Across the country, copper and other valuable materials have been stolen from streetlights, statues and even gravesites, costing millions to repair.

New technology and old tactics have made buying a car a death march of deception. Jase Patrick, who spent 15 years in the business, reveals the dealer secrets.

On July 4, 1964, Leicester Hemingway founded New Atlantis, a raft-turned-micronation intended to support marine life in the region

We can't stand regular stimulation anymore. We always want to be entertained...

A framework for serving and evaluating LLM routers - save LLM costs without compromising quality - lm-sys/RouteLLM

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Labor-intensive manufacturing has limited the use of lighter, stronger composites but that may change with emerging techniques.

Discover the risks of AWS Account IDs. Learn how these 12-digit numbers can expose your cloud resources and why they matter for your AWS cloud security.

Experts say success soft drinks shows expansion of tax to cover other foods and drinks is a ‘no brainer’

A deep dive on Microsoft's GraphRAG paper found questionable metrics with vaguely defined lift, so I analyzed knowledge graphs in RAG overall using Neo4j vs FAISS

Can you spot the drowning child in this crowded wave pool? An interactive public service announcement. To the untrained eye, drowning can look just like swimming. The Instinctive Drowning Response is frequently missed, even by people nearby.

why having an isolated environment is useful, why setting up an environment with Direnv can be tough, and walk through an example of Direnv + Devbox

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Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 16:00  local time on 9 July (20:00 BST, 21:00 CEST).

Experience railway signalling/dispatching control centres through SimSig, a commercial train simulator that lets you operate and route trains to their destination.

We’re introducing the “free as in beer”, self-hosted and AGPL-licensed Plausible Community Edition (CE).