"The shift to #AI agents will change how work gets done & who holds power, since they control access to end customers" https://hbr.org/2025/02/ai-agents-are-changing-how-people-shop-heres-what-that-means-for-brands

"Australia, which has no auto industry of its own to protect with tariffs, Chinese EVs are suddenly everywhere. They now make up roughly 1/3 of electric vehicles sold here, and more than 2/3 if Tesla’s Chinese-made cars are included." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/australia-with-no-auto-industry-to-protect-is-awash-with-chinese-evs/ar-AA1Ad86X

"Did you know the #Commodore64 had a CD-ROM drive? Well, sort of — with an adapter, any CD player could be used for mass storage." https://www.hackster.io/news/the-commodore-64-s-forgotten-cd-rom-ea09778d48ee

"It's a glitch in #Veo 3's experimental ability to apply sound effects to video, likely because the training data used to create Google's #AI models featured many examples of chewing mouths with crunching sound effects" http://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/googles-will-smith-double-is-better-at-eating-ai-spaghetti-but-its-crunchy

"If the heaters were still off when the dormant thrusters auto-fired due to attitude drift, 'it could trigger a small explosion,' JPL noted. And since it takes the radio signal more than 23 hours to travel from #Voyager back to Earth, the team wouldn't know for an entire day. Fortunately, as the return signal arrived, the Voyager team saw signs that the thruster heaters were back online & the effort was a success." http://theregister.com/2025/05/15/voyager_1_survives_with_thruster_fix

"[T]here are several YouTube tutorials on how to open a Tesla’s glove box. 'First thing,' starts one, 'is you’re going to click on that car icon to access the menu settings, and from there on, you’re going to go to controls, and right here is the option to open your glove box.' As Ronald Reagan wrote, 'If you’re explaining, you’re losing.'" http://wired.com/story/why-car-brands-are-finally-switching-back-to-buttons

"Chat with someone for 2 minutes, & try to figure out if it was a fellow human or an AI bot. Think you can tell the difference?" https://www.humanornot.ai/

"Shell scripting is an often forgotten programming environment, relegated to simple automation tasks & little else. In fact, it’s possible to achieve much more complex tasks in the shell. As an example, here’s [calebccf] with an emulated #6502 system in a #busybox ash shell script." https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/a-6502-in-the-shell/

"The term 'boot up' in the last paragraph was intentional, because this business card doesn’t contain a microcontroller like you might expect. Instead, it has an Allwinner F1C100S SoC. That has a 533MHz Arm CPU & 32MB of embedded DDR RAM, making it capable of running an entire lightweight operating system. In this case, that is a #Linux operating system" https://www.hackster.io/news/impressing-potential-clients-with-an-electronic-drum-kit-on-a-business-card-748d7e41b40c

"An array of speakers emit a combination of sonic, ultrasonic, & subsonic sound waves directed towards the target #drone — that, Cohen claims, induces vibrations severe enough to both induce turbulence & to disrupt onboard navigation systems without harming anything else" https://www.hackster.io/news/fractal-antenna-systems-drone-blastr-drops-drones-out-of-the-sky-with-nothing-but-sound-0d58fc5367d1

"I haven’t found a language that doesn’t do these 3 general things: what I know, what I think you know & turn-taking" http://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2025/interjections-important-for-conversation-flow

"The tiny new MSPM0C1104 [$.20 #microcontroller] measures just 1.38 mm², which TI says is about the same size as a black pepper flake" http://search.app/4rnny

"ACR can capture and identify up to 7,200 images per hour, or approximately 2 images every second. This extensive tracking offers money-making insights for marketers & content distributors because it can reveal connections between viewers' personal information & their preferred content." http://zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/how-to-disable-acr-on-your-tv-and-stop-companies-from-spying-on-you

"By Seitz’s logic, the internet would now weigh as much as a potato" http://wired.com/story/story/weight-of-the-internet

"[R]e-reversing the polarity by 'dropping a logic bomb'" http://theregister.com/2025/03/26/ncsc_influencers_2fa

"By combining these [#API security] approaches, a multi-layered defense is established, working cohesively to safeguard the infrastructure against DDoS threats" http://blogs.mulesoft.com/learn-apis/how-to-secure-your-apis-from-ddos-attacks

"[D]ue to the high frequency of required [pressure relief (PR)] movements — up to 50 times a day — it is easy for wheelchair users to forget or miss these crucial repositioning activities [to prevent pressure ulcers from prolonged sitting]. Tilt Tracker aims to solve this problem through real-time tracking, reminders, & feedback mechanisms." http://hackster.io/news/the-pressure-s-off-9802d2b91498

"[W]atch ad to snooze 3 minutes" http://futurism.com/alarm-app-advertisement-snooze

"Not every large object in space forms part of a solar system" http://wired.com/story/scientists-scan-mysterious-planet-as-it-drifts-through-space

"[E]nergy—methane, captured carbon dioxide, or even green hydrogen—is turned into butter through a thermochemical process that turns carbon, hydrogen, & oxygen into fatty acids. Those fatty acids can then be composed and rearranged to form triglycerides that make up different fats like butter, palm oil, cocoa butter, & more." http://fastcompany.com/91302926/this-butter-wasnt-made-from-plants-or-animals-it-was-made-with-methane