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Handheld Atari 2600 Packs a CRT

We covered [Nick Bild]’s mini Atari console using original devices not so long ago, and today he’s back with the same console wrapped up with a CRT as a handheld. …read more

EEOC Wants To Keep Biglaw Diversity Probe Docs Secret To ‘Protect’ Firms It Publicly Accused

And not at all because the documents would tend to prove a baseless shakedown. Perish that thought! The post EEOC Wants To Keep Biglaw Diversity Probe Docs Secret To ‘Protect’ Firms It Publicly Acc...

Na Means Na

Read Na Means Na Customer: "Can I get some sodium-free salt?" Me: "We have low-sodium salt; it replaces a large portion of sodium chloride with potassium chloride to lower the sodium content, but y...

The End of Hormizd IV

So Hormizd IV was dealing with a civil war when a successful military leader decided he was destined to lead the Iranian Empire. Hormizd asked his general Farrukhan to leave the army and put down t...

Daily Tech News 7 October 2026

Girl With The Gat Edition Top Story French AI company Mistral has unveiled - not released as yet, but announced - its latest open-weight AI model, Mistral Large 4. (CNBC) At 1 trillion parameters i...

Compendium of Writings on the October 7 War and Related Issues

Over the last three years, I have written a number of pieces on October 7, its aftermath, and Western reactions to it.

Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody

Japanese subway company adds a new soundscape to Godzilla’s Tokyo home. November 3 is a special date for fans of Godzilla as it’s known as “Godzilla Day”. First celebrated to mark the anniversary o...

Ubuntu 26.10 delivers security updates with TPM-backed encryption, OpenSSL 4.0 & Linux 7.3

Canonical recently announced the beta release of Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray”, featuring one of its most extensive security upgrades to date, anchored by a migration to Linux kernel 7.3 and Ope...

Evaluating OCR on the Community Memory Corpus

The Community Memory corpus consists of approximately 5,500 scanned printouts of bulletin board-style posts made by Berkeley residents in the 1980s. Since residents posted messages through publicly...

Halloween and the Closed Carroll Gardens Library

The completion of renovations to the Carroll Gardens Library in Brooklyn has been delayed. One Halloween skeleton had commentary on the ongoing situation.

A Hunters’ Camp with a Rare Antler Axe Was Found Directly Beneath the First Farmers’ Layers in an Italian Cave

In a cave on the Italian side of the Slovenian border, one layer of earth holds the remains of the first farmers. The layer right below it belongs to the hunters who lived there before them. The ca...

AI-Friendly Frameworks: As Abstraction Moves Up, How Can Verification Keep Pace?

As AI coding becomes widespread, more and more developers lean toward one view: imperative frameworks like UIKit may suit coding agents better than SwiftUI. The reasoning is intuitive. UIKit's logi...

Vinix is Not a Linux Distro, But it Can Run Games, Docker, and QEMU

The project has been around since 2021, runs its own kernel, and is written in V.

Paul Carus’ The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil (1899)

A history of the Evil One, from the earliest times to the present.

My Hobby Is Learning

I've had lots of hobbies over the years. To name a few off the top of my head, there's been fish keeping, guitar, harmonica, fountain pens, watches, motorbikes, this blog, web development, 3D print...

Beijing Makes Rapid Gains Toward Seed Self-Reliance

Christopher Nye & Charles Sun

Top 8 questions about the “plague” situation

Well, “the plague” is trending on almost all social media channels now.

TIL how to deeplink all the things

I have written before about how to link to a specific segment of a youtube video, and how to link to specific words or paragraphs within a webpage. I even knew, vaguely, that you could link to page...

Juice

🗨️ we’re on the verge of democratizing only the worst part of celebrity

We’re on the verge of democratizing only the worst part of celebrity: the pervasive hovering cameras that are always there to preserve and distribute your failures. Cory Doctorow on Meta glasses