Wi-Fi That Can Withstand a Nuclear Reactor: This receiver chip can take it
02 Apr 2026 3 min read Katherine Bourzac is a freelance journalist based in San Francisco. “Bring on the radiation! I can take it,” this Wi-Fi receiver chip would say if it could talk. Yasuto Narukiyo, Sena Kato, et al. Researchers have made a Wi-Fi receiver that’s tough enough to work inside a nuclear reactor. […]
A $1.75T IPO Would Be Overpaying 30% for SpaceX
SpaceX filed confidentially for an IPO on April 1, 2026, targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation and a June listing. If completed, it would be the largest IPO in history. I found this valuation interesting because SpaceX is a conglomerate now, so valuing the business segments together has a lot of intangible value. But my particular […]
Google releases Gemma 4 open models
Gemma 4 models undergo the same rigorous infrastructure security protocols as our proprietary models. By choosing Gemma 4, enterprises and sovereign organizations gain a trusted, transparent foundation that delivers state-of-the-art capabilities while meeting the highest standards for security and reliability.
Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer. This is the first of a series of articles in which you will learn about what may be one of the silliest, most preventable, and most costly mishaps of the 21st century, where Microsoft all but lost OpenAI, its largest […]
Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps
NASA’s Artemis II mission blasted off on Wednesday. Now brace yourselves for exciting high-resolution 4K footage live-streamed from the surface of the moon thanks to NASA’s laser-based O2O system. The cutting-edge Orion Artemis II Optical Communications system (O2O) will be used to beam 4K moon footage at up to 260 Mbps. We should also be […]
Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
The controversy surrounding compliance startup Delve has gone from bad to worse this week. Among the fresh allegations from the anonymous whistleblower known as DeepDelver is the claim that Delve allegedly took an open source tool and passed it off as its own work without proper license attribution to or monetary agreement with the original […]
Ruckus: Racket for iOS
01 Run Scripts Execute Racket programs and see output as it’s produced. Everything runs locally on your device. 02 Rainbow Parentheses Color-coded nesting depth and bracket matching. 03 Smart Indentation Understands Racket forms like define, let, and cond. Includes a keyboard row for brackets and common keywords. 04 Color Themes Catppuccin Mocha, Dracula, Gruvbox, Nord, […]
My Experience as a Rice Farmer
I’ve been inspired to write something for April Cools Club, and what fits better from my normal content than my experience rice farming in rural Japan! For those who aren’t aware, in 2025 I spent January-July in Japan staying with my wife’s family. During that time we helped out on the family rice farm near […]
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never […]
Show HN: I built a small app for FSI German Course
You hear German before you read it. Every unit opens with a dialogue broken into build-ups. You hear ”good” then ”morning” then ”Good morning, Mr. Becker.” Fragment by fragment until the full sentence clicks. Your ear picks up the accent before you’ve had time to think about it.