Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x https://log.bede.im/2025/09/12/zstandard-long-range-genomes.html
PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-09-15-PayPal-Ushers-in-a-New-Era-of-Peer-to-Peer-Payments,-Reimagining-How-Money-Moves-to-Anyone,-Anywhere
PayPal Newsroom
PayPal Ushers in a New Era of Peer-to-Peer Payments, Reimagining How Money Moves to Anyone, Anywhere
Send and receive money as easily as sending a text, across apps, borders, and currencies.
Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised https://socket.dev/blog/ongoing-supply-chain-attack-targets-crowdstrike-npm-packages
Socket
Updated and Ongoing Supply Chain Attack Targets CrowdStrike ...
Socket detected multiple compromised CrowdStrike npm packages, continuing the "Shai-Hulud" supply chain attack that has now impacted nearly 500 packag...
Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024) https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/
blinry.org
Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio π»
Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!
Apple Photos app corrupts images https://tenderlovemaking.com/2025/09/17/apple-photos-app-corrupts-images/
Tenderlove Making
Apple Photos App Corrupts Images
The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. Iβve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix itβ¦
Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year https://skyfall.dev/posts/slack
Mahad Kalam
Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase
An open letter, or something
KDE is now my favorite desktop https://kokada.dev/blog/kde-is-now-my-favorite-desktop/
Grief gets an expiration date, just like us https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/oh-fuck-youre-still-sad
Substack
Oh fuck, you're still sad?
Grief gets an expiration date. Just like us.
Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/internet-archives-big-battle-with-music-publishers-ends-in-settlement/
Ars Technica
Internet Archiveβs big battle with music publishers ends in settlement
The true cost of keeping the Internet Archive alive will likely remain unknown.
Ants that seem to defy biology β They lay eggs that hatch into another species https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ant-queens-seem-to-defy-biology-they-lay-eggs-that-hatch-into-another-species-180987292/
Smithsonian Magazine
These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species
Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning males
PYREX vs. pyrex: What's the difference? https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/products/life-sciences/resources/stories/in-the-field/pyrex-vs-pyrex-whats-the-difference.html
Corning
PYREX vs. Pyrex: What's the Difference? | Corning
For many people, Corning is synonymous with PYREX β and Pyrex. But how does PYREX vs. Pyrex compare? What are the differences? Find out here.
Scream cipher https://sethmlarson.dev/scream-cipher
sethmlarson.dev
SCREAM CIPHER (βΗ ΔΘ¦αΊΆAαΊ¦ ΔΗΓαΊ΄αΊΆΘ¦β)
You've probably heard of stream ciphers, but what about a scream cipher π±?
Today I learned there are more βLatin capital letter Aβ
Unicode characters than there are letters in the English alphabet....
Today I learned there are more βLatin capital letter Aβ
Unicode characters than there are letters in the English alphabet....
Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years (2019) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-44886585
Bbc
Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years
The unlikely story of the African frogs that made themselves at home in a corner of Wales.
$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/18/2-weact-display-fs-adds-a-0-96-inch-usb-information-display-to-your-computer/
The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05136
arXiv.org
The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a cryptographic scheme that enables computations to be performed directly on encrypted data, as if the data were in plaintext. After all computations are...
Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404
GitHub
[Announcement] Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads Β· Issue #14404 Β· yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its...
How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/how-aws-s3-scales-with-tens-of-millions-of-hard-drives
2Minutestreaming
how AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS on commodity hard drives