Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview
fightchatcontrol.eu
Chat Control 1.0 vs 2.0 - Fight Chat Control
What is the difference between Chat Control 1.0 and Chat Control 2.0? A clear overview of both EU laws, their timelines, and where things stand today.
Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt https://tris.sherliker.net/blog/obfuscated-self-evaluating-bash-script-by-cdn-akamai-being-supplied-to-consumers-via-retail-stores/
tris.sherliker.net
Tris Sherliker
IP, technology & commercial law
John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement https://apnews.com/article/john-deere-right-to-repair-agriculture-equipment-cb7514ffedb95c130a976af661f2bc02
AP News
John Deere owners will get the right to repair their own equipment under a new FTC settlement
John Deere owners should soon feel free to fix their own machines. The Federal Trade Commission and several state attorneys general have secured a “right to repair” settlement with farming equipment company Deere & Co., known as John Deere.
Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests https://github.com/malisper/pgrust
GitHub
GitHub - malisper/pgrust: Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests - malisper/pgrust
EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/
Patrick Breyer
EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out"
Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0") to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed…
The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-glass-backbone-why-the-armys-logistics-will-break-in-the-next-war/
Modern War Institute -
The Glass Backbone: Why the Army’s Logistics Will Break in the Next War - Modern War Institute
The United States Army spent the last two decades optimizing sustainment for permissive environments defined by uncontested supply lines, contractor support, and static forward operating bases. As the National Defense Strategy shifts toward strategic competition…
Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri
GitHub
GitHub - JustVugg/colibri: Run GLM-5.2 (744B MoE) on a 25GB-RAM consumer machine — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk.…
Run GLM-5.2 (744B MoE) on a 25GB-RAM consumer machine — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦 - JustVugg/colibri
Good Tools Are Invisible https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/07/10/good-tools-are-invisible/
www.gingerbill.org
Good Tools Are Invisible
TL;DR: A good tool is and ought to be invisible—striving to make such tools is the goal of a toolmaker.One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool's shortcomings and reselling them as a "puzzle game" which is "fun" to solve.I don't want…
Late Bronze Age Collapse https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Collections: The Late Bronze Age Collapse, A Very Brief Introduction
This week, by order of the ACOUP Senate, we’re talking about the Late Bronze Age Collapse (commonly abbreviated ‘LBAC’), the shocking collapse of the Late Bronze Age state system …
Successful companies go blind https://ianreppel.org/how-successful-companies-go-blind/
Ian Reppel
How Successful Companies Go Blind
The Mexican cavefish kept its eye genes for over a million years after the eyes themselves disappeared. Something similar happens to companies once they achieve success.
QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/
Jeff Geerling
QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming.
It can see WiFi through walls and track drones in flight.
If the open source…
It can see WiFi through walls and track drones in flight.
If the open source…
Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15956159/Incredible-lost-city-discovered-Egypts-desert.html
Mail Online
Ancient lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert
A remarkably well preserved 1,600-year-old city complete with a church, watchtowers and bustling streets has been unearthed beneath Egypt's Western Desert.
Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-snails-teeth-180954346/
Smithsonian Magazine
Snails’ Teeth Beats Spider Silk As Nature’s Strongest Material
The discovery makes sense: Mollusks use these teeth to excavate rocks while they feed
The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/
vfxblog
The tech of ‘Terminator 2’ – an oral history
Ever since James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in 1991, I’ve been reading about the many ways ILM, led by visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren, had to basically invent new way…
Alternate clock designs and time systems https://serialc.github.io/altClocks/