US Trade Dominance Is Poised to Erode as Tariff Battles Intensify
TL;DR Cory Doctorow argues that tit-for-tat tariffs tied to the Trump era will force America’s trading partners to respond politically…
Sleep Number P6 Smart Bed Reviewed: Advanced Air Tech and Tracking
TL;DR The Sleep Number P6 pairs air-chamber firmness control with in-bed sensors that log breathing, heart rate and sleep metrics…
Ricoh GR IV review: Pocketable GR camera improves AF and image quality
TL;DR Ricoh's GR IV keeps the pocket-friendly form factor of its predecessors while upgrading autofocus, lens design and image processing.…
Could an Upside-Down Rowboat Let You Walk the Seafloor Like Jack Sparrow?
TL;DR A Wired feature examines the famous Pirates of the Caribbean scene where Jack Sparrow and Will Turner walk on…
Explaining Rust’s Loan Algebra: New Borrow Kinds, Tables, and Rules
TL;DR A recent writeup maps a set of proposed reference kinds and summarizes their interactions with three tables showing reborrows,…
I turned NotebookLM into a personal finance coach and it exposed my bad habits
TL;DR A writer repurposed NotebookLM as a personal finance assistant by uploading cleaned bank and credit-card data plus goals and…
‘We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’ — Trump’s Mass Deportations Will Grow From Here
TL;DR After winning a second term, Donald Trump’s administration has shifted the mechanics of its deportation agenda away from relying…
PromptQuest: the frustrating text-adventure experience of using modern chatbots
TL;DR An opinion piece compares the trial-and-error of working with contemporary chatbots to playing old text-adventure games. The author describes…
HP ZBook 8 G1i 14-Inch Review: A Middling Mobile Workstation That Falls Short
TL;DR HP’s ZBook 8 G1i is marketed and priced as a mobile workstation but delivers underwhelming performance for that label.…
Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft (PDF)
TL;DR A PDF titled 'Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft' is available at the linked URL with a listed…