Another set of links I found interesting: So cool: Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap Great Barrier Reef already been dealt its death blow The benefits of special interests in autism How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids PIXHELL Attack: Leaking Sensitive Information from Air-Gap Computers via ‘Singing Pixels’ Thanks for reading!
It’s been a busy week! Here are some interesting links: How the Oldest Company in the World Has Survived Nearly 1,500 Years How does banking work? Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch Tabbed out on the Oregon Trail An unverified source, but it all sounds like it makes sense. How horrible: Buy, Borrow, Die - Explained See you next time!
Here are this week’s interesting links: Dishwashers are critical: At the heart of every restaurant Hahahah, oh ho ho ho, hahahaha: Microsoft’s Copilot falsely accuses court reporter of crimes he covered Astronomers back call for review of bonkers rule that means satellite swarms fly without environment checks Enjoy!
Here’s the latest links. I was travelling the last two weeks, so I missed a week, and this one is late, but here we are: The staggering death toll of scientific lies Finally, yes please: Artificial intelligence is losing hype From the ‘absolute crap’ department: Peloton announces $95 “used equipment activation fee” Magic moment: Sydney aquarium filled with song after sea birds mourn death of gay penguin Sphen You don’t know how bad most things are nor precisely how they’re bad....
And so it continues! Here’s my interesting links for this week: Airlines Are Running Out Of Flight Numbers, And They Don’t Know What To Do About It New Euripides just dropped: Uncovered Euripides fragments are ‘kind of a big deal’ Should’ve just used that Brother printer everyone has: Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle From the “they quoted my clever wife” department: Space is becoming an ‘unsustainable environment in the long term,’ ESA says A public draft of the second edition of the brilliant Artificial Intelligence and Games book is available Computer Archeology: Exploring the Anatomy of an MS-DOS Virus (if you found this interesting you may also find this interesting) Last days of the lonely interstellar spacecraft (original here) See you next week!...
With the death of Twitter, and the fracturing of social media, I’m going to try an experiment! To that end, I’m going post some of the more interesting things I’ve read online each Thursday. I hope you find them interesting too. Or not, I don’t mind. I’m just going to keep doing it anyway. I’ll post links in no particular order, and they might not be recent. Just things I’ve found interesting in the previous week or so....