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Free White Printer in Brooklyn Heights Reminds Me of Visual Novel

A free white printer with a note left out for the taking in Brooklyn Heights reminded me of a Japanese horror visual novel I played and reviewed earlier this year.

Cheap USB-C chargers are actually fine—these 4 specs are all that matter

“These days, buying a charger requires you to be familiar with USB PD, PPS, GaN, and a handful of other acronyms, on top of having to check wattage, making it surprisingly difficult to figure out w...

Heavyweight ramen-style cheese fried chicken bowl appears in Tokyo, but is it genius or madness?

Karaage no Tensai invokes the name of Jiro-style ramen, and we head out for a taste test. It’s been said that there’s a fine line between genius and madness, but might that line be deep-fried and c...

Ubuntu is Growing Faster on Windows Than on Linux

The company's VP of Engineering expects WSL users to outnumber native Ubuntu desktop users within months.

addy.io rules system adds new automation conditions and actions

addy.io has expanded its mail rules system with more conditions and actions for automating how incoming messages and aliases are managed. Users can now automatically label catch-all aliases, route ...

Xi Bids for Global Leadership at 2026 World AI Conference

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Remains of a Denisovan “Giant” Found Over 60 Meters Beneath the Seafloor in Taiwan Challenge the Rules of Human Evolution

An international team of researchers has identified two leg bones found in the Penghu Channel, Taiwan, as belonging to Denisovans, an extinct group of hominids related to Neanderthals. The fossils,...

Who Is the Slower App Review Process Actually Stopping? - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #149

Slower App Store reviews have become something more and more developers can clearly feel. In the age of vibe coding, the cost of building and iterating on apps has dropped dramatically, so it is no...

The Skin Breaks As The Closet Keeps Acquiring Closets

August 17, 2026, 14:00 PM.The last entry ended abruptly. Not artistically abruptly, no matter how much I try to poeticise it. And, not even the kind of abruptness one manufactures and later calls a...

How Do You Learn With AI? 9 Ways to Use AI Tools for Studying Anything Faster

Learn with AI and you get something students have wanted since the invention of homework, a tutor that is available at 2 a.m., never sighs at the same question asked five times, and adjusts its exp...

2026-08-17 11:29: I regularly get marketing emails off the back of this site. "Here's a free license...

I regularly get marketing emails off the back of this site. "Here's a free license for our tool" or "can we put a link to our service in a post?" At least back then they were slightly human. Now al...

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Abdominal Fat Predicts Heart Disease Risk Better Than BMI - American College of Cardiology — The number that stuck with me is that people classified as normal weight by BMI still carried 15 to 50% ...

Pepin's Rebellion

There was a rebellion against Charlemagne in 792 by a handful of Frankish nobles headed by Charlemagne's eldest son, Pepin the Hunchback.An anonymous Saxon poet known only as Poeta Saxo, writing in...

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L’onanisme des utilisateurs de chatbots

L’onanisme des utilisateurs de chatbots Quand bien même les chatbots ne seraient pas les produits de gigantesques entreprises centralisées qui cherchent à nous exploiter en pourrissant nos cerveaux...

On finding vulnerabilities and shipping fixes

Over the last year, I’ve watched AI models and tools that find vulnerabilities in code take a central role in security industry communications. Every few weeks, a new product announcement promises ...

Hackaday Links: August 16, 2026

We’re no strangers to unusual hardware failures around these parts, but even so, a swarm of jellyfish clogging up the works is a new one to us. That’s exactly what …read more

Far From Pitcher Perfect Math

Read Far From Pitcher Perfect Math Customer: "Does the half pitcher have more alcohol than the full pitcher?" Me: "I mean, it would be the same alcohol percentage, but in terms of volume it would b...

Weekly Robotics #372

If your Monday coffee didn’t taste the same as usual due to me not sending out an issue - apologies. I hope today’s issue makes up for it! I’m in SF all week starting today; if you would like to me...

Vances Learn That If You’re Not In A Side Chat, The Side Chat Is About You — See Generally

Yale Law Cool Kids' Chat: JD and Usha Vance's law school classmates have kept a private Signal chat running for years to gossip about the couple's improbable turn from Yale liberals to MAGA royalty...