Collaborate Disseminate
Cloudflare has gotten more active in its efforts to identify and block unauthorized bots and AI crawlers that don’t respect boundaries. Their solution? AI Labyrinth, which uses generative AI to …read more Continue reading Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth Wants Bad Bots To Get Endlessly Lost
A piece of musical history is the Maplin 4600, a DIY electronic music synthesizer from the 1970s. The design was published in an Australian electronics magazine and sold as a …read more Continue reading Reviving a Maplin 4600 DIY Synthesizer From the 1970s
Do you like high-detail 3D models intended for resin printing, but wish you could more easily print them on a filament-based FDM printer? Good news, because [Jacob] of Painted4Combat shared …read more Continue reading Make Fancy Resin Printer 3D Models FDM-Friendly
[Simon Willison] has put together a list of how, exactly, one goes about using a large language models (LLM) to help write code. If you have wondered just what the …read more Continue reading How To Use LLMs For Programming Tasks
Popular Science has an excellent article on how Josephine Cochrane transformed how dishes are cleaned by inventing an automated dish washing machine and obtaining a patent in 1886. Dishwashers had …read more Continue reading Josephine Cochrane Invented the Modern Dishwasher — In 1886
[Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s most recent discoveries …read more Continue reading The Pentium Processor’s Innovative (and Complicated) Method of Multiplying by Three, Fast
Lucid dreaming is the state of becoming aware one is dreaming while still being within the dream. To what end? That awareness may allow one to influence the dream itself, …read more Continue reading The Road to Lucid Dreaming Might be Paved With VR
[Nicholas LaBonte] shows off a Cyberdeck Handheld that demonstrates just how good something can look when care and attention goes into the design and fabrication. He wanted to make something …read more Continue reading A Precisely Elegant Cyberdeck Handheld
Holography is about capturing 3D data from a scene, and being able to reconstruct that scene — preferably in high fidelity. Holography is not a new idea, but engaging in …read more Continue reading New Camera Does Realtime Holographic Capture, No Coherent Light Required
What does one do when frustrated at the lack of affordable, open source portable trackers? If you’re [OG-star-tech], you design your own and give it modular features that rival commercial offerings …read more Continue reading DIY Open-Source Star Tracker Gets You Those Great Night Shots