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UC Berkeley researchers have created 'olo', an imaginary color beyond the visible gamut, by stimulating individual cone cells with lasers. This breakthrough could lead to treatments for color blindness and even tetrachromacy.
Germany's Bundeskartellamt has made binding Apple's commitments to align its ATT consent prompts for third-party apps with its own, ending a long-running abuse-of-dominance probe.
The noCopy marker in Go's sync package isn't a compiler rule—it's a clever hook for go vet's copylocks checker. Here's how it works and how to use it in your own types.
Anthropic's plan to watermark Claude text by biasing token selection toward 'green' words is a deliberate degradation of output quality — and it applies to every response over 200 tokens, even private chats.
The Low-Tech Lab's open-source tutorial details how to build ceramic water filters at semi-industrial scale—a low-cost, locally manufacturable solution to a global crisis. We break down the process, the tech, and why it matters for engineers.
Clamiga is a new Common Lisp implementation built for classic AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS, with a portable bytecode VM, compacting GC, and an m68k JIT. It boots in 0.5 MB of heap and brings modern Lisp development to 68k hardware.
Harvard Health reviews the evidence for tai chi as a low-impact adjunct to medical treatment, covering benefits for strength, flexibility, balance, and aerobic conditioning. We break down what this means for engineers building health and wellness applications.
Comma.ai's Chestnut eGPU dock brings open-source firmware to the USB4 bridge, offering a $249 bare dock or $799 with an RX 9060. It's built for driving models but opens up eGPU debugging for everyone.
A rapidly intensifying Super El Niño, fueled by record westerly wind anomalies and a powerful Kelvin Wave, is on track to become one of the strongest events on record, with significant implications for global weather patterns this fall and winter.
Anthropic's frontier red team studies how AI agents coordinate, finding that swarms can outperform parallel agents in vulnerability detection but struggle with shared codebases—and that conformity can turn isolated errors into systemic failures.
In 1978, a series of cataloging mistakes created characters that never existed. They made it into JIS X 0208 and then Unicode, and now they're part of every computer on the planet.
Eigendrum is a web tool that solves the drumhead eigenvalue problem in your browser—draw a shape, hear its modes, and explore the math behind the sound.