2. Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses (www.barrons.com)
3. 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel (www.nobelprize.org)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 was awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
4. Picard 3.0 Released (blog.metabrainz.org)
5. The Future of Mathematics (terrytao.wordpress.com)
7. ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust (getartcraft.com)
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
8. First Implantable Cochlear Implant Launches (spectrum.ieee.org)
9. GitHub Actions Has Problems (www.githubstatus.com)
GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Actions.
10. Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort (smyck.net)
12. Replacement of Petroleum Based Products with Plant-Based Materials (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
14. Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear (github.com)
Silent macOS menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear enough for telescope imaging and what to point at. Any telescope. MIT. - rsutcliffe/nightwatch
15. One person is now a quorum at the SEC (www.ft.com)
16. DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit (github.com)
Contribute to dfd-tud/deda development by creating an account on GitHub.
17. The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news (www.lenfestinstitute.org)
The Philadelphia Inquirer's AI tool, Scrape, combs through hyperlocal news leads, enabling editors to report on a broader geographic area.
18. "I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry" (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
That’s something Ben Thompson said a recent episode of Dithering . He was referring to how he felt while trying to help his mom get control of her digital…
19. Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio – Tufte's Razor (tuftesrazor.scienceux.org)
An interactive guide to Edward Tufte
20. Our approach to EU text provenance rules (openai.com)
21. The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches? (blogs.gnome.org)
Humans are bad at writing secure code, and GNOME developers are no exception. GNOME is primarily written using unsafe programming languages where simple mistakes in our code lead to devastating consequences for our users, and we make these mistakes all the time. No matter how much we try, GNOME developers will fail write secure code...
22. Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold (www.transportenvironment.org)
Electric car choice is expanding rapidly thanks to EU clean car targets, but weakening the 2030-35 targets would put affordable models and Europe’s…
23. Beating the Compiler (www.mattkeeter.com)
24. Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland (www.ess-news.com)
Greenvolt Group has started construction of a 600 MW/2.4 GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Poland, with commercial operations targeted for the end of 2027.
26. How to save a life without knowing CPR (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
27. Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia (www.cambridge.org)
GODS IN THE CLASSROOM: RELIGION AND EDUCATION IN 1ST MILLENNIUM BCE BABYLONIA
28. Quantitative Finance with OCaml (qcaml.com)
29. After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he found Kalshi (www.npr.org)
The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections.
30. Interview with Chicken Scheme Maintainer Sjamaan/Peter Bex (alexalejandre.com)
Chicken Scheme maintainer, optimizer and Postgres fan