Understanding the Super Flu: H3N2 Subclade K in US and Europe
TL;DR A new variant of influenza A H3N2, called subclade K and nicknamed the “super flu” in media, has driven…
SpaceX to Lower Thousands of Starlink Satellites to Reduce Collision Risk
TL;DR SpaceX plans to lower roughly 4,400 Starlink satellites from about 550 km to roughly 480 km to reduce collision…
Public Domain Day 2026: 20 Notable 1930 Books Enter the U.S. Public Domain
TL;DR On January 1, 2026, works published in 1930 entered the U.S. public domain. Standard Ebooks prepared and released 20…
Going immutable on macOS with Nix-Darwin — reproducible, versioned configs
TL;DR The author migrated a macOS development environment from imperative Homebrew workflows to a declarative, immutable setup using Nix and…
Safe CEO Don Murray: AI should assist human experts, not replace them
TL;DR Don Murray, CEO of Safe Software, argues AI is a powerful assistant but should not be treated as the…
How should a team support a colleague who frequently introduces typos?
TL;DR A developer with strong technical contributions is producing frequent typos that escape linters and tests, causing late-stage failures and…
Samsung’s Freestyle Plus boosts brightness but lumens figures conflict
TL;DR Samsung has introduced the Freestyle Plus, an all‑in‑one portable projector that the company lists at 430 ISO lumens and…
FreeBSD: Home NAS, Part 1 — Configuring a ZFS Mirror (RAID1)
TL;DR The author tests building a home NAS on vanilla FreeBSD in a VM, planning UFS for the OS on…
Round the tree, yes, but not round the squirrel — a Perelman paradox
TL;DR A short anecdote from Yakov Perelman's 1927 collection recounts a man who circles a glade trying to glimpse a…
Cisco XDR in 30: Network-led detection to clarify signals and speed response
TL;DR Cisco is hosting a 30-minute webinar, 'XDR in 30: See the Threat, Know the Verdict, Act Fast,' that outlines…