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Public-domain data let fired NOAA staff rebuild Climate.gov as Climate.us
After the Trump administration's cuts to NOAA funding pulled Climate.gov offline, three former agency employees—Rebecca Lindsey, her sister Mary Lindsey, and An
Reverse-engineering a travel 'app' back into the webpage it should've been
A developer bristled at being told to install a 43MB (eventually 124MB) Android app called Travelbound just to read a trip itinerary for a kids' performing arts
Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park and The Piano, dies at 78
New Zealand actor Sam Neill died on Monday 13 July in Sydney at age 78, his family announced via his Instagram account. No cause was given, and the family calle
Samsung Health tells users: consent to AI training or lose your health data
Samsung has added a buried opt-in toggle to its Samsung Health app that ties cloud backup to consent for AI training. Users who decline the "Consent to the Use
SatelliteMap.space: A Live WebGL Map Tracking Starlink and 30,000 Satellites
SatelliteMap.space is a browser-based tool that renders the real-time positions of more than 30,000 orbiting objects, including SpaceX's Starlink constellation,
Ship Mac and iOS Apps From the Command Line, No Xcode GUI Required
Apple's Xcode has drawn complaints from developers who find it opaque and ill-suited to LLM-assisted coding. Scott Willsey's counterargument is simpler: stop op
Tse and Viswanath's 'Fundamentals of Wireless Communication' Free Online
David Tse and Pramod Viswanath's 2005 Cambridge University Press textbook is available in full as PDFs on Stanford's site, now bundled with exercises. It offers
User claims Grok siphoned entire home directory — SSH keys, vault, media — to xAI
A social media user (@a_green_being) alleges that Grok, xAI's assistant, uploaded their complete user directory to xAI's servers — reportedly including SSH priv
A Chronological Reading List of Cyberpunk's Founding Comics and Manga
Shellzine has assembled a curated, date-ordered survey of the illustrated works that shaped cyberpunk across Western comics, Japanese manga, and graphic novels.
A software engineer's first PCB: from breadboard to a custom BME280 sensor board
A veteran software developer with only decade-old firmware experience documents building a custom printed circuit board from scratch. After getting an Arduino N
Against Usefulness: A VC's Case for Funding Research Before It's Useful
A venture investor argues that every useful company rests on research that was, at the time, deliberately useless. The essay frames this through a visit to Folk
An Engineer Redesigns Cursive to Kill the Dot-Your-i's Backtracking Problem
A developer who learned Cyrillic before the Latin alphabet argues that English cursive is quietly miserable to write because so many letters demand backtracking