Testing Drone Autonomy Shouldn’t Require a Drone
The title of this article is why I ended up building an open-source drone simulator that runs in a browser tab, and everything that silently broke on the way there. We are living in an era of the beginning of intelligent autonomous vehicle systems, and drones play a...
Operational Dark Matter: Why Mature Systems Keep Surprising Engineers
The most threatening parts of modern infrastructure are often not the ones engineers cannot see, but the ones everyone stopped remembering.IncidentAt 2:17 a.m., I was convinced we were chasing a network problem. My team was 3 hours into diagnosing a slowdown event...
How to Choose an AI Video Model in 2026: Duration, References, Audio, and Iteration Cost
AI video teams have more model choices than ever, yet model selection is still often reduced to a leaderboard question: Which generator is best?That question is too broad for production. A model can look excellent in a benchmark and still be the wrong choice for a...
What 516K AI Conversations Taught me About Education
What building Atom taught me about designing AI for learning: where AI tutors work, where they fail, and why education needs more than a chatbot. The Problem We Wanted to Solve For a long time, one of the biggest problems in STEM education hasn't been access to...
Biometric Entry at Scale: What the 2026 World Cup Actually Tested
A technical breakdown of the identity stacks securing 16 stadiums across three countriesWhen FIFA announced that the 2026 World Cup would span three countries - the US, Mexico, and Canada - stadium security architects quietly started sweating. Not because of the...
The Expert-to-Digital Framework: From Domain Expertise to Product Strategy
An experienced planner can recognise that a production plan is unworkable before any system raises an exception. This expertise lives in exceptions, professional shorthand and tacit judgement, much of which is never documented. Most organisations move too quickly from...
Pegasus Zero-Click Spyware Exploit Infects Serbian Student Movement Member’s iPhone
The iPhone belonging to a member of Serbia's student protest movement was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, according to new findings from the Citizen Lab in collaboration with the SHARE Foundation. "Our analysis confirmed that an iMessage zero-click exploit...
Five Times Pixbu’s Tests Measured the Wrong Thing
I’m a solo dev shipping Pixbu — a self-care app where a pixel creature grows as you look after yourself — for Shipaton 2026. It’s live on both stores in 6 languages with 1,889 automated tests. This post isn’t about the features. It’s about a habit that saved the...
Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving
Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur has ditched VMware as part of a wider datacenter and network refresh, saving itself more than 85 percent on licensing costs - though its Chief Technology Officer says the decision wasn't purely financial. Transforming...
Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 5 review: A significant upgrade at the same price
On the Momentum True Wireless 5, a completely new design increases comfort while excellent sound and extended battery life are the main attractions.
World Open-Sources ProveKit, a Post-Quantum Proving Toolkit That Runs on a Phone
On the first of September a dark web service calling itself Nexus began advertising bulk access to the identity documents of more than 170 million people across North America. The inventory it published reads like an audit of everything the verification industry has...
How to spot romance scams online and protect yourself
Imagine matching with someone on a dating app who seems to have it all: charm, wealth, a glamorous lifestyle, and serious intentions about building a future with you. That was the promise prosecutors say 35-year-old Daejon Love offered to women he met online. Federal...
UK’s Online Safety Act has made ‘absolutely no difference,’ kids say
Children have told England's Children's Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, that the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) "has made absolutely no difference" to their ability to access harmful content online. More than a year after the OSA's key child protection duties took...
Steve Jobs said great leaders make 1 difficult choice most managers avoid
There is a dangerous idea floating around the workplace: If you care about employees, you should avoid making them uncomfortable. That sounds compassionate. Sometimes it is. Other times, it is managerial cowardice disguised as servant leadership. Leaders who avoid...
Belkin unveils new large-capacity and solid state power banks
Belkin has announced new Anker power bank-lookalikes, solid state power banks and new SureFind trackers.
Belkin launches three new SoundForm earphones at IFA 2026
Belkin has announced SoundForm Isolate, Dot and Play.
Xiaomi’s new passport-style foldable looks shorter and wider than the Galaxy Z Fold 8
The passport-style foldable is increasingly dominating foldable phone launches this year. Xiaomi has its own.
Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016)
Article URL: https://scienceblog.com/b-three-schoolgirls-in-kinsale-pulled-up-a-pea-plant-covered-in-warts-and-instead-of-binning-it-spent-three-years-testing-13000-seeds-in-a-spare-bedroom-the-bacteria-living-in-those-warts-made-barley/ Comments URL:...
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship
Shipping giant Maersk is testing a modern rotor sail from British firm Anemoi Marine Technologies in an effort to cut fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Anemoi says Maersk will fit one of its rotor sail systems to an 8,700 TEU Lima-class container ship....
5 things Freud got right about your brain
Below, Mark Solms shares five key insights from his new book, The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing. Mark is a neuroscientist who took the unusual step of also training as a psychoanalyst. For 40 years, he has used the tools of modern...
I attempted to institute a ‘no-shame’ rule in my work, and it was a lot harder than I expected
When I’m having an unproductive day, I hear the most annoying and unhelpful voices rattling around in my head. It’s usually a variation of taunts about how I should have gotten up earlier or shortened my morning routine. Then it turns into how I better be “on it” for...
Miniaturized, Working Replica of Vintage Leslie Speaker
Few pieces of vintage audio gear from the turn of the century (the previous one) inspire the kind of devotion that a Leslie speaker does. Sure, there are plenty of pieces that are rarer or more valuable, but the Leslie speaker has such a big following because of its...
Your VMware renewal invoice ate your AI budget – what now?
Your VMware renewal invoice ate your AI budget – what now? Go to Source The price of eggs and butter might have soared in the last couple of years, but if you want a real sticker shock horror story, ask a VMware customer. After...
Pre-Release of Polars 2.0
Article URL: https://pola.rs/posts/announcing-polars-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546753 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Anker Eufy at IFA 2026: New security cameras, plus a robot vacuum and a robot lawnmower
Security was the focus of Anker Eufy at IFA this year.
Anker charging gadgets at IFA 2026: Combo chargers, a power bank and more
Nearly all of Anker's new chargers have displays, and several can power multiple devices at once.
Anker’s MindBase is a smart home hub, NAS and security guard
Anker's MindBase uses AI to run your smart home, and keep it safe.
Anker brings its AI chip to the Soundcore Space 2 Pro headphones
Anker has a bunch of new AI-infused headphones, earbuds and hearing aids on the way.
Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?
I just found out that 1Password is donating $300,000 to a project founded by a very controversial person, and I'm looking to move to a different password manager.Has anyone migrated from 1Password recently to another tool/platform? Have you had a good experience with...
Terminated employee cost company hundreds of thousands of dollars because nobody revoked access
PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, where we talk about organizations that are independently self-owned. This week’s tale of toxic tech involves a disgruntled ex-employee who had the means and opportunity to wreak havoc. Our story comes courtesy of Yad Senapathy, who serves...