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Inside Shoreham: The $6B Nuclear Plant That Ran for a Day and Died
The Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island's north shore is a time capsule of 1970s engineering. Its GE Mark II Boiling Water Reactor took twelve years to
Inside the Pull-Back Toy Car: A Spiral Spring and Six Gears, Explained
An illustrated teardown breaks down the clockwork behind pull-back toy cars, a mechanism first devised by West German firm Darda in 1970 to replace key-wound to
Knoppix: The Original Bootable Linux Live System Still Runs Entirely From Removable Media
Knoppix is a self-contained GNU/Linux distribution that boots directly from a CD, DVD, or USB stick without touching the hard disk. It bundles a broad selection
Meta's Brain2Qwerty v2 hits 61% word accuracy decoding text from brain scans — no surgery
Meta's AI research group has released Brain2Qwerty v2, a system that turns non-invasive brain recordings into typed sentences in real time. Trained on roughly 2
Mistral's Leanstral 1.5 targets Lean 4 theorem proving with a sparse 119B MoE
Mistral quietly added Leanstral 1.5 to its experimental Labs line on June 30, 2026. Unlike the company's general-purpose chat models, this one is narrowly speci
NY Fed: Labor's Share of US Income Hits Post-War Low, But the Cause Is Familiar
The share of US economic output paid out as wages and salaries has fallen to its lowest point in the post-war era, sitting 1.6 percentage points below where it
SCOTUS Ruling on FTC Independence Guts Legal Basis for EU-US Data Flows
In Trump v. Slaughter, the US Supreme Court's conservative majority endorsed the unitary executive theory, holding that laws shielding agencies like the Federal
Sony deletes purchased StudioCanal films from PlayStation libraries, no refund
Customers who paid to own StudioCanal movies on the PlayStation Store lost them when Sony removed the titles, and no one got their money back. The mechanism sit
The Case for the Ritual Saturday Reboot
A personal essay makes a light argument for a habit that has become largely obsolete: deliberately restarting your computer on a regular schedule. The author re
Tidal Will Label and Demonetize AI Music, Stopping Short of a Ban
Tidal's new AI policy, effective July 15, 2026, takes a middle path on AI-generated music: the service will keep accepting it but will cut off its earning poten
US ambassador has Belgian police eject reporters from Brussels '250' event
Journalists from The European Correspondent were forcibly removed from the privately-funded "Freedom 250" celebration in Brussels' Parc du Cinquantenaire after
Webernetes: a partial Kubernetes port that runs a live cluster in your browser
ngrok's Sam Rose has released webernetes, a partial reimplementation of Kubernetes in TypeScript that runs entirely client-side in a browser. Rather than compil