BYD, Tesla May Face Import Caps as Canada Works Out China EV Quota – Bloomberg Honda reconsiders Canada plant as U.S. demand for EVs slows – Japantimes Elon Musk tried to recruit Sam…

Condensed presentation of Jakob Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics in infographics that explain what each heuristic means and show design patterns that support the heuristics as well as anti-patterns…

Was is Joseph Goebbels who first put forward the thesis of the big lie? That is “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Was it Goebbels? Or…

Google Chrome is bundling a 4GB local AI model download in the background, creating a new privacy risk even before the feature is enabled.

SPECIMEN #000: Custos corruptus (The Corrupt Guardian: How the World's Largest Social Network Profits from the Grifts It Claims to Police) Classification: Attention Merchant / Grift Enabler /…

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, May 11 through Sunday, May 17! This list includes both in-person and online events. Note…

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Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars - YouTube Great explainer on how hybrid cars work. Non-hybrid gas engines use the Otto cycle. They are relatively inefficient because they waste energy at…

On MacOS, the cmd tab keyboard shortcut only switches between apps, not the individual windows. I use apps like Firefox, where I have multiple windows open and so the MacOS solution does not work for…

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Many companies today are facing increasing pressure to adopt AI and launch AI-based features. While AI is a transformative new technology, such pressure can be unhealthy and counter-productive. Faced…

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chiefmartec.com and team published “2026 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic: Peak Martech Achieved! (Maybe)“, 5-May-2026: Download a hi-res, clickable PDF of the full martech…

Through time, we have glorified conquerors and empire builders in politics, civic life and business, from Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan to the tech titans of today. That is no surprise, since…

① Someone felt contemplative… I was looking for a review of Argent Linux and I noticed this ad hoc philosophy at the end of a review of it in DistroWatch […]

ServiceNow just unleashed a barrage of announcements that set the stage for its goal: doubling revenue to $30 billion in the next four years. In a nutshell, they want to own the management tools,…

Somewhere, I mentioned the fact that my new, cheap but premium-finished Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 had a single issue under Kubuntu 26.04 LTS: resuming after sleep would break Bluetooth. I […]

Anthropic raised Claude limits by renting SpaceX compute. The funny part is where the compute came from.

Learn how to honestly analyze your own logs and data to improve your technical SEO performance. Discover practical tips for objective self-assessment and identifying optimization opportunities.

I've been starting to get back into composing music, which for me also means looking at YouTube videos and social posts related to the topic. But the more I start looking at videos and content…

Recently, a port of Notepad++ to macOS has been making the rounds online, mainly due to the project using the Notepad++ name without permission and in breach of the original author’s trademark. But…

The unexpected second life of passenger aircraft Next time you’re eating a lasagne on your holiday flight, pause to consider the aircraft type you are flying in may have well have gone to war, spied…

As a heavy user of the bookmarking service Linkding I was delighted when this post from Cory Dransfeldt announcing his iOS app Ribbon showed up in my RSS reader. For the longest time I’ve been…

Palo Alto Portal Vulnerability, Most Companies Aren't Ready for AI, Surface Updates, CopyFail YARA Rules, and more...

The Iconfactory Blog Linea’s interface has been updated to feel right at home on iOS 26 and Liquid Glass. Today’s update emphasizes your canvas while keeping tools just as accessible and intuitive as…

I learned enough book binding skill to make a case for my new Xteink X4 e-reader. I enjoyed the process, and think of some future things to do with it.

Have you ever noticed when your smartphone gets unusually warm? Warm is not abnormal for smartphones. After all, a discharging battery produces heat as a byproduct of electron flow. Apps can also…

Ever since I was a child, my Mac screenshots have saved to my desktop. This is how macOS works by default, and it's what I kept doing when I finally made the jump to CleanShot back in 2020. It…

After 5 months of owning my custom configured BMW i4 eDrive40 Gran Coupé M Sport (2026), and with petrol prices in the Netherlands reaching €2.60...

Deep into tinkering with gaming on Linux using Bazzite 44. The problem I’m wrestling with is that fullscreen games are guessing a different resolution than they should. my screen is…

It's very strange when they actually say the bluetooth messages: @string.and.tell Are these the voices in your headphones? @kdimerc and @Tawny Platis | Voice Actor get into voice matching, IVR…

Why lithium investors keep getting psychologically destroyed at both the top and the bottom of the cycle For those newer to the lithium space, the past few years probably looked completely insane.…

Supabase: Industrial vision cameras SDKs: Solarwinds: Spectrum and/or Optimum: Wifi boosters/extenders: The lack of an e-stop on a $10k robot: Raspberry Pi scalpers on eBay: (this list may grow in…

I have an EV Switch AC7000 EV charger installed at home and it’s integrated into Home Assistant via the OCPP integration. It’s kind of annoying if you want to update the firmware - as the only real…

While most new applications use the GPU for rendering to achieve better performance and battery life, there are some new applications and a lot of older applications that still use CPU rendering.…

I never thought I would be the person cross-shopping a Tesla Model S Plaid and a Porsche Taycan Turbo S, let alone owning both. Porsche people tend to scoff at the idea of driving a Tesla, while…

I recently a bought a Lenovo Chromebook 14, and wanted to run Zed on it. This took me a little while, but I finally figured…

We published a Where To? update. Version 13.5.5 contains several bugfixes and improvements and supports 19 additional micromobility providers: 549 Самокати 🇺🇦 Aldin Cycles 🇬🇭 AO Drive 🇴🇲 BiciCastro…

Michael Tsai posts another excellent roundup and in the midst of it, nails down what Apple got wrong about the Touch Bar: There’s this amazing, programmable screen, but there wasn’t really any way to…

Creative Field Recording A quick look at iZotope RX 12 for sound effects editing and mastering - what's new, what's changed, and whether it's worth upgrading The article is originally from Quick…

The mistake that built Heathkit I hadn’t heard the story about the boxcars of electronic components before. How orchards became Silicon Valley I worked in Silicon Valley right after I got out…

May really crept up on me this year. I'm always surprised when the seasons change. The beginning of a season has me makes feeling like it will last the whole year. They always seem to change faster…

Why is the fan so noisy? It’s my brand new Dell XPS 14, and the fan is noticeably, annoyingly, incessantly… there. Not really loud by anyone’s measure. But it’s there. And thus it started. Tweaking…

Domain migrations are asymmetric bets: the upside has a ceiling, the downside doesn't. Here is how to plan, prepare, and execute one without losing what you already have.

Forms ask people to declare preferences. Receipts record what they did. The gap between the two is where revealed preference lives, and it's wider than most product teams admit.

You might think it counterintuitive that a movement obsessed with software would be spearheading a severe decline in the design quality of software, but in Patel’s definition, there’s no concept of…

Zeta Global just posted their latest email and SMS benchmark report. Curious about open, click and unsub percentages across a whole bunch of industry sectors? Zeta's got that. Retail, Financial…

There has been a great deal of talk about Palantir Technologies, which leads me to suspect that a crusade is either being prepared or is perhaps already underway. And crusades against multinational…