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Firefox for iOS Ships a Built-In Ad Blocker
Mozilla has added a native ad blocker to Firefox for iOS, meaning users no longer need a separate content-blocking app or a third-party extension to strip ads o
France's top court strikes down under-15 social media ban on free-speech grounds
France's Constitutional Council has struck down a law that would have barred anyone under 15 from using social media, ruling that a blanket prohibition dispropo
From Trinidad, an Embedded Engineer Rebuts the Case Against RISC-V
Responding to Dmitry Grinberg's widely-shared "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better," an embedded engineer working out of Trinidad and Tobago concedes several
Inside the Gray Market for Reselling Discounted AI Inference Credits
A secondary market has formed around unused AI credits, with 'token brokers' buying up startup inference allowances and reselling them at steep discounts. The a
Off-topic for this publication: a weather forecast on the 2026 'Super El Niño'
Editorial note: this source is a long-range meteorology forecast from severe-weather.eu and has no connection to cybersecurity, software, or technology. It cont
Prompting AI Is Closer to Managing People Than Programming a Machine
The author, drawing on experience as an engineering leader, argues that working with AI resembles delegation more than coding. Traditional software offers deter
Raph Levien Proposes 'Hyperbezier' as a Successor to the Cubic Bézier Curve
Raph Levien, whose PhD work produced the Spiro curve system, has introduced a new curve family he calls the hyperbezier, pitched as a potential replacement for
St. Lucie Unit 1 reactor manually tripped after 3 control rods drop into core
Operators at Florida's St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant manually tripped Unit 1 at 9:47 a.m. EDT on August 13, 2026, after three control rods unexpectedly fell int
The Ghost Characters Haunting Unicode Since a 1978 Japanese Typo
When Japan's trade ministry standardized the JIS X 0208 character encoding in 1978, it accidentally enshrined a handful of characters that meant nothing. Dubbed
The Weekend Turns 100 — and Remote Work Is Quietly Dissolving It
The two-day weekend is a surprisingly recent invention, marking its centenary in 2026. Henry Ford didn't create it, but in 1926 he threw his industrial weight b
Waist Size Beats BMI at Flagging Heart Disease Risk, 260K-Person Study Finds
A study in JACC, the American College of Cardiology's flagship journal, argues that BMI alone misclassifies cardiovascular risk because it ignores where body fa