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Fossil of the first and only amphibian to have always lived in the sea has been discovered in China: it was armored and hunted by suction

There are more than 8,000 species of amphibians on Earth, and not one of them lives in the sea. Fewer than 2% tolerate any salt at all, and even those have limits. It is a striking gap. Whales, sea...

OBS Studio 33.0 arrives with a two-year browser engine jump and a plugin loading rework

OBS Studio 33.0 is here, led by a substantial update to the Chromium Embedded Framework that powers browser sources and docks. According to the release notes, CEF moves from version 127/6533 to 150...

A Public Reticulum Backbone Interface in India

Until last week, India had no Public Backbone Interfaces for the reticulum. I started one last week so we could have one in India. I really wanted one in Bangalore, but the Mumbai server was the ch...

When Apps Are No Longer Tied to a Specific Operating System - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #159

This week’s issue features three intriguing projects: Cutefish, SimRun, and Mac Android Subsystem. They take different technical approaches. One provides a runtime environment by implementing compa...

Syriac

The Syriac alphabet is a set of 22 consonants; there are no vowels. It was created in the 1st century CE as an offshoot of cursive Aramaic.Written from right to left, (and occasionally vertically),...

Server Patching Notes

Previously: Server Setup Notes: Ubuntu, Nginx, Django, MySQL I spent some time last week trying to patch and update my rinky-dink little webserver over here. This was mostly because of the PHP-rela...

There's something in my eye

Breaking News: Middle-aged man feels emotion other than hunger

There's something in my eye

Breaking News: Middle-aged man feels emotion other than hunger

The Entebbe Hijacking

Uganda · 1976 · Hijacking — Hijackers seized Air France Flight 139 and held hostages at Entebbe Airport under Ugandan protection before Israeli commandos launched a daring rescue raid.

Aspect Orbs in Astrology: Read the Gap and the Limit

A chart can show a 2-degree orb while using a 6-degree allowance. Learn which number describes the angle, which controls inclusion, and how rounding can confuse the comparison.

Weekly Robotics #382

Today in Weekly Robotics: Fixing a giant robot arm and exposing it to the Internet, generalist vs. specialist robots, a quadruped doing pediupulation, a humanoid in the operating room, and more!

Siege Engine

Before a React/Vite route goes public

A working client-side route is only the first check. Inspect what a direct request receives, what hydration changes, and what the production host does with a missing page.

A thank-you for your church carol service sheet printers: the vestry photocopier running hot and two hundred sheets folded at the kitchen table, as a jigsaw with your note at the end

Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We're not affiliated with any church...

Law Firm Leaks — See Generally

Forwarding Fail: Freshfields global managing partner accidentally forwarded a thread about spinning off the firm's AI unit. AI keeps exposing cyber vulnerabilities... even when they're between the ...

Rollenspielszenen: Der Ektoplasma-Drink

Der Krarket will Jacksnipe fressen? Jacksnipe will den Spieß umdrehen.

Hackaday Links: October 25, 2026

Some disappointing, but perhaps not entirely unsurprising news this week out of Denmark — after announcing last year that they would transition away from Microsoft’s proprietary software, the reali...

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, And About $18

Read A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, And About $18 Woman: "I'll get a [complicated and expensive cocktail]." I make it for her and slide it over. She takes a lot of pictures of it, which is fa...

On Instagram Food Trends

I read a report (such as this is) in the New York Post titled NYC coffee shop serves up pumpkin spice lattes — inside real pumpkins. Some coffee shop in Astoria is dumping lattes into live pumpkins...

Trump Exempts Some Canadian Products From Section 338 Tariffs - But his Illegal Trade War Continues

Courts should still strike down the Section 338 tariffs and import bans that remain in place.