The energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into useful materials.

Counterfeiters were the original shadow bankers

A random sequence in an innocuous GPS message field is likely encrypted traffic from the U.S. military's system for remotely updating cryptographic keys around the world.

Means residents can skip the credit card and use 'pay by bank' for local authorities and services

GitHub's Status Page - Auth issue resulting in API impacts, including some Slack and Teams channel subscriptions.

Two of our worst VC stories:

1. A Sequoia partner passed on Cloudflare because he didn’t think a woman could lead a security infrastructure company. Seriously. 🙄

2. I got introduced to @pmarca. Meeting got scheduled for a Monday, which should have been…

8 years ago, I was a junior software developer with only 2 years of fullstack experience and only a high school art degree, with a babyface and a sidecut. My...

I like HackerNews, but I don't love that so much of it has turned into discussion of a single topic: AI. This is a version of HackerNews, filtered to remove any article focusing on __AI__. Refreshes about every ten minutes.

Ahead of a planned IPO, SpaceX inked a deal to rent compute capacity to Google for $920 million per month for 32 months.

Jason Koebler, and Emanuel Maiberg, writing for 404 Media: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality…

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner had a door detach at a remote Pacific airport, leaving engineers searching for answers about the cause.

The official website that verifies if your work is 100% human-made.

The Global Positioning System (GPS) relies on its primary L1 frequency to broadcast precise timing and orbital data, allowing receivers on Earth to calculate their exact location. Because the L1 C/A signal transmits at just fifty bits per second, every bit…

I stumbled across a broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Art lens for a very cool $58.65 USD that I simply could not resist. I've been eyeing an AF lens in the 50mm range for my recent endeavors with L-mount cameras and this looked like the perfect fit. This lens is commonly…

A weblog by ldstephens

Learn how Lockdown Mode limits access to the web and external services to help reduce data exfiltration risk from prompt injection attacks.

This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems te…

Not doing the reading.