A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works:
www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...
Researchers from the University of Rochester created solar-thermal panels that can remove salt and valuable minerals from ocean water, leaving fresh water but also difficult to mine minerals like lithium.
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💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, who died on this day in 1895.
More on his life and stunning astronomical art here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
"Children playing on Omaha Beach, Normandy" by Chim (David Seymour), 1947
Color photograph
I can’t afford any of these but honest to god these Hunter Biden pieces are some of the best modern works I’ve seen (digitally). If you told me they were done by a rising young Mesoamerican I’d assume they were destined for the Whitney or something
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Jason Koebler
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦
NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
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The Public Domain Review
Rabih Alameddine
The U.S. has spent billions building frontier AI models. Chinese labs have spent just thousands learning from them. warontherocks.com/2026/06/the-...
"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize.
"Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
Paul Musgrave
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
Utagawa Yoshifuji's "Rabbit Sumo". 1868. Ota memorial Museum of Art
dell cameron
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...
Adversaries do not need to breach the Pentagon’s systems: They only need to harvest the logic of the publicly released frontier AI models that underpin
