A developer detailed a new static-site publishing setup for the Byzantine Systems blog that keeps writing entirely inside Emacs using Org-mode, while replacing an earlier Nix-and-scripts pipeline with a smaller, typed toolchain. The stack combines Org-mode and Babel for authoring, d2 for diagrams, Pandoc for conversion, Nix/flakes/devenv to pin the environment, and Gleam with Blogatto and Lustre to generate HTML without a separate templating language.
A Reddit leak combined with reporting from The Mobile Report outlines T-Mobile's unannounced T-Mix plan lineup, showing 15 total plans split into Standard, More, and Loaded tiers, each with regular, 55+, First Responder, Military, and Student variants. The leaked pricing, which excludes AutoPay or other discounts, shows costs ranging from roughly $55 to $180 depending on tier and number of lines, with some discounted plans capped at two lines.
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned eight members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua for running ATM jackpotting attacks that drained millions of dollars from machines across the United States using malware such as Ploutus. The group is led by Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre, alias 'Prometheus,' an FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive accused of developing the Ploutus malware, alongside six named associates. OFAC also blacklisted seven TRON cryptocurrency addresses linked to roughly $6.1 million in stolen funds.
The FDA has approved Edwards' Autus Size-Adjustable Valve, an artificial pulmonary valve for children born with congenital heart defects. Unlike previous valves, it can be implanted small, starting at 13 millimeters, and later expanded inside the body using a balloon catheter up to 22 millimeters as the child grows, avoiding repeated replacement surgeries.
RPCS3 developers have alerted PS3 emulation fans to a surge of fake Blu-ray drives being sold on Newegg, AliExpress and other retailers. These drives use the packaging, casings and spoofed firmware of legitimate high-end models but contain older, incompatible internals that cannot read PS3 discs properly.
A customer buying an RTX 5090-equipped PowerSpec workstation at a Micro Center in Tustin, California, was required to sign an 'Advanced Computing Product Purchaser Declaration' before the purchase was approved. The form demands full legal name, address, government ID, phone, email, end-user details, installation location, and intended use, and states Micro Center will not sell to anyone intending to export the product outside the US. Other Reddit users noted this requirement is new, though one buyer said a similar, longer form was required at Central Computers last summer.
Researchers deployed umbrella-like shading devices over coral reefs in the Florida Keys to test whether reducing sunlight exposure can help corals survive periods of extreme ocean heat. The experiment is aimed at limiting coral bleaching, a stress response triggered when warming waters cause corals to expel the algae they depend on for nutrients and color.
Google has launched a prototype satellite for its Project Suncatcher initiative, built with partner Planet, aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission. The company confirmed contact with the satellite and says it is functioning normally. A peer-reviewed paper detailing the underlying research has been published in the journal Joule.
Planetary scientist Paul Byrne posted a 12-year sequence of real telescope images showing four exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, orbiting a star 133 light-years away. The images capture the planets visibly moving along their orbits around their host star over the decade-plus timespan.
Hiring data firm Draup found that AI-related job postings at banks including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Capital One rose 49% this year to 139,819 listings. Within that total, postings seeking skills in coordinating multiple AI agents working together, known as agent orchestration, jumped 1,721%, according to the analysis shared exclusively with CNBC.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer, a new arcade racing game set in the Star Wars universe, has been receiving praise from critics who describe it as one of the strongest arcade racing titles in recent years. Specific details about the game's platforms, release date, or developer were not included in the available report.
A new satellite constellation called FireSat has been deployed specifically to detect the earliest signs of wildfires from space. It is described as the first constellation built solely for this purpose, aiming to identify fires before they spread widely.
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