BlogDB

Sep 28, 2026 from Hackaday

Synthetic Aperture Radar Drone Gets Interferometric Imaging

It’s been more than a year since [Henrik Forstén] built the first iteration of his synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imaging drone, and he’s certainly been productive in the meantime. Not only …read more

Sep 28, 2026 from Above the Law

Cravath And Weil Are Just Trading Partners At This Point

Cravath took six Weil partners this month, well, they just got one back. The post Cravath And Weil Are Just Trading Partners At This Point appeared first on Above the Law.

Sep 28, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

The Worst Kind Of Bean Counting

Read The Worst Kind Of Bean Counting Customer: "I want a skinny long black." Me: "A long black is just two espresso shots in water." Customer: "I know! I want that but skinny!" Read The Worst Kind ...

Sep 28, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

As Suncor Approaches, Justice Alito Recuses

The petitioners appear to lose a vote they might need in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County.

Sep 28, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 28 September 2026

Fake Clod Edition Top Story Thieves stole two entire trucks belonging to Plus.ai and got away with 20 tons of raw Nvidia silicon. (Tom's Hardware) So raw that it was still sand. Because Plus.ai is ...

Sep 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Babylon Had No Religion Class, but Its Future Officials Still Had to Learn Nearly 2,000 Gods

Some 2,500 years ago, Babylon trained the sons of its wealthiest families without a single weekly hour devoted to the gods. There was no textbook that worked as a Bible either. Religion was everywh...

Sep 28, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

How to get into this beautiful off-the-beaten-path Kyoto temple earlier than the general public

Getting up early and heading outside the regular tourist circuit could lead to an unforgettable experience this autumn. When looking at lists of sightseeing spots in Kyoto, there are certain names ...

Sep 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

postmarketOS rebrands as Nura in move to broaden appeal beyond tech community; keeps logo

In an announcement at their annual conference, the open-source mobile operating system project formerly known as postmarketOS has revealed its new identity: Nura. The name emerged following an exte...

Sep 28, 2026 from Thejesh GN

How Do We Get More Microgrants in India?

I gathered a group of folks and did the BOF session at IndiaFOSS/2026. The idea behind the BoF session wasn’t to present anything, but to solicit ideas and provocations to improve the micro-grantin...

Sep 28, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog

The Month iPhone Duo Gives Developers - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #155

Xcode 27.1 beta, which includes the iPhone Duo simulator, was released on September 18—just five weeks before the device officially goes on sale on October 23. Curiously, Xcode 27.2 beta, which doe...

Sep 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Lazic War

While the Byzantine Empire under Justinian I and the Sassanids under Khosrow I might have decided to stop fighting on their southern borders, hostilities continued in the area east of the Black Sea...

Sep 28, 2026 from It's FOSS

postmarketOS is No More, At Least Under That Name

It took the project 1.5 years before settling on 'Nura' as its new identity.

Sep 28, 2026 from Steve Blank

The World Outside the Classroom Changed, The Class Didn’t

This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants This is the third of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it. Part 1: The Year AI Came For Us Part 2: A...

Sep 28, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Beijing Legislates Mandatory Medical Insurance

Christopher Nye & Charles Sun

Sep 28, 2026 from Kev Quirk

I Switched to Brave Browser

I've been whinging about wanting to move away from Firefox for nearly a year now. It started with Mozilla's announcement about their AI strategy and my initial thoughts. Then they doubled-down and ...

Sep 28, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

First for South Africa as robotic exoskeleton aids Table Mountain rescue

I can really sympathise with this situation as it happened to me as well a few years ago. We hiked up the mountain and planned to come down with the cable car. But many hours later by the time we r...

Sep 28, 2026 from Jordi Villar

2026W38

Semantic Search Without Embeddings — The insight that reframed this for me is that embeddings nail representation and similarity but are weak at the third piece, deciding what’s actually in or out....

Sep 28, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Better late than letter 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCIX

Welcome to the 299th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form writing sister...

Sep 27, 2026 from Above the Law

Scary Law Firms In Time For Halloween — See Generally

Nothing To Fear But Quinn Itself: BTI's annual survey of the firms clients least want to see across the "v." is out, and Quinn Emanuel, Kirkland & Ellis, Skadden, and Gibson Dunn are once again the...

Sep 27, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Tourists Are Never Going To Change

Read Tourists Are Never Going To Change I was working in a tourist town in New Brunswick, Canada, and some American tourists asked me: Tourist: "We're going across to Prince Edward Island after thi...