Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors
For many years, doctors and technicians who performed medical ultrasound procedures viewed bubbles with wary concern. The phenomenon of cavitation—the formation and collapse of tiny gas bubbles due to changes in pressure—was considered an undesirable and largely uncontrollable side effect. But in 2001, researchers at the University of Michigan began exploring ways to harness the […]
US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
On Monday, the US Department of the Interior announced that it was pausing the leases on all five offshore wind sites currently under construction in the US. The move comes despite the fact that these projects already have installed significant hardware in the water and on land; one of them is nearly complete. In what […]
The Garbage Collection Handbook
Richard Jones’s Garbage Collection (Wiley, 1996) was a milestone book in the area of automatic memory management. Its widely acclaimed successor, The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management captured the state of the field in 2012. However, technology developments have made memory management more challenging, interesting and important than ever. This second […]
The Algebra of Loans in Rust
The heart of Rust borrow-checking is this: when a borrow is taken, and until it expires, access to the borrowed place is restricted. For example you may not read from a place while it is mutably borrowed. Over the recent months, lively discussions have been happening around teaching the borrow-checker to understand more things than […]
Archiving Git Branches as Tags
I have a spicy git alias that allows me to ”archive” old git branches by converting them to tags, making them less visible across git tooling. # ~/.gitconfig [alias] archive-branch = ”!f() { : git switch; local git_branch=${1:-$(git branch –show-current)}; git co main && git tag archive/$git_branch $git_branch && git branch -D $git_branch; }; f” […]
GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
2025-12-22 · Research GLM-4.7, your new coding partner, is coming with the following features: Core Coding: GLM-4.7 brings clear gains, compared to its predecessor GLM-4.6, in multilingual agentic coding and terminal-based tasks, including (73.8%, +5.8%) on SWE-bench, (66.7%, +12.9%) on SWE-bench Multilingual, and (41%, +16.5%) on Terminal Bench 2.0. GLM-4.7 also supports thinking before acting, […]
I know you didn’t write this
home November 6, 2025 I received a link from a co-worker with the accompanying note: I put together a plan for the project, take a look. Taking a quick scan through the linked document I’m pleased to see that there’s some substance to it. And look, there are tables and step-by-step instructions. At the bottom […]
Henge Finder
What is a henge? A ’henge’ is when the sun sets perfectly in line with your street, creating a dramatic view — like Manhattanhenge in New York. You can find out more information by clicking the ”How Do Henges Work?” tab. Use this tool to find when the next henge will happen for your street. […]
Benn Jordan – This Flock Camera Leak Is Like Netflix for Stalkers [video]
Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom
There are many interesting tidbits about the life of the political prisoner Jimmy Lai. He hid in the bottom of a fishing boat to escape mainland Communist China for Hong Kong at the ripe age of 12. He built a garment empire after spending his adolescence working, and sleeping, in garment factories. Without media experience, […]