FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport. A notice posted on the FAA’s website said the temporary flight restrictions were for “special security reasons,” but did not provide additional details. The […]
Exposure Simulator
Exposure Simulator -3..2..1..|..1..2..3+ ↑ Shooting Mode: Shutter Priority Aperture Priority Manual Camera Settings: Note! The exposure portion of this simulator currently does NOT work with Internet Explorer! Please use Chrome or Firefox instead. This tool attempts to roughly simulate a final photograph given a particular set of camera settings. The simulation includes demonstrating depth-of-field based […]
Do not apologize for replying late to my email
by Ploum on 2026-02-11 You don’t need to apologize for taking hours, days, or years to reply to one of my emails. If we are not close collaborators, and if I didn’t explicitly tell you I was waiting for your answer within a specific timeframe, then please stop apologizing for replying late! This is a […]
Flood Fill vs. The Magic Circle
Transmitted 20260209 · · · 369 days before impact If you’ve ever used Photoshop or another image editing program, you know the paint bucket tool. Here is its primordial form: The paint bucket icon, Susan Kare The operation executed by this tool is “flood fill”: color stretches out from the cursor, transforming everything until it reaches an unbroken […]
Chrome extensions spying on 37M users’ browsing data
Summary We built an automated scanning pipeline that runs Chrome inside a Docker container, routes all traffic through a man‑in‑the‑middle (MITM) proxy, and watches for outbound requests that correlate with the length of the URLs we feed it. Using a leakage metric we flagged 287 Chrome extensions that exfiltrate browsing history. Those extensions collectively have […]
A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST
Naidu, Rohan P., Pascal A. Oesch, Gabriel Brammer, Andrea Weibel, Yijia Li, Jorryt Matthee, John Chisolm, et al. 2026. “A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at zspec = 14.44 Confirmed with JWST.” The Open Journal of Astrophysics 9 (January). https://doi.org/10.33232/001c.156033.
I’m building a clarity-first language (compiles to C++)
ROX is a minimal, clarity-first programming language built on a simple belief: Programming logic should not have to fight the language. ROX removes implicit behavior, hidden conversions, and syntactic tricks so that expressing logic feels direct and mechanical rather than negotiated. ROX compiles .rox source files into C++20 (.cc), which are then compiled into native […]
5,300-year-old ’bow drill’ rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools
Published on: 9 February 2026 A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested. Researchers at Newcastle University, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, have re-examined a small copper-alloy object excavated a century ago from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt, and concluded it […]
RynnBrain
💫 Project Page | Models & Bench 🤗 🤖 | 🚀 Demo | 📚 Cookbooks [2026.02.15] 🔥🔥 Release our Technical Report !! [2026.02.09] 🔥🔥 Release our code and model checkpoints!! Introduction We present RynnBrain, an embodied foundation model grounded in physical reality. RynnBrain is available in two dense variants (2B and 8B) and […]
The Day the Telnet Died
A long, long time ago I can still remember how a protocol used to make me smile And I knew if I had my chance That I could make those botnets dance And maybe they’d be happy for a while But January made me shiver With every packet I tried to deliver Bad news on […]