Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024) https://blog.mgdproductions.com/ikko-activebuds/
MGD Blog
Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds "AI powered" earbuds, running DOOM, stealing their OpenAI API key and customer data.
So my journey with these earbuds started after I saw them on this Mrwhosetheboss video about pointless tech. This device seems to be also popular on TikTok. My suspicions were confirmed, this runs android. So of course i went ahead and bought them.
245 euros…
245 euros…
Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect https://glass3d.dev/
glass3d.dev
Glass3D generator
A modern 3d glassmorphism generator
Couchers is officially out of beta https://couchers.org/blog/2025/07/01/releasing-couchers-v1
couchers.org
We are out of Beta and in v1: we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better!
ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art https://asciimoon.com/
Asciimoon
Moon Phase Tracker | Rendered in ASCII Art
ASCII Moon - view & cycle through The Moon's phases - rendered in ASCII art.
Features of D That I Love https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/features-of-d-that-i-love/
AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/02/ai-note-takers-meetings-bots/
The Washington Post
No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.
Artificial intelligence apps that record and summarize meetings can tempt workers into skipping calls, leaving humans who join in the company of silent bots.
Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09195-5
Nature
Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian
Nature - Whole-genome sequencing of an ancient male Egyptian revealed a mixture of North African Neolithic and eastern Fertile Crescent ancestry, suggesting human migration between Egypt and...
Trans-Taiga Road (2004) https://www.jamesbayroad.com/ttr/index.html
A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel https://blog.janestreet.com/a-higgs-bugson-in-the-linux-kernel/
Jane Street Blog
A Higgs-bugson in the Linux Kernel
We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system that stores and distributes the firm’s trading activity data, calle...
Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-03/3i-atlas-a11pl3z-interstellar-object-in-our-solar-system/105489180
www.abc.net.au
New interstellar 'comet' discovered speeding through our Solar System
Astronomers have discovered a new object that originated outside of our Solar System — only the third to be found.
Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling https://www.jhuapl.edu/news/news-releases/250521-apl-thermoelectrics-enable-compressor-free-cooling
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Nano-engineered Thermoelectrics Enable Scalable, Compressor-Free Cooling | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL, in collaboration with Samsung Research, have unveiled a breakthrough in solid-state cooling technology, doubling the efficiency of today’s commercial systems. Driven by the Lab’s patented nano-engineered thin-film thermoelectric…
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PioN-CpOP0
YouTube
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI
A fireside with Dr. Fei-Fei Li on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is often called the godmother of AI—and for good reason. Before the world had AI as we know it, she was helping build the foundation.
In this fireside…
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is often called the godmother of AI—and for good reason. Before the world had AI as we know it, she was helping build the foundation.
In this fireside…
Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON https://github.com/c4pt0r/gmailtail
GitHub
GitHub - c4pt0r/gmailtail: tail -f your gmail
tail -f your gmail. Contribute to c4pt0r/gmailtail development by creating an account on GitHub.
Conversations with a hit man https://magazine.atavist.com/confessions-of-a-hit-man-larry-thompson-jim-leslie-george-dartois-louisiana-shreveport-cold-case/
The Atavist Magazine
Conversations with a Hit Man
A former FBI agent traveled to Louisiana to ask a hired killer about a murder that haunted him. Then Larry Thompson started talking about a different case altogether.
Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17625
arXiv.org
Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland -- Volume I,...
Neural networks surround us, in the form of large language models, speech transcription systems, molecular discovery algorithms, robotics, and much more. Stripped of anything else, neural networks...
Locality of Behaviour (2020) https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/
htmx.org
</> htmx ~ Locality of Behaviour (LoB)
Carson Gross explores the Locality of Behaviour (LoB) principle, which emphasizes making the behavior of code units obvious on inspection to enhance maintainability. He discusses the tradeoffs between LoB and other software design principles like DRY and…