"Downplaying the threats and undermining the solutions with dangerous misinformation." Newspaper stirs controversy with allegedly biased coverage of newly elected government: 'Continue to sow confusion' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
the full story of how two pallets of Playdates worth $400,000 were stolen in Las Vegas and eventually recovered # | Continue reading
every new feature they add increases lock-in, making it harder to leave while they court some of the worst people online # | Continue reading
"The fact that Google is promoting this seems vastly out of touch with basic human decency." Google ad leads to discussion about 'cheating at life' features: 'How can Google promote this as a positive?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
James Baggott, writing for Car Dealer Magazine: Jaguar unveiled a new look, logo and direction for its cars at what was quite possibly the most bizarre automotive media launch I’ve ever attended — here’s what happened. Embargoed until today, the event felt like a hallucinogenic s … | Continue reading
Photo by Stacie Joy The "No Longer in Business" sign went up today at Ludlow Garage, 151 Attorney St. between Houston and Stanton. As we reported last week, co-owner Jerome Vasconcellos and his brother-in-law, Mario Marques, decided to sell their auto repair mechanic shop that ha … | Continue reading
This is a very dangerous thing for everyone involved. City dwellers outraged after dangerous trend takes over new infrastructure: 'It makes it incredibly unsafe' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The sixth flight of SpaceX's Starship went off today without a second capture landing of the Super Heavy first stage, but it did have a dramatic daylight powered soft landing of the Starship second stage in the Indian Ocean. And a banana. Continue Reading Category: Space, Science … | Continue reading
For the love of god, quit calling your newsletter “my Substack”. “You can talk about your work as *your work*. It’s your newsletter, or your email, or your blog. Or just your writing. But it sure as hell isn’t ‘your Substack.’” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
The idea of building a "tiny home" is one that has gained a certain amount of traction in recent years. Homebuilder shares incredible video tour of tiny home built in Asia: 'This is great' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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The financial technology firm Finastra is investigating the alleged large-scale theft of information from its internal file transfer platform, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Finastra, which provides software and services to 45 of the world's top 50 banks, notified customers of a po … | Continue reading
Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Niantic has announced that it’s building a new “Large Geospatial Model” (LGM) that combines millions of scans taken from the smartphones of players of Pokémon Go and other Niantic products. This AI model could allow computers and robots to understa … | Continue reading
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has made significant contributions to understanding the universe’s structure over the past 11 billion years, confirming Einstein’s theory of general relativity on a cosmic scale. Through extensive data analysis of nearly 6 million g … | Continue reading
"Say it with me, leave no trace." Footage highlights strange finds after analyzing 8,000 pieces of Yosemite litter: 'Oh no' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The largest survey of our universe ever conducted suggests that it closely matches the model most favored by cosmologists. It's unclear what this means for alternative theories attempting to explain bizarre discrepancies. | Continue reading
The Hollywood Reporter, which of course is where one now goes to find news of incoming Executive Branch appointments and nominations, “Trump Nominates Dr. Mehmet Oz to Run Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services”: “America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Phy … | Continue reading
A 93-year-old Los Angeles woman who heard strange noises under her floor for weeks thought it was animals living under her house — until the sounds got louder. That's when her family called the police, only to find a naked gentleman living in their crawlspace. — Read the rest The … | Continue reading
"Get a lawyer." Distraught homeowner shares shocking photo after returning home to find property destroyed: 'File a police report for vandalism' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"Detection is a key step needed for understanding." Satellite imagery reveals troubling reality for remote beaches — but researchers have created a silver lining first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Autumnal contrast Nature vs Norman Foster. Quote of the Day “It is not what we have as children, but what we are deprived of as kids that defines us and our behaviours for rest of our lives.” Om Malik Musical … Continue reading → | Continue reading
I was messing around on Bluesky, making food puns of Spider-Man characters and thought I’d collect them all here: The post Food-related Spider-Man characters appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
"Heralding a new era in the fight against water pollution." Teenager invents first-of-its-kind device on quest to clean up the world's drinking water: 'This young visionary has triumphed' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Scientists employ high-energy heavy ion collisions as a powerful tool to uncover intricate details of nuclear structure, offering insights with broad implications across various fields of physics. Scientists have developed a novel technique using high-energy particle collisions a … | Continue reading
Four weeks ago, I didn’t know the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium existed. If I’d seen mention of it, I probably would have assumed it as an innocuous little organization full of pleasant Canadians working diligently for the good of Canadian transit. But … | Continue reading
Xi Jinping is celebrated as the first national leader of the People's Republic of China who speaks Modern Standard (MSM) rather than some heavily accented Sinitic dialect / topolect. That is basically true, though he slurs and swallows his words, and is (in)famous for his numerou … | Continue reading
People in the northern UK and Ireland are especially good at identifying fake accents compared to their southern compatriots. | Continue reading
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo star in the Wizard of Oz-themed musical, in theaters Friday. | Continue reading
From William Bradford’s Journal of Plymouth Plantation, Sixteen Hundred and Twenty-One. - - - A lamentable malady had taken fifty and two souls from the humble colony that first winter. Some said God had forsaken them. Others feared plague. But most remarkable were the words of M … | Continue reading
"You've managed to kill the weeds but rendered the soil unusable." Homeowner issues warning after making mistake with controversial yard care method: 'I was looking for a solution' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I recently had the opportunity to improve the UX on a client project by backgrounding a slow network request and broadcasting the response to the browser asynchronously with Turbo. At first, I was a little overwhelmed because I didn’t know exactly how to do this. The response was … | Continue reading
Niantic leveraging its database of scanned real-world places and objects for "robotics, content creation and autonomous systems" # | Continue reading
Ports are critical for commerce, a keystone for economic growth, and play a significant role in the goods movement supply chain. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that investing in port infrastructure and operations is vital to US economic prosperity. Because thes … | Continue reading
Apple has released updates for its primary operating systems—including the previous versions of iOS and iPadOS and two previous versions of macOS—to address a pair of critical security vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild. Update soon. | Continue reading
The interwebz have been buzzing lately about a new solar-powered electric “cargo” scooter, dubbed Lightfoot, that was just announced by Otherlab, and its main selling point seems to be its dual onboard solar panels, which could provide “up to 18 miles (28 km) of additional range … | Continue reading
"No one should be turning a buck by deceptively spreading invasive species." Shopper concerned after nursery attempts to sell them property-destroying plant: 'It really makes me angry' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
OpenStreetMap vector tiles demo Long-time OpenStreetMap developer Paul Norman has been working on adding vector tile support to OpenStreetMap for quite a while. Paul recently announced that vector.openstreetmap.org is now serving vector tiles (in Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT) format) … | Continue reading
Starship lifted off for its sixth test flight on Tuesday, but its Super Heavy Booster splashed down in the ocean rather than being caught by the company's giant "chopsticks." | Continue reading
"We are dividing continents." Experts reveal unexpected, global consequences of border walls: 'Essentially an uncontrolled ... experiment' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Using uv with PyTorch PyTorch is a notoriously tricky piece of Python software to install, due to the need to provide separate wheels for different combinations of Python version and GPU accelerator (e.g. different CUDA versions). uv now has dedicated documentation for PyTorch wh … | Continue reading
1/ Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asked to postpone Trump’s criminal sentencing in his hush money case. In a letter to Judge Juan Merchan, the district attorney’s office acknowledged that Trump is not likely to be sentenced “until after t... Subscribe: Get the Daily Upda … | Continue reading
Crypto's libertarian dreams continue to be thwarted by legal realities. | Continue reading
Looking for more ideas? Check out our recommendations from past years. Maybe this year, you beat the holiday frenzy with gifts unlike the rest. Maybe you finally floor that one person no one knows how to shop for. Maybe you treat yourself to a shirt covered in isopods, pop a bag … | Continue reading
Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm Evan Schwartz provides a deep dive explanation of how the classic BM25 search relevance scoring function works, including a very useful breakdown of the mathematics it uses. Via lobste.rs Tags: search, algorithms | Continue reading
Sometimes, it's OK to go back The post Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition (In Football) appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
A study reveals plankton, crucial for marine ecosystems, cannot adapt to rapid global warming, threatening marine life and human food supplies. Researchers stress urgent global action to curb emissions and limit warming under the Paris Agreement. A recent study reveals that certa … | Continue reading
At the office all the morning, and coming home found Mr. Hunt with my wife in the chamber alone, which God forgive me did trouble my head, but remembering that it was washing and that there was no place else with a fire for him to be in, it being... | Continue reading
Dolt is the world's first and only version controlled SQL database. We've been iterating on the concept for over six years now. We're the… | Continue reading