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Sterilized soil keeps 'breathing' for six years, hinting metabolism predates life
French biochemist Sébastien Fontaine spent 15 years trying to fully kill soil samples and explain why they wouldn't stop emitting carbon dioxide. After blasting
Throttling your own iPhone: an app that fights doomscrolling with bad bandwidth
A developer built VineWall, an iOS app that deliberately throttles internet speeds for selected apps as an anti-doomscrolling tool. The premise is behavioral ra
Twenty Years On, The Pirate Bay's 2006 Raid Backup Still Defines Its Survival
On May 31, 2006, 65 Swedish police officers seized servers from a Stockholm datacenter in an attempt to take The Pirate Bay offline. The operation was driven la
When the Machine Keeping You Alive Fails: An Insulin Pump Horror Story
A type 1 diabetic recounts her Tandem t:slim X2 insulin pump repeatedly failing during a week-long trip to Santa Fe, throwing recurring 'Cartridge Alarm 20A' er
Zig Template Brings Memory-Safe Language to Flipper Zero App Development
A new open-source template lets developers build Flipper Zero applications in Zig instead of C, wiring the language's build system into the existing ufbt toolch
A Gentle Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography
A primer PDF hosted at cryptography101.ca walks readers through the mathematical foundations of lattice-based cryptography, the leading family of post-quantum s
Accenture to Acquire Ookla, Folding Speedtest and Downdetector into Its AI Stack
Accenture announced an agreement to acquire Ookla, the Ziff Davis-owned network intelligence firm behind Speedtest, Downdetector, Ekahau, and RootMetrics. Terms
Anthropic hits ~$1T valuation, overtaking OpenAI as top AI startup
A $65 billion Series H led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia has pushed Anthropic's valuation toward the trillion-dollar mark, nearly triple its F
AOMedia Finalizes AV2 Video Codec Spec, Successor to AV1
The Alliance for Open Media has published the v1.0.0 specification for AV2, the royalty-free successor to AV1. The standard targets better compression efficienc
Cheese Paper: An offline, file-based text editor built for writing fiction
Cheese Paper is a GPLv3-licensed writing tool aimed at fiction authors who want their drafts and notes to live as plain files rather than inside a proprietary d
Cloudflare Turnstile Now Demands WebGL Fingerprinting, Breaking WebKitGTK Browsers
Cloudflare's Turnstile human-verification widget has started requiring WebGL-based device fingerprinting, locking out users of WebKitGTK browsers who cannot com
Creatine supplementation slows early Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30% in trial
A multicenter placebo-controlled trial of 240 early Alzheimer's patients found that 5g daily creatine monohydrate over 12 weeks raised brain phosphocreatine lev