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New tech turns seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals

umich.edu

Jovan Kamcev, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and macromolecular science and engineering at U-M, places...
Jovan Kamcev, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and macromolecular science and engineering at U-M, places a filter membrane between two electrodes, which measure how well the membrane conducts electricity. This helps his team predict how well it can purify water. Image credit: Marcin Szczepanski, Michig...
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Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust

github.com
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2025 Daily Surface Air Temperature Looking Bad

climatereanalyzer.org

climate data temperature visualizations weather
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Matt Mullenweg, Automattic's CEO, Seems Bound and Determined to Wreck WordPress

digitalcxo.com

CEOs often make bad mistakes, but it’s hard to fathom exactly what Automattic CEO and co-founder...
CEOs often make bad mistakes, but it’s hard to fathom exactly what Automattic CEO and co-founder Matt Mullenweg thinks he’s doing to his company and WordPress. For decades, one of the easiest decisions a company could make was to answer the question: “What content management system (CMS) should we use for our websit...
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417-Megapixel Andromeda Galaxy Panorama Took over a Decade to Make

petapixel.com

This photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years from Earth, is the largest ever...
This photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years from Earth, is the largest ever created using images from the Hubble Space Telescope. It features over 600 Hubble images and required over a decade to make. The composite features 200 million stars, a fraction of Andromeda’s estimated trillion...
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Bioinspired weather-responsive adaptive shading

uni-stuttgart.de
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An Astronomical View of Ancient Egyptian Star Clocks (2021)

arcgis.com
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Reverse Engineering Call of Duty Anti-Cheat

ssno.cc
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DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Surpasses GPT-4o in certain benchmarks

huggingface.co

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US safety regulators expand Ford hands-free driving tech investigation

techcrunch.com

A U.S. federal safety regulator has “upgraded” its investigation into Ford’s hands-free advanced driver assistance system...
A U.S. federal safety regulator has “upgraded” its investigation into Ford’s hands-free advanced driver assistance system known as BlueCruise — a required step before a recall can be issued. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation launched a probe into Ford BlueCruise las...
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Malicious extensions circumvent Google's remote code ban

palant.info

As noted last week I consider it highly problematic that Google for a long time allowed...
As noted last week I consider it highly problematic that Google for a long time allowed extensions to run code they downloaded from some web server, an approach that Mozilla prohibited long before Google even introduced extensions to their browser. For years this has been an easy way for malicious extensions to hide...
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An effect system proposal for C2y

open-std.org
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Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Security Update

bambulab.com

news
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The Selma March (1965)

newyorker.com

“Well,” Miss Hayden said, “I think it’s going to get better.”“Hard to say,” said one of...
“Well,” Miss Hayden said, “I think it’s going to get better.”“Hard to say,” said one of the boys as they drifted back to their cars.At midnight in the camp, Charles Mauldin, aged seventeen, the head of the Dallas County Student Union and a student at Selma’s Hudson High School, which is Negro, was awakened in the se...
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Raphtory – In-memory vectorised graph database written in Rust

github.com
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CapCut hit by US ban – in unrelated news, Instagram reveals video-editing app

techradar.com

(Image credit: CapCut) TikTok wasn't the only Bytedance app to be bannedCapCut was taken down, and...
(Image credit: CapCut) TikTok wasn't the only Bytedance app to be bannedCapCut was taken down, and Meta out of nowhere announced EditsEdits sounds a lot like CapCut as a free editing tool for smartphonesTikTok’s short-lived (for now) US ban might have ended but several other apps that were caught in the crossfire ar...
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BYD is about to open another EV plant overseas with 150,000 vehicle capacity

electrek.co

The world’s largest electric vehicle maker is becoming a force in the global auto market. BYD...
The world’s largest electric vehicle maker is becoming a force in the global auto market. BYD confirmed it’s on track to open another massive EV plant overseas by the end of 2025. The new facility in Indonesia will be able to produce 150,000 vehicles a year as BYD expands its overseas manufacturing footprint. After ...
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Kronotop: Redis-compatible, transactional document store backed by FoundationDB

github.com
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Falcon 9 Rocket Launch Scrubbed After Delta Air Flies into Restricted Airspace

paddleyourownkanoo.com

SpaceX was forced to scrub the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket with just 11 seconds...
SpaceX was forced to scrub the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket with just 11 seconds to go on Sunday morning after a Delta Air Lines airplane reportedly flew into an area of restricted airspace close to the launch site. The launch was being broadcast live and was in its final countdown when a voice from the control roo...
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Optical Fresnel zone plate flat lens: colored photoresist through I-line stepper

nature.com
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Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data in AI Piracy Probe

torrentfreak.com

Over the past two years, AI development has progressed at a rapid pace. This includes large...
Over the past two years, AI development has progressed at a rapid pace. This includes large language models, which are typically trained on broad datasets of texts; the more, the better. When AI hit the mainstream, it became apparent that many rightsholders had concerns over the unauthorized use of their copyright w...
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Viagra-laced 'erectile honey' is flooding into France, officials warn

politico.eu

asia customs france malaysia markets
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Show HN: Play brick breaker using webcam and hand tracking (open source)

collidingscopes.github.io
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SRCL: Open-source React project to build web apps with terminal aesthetics

sacred.computer
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