Soldier’s wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/06/soldiers-wrist-purse-discovered-at-roman-legionary-camp/155513
HeritageDaily
Soldier's wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp
Archaeologists have discovered a fragment of a soldier's wrist purse at the site of a temporary Roman camp in South Moravia, Czech Republic.
Show HN: I made a 2D game engine in Dart https://bullseye2d.org/
bullseye2d.org
Bullseye 2D - Home
A 2D Game Engine for Dart.
Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21411
arXiv.org
Pangu Pro MoE: Mixture of Grouped Experts for Efficient Sparsity
The surgence of Mixture of Experts (MoE) in Large Language Models promises a small price of execution cost for a much larger model parameter count and learning capacity, because only a small...
Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165146
UN News
Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality
Spain and Brazil have launched a joint initiative to promote higher tax contributions from the super-rich worldwide, aimed at tackling soaring inequality by ensuring those with the most pay their fair share.
A proof-of-concept neural brain implant providing speech https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/a-neural-brain-implant-provides-near-instantaneous-speech/
Ars Technica
A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech
Focusing on sound production instead of word choice makes for a flexible system.
Math.Pow(-1, 2) == -1 in Windows 11 Insider build https://github.com/dotnet/runwww.tg-me.com/issues/117233
GitHub
C# Math.Pow(-1, 2) doesn't output correct value on Windows 11 Insider Preview, Canary channel (27881.1000) · Issue #117233 · dotnet/runtime
Description The following is copied with extra bits from https://aka.ms/AAwwjwl (Feedback Hub) to raise awareness of this issue: Hello, I'm a contributor to osu! (https://github.com/ppy/osu). A...
Jack Welch, the Man Who Broke Capitalism (2022) https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylewestaway/2022/05/31/jack-welch-the-man-who-broke-capitalism/
Forbes
Jack Welch, The Man Who Broke Capitalism
In David Gelles’ new book, The Man Who Broke Capitalism —and How to Undo His Legacy, he chronicles how Welch’s laser focus on maximizing shareholder value by any means necessary - including layoffs, outsourcing, offshoring, acquisitions, and buybacks - became…
Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001) https://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHere
www.w3.org
Don't say "click here"; not everyone will be clicking - Quality Web Tips
W3C QA - tip to make your links more appealing
They tried Made in the USA – it was too expensive for their customers https://www.reuters.com/business/they-tried-made-usa-it-was-too-expensive-their-customers-2025-07-02/
Reuters
They tried Made in the USA. It was too expensive for their customers
Small and midsize American manufacturers face a choice between paying steep tariffs on Chinese imports or taking on significantly higher domestic production costs.
Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/technology/cloudflare-ai-data.html
NY Times
Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By Default
The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said, as it moves to protect original content online.
Tesla reports 14% decline in deliveries, marking second year-over-year drop https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/tesla-tsla-q2-2025-vehicle-delivery-and-production-numbers.html
CNBC
Tesla reports 14% decline in vehicle deliveries, marking second straight year-over-year drop
Tesla reported another year-over-year decline in vehicle deliveries as the company faces increased competition from lower-cost rivals.
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…
Hexagon fuzz: Full-system emulated fuzzing of Qualcomm basebands https://www.srlabs.de/blog-post/hexagon-fuzz-full-system-emulated-fuzzing-of-qualcomm-basebands
www.srlabs.de
Hexagon fuzz: Full-system emulated fuzzing of Qualcomm basebands
Bruno Produit, Luca Glockow, Rachna Shriwas
Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/microsoft-to-cut-9-000-workers-in-second-wave-of-major-layoffs
Bloomberg.com
Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs
Microsoft Corp. began job cuts that will impact about 9,000 workers, its second major wave of layoffs this year as it seeks to control costs while ramping up on artificial intelligence spending.
Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/adp-jobs-report-june-2025.html
CNBC
The private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 increase, ADP says
Economists polled by Dow Jones forecast an increase of 100,000 for the month.
What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022) https://troof.blog/posts/nootropics/
troof.blog
What I learned gathering thousands of nootropic ratings
Where I analyse the nootropic ratings I gathered through my recommender system.
ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it https://www.engadget.com/social-media/iceblock-climbs-to-the-top-of-the-app-store-charts-after-officials-slam-it-004319963.html
Engadget
ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it
The application, which allows users to add a pin on a map to show where ICE agents have recently been spotted, has climbed to the to the top of the App Store charts.