China Just Invented the Battery That Will Kill Gas Cars. It's "next-generation" lithium batteries. I keep reading about these batteries, but don't see anything in production yet. A case of over-excited reporters?
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Open Access is no more. This is unfortunately, although to be honest, whenever I tried to use the button in my browser, I didn't get access. The button didn't work. The Unpaywall button does work, though, and it's still working.
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Arginine supplementation curbs Alzheimer's disease pathology in animal models. Interesting theory, but I doubt it's that simple. Paper here. It's a Japanese paper, but I still think that this experiment isn't going to be reproducible. We'll see if arginine supplementation is the cure we've been looking for.
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How embarrassing. Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key. This is exactly why elections should be low-tech. Keep it simple. Paper and pen. Forget fancy cryptography.
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I came across this article stating that Markdown is not always suitable for technical writing. I think that there is truth to this. Markdown should be a format that computers (LLMs especially) should write in. But for humans? I find it too cumbersome. Humans just need a WYSIWYG editor that saves in RTF format. But I also came across this nice list of Markdown editors that someone bothered to compile. Not too long ago, I did a web search to find the best Markdown editor to see if there was an editor that would make it easy to use this format. All I got were websites of various editors, but not one that reviewed and showcased them all, like this site. This shows how the best search engines still don't get everything.
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Thanks for reminding me why I stopped using Firefox. By the way, LibreWolf finally updated to 145.0 and you don't need the --no-quarantine parameter. I think the developer finally bought himself an Apple developer account and signed the software, so now
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brew install --cask librewolfjust works. Apple has announced that the --no-quarantine parameter wasn't going to work after August 2026, so it's about time.
Scientists create new bullet-proof fiber that is stronger and thinner than Kevlar. This is thinner than a human hair, and it stops bullets? Really? But it's Chinese. When are we going to develop something like that here? Still, I bet this will be a hit in the UK.
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The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting. There's not much you can do about it. I like the Brave approach, where it makes up random fingerprints so that you're never the same. I wish other browsers would adopt this approach. Mullvad sort of works, but not quite.
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Why it takes months to tell if new AI models are good. He's talking about LLMs, of course, not referring to all AI. So take the initial reviews with a grain of salt. Try it yourself and see.
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