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The Mechanic Who Accidentally Flew a Mach 2 Fighter Jet
In July 1966, RAF engineer Walter "Taffy" Holden was running ground taxi tests on a malfunctioning English Electric Lightning interceptor at RAF Lyneham. With n
WebLLM runs LLMs entirely in the browser via WebGPU — no server, OpenAI-compatible
WebLLM is an inference engine that executes large language models directly inside a web browser, tapping WebGPU for GPU acceleration so no backend or API server
Whistleblower: USPS mail-ballot portal is untested and could reject ballots in bulk
A federal whistleblower, filing through Whistleblower Aid to Sen. Richard Blumenthal, alleges that the U.S. Postal Service's new Federal Ballot Mail Portal is b
Why the Browser's Main Thread Is the Real Bottleneck in UI Performance
Frontend performance work usually fixates on network requests, bundle size, caching, and re-renders, but none of that matters once the browser's single main thr
153M ID Scans Surface on Dark Web, Traced to Vendor IDScan.net; FBI Opens Probe
A newly launched dark web service called Nexus is offering digital scans of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses, alongside millions of ID
Aging Brains Blend Memories Rather Than Losing Them, Brain Scans Suggest
New imaging research in Cerebral Cortex argues that age-related memory failure isn't mainly about storage running low—it's about retrieval getting sloppy. Scien
Bringing a Dead $300 Tektronix TDS7104 Scope Back to Life
A flea-market find — a cosmetically clean 1 GHz, 4-channel Tektronix TDS7104 oscilloscope bought for $300 — turned into a full refurbishment project when it beg
Building a Text Editor for the Web: Canvas vs. contenteditable vs. textarea
Frustrated by the decline of hand-crafted software like Sublime Text, developer David Bushell set out to prototype a browser-based code editor and documented th
Dan Luu picks apart Ed Zitron's 'AI is a bubble' predictions and finds the numbers don't add up
Dan Luu scrutinizes the reasoning behind AI skeptic Ed Zitron's widely-cited predictions, opening with a disclaimer that he holds no meaningful financial stake
Ditching cloud APIs for a self-hosted LLM stack on a 48GB Mac mini
A developer details a fully local LLM setup running on an M4 Pro Mac mini with 48GB of unified memory. The stack pairs a Qwen3.6-35B-A3B mixture-of-experts mode
Firefox Adds Built-In Ad Blocker for iOS, Off by Default
Mozilla has added a native ad blocker to Firefox on iOS, working around Apple's restrictions on browser extensions by building the feature directly into the app
Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash, plus a defender-only 'Cyber' variant for bug fixing
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third Flash model in six weeks, positioning it as a low-cost workhorse that narrows the gap with pricier frontier mode