A naturally occurring fat molecule reduced heart inflammation and scarring caused by diabetes, thereby improving cardiac function, according to new research. The findings open the door to developing a new treatment for diabetes-induced heart disease. Continue Reading Category: Di … | Continue reading
While I have a mountain of old discarded Windows Phones from work, I’d flashed them all to Windows 10, well except for one that was stuck in a ‘happy face boot loop’. In this business we call this foreshadowing. That’s … Continue reading → | Continue reading
0xfreysa/agent Freysa describes itself as "the world's first adversarial agent game". On 22nd November they released an LLM-driven application which people could pay to message (using Ethereum), with access to tools that could transfer a prize pool to the message sender, ending t … | Continue reading
Astrophysicists have detected the most energetic electrons ever recorded raining down on Earth. With trillions of times the energy of visible light, these cosmic rays seem to be coming from a powerful source relatively close to our solar system. Continue Reading Category: Physics … | Continue reading
I’m proud to be the 7th of 47 authors on this excellent new paper, led by the indefatigable Aras Bozkurt and featuring some of the most distinguished contemporary researchers in online, open, mobile, distance, e- and [insert almost any cognate sub-discipline here] learning, as we … | Continue reading
Sometimes things work out better than expected. I flew into San Diego to visit Addison and put a little bow on that particular quest but if I’m flying from one side of the continent to the other, I might as well spend a few days exploring. Over a decade earlier, I had spoken at a … | Continue reading
I watch a lot of Living Big in a Tiny House, and I have very mixed feelings about it. But there’s definitely a bunch of trends I’ve noticed with it (and also with other tiny house channels on YouTube). | Continue reading
Yesterday, Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister, Professor Mhtuli Ncube, presented the 2025 National Budget under the theme “Building Resilience for Sustained Economic Transformation.” There were a lot of mixed reactions to most of the stuff announced in that proposed budget. Most of the … | Continue reading
Interesting research: Using jet propulsion inspired by squid, researchers demonstrate a microjet system that delivers medications directly into tissues, matching the effectiveness of traditional needles. Blog moderation policy. | Continue reading
The 14-inch HP OmniBook X features the latest components and an NPU that guarantees a long-lasting battery. Now you can grab it for 33% off at BestBuy. | Continue reading
Seattle's KEXP recently released this video of an in-studio performance by EVG faves Cults. The band with local roots recently released their fifth LP, To the Ghosts, this past summer. Enjoy the extended live set and interview... Previously on EV Grieve: • Cults classic: East Vil … | Continue reading
When I began to publish my writing online a year ago, I had no idea whether I would make it a habit or whether people would read anything I wrote. I hoped they would, but I had very little idea however all of this works. Blogging challenges were a mystery to me. My knowledge abou … | Continue reading
Uber & Lyft Earnings Under Pressure from Waymo, Robotaxis. Waymo’s robotaxis are undercutting Uber and Lyft prices in Phoenix while matching quality. It’s no longer just about autonomous technology — it’s about making the economics work at scale. This is a sign of the times as mo … | Continue reading
Structured Generation w/ SmolLM2 running in browser & WebGPU Extraordinary demo by Vaibhav Srivastav. Here's Hugging Face's SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct running directly in a web browser (using WebGPU, so requires Chrome for the moment) demonstrating structured text extraction, converti … | Continue reading
In a magical world that feels like ancient Japan, a girl with fox tail will challenge the demons. She’ll have help by lots of random creatures, some of them interesting and others – less so. The hero path has issues – the superpowers need super enemies. Thankfully, Yumeko’s super … | Continue reading
We loved using the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7, and now the 13.8-inch version is available for 25% off this Black Friday week. | Continue reading
I wrote earlier this year that Baidu’s Apollo Go is likely to be the first profitable robotaxi service in the world. The service continues to expand in the meantime, or in its march toward profitability. Now, news is that Apollo Go robotaxi testing will begin in Hong Kong, near t … | Continue reading
Like most high-end bicycle manufacturers, Colnago once made all its bikes out of steel, but has since switched almost entirely to carbon fiber. For its 70th anniversary, however, the Italian marque is revisiting steel with the partially 3D-printed limited-edition Steelnovo. Conti … | Continue reading
Recently, I shared my thoughts on the Twitter Exodus. The short of that post is: Even though I’m quite happy on the Fediverse, I think the best outcome is for Bluesky to “win” the popularity contest today. It’s also in a good position to do so: People yearning for “old Twitter” f … | Continue reading
“It still gives me joy every time I come home!” the homeowner says. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Save 20% on the perfect budget running watch — the Garmin Forerunner 165 offers premium features at an entry-level price | Continue reading
Among closed-source models, OpenAI's early mover advantage has eroded somewhat, with enterprise market share dropping from 50% to 34%. The primary beneficiary has been Anthropic,* which doubled its enterprise presence from 12% to 24% as some enterprises switched from GPT-4 to Cla … | Continue reading
BYD continues to expand its electric vehicle offerings around the world. While more exotic locations have been getting more of the attention lately (like Guatemala, Paraguay, Chile, Kenya, Zambia, and Pakistan), that also includes offering more models in more European countries. … | Continue reading
Why did God scatter the builders of Babel? This iconic story is more than a myth; it reveals a profound divine policy against unchecked ambition and empire-building. Explore how the Tower of Babel prefigures God's justice, his stance on prideful nations, and the timeless lessons … | Continue reading
Lectric Ebikes, one the industry’s mainstays and foremost leaders in e-micromobility, is having a massive Black Friday sale today, with some of their most popular models up to 40% off. Accessories are also up to 40% off, and batteries up to 30% off. It’s a limited time — about 12 … | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone “The gang has so much to be thankful for, including you, dear listeners. ❤️ Oh yeah, and they find new ways to listen to music before being revealing their absolute favorite Apple app.” Magic Rays of Ligh … | Continue reading
I found this hot toddy apple cider recipe by Brandi Crawford which sounds perfect for the Christmas period. Ingredients The recipe makes enough for 5 cups, takes just 10 minutes to make, and there’s plenty of variation in terms of ingredients. Make your hot toddy your own! The po … | Continue reading
Amazon is offering epic discounts on a variety of products, making it unnecessary to face crowds to secure great deals. | Continue reading
I’m not opposed to age-gating at all, I think it’s appropriate in many situations and useful, and democratic societies can decide their own rules there. But it should be handled and authenticated as low-level as possible, at the operating system layer. See also: Australia’s Senat … | Continue reading
People have too inflated sense of what it means to "ask an AI" about something. The AI are language models trained basically by imitation on data from human labelers. Instead of the mysticism of "asking an AI", think of it more as "asking the average data labeler" on the internet … | Continue reading
GitHub OAuth for a static site using Cloudflare Workers Here's a TIL covering a Thanksgiving AI-assisted programming project. I wanted to add OAuth against GitHub to some of the projects on my tools.simonwillison.net site in order to implement "Save to Gist". That site is entirel … | Continue reading
Depending on what online sources you look at, Extended Range Electric Vehicles (EREVs) may be an emerging trend in China. This vehicle type is one that has an electric motor (or two) with a large battery pack and an onboard gasoline-powered generator that provides electricity to … | Continue reading
Perhaps you like the idea of commuting by bike, but are put off by the thought of hunching over the handlebars in the wind and the rain. If so, the semi-enclosed VeMoo recumbent e-trike may be just what you're looking for. Continue Reading Category: Urban Transport, Transport Tag … | Continue reading
James Joyce: “Maaaaaam, oh, maaaaaaaaa…” Albert Camus (to a concerned Big Lots manager): “Lost maman in home goods today. Or maybe it was yesterday.” George Orwell: “Mom, The Party is holding me at checkout for thoughtcrime (throwing hangers at store security cameras).” Herman Me … | Continue reading
It's like a very upsetting Frogger The post This Bike Lane Game Is Nightmare Fuel appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
Virtual Power Plants, enabled with Bi-directional charging, could upend the grid as we know it. China, of course, is a pioneer. Vehicle to Grid tech has challenges, but that’s what engineers are for. | Continue reading
Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like surface features left behind by ancient water on the Red Planet. The zig-zagging rocks could also provide clues about whether Mars once harbored extraterrestri … | Continue reading
There is no episode of ‘Criminal Mind’ today, sorry about that. I have just returned from seeing my doctor and being fully examined for the persistent cough that has been troubling me. She has put the wheels in motion and I have to return for blood tests, go to hospital for X-Ray … | Continue reading
Our organs don't seem to age at the same rate, which could mean healthy habits are particularly important at certain times of our lives | Continue reading
Unwrapping one is the perfect treat. READ MORE... | Continue reading
As competitions like Nikon Small World demonstrate, there's a lot going on around us that we can't see. Cheap desktop microscopes can provide access to such secret worlds for regular folks like you and me, and tech company BeaverLab has launched a smart digital model called the D … | Continue reading
Oil was the “black gold” of the last century, and lithium might be called the “white gold” or “silvery-white gold” of this century. (No one calls it that, but that’s okay.) So, it’s only fitting that Exxon is planning to extract and sell some of this white gold now. In ... [conti … | Continue reading
Comparing historical heat extremes with climate simulations has revealed that in parts of the world the models are underestimating how extreme heatwaves are getting | Continue reading
Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, say they have developed lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries that have twice the energy density of traditional lithium-ion batteries, but that is only half of the story. The other news is that those lithium sulfur batteries can … | Continue reading
LLM Flowbreaking Gadi Evron from Knostic: We propose that LLM Flowbreaking, following jailbreaking and prompt injection, joins as the third on the growing list of LLM attack types. Flowbreaking is less about whether prompt or response guardrails can be bypassed, and more about wh … | Continue reading
Plus, shop editor favorites on sale for Black Friday! READ MORE... | Continue reading
Calibre 7.22 is out — and yes, I’m making extra special effort to not mangle the version number this release as I always seem to insert an extra period in the string whenever I cover the the app! Unwieldy looking though it can seem, the open-source Calibre ebook manager remains u … | Continue reading
"His refusal to face the facts ... is setting captive bill payers up to bail out private equity." Government under fire over leaked letter to protesters ahead of demonstration: 'Proposing measures that fail to address the core issue' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading