Mixing corn starch and water in appropriate amounts produces a slurry that is liquid when stirred slowly but hardens when you punch it—a substance colorfully dubbed “oobleck.” (The name derives from a 1949 Dr. Seuss children’s book, Bartholomew and the Oobleck.) High-speed imaging and force measurements have revealed another surprising property of oobleck drops hitting … Read More “"Oobleck" still holds some surprises” »
France is trying to move on from Microsoft Windows. The country said it plans to move some of its government computers currently running Windows to the open source operating system Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S. technology. Linux is an open source operating system that is free to download and use, with various … Read More “France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech” »
A warrantless wiretapping authority that has facilitated surveillance for decades is up for renewal in Congress. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), last reauthorized in 2024, is set to expire on April 20th. A bipartisan coalition of progressive Democrats and members of the hard-right Freedom Caucus say it’s long overdue for reform. … Read More “Congress may close FISA Section 702’s surveillance loopholes” »
The book is written by Steve Huynh and published by ByteByteGo. Steve is a former principal engineer at Amazon. His ability to break down complex interview dynamics into clear, actionable advice made this book possible. Still, it took us two years to get it ready. Check It Out Now Here’s what’s inside: – 130+ interview … Read More “Our New Book on Behavioral Interviews Is Now Available on Amazon” »
The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me. Today, we cover: Does GitHub still merit “top git platform for AI-native development” status? Availability has dropped to one nine (~90% – !!), partly due to not … Read More “is GitHub still best for AI-native development?” »
The Artemis era well and truly began Friday evening when a shiny spacecraft that had traveled 700,000 miles around the Moon, carrying four astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. For NASA, for its international partners, and for all of humanity the successful conclusion of the Artemis II mission marked … Read More “The Artemis II mission has ended. Where does NASA go from here?” »
A better WHOIS lookup tool. Interactive TUI with tabbed views for WHOIS, DNS, mail, SSL/TLS, HTTP headers, and tech stack detection. brew tap retlehs/tap brew install retlehs/tap/quien Or with Go: go install github.com/retlehs/quien@latest # Interactive prompt quien # Domain lookup (interactive TUI) quien example.com # IP address lookup quien 8.8.8.8 # JSON output quien –json … Read More “retlehs/quien: A better WHOIS lookup tool · GitHub” »
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. The AGI economy – most labor goes to the machines, and humans shift to verification:…What grappling with the singularity seriously looks like…Researchers with MIT, WashU, and UCLA have written … Read More “The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies” »
The popular macOS app Little Snitch brought its network-monitoring tools over to Linux this week. In a blog post announcing the launch, one of the developers at Objective Development shared some early results from using the app on Linux: “On Ubuntu, I found 9 system processes making internet connections over the course of one week. … Read More “Little Snitch’s software counter surveillance jumps from Mac to Linux” »
Ascend Elements said on Friday it has started Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S., a heavy blow to investors who had sunk nearly $900 million into the company. Linh Austin, Ascend’s CEO, announced the decision in a post on LinkedIn late Thursday night. He said the company faced “insurmountable” financial challenges. Ascend’s filing comes … Read More “Battery recycler Ascend Elements files for bankruptcy” »
