Tool descriptions are eating up all your AI tokens (but they don’t have to)
The vast majority of developers now use AI coding assistants daily. As these tools become more advanced and widely adopted, usage quotas and rate limits have also become a familiar frustration. Many providers enforce weekly or… ⌘ Read more
Building a unified hybrid cloud with Infrastructure as Code at RBC
Managing infrastructure across a hybrid cloud environment—spanning public platforms and private data centers—presents a major challenge. Organizations must balance compliance, cost control, and developer experience while delivering consistency at scale. At RBC, we addressed this by… ⌘ Read more
What motion is best in this scenario? ⌘ Read more
Taiwan does not want China’s ‘one country, two systems’, president says ⌘ Read more
With one paw, Molly begins to trust again… ⌘ Read more
Security Doesn’t Have to Hurt
Do you ever wish security would stop blocking the tools you need to do your job? Surprise: your security team wants the same. There you are, just trying to get your work done, when… You need an AI to translate documentation, but all the AI services are blocked by a security web monitoring tool. You… ⌘ Read more
When someone asks me for help with a bug just as I’m about to leave the office ⌘ Read more
mom (who didn’t want a cat obv) crochets her various vests and she wears them without a fuss.. ⌘ Read more
Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest
Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator ⌘ Read more
Mr. Bones: A Pirate-Voiced Halloween Chatbot Powered by Docker Model Runner
My name is Mike Coleman, a staff solution architect at Docker. This year I decided to turn a Home Depot animatronic skeleton into an AI-powered, live, interactive Halloween chatbot. The result: kids walk up to Mr. Bones, a spooky skeleton in my yard, ask it questions, and it answers back — in full pirate voice… ⌘ Read more
Ukraine’s Spy Units Blow Up Russia’s Top-Secret ‘Oreshnik’ Missile Launcher Deep Inside Enemy Territory ⌘ Read more
2023 vs now - Brother and sister ⌘ Read more
The gut microbiome may play a role in shaping our personality
Rats given a faecal transplant from exuberant toddlers showed more exploratory behaviour, supporting the idea that gut bacteria might affect children’s emotional development ⌘ Read more
The best new science fiction books of November 2025
From Claire North’s new novel Slow Gods to a 10th anniversary edition of a brilliant Adrian Tchaikovsky book, there’s lots to watch out for in November’s science fiction ⌘ Read more
When I see myself full screen as the boss starts sharing their screen ⌘ Read more
Pentagon Admits It Has No Idea Who’s on “Drug Boats” Being Bombed ⌘ Read more
A stray cat needs love ⌘ Read more
UN human rights chief says US strikes on alleged drug boats are ‘unacceptable’ ⌘ Read more
Advanced Documentation Retrieval on FreeBSD
I thought it might be nice to repost this considering the date.
When I originally wrote this I was planning an interview with Michael W. Lucas and at some point “leaked” this draft article to him. After about a day I got the email equivalent of a spit take and a ton of laughter.
Enjoy!
After All the Hype, Kremlin Admits Putin’s Nuclear Tests Weren’t Nuclear at All ⌘ Read more
My cat is not happy with the service in her kitchen ⌘ Read more
Calorimetric experiment achieves tightest bound on electron neutrino mass
In a Physical Review Letters study, the HOLMES collaboration has achieved the most stringent upper bound on the effective electron neutrino mass ever obtained using a calorimetric approach, setting a limit of less than 27 eV/c² at 90% credibility. ⌘ Read more
New missile that pushed Trump to leave nuclear treaty fired by Russia at Ukraine, Reuters reports ⌘ Read more
He’s fully charged ⌘ Read more
Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings
The New Scientist Book Club has various issues with Masud Husain’s prize-winning popular science book about neurology ⌘ Read more
next-20251031: linux-next
Version:next-20251031 (linux-next)Released:2025-10-31 ⌘ Read more
The surveillance state is here—and it’s bleak
Lisa Needham, Staff Writer - Daily Kos
_Stephan: I wonder how many Americans realize that dictator Trump is spending hundreds of millions of dollars of your tax dollars to pay the costs of putting the National Guard and his ICE Gestapo in American cities to harass and detain thousands of men, women, and children. The stories coming out of this military takeover of American civilian society get more horrific day by day. Only a thug … ⌘ Read more
Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of You by Grace Chan
In this passage from the opening of Grace Chan’s sci-fi novel, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to her protagonists as they spend time in a virtual utopia which is becoming increasingly tempting in a dying world ⌘ Read more
If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?
Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical implications of the choices her characters make ⌘ Read more
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
Jonathan Watts, Global Environment Writer - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Human societies are becoming less democratic and more neo-medieval. A tiny group of men and women, just as in the 14th century, overwhelmingly owns or controls the assets of humanity, and shapes the way their societies treat Earth. This greed and ignorance trend is why the 2040 catastrop … ⌘ Read more
Stephen Miller Is Hiding From Protesters by Living on Military Base
Edith Olmsted, Staff Writer - The New Republic
_Stephan: Have you noticed how dictator Trump’s vassals all seek to emulate him? Did you realize that Christie Noem, Stephen Miller, and others have forced generals and admirals out of their homes so they can live on military bases, just as the Vice President now lives in what used to be the home of the Chief of Naval Operations, on the Nava … ⌘ Read more
Trump directs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons
Julia Manchester and Filip Timotija , Staff Writers - The Hill
_Stephan: It has been 33 years since a nuclear weapon was exploded in the United States, but dictator Trump who, I think, neither knows nor cares about what nuclear explosions cause, is about to start this stupidity again. To quote the Atomic Heritage Foundation, “There have been various debates over how much radiation exposure and nuclear fallout w … ⌘ Read more
Russian City of Orel Loses Heat After Drone Strike on Power Plant ⌘ Read more
How to have :echo line completely replaced by :cexpr line? ⌘ Read more
I CAN’T 😭✨🥔 ⌘ Read more
When the client is about to click on a button that isn’t implemented ⌘ Read more
Idor — TryHackMe writeup ⌘ Read more
Web Cache Deception Attack – A Hidden Threat in Today’s Web Applications ⌘ Read more