A developer built a tool that scrapes Costco's undisclosed gas-price data from an internal API called AjaxGetGasPricesService, pulling prices from roughly 600 warehouses nationwide. The project began as a personal effort to compare two nearby Costco locations in Tampa during a spring fuel price spike tied to Strait of Hormuz tensions, then expanded into a broader dataset showing how Costco's gas pricing moved relative to competitors.
Meta has rolled out its Pocket app to all users, letting anyone create simple games, interactive gizmos, and other small digital experiences by typing a description instead of writing code. A ZDNET writer tested it by requesting a cookie-baking game for increasingly impatient customers, and the app generated a working, if quite difficult, version in under a minute.
Researcher Brian Khan Quintana found that Calix's GS5239XG (GigaSpire 7u10txg) fiber gateway exposes its UPnP control service on the public WAN interface without authentication, tracked as CVE-2026-75501. Anyone online can send a single unauthenticated request to add or remove port-forwarding rules, letting them bypass NAT and firewall protections. Calix did not respond to disclosure attempts, so CERT/CC coordinated a public release of the details.
Cooler Master has released the Q300L V3, an updated version of its budget Micro-ATX/Mini-ITX case line first introduced in 2018. The new model is slightly larger than its predecessors, featuring bigger panel perforations for airflow, a reinforced frame, flexible front I/O placement, more room for CPUs and graphics cards, and a bundled 140mm fan. It carries an MSRP of $44.90, though it's currently listed under $40 on Amazon.
Amid deadly cholera outbreaks in the mid-1800s, Paris officials began treating public urination as a health hazard rather than a mere annoyance. After earlier attempts at hostile architecture failed to stop street urination, the city banned it outright in 1850 and installed pissoirs—elaborately decorated iron kiosks adorned with flowers, shells, and lion heads—to give people somewhere sanctioned to go.
A new online experience lets users navigate a virtual rendition of San Francisco's streets and neighborhoods in real time, using standard game controls like WASD movement, camera switching, and vehicle mode. The interface includes tile-loading systems, resource counters, and a first-person/third-person toggle, suggesting a technically ambitious effort to map real-world geography into a playable digital city.
Two Intel processors, the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core i7-14700K, have entered Amazon's top-10 best-selling desktop CPU list for the first time in over a year, landing at #6 and #9. AMD still dominates the rankings with Ryzen 9000, 7000, and 5000 series chips filling the remaining eight spots, led by the Ryzen 7 9800X3D.
A technical article breaks down the mathematics behind bezier curves, showing how repeated linear interpolation between control points produces the compact polynomial formulas used in graphics software. It explains why cubic beziers with four control points are the industry standard, since only the first and last points are guaranteed to lie on the curve, and how longer curves are built by joining multiple cubic segments with matched tangents for smoothness.
Entrepreneur contributors argue that in today's tighter, more expensive financing environment, buyers and lenders are shifting focus away from EBITDA and toward how much actual cash a business generates. While EBITDA remains useful for gauging operating performance, it excludes real costs like working capital needs and capital expenditures that determine whether cash truly reaches the bank account.
Researchers writing in the International Journal of Cultural Property found that mummified human and animal remains circulating in the collector market pose genuine health hazards, not just legal ones. Historic embalming methods often used toxic heavy metals like arsenic, mercury and lead, while dormant bacteria, fungi and yeasts in the tissue can reactivate and multiply, especially after poor storage. The paper cites prior findings of dangerous fungal spores in mummies at sites including Palermo's Capuchin Catacombs and a Krakow church crypt.
YouTube is broadening its 24/7 Stations feature, which launched earlier this year with continuous music streams, to now include podcasts, media channels, and general creator videos. The rollout is limited to a small group of creators for now, and Stations will surface intermittently in Home and Search feeds rather than through a dedicated section.
In an interview with Michael Cohen, President Trump argued that towns rejecting data centers are making a mistake, claiming the facilities bring jobs and 'tremendous tax revenue.' His remarks come as data centers face bipartisan public backlash over energy use, water consumption, and local disruption.
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