c100
c100 Developer Terminal – Caligra c100Developer Terminal A Linux®-powered mini-PC, designed to run Workbench. The c100 is designed for offices, workshops, labs, and factories. Built around a full-size mechanical keyboard, with tool storage and a removable lid. c100 folds with its magnetic hinge, for closed operation or reclaiming bench space. Get c100 now from $1,400 32GB […]
What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think
What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think – 8 Ball Rambles Home Blog 21 Aug, 2026 I want to talk about something that’s been on my mind for a while: search has quietly gotten worse over the past several years, and I think it’s worth being honest about why, and what it’s actually […]
Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Kagi Search New controls to completely turn off AI-based features in search We’ve added an option to disable access to AI features in search, under settings/ai. We’re also planning to add this option to onboarding, so new users can personalise their Kagi experience from the start. It’s finally here! We believe that Kagi’s application of […]
Kodak’s “Pre-Invented” Lunar Orbiter Camera; Or, the Fate of SAMOS Readout
Left: The Lunar Orbiter camera system sitting in the bottom half of the pressurized shell. Project Manager Cliff Nelson (left) stands with NASA/Langley team members Calvin Broome, Israel Taback, and Joe Mooreman. From NASA. Right: Lunar Orbiter frame 5017-M, showing artifacts from Kodak’s camera system. From NASA/LOIRP. In 1966 and 1967, NASA sent five robotic […]
Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle
Abstract:As well as obtaining beautiful images of the Universe, the Hubble Space Telescope’s CCD detectors are sensitive radiation dosimeters that have been monitored in Low Earth Orbit for more than 24 years. The rate of radiation damage they received has varied over each Solar cycle, but several years out of phase with the appearance of […]
What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
Progress in large language models is usually reported as what the best model can now do that no model could do before. That is the direction that produces headlines, and it has indeed been truly incredible. Each step up at the top of the range lets a model handle a kind of task that was […]
I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases
DNS hijacking is silly. I already took over different .gov and .edu domains in the past, but I just immediately reported that and moved on.This one is a little different though, it’s about how I took over phone-network infrastructure domains (e164.arpa) of entire territories, and accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military […]
We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
Don’t let the absence of a flying car in your garage distract you: we are definitely now living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson. Every day I notice a news story that startles or alarms me, that feels like pure cyberpunk, nestled between reports about council bin collections […]
Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
A grand jury in Ohio has declined to indict a man charged with felony vandalism for allegedly destroying a Flock automatic license plate reader camera. Police in Union Township, a Cincinnati suburb, accused Cody Morelock of disassembling the camera, its support pole and solar panel on June 13. Investigators, according to WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, identified […]
I’m Becoming AI-Blind
AI AI AI Recently I’ve been catching myself having these little moments at work, when I’m trying to read a document someone has sent me and my brain somehow refuses to analyze it. It feels like I’m reading it, but I’m unable to focus on its content. I end up getting dragged into an endless […]