JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission

SimCity, but with Permits

A free city-building game in your browser. You are the mayor. You know what the city needs. Now get it past the zoning board, the neighbors, the appeals court and the next election.

EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

If you teach or present with an iPad, avoid iPadOS 27.

My Friend Bob Cringely

Bob Cringely died on Oct 3, 2026

Jepsen: Orkes Conductor 5.3.2

What shall I teach my son?

Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery

How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed

Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month

Attached: 1 image Facebook achieving absurd new heights of enshittification by now charging a subscription of at least $50/mo to... post more than two links a month to your own Facebook page. Covers comments too. Subscription not even available in UK yet. Don't know why we bother with them. Their documentation about this: https://www.facebook.com/help/1929252614431792

IKEA – 3D Guide

Real IKEA assembly manuals beside 3D builds that follow them page by page: every dowel, cam lock and nail, in the order the drawings show. BILLY and LACK.

Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case

Insofar as a political organization like Ofcom is even capable of admitting defeat, it did so in the 4chan enforcement today. In testimony before the Commons Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee, Ofcom admitted it knows its jurisdiction ends where a foreign court's jurisdiction begins. "If foreign courts decide to... try and get in our…

Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs

Contribute to google-pytorch/torch_tpu development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust

Cloudflare is collaborating on tsrs, a Rust port of TypeScript that is up to 8x faster and uses 70% less memory.

SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful

Contribute to humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents development by creating an account on GitHub.

'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs

The Memorial Stadium fixture can fire a 2.67-ounce Fairbury Tomboy at 90 mph from Tom Osborne Field over the 165-foot-high skyboxes. But most land in the stands. 

DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

DeepInfer: High-performance, large-scale inference framework for DeepSeek models - deepseek-ai/DeepInfer

Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins

We asked an internal research Claude model to design minibinders (small proteins that attach tightly to a target) against scorpion neurotoxins.

Voxtral 3

Voxtral 3: Mistral's voice agent SDK for real-time speech in 50+ languages — accurate transcription, emotional TTS, deep tool use. EU-hosted or self-deployed.