Digital Cosmonaut: Superfest – The (almost) unbreakable East German Glass
New Atlas: Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
Not only is sodium somewhere between 500 to 1,000 times more abundant than lithium on the planet we call Earth, sourcing it doesn't necessitate the same type of earth-scarring extraction. Even moving beyond the sodium vs lithium surname comparison, Natron says its sodium-ion batteries are made entirely from abundantly available commodity materials that also include aluminum, iron and manganese.
Cybersecurity Dive: At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down
Critics say negligence, misguided investments and hubris have left the enterprise giant on its back foot.
Everything curl is an extensive guide for all things curl. The project, the command-line tool, the library, how everything started and how it came to be the useful tool it is today.
Reuters: Austria calls for rapid regulation as it hosts meeting on 'killer robots'
Physics World: Europe plans to build 100-qubit quantum computer by 2026
Researchers at the Dutch quantum institute QuTech in Delft have announced plans to build Europe’s first 100-quantum bit (qubit) quantum computer. When complete in 2026, the device will be made publicly available, providing scientists with a tool for quantum calculations and simulations.
NASA: NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
The Register: Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director
Tutanota: Google Search Is A Problem: How Google Is Crushing Tuta.
The Ezra Klein Show: What if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.
Escaping Flatland: After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative
And it wasn’t simply that they imitated the AI, in a mechanical way. They got more creative, too. There was an uptick in historically novel moves and sequences.
Ken Shirriff's blog: Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
LibreOffice: German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government.
Ars Technica: Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
RxDB: WebSockets vs Server-Sent-Events vs Long-Polling vs WebRTC vs WebTransport
Ars Technica: Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1