Keygen’s no-calls policy turns into an argument for lower-friction sales
A founder says his company avoids calls entirely, arguing that enterprise sales can work without the time cost and awkwardness of scheduled meetings.
Read report »Technology
1193 reports.
India Achieves Historic Space Docking Milestone
The Indian Space Research Organisation has successfully docked two spacecraft in orbit, marking a significant advancement for the nation's future space station ambitions.
Read report »
A viral essay argues that modern systems fail because nobody cares enough to improve them
The piece is less a tech report than a sweeping complaint about bad incentives, bad design, and too little ownership.
Read report »
US and Japanese lunar landers launch together aboard Falcon 9
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and ispace's Resilience began separate commercial Moon missions after a shared departure from Florida.
Read report »
Telegram Access Returns in Venezuela While Wider Internet Blocks Persist
Providers restored the messaging service after a brief nationwide disruption, but restrictions continued to affect TikTok, Signal, VPN sites and other tools.
Read report »
Stop Trying to Schedule a Call With Me
A sharply argued essay captures a familiar complaint in the software business: vendors turn simple product trials into a maze of emails, demos, compliance theater and support dead ends.
Read report »
Operating System in 1,000 Lines shows how far a small kernel can go
A new guide walks readers through building a small operating system from scratch in about 1,000 lines of code.
Read report »
Meta Replaces US Fact-Checking Program With User-Written Notes
Mark Zuckerberg framed the moderation shift as support for expression, while critics warned it would remove context from misleading posts on Facebook and Instagram.
Read report »
A 1993 Volvo Is Being Turned Into an Openpilot Test Bed for a Winter Rally
A builder is retrofitting steering hardware, sensors and control wiring into a 1993 Volvo 940 Estate so it can take on a 6-day, 6,000km Carbage Run through Sweden and Finland.
Read report »
A Blog Experiment Finds That Asking an LLM to “Write Better Code” Can Help, Up to a Point
An experiment with Claude 3.5 Sonnet shows that iterative prompting can speed up a Python solution dramatically, but the gains begin to flatten out as the code gets more complex.
Read report »
SpaceX Sends Thuraya-4 Connectivity Satellite Toward Geostationary Orbit
The first Falcon 9 mission of 2025 deployed Space42’s all-electric spacecraft, built to provide mobile links across four broad regions.
Read report »
Britain's largest dinosaur trackway site found in Oxfordshire quarry
About 200 footprints made 166 million years ago record the movements of sauropods and a three-toed Megalosaurus across a lagoon.
Read report »
Spreadsheet-to-App Hobby Turns Google Sheets Into Mobile-Friendly Web Tools
A personal workflow built around Glide shows how ordinary spreadsheets can become phone-friendly apps for takeout, meal planning and pantry tracking.
Read report »
India launches first space-docking demonstration mission
ISRO placed two 220-kilogram spacecraft into low Earth orbit to test a capability needed for future sample-return flights and a planned space station.
Read report »
Ghostty Reaches 1.0 as a Fast, Cross-Platform Terminal Emulator
Ghostty’s 1.0 milestone puts a spotlight on a terminal emulator that emphasizes native UI behavior, GPU acceleration and portability across platforms.
Read report »
An Essay Argues That Some “Abstractions” Are Really Just Layers of Indirection
A new software essay says the real test of an abstraction is whether it hides complexity, or merely adds another layer that future developers must untangle.
Read report »
Alpkarakush Fossils Fill Jurassic Theropod Gap in Central Asia
Two specimens found near Tashkumyr established a new predatory dinosaur species and offered clues about its growth and possible social behavior.
Read report »
A Menu Bar App Tracks the ISS Urine Tank in Real Time
A GitHub project called pISSStream turns a piece of space-station telemetry into a live status display on Apple devices.
Read report »
Parker Solar Probe Makes Record Christmas Eve Solar Pass
NASA’s spacecraft attempted the closest approach ever made to the Sun, entering the corona at extreme speed while mission controllers waited for a survival signal.
Read report »
A Personal Essay Turns a Former Colleague Named Julius Into a Carefully Drawn Portrait
Ploum’s “My colleague Julius” uses small, observed details to build a quiet portrait of a man the author remembers from university.
Read report »
Scientists unveil 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found in Siberia
The exceptionally preserved carcass, named Yana, emerged from thawing permafrost in Yakutia's Batagaika crater.
Read report »
Essay on cognitive load argues software should be designed to reduce mental friction
The article turns a software-design guideline into a broader case for simpler interfaces and deeper modules.
Read report »ARC Prize says OpenAI’s o3 hit a breakthrough score on the ARC-AGI public benchmark
The result boosted claims about novelty-adapting AI, while the benchmark’s own authors warned that cost and efficiency still matter.
Read report »
Harper’s excerpt says Spotify’s playlist strategy fueled suspicion of fake artists
The excerpt recounts years of rumors, reporting, and denials around stock music on popular Spotify playlists.
Read report »