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Hennessey Venom F5 Evolution: 2031 HP, The World's Most Powerful Combustion Engine Car

2025-04-21

Hennessey Venom F5 Evolution: 2031 HP, The World's Most Powerful Combustion Engine Car

Hennessey unveiled the Venom F5 Evolution, boasting a mind-blowing 2,031 horsepower twin-turbo V8, making it the world's most powerful purely internal combustion engine car. This upgrade package isn't a separate model; existing Venom F5 owners can upgrade their cars. Its incredible power translates to a 0-200 mph time of 10.3 seconds, and it features a new adaptive suspension with five driver-selectable modes, balancing on-road comfort and high-performance track capabilities.

(www.thedrive.com)

Tech

Fudan University Develops Record-Breaking Flash Memory: PoX

2025-04-19

Fudan University Develops Record-Breaking Flash Memory: PoX

A research team at Fudan University has created PoX, a non-volatile flash memory boasting an unprecedented single-bit programming speed of 400 picoseconds—approximately 25 billion operations per second. Published in Nature, this breakthrough pushes non-volatile memory into speeds previously exclusive to volatile memory, setting a new benchmark for AI hardware. By replacing silicon channels with 2D Dirac graphene and leveraging ballistic charge transport, the team overcame the speed limitations of traditional flash memory. PoX's potential applications include eliminating high-speed SRAM caches in AI chips, reducing energy consumption and chip size, and enabling database engines to store entire working sets in persistent RAM. This innovation could reshape storage technology and open new application scenarios.

(interestingengineering.com)

Tech Non-volatile flash memory Graphene

Accidentally Solving Robotics by Watching 1 Million Hours of YouTube

2025-06-30

Accidentally Solving Robotics by Watching 1 Million Hours of YouTube

Researchers accidentally solved a long-standing robotics problem by training a model called V-JEPA 2 on one million hours of YouTube videos. Instead of predicting the next word, V-JEPA 2 predicts the next moment in reality, learning to understand physics through observation. Unlike previous language-dependent models, V-JEPA 2 demonstrates impressive zero-shot generalization, successfully completing complex tasks like grasping and placing objects in unseen environments. While limitations like camera pose sensitivity and long-horizon drift remain, this research opens new avenues for robotics, hinting at a future where robots might possess comprehension comparable to ChatGPT.

(ksagar.bearblog.dev)

AI

FutureHouse: Building Semi-Autonomous AI Scientists

2025-03-22

FutureHouse: Building Semi-Autonomous AI Scientists

FutureHouse, a San Francisco-based non-profit, is on a mission to automate scientific discovery using AI. They've developed a suite of "crow"-themed tools, including ChemCrow for designing chemical reactions, WikiCrow for summarizing protein information, ContraCrow for identifying contradictions in literature, and the PaperQA series for reliable PDF querying. FutureHouse aims to build semi-autonomous AI scientists, ranging from predictive models to eventually humanoid robots capable of running experiments independently, ultimately accelerating scientific discovery and addressing issues like the difficulty in summarizing and the unreliability of biomedical literature. Challenges include building infrastructure, accessing data, and tackling engineering problems, but AI models excel at hypothesis generation and conclusion drawing. FutureHouse emphasizes the reliability of AI scientists and is dedicated to addressing issues through improved data analysis and reproducibility.

(www.asimov.press)

AI AI science automated scientific discovery biomedical literature

Chrome OLED Mode Extension: Better than Dark Reader?

2025-04-20

Chrome OLED Mode Extension: Better than Dark Reader?

The Chrome OLED Mode extension is a resurrected dark theme browser extension that leverages React's dynamic rendering to add a high-contrast pitch-black theme to websites, improving nighttime readability. Superior to the popular 'Dark Reader' extension, it boasts four operation modes, forty specialized site-specific themes, whitelist management, and automated scheduling. It uses a static browser-side script for efficient DOM updates and is compatible with extension sandbox restrictions.

(github.com)

Development Dark Theme

Resurrecting a Lost Piece of Apple History: The Performa 550's Secret Recovery Partition

2025-03-16

While rescuing data from a failing hard drive in an old Apple Performa 550, the author uncovered a hidden recovery partition containing a fascinating piece of Apple's software history. This partition, designed to boot in case of system failure, allowed users to reinstall the OS. A three-year quest involving online appeals culminated in finding a pristine hard drive, revealing the partition's mechanics and leading to the sharing of its image. This compelling story highlights the thrill of tech archeology and software preservation.

(www.downtowndougbrown.com)

Tech tech archeology hard drive recovery

SF's Valencia Street Gets First Permanent Open-Air Drinking Zone

2025-06-12

SF's Valencia Street Gets First Permanent Open-Air Drinking Zone

San Francisco's Valencia Street is launching a pilot program allowing patrons of participating bars and restaurants to legally consume alcoholic beverages on the sidewalk from noon to midnight, Sunday through Thursday. This marks the city's first permanent open-air drinking zone not tied to a specific event, aiming to revitalize nightlife and attract younger crowds as part of post-pandemic recovery efforts. The initiative, supported by local businesses and the SFPD, includes security measures like wristbands and designated cups. While some businesses are hesitant, the program is expected to significantly impact the city's landscape and business models, setting a precedent for future similar projects.

(missionlocal.org)

Misc Open-Air Drinking Post-Pandemic Recovery

Supabase Raises $200M Series D, Valued at $2B

2025-04-22

Supabase Raises $200M Series D, Valued at $2B

Open-source application development platform Supabase announced a $200 million Series D funding round, bringing its valuation to $2 billion. Accel led the round, with participation from Coatue, Y Combinator, and others. Investors went to extraordinary lengths, with Accel partners even visiting the CEO in New Zealand to finalize the deal. Supabase aims to be a one-stop backend for developers, boasting 2 million developers and 3.5 million databases. Its success is attributed to its focus on the database layer, its understanding of the 'vibe coding' trend, and its remote-first culture attracting top talent globally.

(finance.yahoo.com)

Startup

Walmart Goes All-In on Ultra-Fast EV Charging: 5,200+ Stores to Become Charging Hubs

2025-04-27

Walmart Goes All-In on Ultra-Fast EV Charging: 5,200+ Stores to Become Charging Hubs

Walmart, the world's largest retailer, has announced a major push into ultra-fast DC fast-charging EV infrastructure, aiming to install thousands of chargers across its 5,200+ US stores by 2030. This strategic move leverages Walmart's extensive network and addresses the growing demand for convenient EV charging. Utilizing 400kW chargers from Alpitronic and ABB, supporting both NACS and CCS1 connectors, and integrated into the Walmart app, this network promises a significant impact on the US EV charging landscape, particularly benefiting apartment dwellers who lack home charging options.

(evchargingstations.com)

Tech EV charging fast charging infrastructure

MIT Creates Periodic Table of Machine Learning Algorithms, Predicting Future AI

2025-04-23

MIT Creates Periodic Table of Machine Learning Algorithms, Predicting Future AI

MIT researchers have developed a 'periodic table' of machine learning, connecting over 20 classical algorithms. This framework reveals how to fuse strategies from different methods to improve existing AI or create new ones. They combined elements of two algorithms to build a new image classification algorithm, outperforming state-of-the-art by 8%. The table's foundation: all algorithms learn specific relationships between data points. A unifying equation underlies many algorithms, enabling the researchers to categorize them. Like the chemical periodic table, it contains empty spaces predicting undiscovered algorithms, offering a toolkit for designing new ones without rediscovering old ideas.

(news.mit.edu)

AI

Atari's Limited Edition Asteroids Watches Sell Out Instantly

2025-01-30

Atari's Limited Edition Asteroids Watches Sell Out Instantly

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the iconic game Asteroids, Atari and luxury watch brand Nubeo have collaborated on a limited-edition watch. This unique timepiece displays time in an unconventional way using a Japanese automatic movement that drives three discs. The smallest central disc features the original Asteroids triangular ship firing, acting as the second hand. The outer two discs, filled with asteroids, represent the minute and hour hands. Priced at $499 (originally $1650), each of the five styles is limited to 125 pieces and has already sold out. The design is inspired by the Atari 2600 console, and features Swiss Super-LumiNova glow-in-the-dark ink, 21 ATM water resistance, and comes in a retro-styled protective case.

(www.techspot.com)

Game Limited Edition Watch

OpenTelemetry Performance Overhead: A Go Application Benchmark

2025-06-16

OpenTelemetry Performance Overhead: A Go Application Benchmark

This post benchmarks the performance overhead of OpenTelemetry in a high-load environment using a simple Go HTTP server. Results show approximately a 35% increase in CPU usage, a small increase in memory, and significant network traffic increase when enabling OpenTelemetry. The author compares using the OpenTelemetry SDK with eBPF-based monitoring, finding the latter to be significantly more lightweight in high-load scenarios, especially when only collecting metrics. The conclusion is that OpenTelemetry's overhead isn't prohibitive, but choosing the right monitoring approach is crucial, requiring a trade-off between performance and observability based on specific needs.

(coroot.com)

Development

Resurrecting the Old Web: Blogs and RSS Feeds Make a Comeback

2025-09-25

Resurrecting the Old Web: Blogs and RSS Feeds Make a Comeback

A Maine news story about middle schoolers using landlines sparked a reflection on the current state of social media. The author argues that social media has become an addictive noise machine, and people long for the simpler, purer connection of the early internet. To address this, the author advocates a return to blogs and RSS feeds, creating a 'bear blog' platform to share thoughts and connect with other blogs via links, mimicking the simpler networking of the old web. The author calls for breaking free from the social media dopamine loop and collectively building a purer online experience.

(stevedylandev.bearblog.dev)

Misc

NLRB Whistleblower Alleges Musk's DOGE Team Exfiltrated Sensitive Data

2025-04-22

A security architect at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees transferred gigabytes of sensitive data from agency case files in early March using short-lived accounts designed to leave minimal network traces. The whistleblower, Daniel J. Berulis, claims this coincided with blocked login attempts from a Russian IP address using valid credentials for a newly created DOGE account. Berulis further reports receiving threats and being stripped of his NLRB access. While the NLRB denies a breach, Berulis's allegations raise serious concerns about DOGE's data access and NLRB security practices.

(krebsonsecurity.com)

Tech

Metaflow: Streamlining ML Application Development

2025-08-16

Metaflow: Streamlining ML Application Development

Metaflow, developed at Netflix, tackles the challenges data scientists and ML engineers face in building applications. It simplifies data processing, compute resource management, workflow orchestration, version control, and deployment. This robust yet user-friendly platform empowers users to quickly iterate on ideas using Python and deploy confidently, leaving the low-level infrastructure—data, compute, orchestration, and versioning—to Metaflow. Now powering thousands of applications at companies like Netflix and CNN, Metaflow offers commercial support through Outerbounds.

(docs.metaflow.org)

Development

Yemeni Houthis' Sophisticated Air Defenses: A Growing Threat to US Drones and Aircraft

2025-04-27

Yemeni Houthis' Sophisticated Air Defenses: A Growing Threat to US Drones and Aircraft

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have demonstrated a surprisingly effective air defense capability, evidenced by the increasing number of downed US MQ-9 Reaper drones. While the exact scope of their arsenal remains unclear, it includes Iranian-supplied surface-to-air missiles like the enigmatic "358" loitering munition, the Barq-1/2, and repurposed Soviet air-to-air missiles such as the Thaqib series. The US response involves increased air strikes using B-2 stealth bombers, highlighting the seriousness of the threat. The significant loss of MQ-9s raises questions about the drone's vulnerability in future conflicts and the need for improved self-defense systems. The Houthis' innovative adaptation of existing technology presents a significant challenge to US military operations.

(www.twz.com)

Tech Yemen Conflict Houthi Rebels Air Defense

IBM System/360: A Technological David and Goliath Story

2025-04-08

IBM System/360: A Technological David and Goliath Story

The creation of the IBM System/360 wasn't a smooth ride. This article recounts IBM's journey in the early 1960s, overcoming internal conflicts, technological hurdles, and production bottlenecks to launch this world-changing computer series. From initial internal clashes to global teamwork and a nail-biting production rollout, the System/360 story is full of drama and uncertainty, ultimately establishing IBM's dominance in the computer industry and profoundly impacting the development of the Information Age.

(spectrum.ieee.org)

Tech

YAGRI: You Are Gonna Read It

2025-04-23

YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It) advises against over-engineering. But the author introduces YAGRI (You Are Gonna Read It): don't just store the minimum data; store data you'll likely need later, like timestamps and metadata. This is crucial when handling user deletions. Simply deleting a database row isn't enough; log who deleted it, how, when, and why. The author suggests storing created_at, updated_at, deleted_at, created_by, and permissions used in CRUD operations on almost every table. While not every field will be used, a single field saving you from a future debugging crisis or a boss's sudden request justifies the effort. Maintaining data is a crucial engineering task.

(www.scottantipa.com)

Development database design

Siflower Unveils High-Performance Industrial-Grade SOC Gateway Chip: SF21H8898

2025-04-21

Siflower Communications has launched the SF21H8898, a high-performance industrial-grade SOC gateway chip built on TSMC's 12nm FFC process. It integrates a quad-core 64-bit RISC-V processor and a dedicated network processing unit (NPU) supporting L2/L3 hardware processing, IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, 20Gbps switching capacity, and full wire-speed forwarding. The chip boasts QSGMII, SGMII/HSGMII, and RGMII interfaces and supports IEEE 1588 PTP for precise time synchronization. External DDR3/DDR3L/DDR4 SDRAM and NAND/NOR SPI Flash are supported, along with high-speed interfaces like USB2.0 and PCIE2.0, and low-speed interfaces such as SPI, UART, I2C, and PWM. Ideal for enterprise and industrial control gateways.

(docs.banana-pi.org)

Hardware Gateway Chip Industrial IoT

Lincoln's Lessons and the Digital Mob

2025-04-22

Lincoln's Lessons and the Digital Mob

This lecture uses Lincoln's 1838 Lyceum Address as a springboard to discuss the fragility of American political institutions and how modern communication technologies fuel 'mobocracy'. The speaker argues that Trump used various media to incite public sentiment, undermine reason, and erode legal constraints. They highlight how social media's incentive structures, amplification effects, and ease of mob formation exacerbate social division and threaten democracy. The lecture concludes by calling for a rebuilding of democratic culture, fostering reverence for the rule of law, and resisting the spread of 'mobocracy'.

(ellgood.medium.com)

Misc mobocracy

California Bar Exam Controversy: AI-Generated Questions Spark Outrage

2025-04-23

California Bar Exam Controversy: AI-Generated Questions Spark Outrage

The California State Bar admitted that 23 of the 171 multiple-choice questions on the February 2025 bar exam were created with AI assistance, sparking widespread outrage. This revelation follows weeks of complaints about technical issues and irregularities during the exam. While the Bar claims all questions underwent expert review, legal educators strongly criticize the use of AI-generated questions, especially given that the same company generated and approved them. The incident raises serious concerns about fairness, reliability, and the ethical and technical challenges of using AI in high-stakes assessments.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech Law Exam Ethical Concerns

Becoming a 10x Engineer with AI: A Mindset Shift

2025-06-12

Becoming a 10x Engineer with AI: A Mindset Shift

This post details how the author leverages AI to significantly boost their software engineering productivity. Instead of viewing AI as a mere code generator, they see it as a highly experienced engineering partner. The key is effective prompt engineering to maximize AI's potential. The author stresses the importance of well-crafted prompts and the necessity of verifying AI-generated code. Beyond code generation, AI is used to understand complex concepts and accelerate learning. The author encourages engineers to actively experiment and continuously learn to become truly AI-native.

(rfitz.io)

Development

1888: The World's First True Electric Car

2025-01-21

1888: The World's First True Electric Car

In 1888, Andreas Flocken, a German engineer, created the world's first true electric car, the Flocken Elektrowagen, at his Maschinenfabrik A. Flocken in Coburg. This four-wheeled vehicle, initially resembling a horse-drawn carriage, was powered by an electric motor and could reach a top speed of 15 km/h. While early technology limited its performance, the Flocken Elektrowagen holds immense historical significance as a landmark in the dawn of the electric car era.

(en.wikipedia.org)

Tech electric car Germany

Cloudflare Durable Objects: The Ultimate Guide

2025-06-01

Cloudflare Durable Objects: The Ultimate Guide

This comprehensive guide dives deep into Cloudflare Durable Objects, a powerful serverless technology. Durable Objects let developers spin up near-infinite mini-servers globally, with built-in persistent storage and the ability to hibernate between requests. They excel in multiplayer scenarios, boast built-in WebSockets, and offer alarms for triggering code outside HTTP requests. Durable Objects simplify building stateful serverless applications and provide efficient data storage with SQLite support. The article covers architecture, APIs, cost, and real-world use cases, offering a complete guide to understanding and leveraging this revolutionary technology.

(flaredup.substack.com)

Development

Foundations of Computer Vision: A Decade in the Making

2025-06-15

After a decade-long journey, Torralba, Isola, and Freeman have published "Foundations of Computer Vision." Instead of aiming for complete coverage, the book focuses on fundamental concepts, approaching the subject from image processing and machine learning perspectives. It features numerous visualizations and progresses through image formation, learning foundations, signal processing, neural networks, and explores advanced topics like generative models and representation learning. The book's rigorous structure and clear explanations make it suitable for undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals alike.

(visionbook.mit.edu)

Development

Superbloom: Tech's Frenzy and the Unchecked Power of Social Media

2025-04-21

Superbloom: Tech's Frenzy and the Unchecked Power of Social Media

This review examines Nicholas Carr's new book, *Superbloom*, using the California poppy incident as a springboard to discuss the negative impacts of technology, particularly social media. From the early days of the telegraph and telephone to radio and the internet, Carr reviews the evolution of American media regulation, highlighting the lack of effective oversight leading to the unchecked power of social media and resulting societal issues like information overload, privacy breaches, and alienation. The author argues that mild measures like 'friction design' are insufficient to address the problems, calling for more proactive intervention and reflection on technology.

(hedgehogreview.com)

Tech

The Quest to Retrieve Vanguard-1: Oldest Satellite in Orbit

2025-04-19

The Quest to Retrieve Vanguard-1: Oldest Satellite in Orbit

Launched in 1958, the grapefruit-sized Vanguard-1 satellite remains in orbit, making it the oldest human-made object orbiting Earth. A team is proposing a mission to retrieve this historical artifact, studying its decades-long exposure to space. The plan involves potentially using a SpaceX vehicle or partnering with a private sponsor. Once retrieved, Vanguard-1 could be displayed at the Smithsonian, serving as a testament to the early days of space exploration. This mission would also provide valuable experience for future endeavors like space debris removal and on-orbit manufacturing.

(gizmodo.com)

Tech Satellite Retrieval Space History

Anthropic CEO Predicts AI Will Wipe Out Half of Entry-Level Office Jobs

2025-05-30

Anthropic CEO Predicts AI Will Wipe Out Half of Entry-Level Office Jobs

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently predicted that AI technology will eliminate half of entry-level office jobs within the next few years. He claims AI is surpassing humans in almost all intellectual tasks, sparking debate about the massive impact of AI on the job market. However, Amodei's prediction lacks data support, and his statements seem more like a publicity stunt for his company than a genuine warning about AI risks. The author questions Amodei's assertion that AI will simultaneously bring high economic growth and high unemployment, and points out that current generative AI technologies still have many limitations and are far from triggering an economic revolution.

(www.cnn.com)

Tech

Canada's Border Bill Sneakily Includes Warrantless Internet Access

2025-06-05

Canada's Border Bill Sneakily Includes Warrantless Internet Access

Canada's new Strong Border Act (Bill C-2), ostensibly focused on border security, contains provisions enabling warrantless access to internet subscriber data. This circumvents Supreme Court rulings protecting user privacy, granting law enforcement powers to obtain subscriber information, issue global production orders, and directly access data held by electronic service providers. The move raises significant privacy and civil liberties concerns, sparking opposition and criticism of government overreach. Additional regulations targeting 'core providers' allow direct law enforcement access to their networks for data interception and testing, raising further concerns about costs and security.

(www.michaelgeist.ca)

Tech internet surveillance Canadian law

GlobalFoundries Acquires MIPS, Expanding its RISC-V Processor Portfolio

2025-07-09

GlobalFoundries Acquires MIPS, Expanding its RISC-V Processor Portfolio

GlobalFoundries (GF) announced a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS, a leading provider of AI and processor IP. This strategic move expands GF's customizable IP offerings, differentiating its process technologies with enhanced IP and software capabilities. MIPS's Atlas portfolio, based on the open RISC-V architecture, focuses on real-time computing for applications like autonomous mobility, industrial automation, and data centers. The acquisition will allow GF to offer more flexible RISC-V based solutions, strengthening its position in the rapidly evolving AI market.

(mips.com)

Tech Processor IP

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