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Australia's Home Battery Subsidy Halves Wholesale Power Prices in a Year
Roughly a year into a program offering a 30 percent discount on home battery systems tied to solar arrays, Australia has crossed 500,000 installations — more th
Building an e-ink 'newspaper' from RSS feeds to escape phone reading
A developer frustrated with straining their eyes reading blogs on a phone repurposed a pocket-sized e-reader as a dedicated feed reader. The device is the X4 by
China taps Deutsche Bank as Europe's first foreign yuan clearing bank
The People's Bank of China has authorized Deutsche Bank to clear renminbi transactions from Frankfurt, the first time a non-Chinese institution has been given t
Eigendrum: a client-side FEM solver that plays the modes of any drum shape
Eigendrum is a browser tool that computes and sonifies the vibration modes of a clamped membrane of arbitrary shape. It treats the physics as the Helmholtz eige
Firefox becomes the last major browser to fully support uBlock Origin
As Microsoft Edge prepares to enforce Manifest V3 and cut off Manifest V2 extensions, Mozilla has confirmed via Bluesky that Firefox will keep supporting uBlock
Flagged forever: how a fake sanctions-list name traps a real Sean Byrne
Sean Joseph Byrne keeps getting blocked by restricted-party screening because his common Irish name matches a single entry on the U.S. Commerce Department's Ent
Gloomberb: an open-source, keyboard-driven Bloomberg Terminal clone
Gloomberb is an open-source market-data terminal that pitches itself as a fast, extensible alternative to Bloomberg's terminal, shipping as both a native deskto
Let cheap LLMs hallucinate labels, then map them back with embeddings
Constraining an LLM to a fixed taxonomy—say, sorting an e-commerce query like "wood coffee table" into one of several hundred Wayfair categories—usually means s
Playing Super Mario Bros. 3 Through Nix Attribute Paths
Nix's lazy evaluation means an attribute path isn't just a lookup into a catalogue — it's a program the evaluator walks, generating each node only when somethin
Racket 9.3 ships Markdown docs, faster DrRacket checks, and finer package controls
The Racket team has released version 9.3 of the language-oriented programming language, a maintenance-and-tooling update that sharpens the developer workflow ra
RISC-V's ISA Sins: Slow Interrupts and Broken Compressed Encoding
A longtime RISC-V critic lays out a technical case that the architecture's much-praised ISA is mediocre where it matters most. The central argument is that no s
Study: Semaglutide tied to 26% lower predicted 5-year dementia risk
A study published in an Alzheimer's & Dementia diagnostic journal reports an association between semaglutide (the GLP-1 receptor agonist sold as Ozempic and Weg