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Technology (15 items)

Should Europe wean itself off US tech?

BBC Technology6 hours ago
Just three US firms provide 70% of Europe's cloud-computing, leading to fears of overreliance.

GPT-5 is supposed to be nicer now

TechCrunch8 hours ago
OpenAI announced late Friday that it’s updating its latest model to be “warmer and friendlier.”

‘Stranger Things’ creators may be leaving Netflix

TechCrunch9 hours ago
Netflix could soon lose the creative team behind one of its biggest hits, with the Duffer Brothers reportedly signing an exclusive deal with Paramount.

Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood

TechCrunch13 hours ago
While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn faced backlash after declaring that Duolingo would become an “AI-first company,” he suggested in a new interview the real issue was that he “did not give enough context.”

Judge says FTC investigation into Media Matters ‘should alarm all Americans’

TechCrunch1 days ago
A federal judge has blocked the FTC's investigation into Media Matters research around advertising and antisemitic content on X.

AI-powered stuffed animals are coming for your kids

TechCrunch1 days ago
Do A.I. chatbots packaged inside cute-looking plushies offer a viable alternative to screen time for kids? Maybe not.

Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations 

TechCrunch1 days ago
Anthropic says new capabilities allow its latest AI models to protect themselves by ending abusive conversations.

Winklevoss twins’ crypto company Gemini files for IPO

TechCrunch2 days ago
Another crypto company is headed for the public markets.

Sam Altman, over bread rolls, explores life after GPT-5

TechCrunch2 days ago
At a dinner with reporters in San Francisco, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spilled details on the company's ambitions beyond ChatGPT.

How your solar rooftop became a national security issue

TechCrunch2 days ago
Texas solar company EG4 became the poster child for home energy cybersecurity risks this week after federal officials published an advisory detailing how hackers could hijack its inverters.

Sen. Hawley to probe Meta after report finds its AI chatbots flirt with kids

TechCrunch2 days ago
“Is there anything - ANYTHING - Big Tech won’t do for a quick buck?” Hawley wrote in a post on X announcing the investigation.

Les Amis, the European app helping women form friendships, launches in New York

TechCrunch2 days ago
Les Amis is an app designed to make it easy for women to form friendships and attend local events.

TikTok’s new guidelines add subtle changes for LIVE creators, AI content, and more

TechCrunch2 days ago
TikTok is preparing an update to its Community Guidelines, which dictate the rules for participating on the social video platform as well as what standards the company uses to determine the videos that make it onto its For You feed.

Kyte, which billed itself as the ‘best competitor to Hertz,’ shuts down

TechCrunch2 days ago
The startup entered into receivership after selling its customer list to Turo.

Trump wants to clean up the space industry’s red tape: Here’s who wins

TechCrunch2 days ago
A new executive order takes aim at the bureaucracy that the White House says is holding back American competitiveness in space.

Science (15 items)

Scientists just found a hidden factor behind Earth’s methane surge

Science daily2 hours ago
Roughly two-thirds of all atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, comes from methanogens. Tracking down which methanogens in which environment produce methane with a specific isotope signature is difficult, however. UC Berkeley researchers have for the first time CRISPRed the key enzyme involv...

Scientists uncover the lost shelduck that chose walking over flight

Science daily2 hours ago
Scientists have uncovered an extinct shelduck from the Chatham Islands that evolved shorter wings and stronger legs, adapting to a predator-free, windy environment. It vanished before the 19th century, likely due to hunting and predation.

The surprising way rising CO2 could supercharge space storms

Science daily2 hours ago
Rising CO₂ levels will make the upper atmosphere colder and thinner, altering how geomagnetic storms impact satellites. Future storms could cause sharper density spikes despite lower overall density, increasing drag-related challenges.

NASA’s SWOT satellite captures Kamchatka megaquake tsunami in striking detail

Science daily13 hours ago
When a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, NASA and CNES’s SWOT satellite captured a rare and detailed picture of the tsunami that followed. Recorded just over an hour after the quake, the satellite revealed the wave’s height, shape, and path, offering sci...

Trojan horse bacteria sneak cancer-killing viruses into tumors

Science daily15 hours ago
Scientists have engineered a groundbreaking cancer treatment that uses bacteria to smuggle viruses directly into tumors, bypassing the immune system and delivering a powerful one-two punch against cancer cells. The bacteria act like Trojan horses, carrying viral payloads to cancer’s core, where th...

Scientists finally tame the impossible 48-atom carbon ring

Science daily15 hours ago
Researchers have synthesized a stable cyclo[48]carbon, a unique 48-carbon ring that can be studied in solution at room temperature, a feat never achieved before.

One gene completely changed how these flies fall in love

Science daily16 hours ago
By flipping a single genetic switch, researchers made one fruit fly species adopt the gift-giving courtship of another, showing how tiny brain rewiring can drive evolutionary change.

NASA’s PREFIRE satellites reveal a secret glow escaping from our planet

Science daily19 hours ago
With its two tiny CubeSats, NASA’s PREFIRE mission is capturing invisible heat escaping from Earth, offering clues to how ice, clouds, and storms influence the climate system. The insights could lead to better weather forecasts and a deeper understanding of global change.

A record-breaking antenna just deployed in space. Here’s what it will see

Science daily19 hours ago
NASA and ISRO s NISAR satellite has just reached a major milestone: the successful deployment of its enormous 39-foot antenna reflector in orbit. Folded up like an umbrella during launch, the reflector is now fully extended and ready to support NISAR s groundbreaking radar systems. This record-break...

Scientists just proved a fundamental quantum rule for the first time

Science daily20 hours ago
Scientists have, for the first time, experimentally proven that angular momentum is conserved even when a single photon splits into two, pushing quantum physics to its most fundamental limits. Using ultra-precise equipment, the team captured this elusive process—comparable to finding a needle in a...

Scientists stunned by record-breaking, watermelon-shaped nucleus

Science daily1 days ago
Scientists in Finland have measured the heaviest known nucleus to undergo proton emission, discovering the rare isotope 188-astatine. It exhibits a unique shape and may reveal a new kind of nuclear interaction.

Great white sharks have a DNA mystery science still can’t explain

Science daily1 days ago
Once on the brink during the last ice age, great white sharks made a remarkable recovery globally, but their DNA reveals a baffling story. Classic migration explanations fail, leaving scientists with a mystery that defies reproductive and evolutionary logic.

Scientists just made vibrations so precise they can spot a single molecule

Science daily1 days ago
Rice University scientists have discovered a way to make tiny vibrations, called phonons, interfere with each other more strongly than ever before. Using a special sandwich of silver, graphene, and silicon carbide, they created a record-breaking effect so sensitive it can detect a single molecule wi...

The ocean’s fragile fortresses are crumbling under climate pressure

Science daily1 days ago
Mediterranean bryozoans, including the “false coral,” are showing alarming changes in structure and microbiomes under acidification and warming. Field studies at volcanic CO₂ vents reveal that these stressors combined sharply reduce survival, posing risks to marine ecosystems.

Mexican cave stalagmites reveal the deadly droughts behind the Maya collapse

Science daily2 days ago
Chemical evidence from a stalagmite in Mexico has revealed that the Classic Maya civilization’s decline coincided with repeated severe wet-season droughts, including one that lasted 13 years. These prolonged droughts corresponded with halted monument construction and political disruption at key Ma...

Security (15 items)

Typhoon-adjacent Chinese crew broke into Taiwanese web host

The register2 days ago
Is that a JuicyPotato on your network? A suspected Chinese-government-backed cyber crew recently broke into a Taiwanese web hosting provider to steal credentials and plant backdoors for long-term access, using a mix of open-source and custom software tools, Cisco Talos reports.…

Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline

The register2 days ago
Who knew zero-days could be so useful to highway speedsters? The lingering effects of a cyberattack on the Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands are preventing it from reactivating speed cameras across the country.…

Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline

The register2 days ago
London-based multinational takes customer portal and Voice API platform offline as 'protective measure' following breach Updated  Multinational telco Colt Technology Services says a "cyber incident" is to blame for its customer portal and other services being down for a number of days.…

Ransomware crews don't care about your endpoint security – they've already killed it

The register3 days ago
Some custom malware, some legit software tools At least a dozen ransomware gangs have incorporated kernel-level EDR killers into their malware arsenal, allowing them to bypass almost every major endpoint security tool on the market, escalate privileges, and ultimately steal and encrypt data before e...

Psst: wanna buy a legit FBI email account for $40?

The register3 days ago
Government and police employee credentials sold at bargain-basement prices on underground forums Criminals are selling access to FBI and other law enforcement and government email accounts to other criminals via dark web marketplaces for as little as $40.…

Law and water: Russia blamed for US court system break-in and Norwegian dam drama

The register3 days ago
Moscow-linked miscreants accused of swiping sealed US court files and fiddling with a Norwegian dam’s floodgates Russian attackers reportedly spent months rummaging through the US federal court's creaky case-management system, while Norway reckons the same Kremlin-friendly miscreants took control ...

Italian hotels breached en masse since June, government confirms

The register3 days ago
Nearly 100,000 records allegedly up for sale after apparent breach at booking system Italy's digital agency (AGID) says a cybercriminal's claims concerning a spate of data thefts affecting various hotels across the country are genuine.…

Stock in the Channel pulls website amid cyberattack

The register3 days ago
Intruders accessed important systems but tells customers their data is safe Updated  A UK-based multinational that provides tech stock availability tools is telling customers that its website outage is due to a cyber attack.…

Ransomware crew spills Saint Paul's 43GB of secrets after city refuses to cough up cash

The register4 days ago
Minnesota’s capital is the latest to feature on Interlock’s leak blog after late-July cyberattack The Interlock ransomware gang has flaunted a 43GB haul of files allegedly stolen from the city of Saint Paul, following a late-July cyberattack that forced the Minnesota capital to declare a state o...

Crypto-crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion

The register5 days ago
Tells court 'What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct' Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty to committing fraud when promoting the so-called "stablecoin" Terra USD and now faces time in jail.…

Manpower franchise discloses data theft after RansomHub posts alleged stolen data

The register5 days ago
And yes, there’s the usual credit monitoring Global staffing firm Manpower confirmed ransomware criminals broke into its Lansing, Michigan franchise's network and stole personal information belonging to 144,189 people, months after the extortionists claimed that they pilfered "all of [the company'...

BlackSuit ransomware crew loses servers, domains, and $1m in global shakedown

The register5 days ago
US cops yank servers, domains, and crypto from the Russia-linked gang - but the crooks remain at large In a display of bureaucratic bravado, US law enforcement agencies say they've “disrupted” the BlackSuit ransomware gang (also known as Royal), freeing millions of dollars in virtual currency fr...

Russia's RomCom among those exploiting a WinRAR 0-day in highly-targeted attacks

The register6 days ago
A few weeks earlier 'zeroplayer' advertised an $80K WinRAR 0-day exploit Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix.…

US scrambles to recoup $1M+ nicked by NORKs

The register6 days ago
The alleged perpetrators remain at large The US Department of Justice is trying to recoup around $1 million that three IT specialists secretly working for the North Korean government allegedly stole from a New York company.…

Programming (15 items)

🍔🧠 How DropBox Built Multimedia Search for 700M Users

HungryMinds.dev6 days ago
PLUS: Design a Rate Limiter ⏳, What is Cache Warming ♨️, Instagram Staff Career Gold 🏆

🍔🧠 How Amazon S3 Crushed The CAP Theorem (Deep Dive)

HungryMinds.devAug 4, 2025
PLUS: GeoHashing Explained 🌍, AI Cookbook for Devs 📖 , AI Agents In Prod 🤖

🍔🧠 How Grab's Rust Migration Cut Server Costs By 70%

HungryMinds.devJul 28, 2025
PLUS: Claude Code Goldmine 🐐, Load Balancing Crash Course 👨‍🎓, Work-Life Balance Slows Careers ⚖️

🍔🧠 95% Faster: The Data Pipeline That Saved Airbnb Millions

HungryMinds.devJul 21, 2025
PLUS: Parsing 1B Rows in 10s with Bun ⚡, Load Balancer vs Proxy vs Gateway ⚖️, 2025’s Hottest Tech Stack Revealed 🔥

🍔🧠 How Spotify Tags 100M Songs Using GenAI (Their Secret ML Pipeline)

HungryMinds.devJul 14, 2025
PLUS: Forward Proxy vs Reverse Proxy ⚡, PACELC Theorem Clearly Explained 📚, How I Build Software Quickly 🏗️

🍔🧠 How Shopify Handles 67M Daily Views (Only 1 Framework)

HungryMinds.devJul 7, 2025
PLUS: Reddit System Design 🔥, Bloom Filters by Example 🌸, Video Games Graph Theory 🍇

🍔🧠 75% More Tweets: Inside Twitter's 1.0 PWA Strategy

HungryMinds.devJun 30, 2025
PLUS: Salary Negotiation Masterclass 💰, Implementing Undo/Redo Systems ♻️, Why Sam Altman Gets 10x More 🚀

🍔🧠 How Google's Policy Bug Took Down The Whole Internet

HungryMinds.devJun 23, 2025
PLUS: ACID Clearly Explained 🧠, Free Data Engineer Bootcamp 📊, Things to Avoid in JavaScript ❌

🍔🧠 OpenAI's Stack for Streaming to Billions of Customers

HungryMinds.devJun 16, 2025
PLUS: Designing a Rate Limiter 🚦, Agent Programming Deep Dive 🤯, Developer Salary Report 💵

🍔🧠 100M Predictions/Day: Lyft's Production ML Architecture

HungryMinds.devJun 12, 2025
PLUS: 2025 Backend Developer Roadmap 🗺️, JWTs Explained in Seconds 🔑, The 2-Week Vacation Test ✈️

🍔🧠 How Netflix Handles 220M Subscribers With Pure Java

HungryMinds.devJun 9, 2025
PLUS: Principal Engineers Tips 🥇, Progressive JSON Explained 📜, Concurrent Web Crawling in Ruby 🕷️

🍔🧠 How Uber Eats Handles 2B+ Search Queries Daily (Full Architecture)

HungryMinds.devJun 2, 2025
PLUS: WebSocket Use Cases ⚡, NASA's LLMs With Graphs 🚀, Automated Quant Trading 💸

🍔🧠 1000+ ML Models: Inside Instagram's Recommendation System Architecture

HungryMinds.devMay 26, 2025
PLUS: Search Engine From Scratch 🔍, Why Redis Is Lightning Fast ⚡, Procrastination Hacks for Devs ⏳

🍔🧠 4.77B Users on SQL: Google's Ad Architecture Deep Dive

HungryMinds.devMay 19, 2025
PLUS: Why I Don’t Like NumPy ❌, GitHub AI Engineering Repo 📚, Load Balancing Algorithms ⚖️

🍔🧠 How Node.js Works Behind the Scenes (Deep Dive)

HungryMinds.devMay 12, 2025
PLUS: How Cursor Indexes Code ⚡, Distributed Concepts Deep Dive 🌐, Reverse Engineering PowerPoint 🎨

Engineering (15 items)

Bode plot vs engineering discipline

Reddit Engineering7 hours ago
Rf and analog in electrical and dampers in civil. Who else uses bode plots and why? How well does knowledge from one discipline transfer to the next?   submitted by   /u/curiouslywtf [link]   [comments]

Why do people in the UK not know what engineering is?

Reddit Engineering4 days ago
After accepting that software development jobs are impossible to get now, I have recently been looking into engineering jobs and qualifications to see whether it's actually possible to get into the field (I am not asking for career advice), and my first observation is that nobody seems to know w...

I need to come up with my own job title, help

Reddit Engineering4 days ago
So currently my title is Senior Design Engineer For pay banding reasons we need to introduce a new job title/role above Senior Design Engineer to differentiate me from the others. I now take on management responsibility in the managers absence (and support him in interviews and decisions etc), so I ...

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (11 Aug 2025)

Reddit Engineering6 days ago
# Intro Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: * Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network * Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what...

r/engineering's Monthly Aug 2025 Hiring Thread for Engineering Professionals

Reddit EngineeringAug 9, 2025
# Overview If you have open positions at your company for engineering professionals (including technologists, fabricators, and technicians) and would like to hire from the r/engineering user base, please leave a comment detailing any open job listings at your company. We also encourage you to post i...

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 Commander, dead at 97

Reddit EngineeringAug 8, 2025
  submitted by   /u/Funkit [link]   [comments]

What Percentage of your job is reading?

Reddit EngineeringAug 7, 2025
Curious how this stacks up. Was just talking to my father and explained to him that probably 40% of my job is just reading. I'm not sure if that's accurate... but it got me thinking...   submitted by   /u/syizm [link]   [comments]

Manufacturing Engineers, what is your relationship like with the fitters/operators on the shop floor?

Reddit EngineeringAug 4, 2025
I think ive made a bad first impression and need to fix it, to have an easier life at work. They seem pissed at me for asking too many questions. I may have been to excited and thought they didnt mind. Rather than directly tell me, they must have went through managment. Which I think is a little ex...

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (04 Aug 2025)

Reddit EngineeringAug 4, 2025
# Intro ​ Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: ​ * Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network ​ * Educational guidance...

TIL even Allen Bradley CompactLogix PLCs lose their minds when you divide by zero

Reddit EngineeringAug 1, 2025
RIP to my factory’s productivity today.   submitted by   /u/CancelCultAntifaLol [link]   [comments]

Question about over torquing bolts.

Reddit EngineeringAug 1, 2025
I work in an assembly plant. We are torquing a 10-24, 18-8 stainless steel bolt to 72 inlb. I know this is a huge torque value, all tables recommend 22.8 inlb. This value was put in place by a previous engineer due to the bolts coming out at recommended torque values. They pass extensive testing at ...

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (28 Jul 2025)

Reddit EngineeringJul 28, 2025
# Intro ​ Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: ​ * Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network ​ * Educational guidance...

volonaut Airbike, how does it work?

Reddit EngineeringJul 25, 2025
I'm guessing it has a compact jet turbine with electric fly by wire vanes ducting the thrust? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fev5M_7Wnw   submitted by   /u/The_Didlyest [link]   [comments]

Lost passion.

Reddit EngineeringJul 22, 2025
I got into Mechanical Engineering back in college because high job placement. Did a couple years working for a tool manufacturer doing continuous improvement, got into quality, did some process engineering for another manufacturer and then I met my wife. We ended up moving across country for her car...

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (21 Jul 2025)

Reddit EngineeringJul 21, 2025
# Intro ​ Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: ​ * Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network ​ * Educational guidance...