The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform — Notes and Resources
TL;DR Joshua Wise presented a talk titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform" at Teardown 2025 and published a…
What Happened to WebAssembly: Uses, Limits, and Where It Fits Today
TL;DR WebAssembly (Wasm) is actively used in production for targeted needs—game ports, image processing, plugin sandboxes and more—but it hasn’t…
Extremophile microbes could help turn Martian soil into building material
TL;DR Researchers propose using hardy microbes to induce biomineralization in Martian regolith, producing a concrete-like aggregate and byproducts such as…
Using Gemini in Google Sheets transformed my spreadsheet workflow
TL;DR The author says integrating Google’s Gemini into Sheets removed much of the manual work of building tables, cleaning data,…
Physical AI Heads to the Driver’s Seat: What It Means for Cars
TL;DR Wired examined the rise of 'physical AI,' a tech-marketing term applied to systems that pair machine intelligence with vehicles'…
Surveillance Watch: Interactive map exposing links among surveillance firms
TL;DR Surveillance Watch is an online interactive map that visualizes links among surveillance companies, their funders and affiliations. The site…
Why MCP’s Popularity Is Likely Temporary: Architectural Risks and Limits
TL;DR MCP has rapidly become a common way to expose tools to AI agents, but its architecture introduces operational, security,…
UK border control display shows Windows 7 certificate error at Birmingham
TL;DR A passenger at Birmingham Airport reported a border-control wait-time screen showing a Windows 7 certificate revocation error, leaving travelers…
Jennifer Doudna’s New Startup Aims to Commercialize Tailored CRISPR Therapies
TL;DR Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna, plans to commercialize individualized gene‑editing treatments for rare diseases using CRISPR…