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EU digital ID wallets are quietly handing Google and Apple the keys
European member states building EUDI identity wallets are wiring in remote-attestation services from Google (Play Integrity API) and Apple (Managed Device Attes
From zero hardware experience to a fault-tolerant RL octocopter in 2.5 weeks
A first-time hardware builder documents going from an idea to a flying eight-rotor drone in under three weeks, designing the frame in Fusion 360, CNC-milling it
Godot bans AI-authored code, citing reviewer burnout from 'slop' PRs
The Godot game engine is amending its contribution guidelines to prohibit AI-authored code, pull requests filed by AI agents, and AI-generated text in human-to-
Google open-sources Copybara, its internal tool for syncing code across repos
Copybara is a Google-built utility for transforming and relocating source code between repositories, now available as an open-source project. Its core use case
Inside one of Tokyo's last two barley tea factories, where mugicha gets its flavor
Ogawa Sangyo, one of only two barley tea (mugicha) producers with a plant in Tokyo, opened its Edogawa Ward factory to explain how the summer staple is actually
Inside Shoreham: The $6B Nuclear Plant That Ran for a Day and Died
The Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island's north shore is a time capsule of 1970s engineering. Its GE Mark II Boiling Water Reactor took twelve years to
Inside the Pull-Back Toy Car: A Spiral Spring and Six Gears, Explained
An illustrated teardown breaks down the clockwork behind pull-back toy cars, a mechanism first devised by West German firm Darda in 1970 to replace key-wound to
Knoppix: The Original Bootable Linux Live System Still Runs Entirely From Removable Media
Knoppix is a self-contained GNU/Linux distribution that boots directly from a CD, DVD, or USB stick without touching the hard disk. It bundles a broad selection
Meta's Brain2Qwerty v2 hits 61% word accuracy decoding text from brain scans — no surgery
Meta's AI research group has released Brain2Qwerty v2, a system that turns non-invasive brain recordings into typed sentences in real time. Trained on roughly 2
Mistral's Leanstral 1.5 targets Lean 4 theorem proving with a sparse 119B MoE
Mistral quietly added Leanstral 1.5 to its experimental Labs line on June 30, 2026. Unlike the company's general-purpose chat models, this one is narrowly speci
NY Fed: Labor's Share of US Income Hits Post-War Low, But the Cause Is Familiar
The share of US economic output paid out as wages and salaries has fallen to its lowest point in the post-war era, sitting 1.6 percentage points below where it
SCOTUS Ruling on FTC Independence Guts Legal Basis for EU-US Data Flows
In Trump v. Slaughter, the US Supreme Court's conservative majority endorsed the unitary executive theory, holding that laws shielding agencies like the Federal