A Zipper Patent Sat in a Garage for 40 Years. Now It's Real
https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/05/31/a-zipper-patent-sat-in-a-garage-for-40-years-now-its-real/
https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/05/31/a-zipper-patent-sat-in-a-garage-for-40-years-now-its-real/
Yanko Design
A Zipper Patent Sat in a Garage for 40 Years. Now It’s Real.
Back in 1985, an electrical engineer at Polaroid named Bill Freeman had an idea for a three-sided zipper. Not a novelty item, not a quirky art piece, but a genuinely functional fastener capable of switching objects between soft, floppy states and rigid, load…
Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample
https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56
https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56
ChatGPT
Check out this chat
ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/nx-s1-5898504/ice-medicaid-palantir-data
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/nx-s1-5898504/ice-medicaid-palantir-data
NPR
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support
https://nondescriptpointer.com/articles/fairphone-6-wide-camera-linux/
https://nondescriptpointer.com/articles/fairphone-6-wide-camera-linux/
Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/malleable-computing-emacs-and-you.html
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/malleable-computing-emacs-and-you.html
Yummymelon
Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You
It all started with a routine task. I use GitHub issues for all of my public-facing projects but my preference is keeping track of things in Org Agenda. To reconcile the two, I would manually...
Any text-to-SQL benchmark should address difficulties of real-world data stores
https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/if-you-think-you-can-do-real-world-text-to-sql/
https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/if-you-think-you-can-do-real-world-text-to-sql/
Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/science/medici-family-mystery-dna-malaria
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/science/medici-family-mystery-dna-malaria
CNN
Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years
New research determined that the mysterious death of a ruler from the powerful Florentine Medici family was due to illness, not murder.
Why I'm building a note taking app without AI
https://withdocket.com/blog/why-im-building-a-note-taking-app-without-ai
https://withdocket.com/blog/why-im-building-a-note-taking-app-without-ai
Honey Bee Colony Monitoring via Audio IoT Sensors, Tensorgrams and RNNs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20386
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20386
arXiv.org
Improved Monitoring of Honey bee Colony Strength via Audio IoT...
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) play a crucial role in agriculture and ecosystem stability as key pollinators of crops and wild plants. As such, monitoring hive strength remotely with Internet of...
Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program
https://github.blog/security/next-chapter-restructuring-githubs-bug-bounty-program/
https://github.blog/security/next-chapter-restructuring-githubs-bug-bounty-program/
The GitHub Blog
Next chapter: Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program
GitHub is making some significant changes to its bug bounty program, shifting its focus to give researchers a better experience.
Local AI that finds sensitive files on your Mac before attackers do
https://www.vaultsort.com/guardian
https://www.vaultsort.com/guardian
Vaultsort
Guardian — Find What Should Be Locked. Lock It. | VaultSort
An on-device scan that flags identity documents, financial records, credentials, and medical files sitting exposed on your Mac. Zero uploads, zero network calls.