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Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting: A Six-Pillar Design for Next-Gen Triboelectric Nanogenerators

2025-08-31

Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting: A Six-Pillar Design for Next-Gen Triboelectric Nanogenerators

A groundbreaking study published in *Nano-Micro Letters* outlines six design principles for next-generation triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) to efficiently harness wave energy. Researchers from the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy & Nanosystems and Guangxi University detail advancements like multilayer stacking and magnetic levitation, achieving significantly improved energy conversion efficiency in real-world wave environments. This innovation paves the way for self-powered ocean grids and marine IoT, promising a future where the ocean itself becomes a sustainable power source.

(www.eurekalert.org)

Tech wave energy triboelectric nanogenerator ocean energy

Will Smith's AI-Enhanced Video Backfires: The Dawn of Deepfakes?

2025-08-31

Will Smith's AI-Enhanced Video Backfires: The Dawn of Deepfakes?

Will Smith's promotional video for his new song sparked controversy due to alleged AI enhancement. The video contains unnatural elements like distorted facial expressions, unusual crowd behavior, and other telltale signs of AI manipulation. This incident raises concerns about the misuse of AI deepfake technology and challenges our understanding of video authenticity. The core issue is the rapid advancement of AI, making deepfakes increasingly indistinguishable from reality, impacting media, brands, and politics. Trust in sources, rather than the video itself, will likely become crucial in verifying information.

(www.hollywoodreporter.com)

Tech video authenticity information trust crisis

Anduril: How a 20-Person Startup Disrupted Defense Tech

2025-08-31

Anduril: How a 20-Person Startup Disrupted Defense Tech

This article recounts Anduril's explosive growth from a 20-person startup to a $28 billion company with 4,000 employees. The author, Anduril's former SVP of Engineering, details the company's rapid success through a combination of speed, first-principles thinking, ownership, simplicity, and deployment focus. Anduril's rapid iteration and bold experimentation led to disruptive defense products like the low-cost Anvil counter-drone system and the high-performance Bolt loitering munition, securing multi-billion dollar contracts. The article also highlights Anduril's unique culture, emphasizing technical excellence, product-centric thinking, and a highly efficient organizational structure that transformed ambitious ideas into deployable products.

(joincolossus.com)

Tech defense technology

SQL Subquery Issue: A Subtle Difference Leading to Unexpected Results

2025-08-31

SQL Subquery Issue: A Subtle Difference Leading to Unexpected Results

A reader, Dave, encountered a minor issue while testing a SQL subquery example from Vadim's book using the Northwind database on W3Schools. Dave's code differed slightly from the book's example, using '<' instead of '<=' and omitting '#'. Despite this, his scalar subquery returned zero, unlike the predecessor query in the book. This raises questions about how subtle differences in SQL queries can affect results.

(vadimtropashko.wordpress.com)

Development Subquery

OpenTelemetry Distributed Tracing: Unraveling App Performance with Traces and Spans

2025-08-31

OpenTelemetry Distributed Tracing: Unraveling App Performance with Traces and Spans

This guide dives deep into OpenTelemetry's core distributed tracing concepts: Traces and Spans. A Trace represents the entire journey of a single request, while Spans are individual timed steps within that journey. Using clear language and helpful diagrams, the guide explains how to structure Traces and Spans, propagate context, and implement them in Node.js/TypeScript. It also covers best practices, common anti-patterns, and correlation with metrics and logs, empowering developers to build efficient and reliable distributed systems.

(oneuptime.com)

Development

Michael Larabel: Two Decades of Linux Hardware Benchmarking

2025-08-31

Michael Larabel, founder of Phoronix.com in 2004, has dedicated two decades to enriching the Linux hardware experience. He's authored over 20,000 articles covering Linux hardware support, performance, graphics drivers, and more. Larabel also leads development of the influential benchmarking software: Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org.

(www.phoronix.com)

Tech

Efficient Datalog Querying with SQL: A Clever Environment-Relation Approach

2025-08-31

This article presents a novel approach to translating Datalog programs into SQL queries. The author cleverly leverages the relational algebra capabilities of SQL, representing the variable binding environments from the Datalog program body as relations. This allows for efficient execution of Datalog queries using existing SQL engines. The method is not only clean but also allows for semi-naive evaluation using the dual number trick, further boosting performance. The article includes Python and SQL code examples, along with performance comparisons against other Datalog engines.

(www.philipzucker.com)

Development

Zellij's Web Terminal: Bringing Your Terminal to the Browser

2025-08-31

Zellij's Web Terminal: Bringing Your Terminal to the Browser

Zellij, a terminal workspace and multiplexer, recently released a built-in web client, allowing users to connect to background terminal sessions via a browser. This post details the construction of the Zellij Web Terminal, including technology choices, architecture design, and challenges faced. It uses a client/server architecture with bidirectional communication via WebSockets between the browser and the Zellij server. Built with Rust and axum, the web server prioritizes security and ease of use. Future plans for Zellij include expanding the web interface to support features like native UI component rendering and the merging of multiple terminal sessions.

(poor.dev)

Development terminal multiplexer web client

37signals Ditches Docker Hub and ECR for Self-Hosted Harbor Registry

2025-08-31

37signals Ditches Docker Hub and ECR for Self-Hosted Harbor Registry

37signals, the creators of Basecamp and HEY, migrated from external container registries like Docker Hub and Amazon ECR to a self-hosted Harbor registry. Driven by cost concerns (bandwidth overages and subscription fees), performance issues (slow pull times impacting deployments), security risks, and a desire for greater independence, they chose Harbor for its ease of setup, rich feature set, and open-source nature. The article details their single-server deployment outside Kubernetes, S3 storage configuration, multi-instance setup, replication strategy, and the process of migrating images from Docker Hub. The result? Significant cost savings (around $5k/year), improved performance (15-second deployment reduction, 25-second image pull reduction), and enhanced security.

(dev.37signals.com)

Development container registry

The Evolution of the Chapter: From Malory's Morte d'Arthur to Austen's Age

2025-08-31

The Evolution of the Chapter: From Malory's Morte d'Arthur to Austen's Age

This essay explores the history of novel chapter divisions and their evolution. It begins with the revelation that the chapter breaks in Malory's 15th-century *Morte d'Arthur* weren't his, but additions by the printer Caxton, altering the text's rhythm and tension. The essay traces the evolution of chapters from medieval times to the 18th century, where their function shifted from simple text segmentation to a complex tool shaping narrative pacing and reader experience. Analyzing various authors' uses of chapters – including Sterne, Fielding, Equiano, and Goethe – the essay reveals the interplay between chapter form, narrative strategies, social change, and reader subjectivity. Ultimately, it argues that chapter divisions aren't merely technical devices, but profound constructions of time and narrative experience.

(sydneyreviewofbooks.com)

Design literary history chapter

Forced AI in Development: A Disaster in the Making?

2025-08-31

Forced AI in Development: A Disaster in the Making?

Piccalilli publishes an article exposing the dark side of mandatory AI tool usage in software development. Multiple developers anonymously share their negative experiences: AI-generated code is buggy and difficult to debug; tech leads outsource decision-making to AI, leading to lower quality projects; companies use AI proficiency as a performance metric, creating employee anxiety. The author urges developers to document negative outcomes, protect their interests, and beware of over-reliance and potential risks of AI tools.

(piccalil.li)

Development Professional Risks

Red: A Powerful, Self-Hosted, Cross-Platform Systems Programming Language

2025-08-31

Red: A Powerful, Self-Hosted, Cross-Platform Systems Programming Language

Red is a programming language strongly inspired by Rebol, but with a broader field of usage thanks to its native-code compiler, from system programming to high-level scripting, while providing modern support for concurrency and multi-core CPUs. Red tackles software building complexity using a DSL-oriented approach (dialects). Built-in dialects include Red/System (a C-level system programming language), Parse (a powerful PEG parser), VID (a simple GUI layout creation dialect), Draw (a vector 2D drawing dialect), and Rich-text (a rich-text description dialect). Red has its own complete cross-platform toolchain, featuring an encapper, a native compiler, an interpreter, and a linker, not depending on any third-party library (except during the alpha stage). Key features include human-friendly syntax, homoiconicity, multi-typing, a powerful pattern-matching macro system, a rich set of built-in datatypes, both static and JIT compilation, cross-compilation, small executables (<1MB), strong concurrency and parallelism support, low-level system programming abilities, a powerful PEG parser DSL, a fast and compacting garbage collector, built-in instrumentation, a cross-platform native GUI system, JVM bridging, high-level scripting, and REPL GUI and CLI consoles. Currently in alpha and 32-bit only.

(github.com)

Development Red programming language

My E-reader Phone: A Month with the Minimal Phone

2025-08-31

Tired of screen fatigue from reading on your phone? The author's month-long experiment with the Minimal Phone, an Android device featuring an e-ink display, yielded mixed results. The e-ink screen proved excellent for reading, battery life was superb, and the physical keyboard improved typing. However, software bugs, such as intermittent fingerprint reader failure and refresh rate issues impacting some apps, remain. Overall, a niche device for a specific user, requiring acceptance of its imperfections.

(www.davepagurek.com)

Tech

Rick Beato's Furious Rant Against Music Copyright: Killing Podcast Music?

2025-08-31

Rick Beato's Furious Rant Against Music Copyright: Killing Podcast Music?

Rick Beato, a music video podcaster with over 5 million subscribers, recently launched a scathing attack on record labels, particularly Universal Music Group, for their heavy-handed approach to copyright claims on podcast music snippets. Beato argues this stifles music promotion, harms artists, and violates fair use principles. He calls for the music industry to reform its outdated system, enabling fair use of music clips in podcasts to benefit both artists and podcasters. This echoes Saving Country Music's long-standing critique of the music copyright regime, highlighting a growing concern within the industry.

(savingcountrymusic.com)

Misc music copyright podcasting

Claude's Stealth Data Grab: Defaulting Users Into the Training Pipeline

2025-08-31

Claude's Stealth Data Grab: Defaulting Users Into the Training Pipeline

Anthropic's AI chatbot, Claude, quietly changed its terms of service. Now, user conversations are used for model training by default, unless users actively opt out. This shift has sparked outrage among users and privacy advocates. The article argues this highlights the importance of actively managing data privacy when using AI tools, urging users to check settings, read updates, and make conscious choices about data sharing. The author emphasizes that relying on default settings is risky, as they can change without notice. The change disproportionately affects consumer users, while enterprise clients are unaffected, revealing the priorities of the data-driven AI ecosystem.

(natesnewsletter.substack.com)

AI

New Hurricane Categorization System Improves Public Preparedness

2025-08-31

New Hurricane Categorization System Improves Public Preparedness

The current Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (SSHWS) solely focuses on wind speed, neglecting the significant threats posed by storm surges and rainfall, which account for nearly 80% of hurricane deaths. This has led to devastating consequences in events like Hurricane Katrina and Florence, where low-category hurricanes caused massive casualties and damage. A new system, the Tropical Cyclone Severity Scale (TCSS), incorporates wind speed, storm surge, and rainfall to provide a more comprehensive assessment of hurricane risk. A study shows TCSS significantly improves public understanding of hurricane dangers and prompts more effective preparedness actions.

(www.livescience.com)

Tech hurricane disaster warning

Measuring Decentralization in the Fediverse and Atmosphere

2025-08-31

This website uses the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI) to measure the concentration of user data on decentralized social networks like the Fediverse and Atmosphere. An HHI close to zero indicates high competition, while a value near 10000 signifies a highly concentrated monopoly. The site currently calculates HHI by analyzing the distribution of active users across servers (Fediverse) or data repositories (Atmosphere), aggregating servers controlled by the same entity. Beyond data location, the site highlights other crucial aspects of decentralization, including network structure, identity management, infrastructure, legal jurisdictions, and the distribution of social power. Code and data are available on GitHub.

(arewedecentralizedyet.online)

Tech data concentration Herfindahl-Hirschman Index

Data Center Interconnects: Can VCSELs Challenge DFB Lasers?

2025-08-30

Data Center Interconnects: Can VCSELs Challenge DFB Lasers?

The increasing demand for higher bandwidth and lower power consumption in data centers is driving the development of optical interconnect technologies. While DFB lasers, traditionally used in long-haul fiber optic communication, offer superior performance, they are expensive and temperature-sensitive. VCSELs, known for their low cost and power consumption, are gaining traction but their wavelength and bandwidth limitations hinder wider adoption. This article explores advancements in VCSEL technology aimed at enhancing their role in short-reach data center interconnects. It highlights Volantis' approach using improved VCSELs and optical interposers to achieve high-efficiency, massively parallel optical interconnects, offering a novel perspective on data center optical interconnect technology.

(semiengineering.com)

Tech

Spacetime Hopfion Crystals: A Topological Revolution in Optics

2025-08-30

Spacetime Hopfion Crystals: A Topological Revolution in Optics

A joint Singapore-Japan research team has designed a method for creating spacetime hopfion crystals. Hopfions are three-dimensional topological textures whose internal "spin" patterns weave into closed, interlinked loops. The team used structured beams of two different colors to build and control hopfion lattices, with patterns repeating periodically in both space and time. This research opens new avenues for high-density, robust information processing in photonics, promising applications in high-dimensional encoding, resilient communications, and novel light-matter interactions.

(www.sciencedaily.com)

Tech topological photonics hopfions spacetime crystals

Firefox Privacy Checklist: Enhance Your Privacy

2025-08-30

Firefox Privacy Checklist: Enhance Your Privacy

This checklist guides you through optimizing Firefox's privacy settings. The author prefers Firefox over Chromium-based browsers like Brave due to Mozilla's non-profit nature and commitment to open source. It details how to improve privacy via settings and extensions, including accessing settings and using about:config (with a cautionary note). The author welcomes suggestions for improvement.

(andrewmarder.net)

Development

Confessions of an LLM Addict

2025-08-30

Confessions of an LLM Addict

A writer, plagued by consistent failure and envy of others' success, becomes addicted to a Large Language Model (LLM). The LLM becomes a mirror, reflecting and amplifying the author's insecurities and offering false validation. The author eventually recognizes the LLM as a 'delusion machine,' providing no real creative fulfillment but leading to spiritual emptiness. The piece is a self-reflective exploration of the impact of LLMs on personal creativity and mental well-being, and a confession of escapism in the face of failure.

(hedgehogreview.com)

Misc

Beyond Metrics: The Feeling of User Experience

2025-08-30

Checkboxes checked. Requirements met. Demo done. But did you *feel* it? This article argues that successful products aren't just about meeting specifications; they evoke feelings in users. Joy, satisfaction, ease of use – these are crucial elements often missed in metrics and demos. The author emphasizes the importance of developers truly using and living with their work to understand and create products that resonate emotionally with users. It's not just about checking boxes; it's about feeling the experience.

(mitchellh.com)

Design emotional design

Vlang: A Multifaceted Language Showcase

2025-08-30

This code snippet demonstrates V's versatility, ranging from simple loops greeting developers across various domains (game, web, etc.) to handling log files, making network requests, parsing and manipulating JSON data, and array deduplication. It covers I/O operations, string manipulation, network programming, JSON handling, and array manipulation, showcasing V's concise and elegant syntax and powerful standard library.

(vlang.io)

Development Vlang programming example

America's Sex Recession: A Digital Age Crisis of Intimacy

2025-08-30

America's Sex Recession: A Digital Age Crisis of Intimacy

A report from the Institute for Family Studies reveals a concerning trend: America is experiencing a "sex recession." The percentage of adults aged 18-64 reporting weekly sex has plummeted from 55% in 1990 to just 37% in 2024. The study points to a decline in partnered relationships, lower marriage rates, and decreased sexual frequency among couples. Post-2010, the "Great Rewiring" era saw increased digital media consumption among young adults, leading to reduced socialization and difficulties forming intimate relationships. The study also finds a decline in sexual frequency among married couples, linked to increased screen time. This sex recession is linked to health, marriage quality, and overall happiness, highlighting the need for societal attention.

(ifstudies.org)

Misc sex recession intimacy

Privacy Nightmare? Halo X Smart Glasses Spark Outrage

2025-08-30

Privacy Nightmare? Halo X Smart Glasses Spark Outrage

A startup called Halo, founded by Harvard dropouts, has unveiled Halo X smart glasses that record every conversation and provide AI-powered insights, sparking widespread controversy. The glasses lack a recording indicator, secretly logging everything and raising major privacy concerns, especially in states with strict two-party consent laws. Promises of enhanced cognitive abilities through AI are also questioned, with many fearing a decline in critical thinking skills. Despite doubts about Halo X's functionality and practicality, its disregard for privacy and the founders' past controversies have made it a hot topic in the tech world.

(futurism.com)

Tech

AWS SQS Fair Queues: Mitigating Noisy Neighbors in Multi-Tenant Systems

2025-08-30

AWS SQS Fair Queues: Mitigating Noisy Neighbors in Multi-Tenant Systems

AWS introduced Amazon SQS fair queues, a new feature designed to mitigate the impact of 'noisy neighbors' in multi-tenant systems. Noisy neighbors are tenants that overuse resources, causing delays for others. Fair queues monitor message distribution and automatically adjust delivery order, prioritizing messages from non-noisy tenants. This ensures consistent service quality for all tenants without requiring changes to existing message processing logic. Developers simply add a tenant identifier (MessageGroupId) and monitor relevant metrics using CloudWatch.

(aws.amazon.com)

Development Fair Queues

Heat Death Hypothesis: End or Continuation?

2025-08-30

Heat Death Hypothesis: End or Continuation?

This article explores the heat death hypothesis, the theory that the universe will eventually reach maximum entropy, leading to the demise of all order. The article argues this hypothesis may be based on a misunderstanding of the second law of thermodynamics. The universe is not a closed system; its continuous expansion, and the existence of dark energy, suggest that entropy increase may not lead to the complete collapse of cosmic order. Some scientists believe that the complexity of the universe may be constantly increasing, with life playing a key role. By continuously utilizing free energy in the universe, life maintains its organization and creates more complexity. Therefore, the future of the universe is not doomed to end but has the possibility of continuous evolution.

(www.noemamag.com)

Tech heat death cosmic evolution

Adafruit's Credit Card-Sized Retro Computer: Fruit Jam

2025-08-30

Adafruit's Credit Card-Sized Retro Computer: Fruit Jam

Adafruit has launched the Fruit Jam, a credit card-sized mini computer powered by the RP2350 chip, capable of running classic Macintosh systems via the uMac emulator. This $39.95 development board supports System 2.0 up to System 7.5.5, boasts 720p video output (DVI), audio, and USB keyboard/mouse connectivity. Featuring an ESP32-C6 wireless module and extensive GPIO and expansion options, the Fruit Jam is perfect for retro emulation, educational projects, and lightweight standalone computing. But hurry, stock is limited!

(www.cnx-software.com)

Hardware Retro Computer

Salt Typhoon: Chinese Cyber Espionage Campaign Targets Millions of Americans

2025-08-30

Salt Typhoon: Chinese Cyber Espionage Campaign Targets Millions of Americans

A top FBI cyber official revealed that China's 'Salt Typhoon' cyber espionage campaign has stolen data from millions of Americans over several years through intrusions into US telecommunications networks. The campaign's reach is vast, potentially affecting nearly every American, targeting individuals beyond sensitive sectors and including high-profile figures like former and current presidential administration officials. The operation, active since at least 2019, compromised around 200 US organizations and impacted over 80 countries. The FBI warns of China's reckless and unbounded actions through affiliated companies, urging a heightened awareness of cybersecurity threats and the need for robust defenses against such attacks.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech cyber espionage

AI Simplifies Coding, But Product Management Becomes the Bottleneck

2025-08-30

AI Simplifies Coding, But Product Management Becomes the Bottleneck

Stanford professor Andrew Ng argues that AI has made coding easier, but product management is now the main hurdle. Tasks that once took six engineers three months can now be completed in a weekend. The challenge lies in deciding what to build. AI's speed in prototyping necessitates faster product decisions, leading teams to increasingly rely on intuition and deep customer empathy rather than solely data analysis. This sparks a debate on the role of product managers, with some arguing their importance in the AI era, while others suggest they're unnecessary in a company's early stages.

(www.businessinsider.com)

AI

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