with plants, help keep carbon underground, and strike bargains without having a brain. The post How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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STRANGE TECH · Hackaday · SAFETY SCREENED

45 Years Later, The Sinclair ULA Design Documents Surface

In the 8-bit home computer boom of the early 1980s, Sir Clive Sinclair’s machines were always among the cheapest on the market, often packing a surprising level of sophistication in …

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NEW TECH · Google Technology · SAFETY SCREENED

Bringing the magic: Google breaks open a bottleneck in quantum computing

In a paper published in Science, Google has shown that Magic State Cultivation works on Google Quantum AI hardware.

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FUN WEBSITE · Open Culture · SAFETY SCREENED

The Megaprojects That Even the Ancient Romans Couldn’t Pull Off: Rerouting the Tiber…

Some would call the United States of America the mightiest empire the world has ever known. Yet over the past half-century or so, it has shown a strange inability to build domestic infrastructure, at least at the efficiency or on the scale seen elsewhere in the world. (This will not come as news…

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FUN WEBSITE · Nautilus · SAFETY SCREENED

Even Dogs Seem to Experience the Mysterious Bouba/Kiki Effect

But why?

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STRANGE TECH · Hackaday · SAFETY SCREENED

Linux Kernel Drops AI Tag Requirement, Uses Meta AI For Code Reviews

“Penguins” by TomaLaPlaya " data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/LinuxMarketing.jpg?w=800" /> Since we last covered the way that the Linux Kernel project has been dealing with the influx of code created using LLM-based coding assistants, all the way back in April, …

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CREATIVE · Colossal · SAFETY SCREENED

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 Winners Showcase Nature’s Power and…

"This year's winning photographs demonstrate the extraordinary power of wildlife photography to help us see nature differently," says Dr. Doug Gurr, Director of the Natural History Museum. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts…

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USEFUL TOOL · Product Hunt · SAFETY SCREENED

Kerno 1.0

The AI Runtime Backend QA Engineer

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FUN WEBSITE · Open Culture · SAFETY SCREENED

Watch “The Midnight Parasites,” a Surreal Japanese Animation Set in the World of…

Hieronymus Bosch’s bizarre paintings might have looked perfectly ordinary to his contemporaries, argues Stanley Meisler in “The World of Bosch.” Modern viewers may find this very hard to believe. We approach Bosch through layers of Freudian interpretation and Surrealist appreciation. We cannot…

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NEW TECH · Google Technology · SAFETY SCREENED

Check if a text message is a scam using Circle to Search.

Use Google Circle to Search to analyze suspicious texts for scams. Long-press your home button to get AI insights on messages. See how it works.

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FUN WEBSITE · Nautilus · SAFETY SCREENED

This Fish Is the Kobayashi of the Sea

It can swallow prey up to 10 times its weight

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STRANGE TECH · Hackaday · SAFETY SCREENED

C64 Hardware Simulator Isn’t (Just) For Playing Around

If you want to play old Commodore games, there are C-64 emulators available for just about any platform– but most of them are so high level, they’re really meant for …

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NEW TECH · Google Technology · SAFETY SCREENED

How we're helping the world prepare for natural disasters

Our north star is simple yet ambitious: No one should be surprised by a natural disaster.

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USEFUL TOOL · Product Hunt · SAFETY SCREENED

Talanoa

Email that feels like chat

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USEFUL TOOL · citizenlab.ca · SAFETY SCREENED

AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware

This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru’s spyware. We also uncover…

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USEFUL TOOL · libreboot.org · SAFETY SCREENED

Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

Libreboot – Libreboot 26.10 “Ominous Olive” released! With full UEFI support.

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USEFUL TOOL · github.com · SAFETY SCREENED

Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

Contribute to fyzugx/DEsk development by creating an account on GitHub.

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USEFUL TOOL · zachlandes.com · SAFETY SCREENED

Jev meets the Trolley Problem

I asked Jev and 13 other decision models the Trolley Problem.

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USEFUL TOOL · research.meta.ai · SAFETY SCREENED

Muse Spark Open

Muse Spark Open is the most capable US open-weight model to date, and brings leading agentic capabilities to your desktop on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.

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VIDEO · YouTube · Veritasium · SAFETY SCREENED

When you lose weight where does it go?

What does it mean to lose weight? When you work out or eat less your overall size decreases. So where does this mass go?

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VIDEO · YouTube · TED-Ed · SAFETY SCREENED

3 things to never do with a credit card

Learn how to spot the 3 most common traps of credit cards, and how they can lock you into a cycle of interest, fees, and debt. -- While useful for secure purchasing, emergencies, and building credit scores, credit cards can make it…

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FUN WEBSITE · Nautilus · SAFETY SCREENED

How Prehistoric People Survived After One of the Worst Volcanic Eruptions in History

It’s a story of human resilience

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USEFUL TOOL · Product Hunt · SAFETY SCREENED

Superdraft

Automatically identify opportunities to email your customers

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