Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ant-queens-seem-to-defy-biology-they-lay-eggs-that-hatch-into-another-species-180987292/
Smithsonian Magazine
These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species
Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning males
PYREX vs. pyrex: What's the difference? https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/products/life-sciences/resources/stories/in-the-field/pyrex-vs-pyrex-whats-the-difference.html
Corning
PYREX vs. Pyrex: What's the Difference? | Corning
For many people, Corning is synonymous with PYREX — and Pyrex. But how does PYREX vs. Pyrex compare? What are the differences? Find out here.
Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years (2019) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-44886585
Bbc
Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years
The unlikely story of the African frogs that made themselves at home in a corner of Wales.
$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/18/2-weact-display-fs-adds-a-0-96-inch-usb-information-display-to-your-computer/
The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05136
arXiv.org
The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a cryptographic scheme that enables computations to be performed directly on encrypted data, as if the data were in plaintext. After all computations are...
Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404
GitHub
[Announcement] Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads · Issue #14404 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its...
How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/how-aws-s3-scales-with-tens-of-millions-of-hard-drives
2Minutestreaming
how AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS on commodity hard drives
Cloudflare Email Service: private beta https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-service/
The Cloudflare Blog
Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta
Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. We're unifying email sending and routing into a single service built for developers. Sign up for the private beta.
Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isnt-replacing-radiologists
www.worksinprogress.news
AI isn't replacing radiologists
Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is ay an all-time high.
Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-introduce-mandatory-digital-id-cards-2025-09-26/
Reuters
Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers
The British government said on Friday it would require every employee to hold a digital identity document, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's latest attempt to tackle illegal migration and reduce the threat from the populist Reform UK party.
Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/24/flock-safety-reinstalls-evanston-cameras/
Evanston RoundTable
City sends cease-and-desist after Flock reinstalls license plate cameras
Private surveillance vendor Flock Safety reinstalled all of its stationary license plate cameras in Evanston that had previously been removed, apparently
Exploit allows for takeover of fleets of Unitree robots https://spectrum.ieee.org/unitree-robot-exploit
IEEE Spectrum
Exploit Allows for Takeover of Fleets of Unitree Robots
Can your robot be hacked? A new vulnerability in Unitree robots could turn them into a botnet army. Are we taking robot security seriously enough?
Traefik's 10-year anniversary https://traefik.io/blog/celebrating-10-years-of-traefik
Traefik Labs
Traefik's 10-Year Anniversary: A Community's Journey
10 years ago, I made a small reverse proxy project public. Fast forward to today and Traefik has 3.4B downloads and 56k GitHub stars. See how it unfolded.
US cities pay too much for buses https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/us-cities-are-paying-too-much-for-new-transit-buses
Bloomberg.com
Why US Cities Pay Too Much for Transit Buses
A new paper argues that lack of competition, demand for custom features and “Buy America” rules have driven up costs for transit agencies in the US.