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• Post #3545028

  Cryptography-meets-surveillance-politics in the IETF! Exciting Internet governance drama for your delectation: https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2026-July/039621.html

• Post #2551426

  Dog is hipster's co-pilot. https://newatlas.com/urban-transport/elf-3-pedal-electric-solar-velomobile/

• Post #2551425

  https://newatlas.com/automotive/byd-denza-z-hyperconvertible-ev-1000-hp/

• Post #2551424

  https://newatlas.com/marine/wireless-offshore-chargers-electric-ships/

• Post #2551423

  I'm often disproportionately attracted to display-faces, and I've been amused to see the recent revanchment or rehabilitation or whatever of blackletter, but anyway, I really liked the whimsy of this face, though it's clearly a hipster-catering-to-something-being-cool-again-in-the-moment thing. And using the blackletter fad to sneak in the lombardic capitals is cool. I always love it when people manage to piggyback something actually cool and obscure onto a pseudo-cool-...

• Post #2551422

  https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii

• Post #2551419

  https://montanafreepress.org/2026/05/06/the-montana-legacy-of-ted-turner/

• Post #2551418

  Study of 30,000 EV batteries: https://www.autoweek.com/news/a71237063/ev-range-not-diminished-over-5-years/

• Post #2551415

  https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a71204448/ford-ev-truck-future-details/

• Post #2551414

  I’m having a parenting milestone tonight. Up waiting for one of my daughters to get home from a concert, for the first time. The irony being that it’s my younger daughter, while the elder one is asleep in bed.

• Post #2551412

  I was today years old when I first heard the phrase "haptic petting zoo." https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2026/workshop/feel-the-difference-a-haptic-petting-zoo

• Post #2551410

  https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/the-electric/electric-china-steals-manufacturing-march-another-american-made-technology

• Post #2551408

  And topping today's list of Movies the Right Doesn't Want You to See:

• Post #2474342

  https://phys.org/news/2020-07-years-history-domestic-cats-central.html

• Post #1590891

  https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/17/dutch_navy_frigate_tracked/

• Post #1590889

  DANE explainer: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/04/what-is-dane-dns-based-authentication-of-named-entities-explained-2026/

• Post #1590887

  Today's Kickstarter hilarity is, for some reason, 0% funded. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kehindepeters/alpha-v1-smarter-helmets-for-space-missions

• Post #1590886

  https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/21/iran_claims_us_used_backdoors

• Post #1590885

  https://archiveconference.com/

• Post #1590884

  https://www.wired.com/story/new-gas-powered-data-centers-could-emit-more-greenhouse-gases-than-entire-nations/

• Post #1107869

  Naw... ya think? But who could have predicted that? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-02/fbi-calls-breach-of-sensitive-agency-networks-a-major-incident

• Post #1107864

  https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/10/consumer-sentiment-inflation-fears-iran-war.html

• Post #1102597

  Not the timeline I was expecting to inhabit: rap-soundtracked Iranian government Lego animation on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9DNx7xIIc

• Post #929771

  A paper from @arozenshtein which could serve as a useful primer on federated moderation issues: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4213674#maincontent

• Post #851781

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/study-sycophantic-ai-can-undermine-human-judgment/

• Post #851777

  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

• Post #851772

  A problem in search of a problem: https://newatlas.com/aircraft/hydrogen-powered-business-jet-closer-to-certification/

• Post #735241

  El Reg just published a useful article on SCION, although the headline is a little clickbaity. A few of my own thoughts on the matter: - The Internet, per se (the network of things which speak to each other using IPv4, IPv6, and their successors at layer 3), won't last forever. - Whatever follows the Internet will have to be developed and adopted, and that will take a lot of work over a long (meaning probably 30+ years) time. - Most projects fail. - That means that, whatever the mer...

• Post #530879

  https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/14/1074652/residential-heat-pumps-cost/