Recreating Steve Jobs’s 1975 Atari Horoscope Program — Run the Emulation
TL;DR An Adafruit blog post reports that Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari horoscope program has been recreated and made runnable. The…
Is the Internet’s social era over? Many users say they’re exhausted
TL;DR Writer Daniel Brendel reflects on widespread fatigue with modern social media, contrasting today’s ad-driven networks with earlier, desktop-era chat…
Electronic nose technology for detecting and identifying indoor mold
TL;DR A paper titled "Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification" was posted to Wiley's online library with DOI…
How the transgender pride flag emoji became a five-codepoint sequence
TL;DR A former Facebook intern says the transgender pride flag emoji ended up as a five-codepoint ZWJ sequence because one…
Electronic Nose System Proposed for Indoor Mold Detection and Identification
TL;DR A paper titled "Electronic Nose for Indoor Mold Detection and Identification" was posted on Wiley Online Library on Jan.…
PassSeeds: repurposing Passkeys to seed broader cryptographic tools
TL;DR A developer experiment called PassSeeds shows how WebAuthn passkeys (P-256 credentials) can be used as deterministic seed material for…
Are we done with social networks? Signs of social media fatigue worldwide
TL;DR A personal essay by Daniel Brendel argues many users are exhausted with modern social media, recalling an older, less…
Brave refactors Rust-based adblock engine to cut browser memory use
TL;DR Brave says it has substantially reduced the memory footprint of its Rust-written adblocking engine, claiming roughly 45 MB of…
Pluribus nearly had 100 alternate titles — Vince Gilligan names the worst
TL;DR Creator Vince Gilligan told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that his Apple TV series Pluribus went through roughly 100…