Nature's Futures section has published a short science-fiction story titled 'The buck stops with me,' in which a narrator returns home to find notes apparently written by their future self urging a trip to a bar for 'darts' and warnings about disrupting causality. The narrator exchanges handwritten notes with this future self through hidden locations around the apartment, debating whether the messages are real time travel, a prank, or a hallucination.
nature.com
· 2026-09-30
Paramount's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds wrapped up its fourth season with an episode centered on a time-related twist, offering glimpses of the show's future direction. The finale caps a season for the prequel series set aboard the USS Enterprise before the original Star Trek timeline.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-24
A writer describes a personal hobby of exploring random locations on Google Street View, including comparing current and historical captures of the same spots. In one example, a Nissan 350Z appears parked on the same narrow Tokyo street in every Street View capture dating back to 2009, based on the writer's review of Google's archived imagery.
ahmedhossamdev.com
· 2026-09-22
A new open-source project called EterDB extends PostgreSQL with the ability to reverse individual transactions, including updates, deletes, or entire batches, even after they have been committed. It tracks dependencies between reads and writes so that changes relying on a bad transaction are also caught, and it retains an append-only history that allows recovery of data from weeks or months earlier.
eterdb.com
· 2026-09-10
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