Year: 2026

Best lightweight quilt for backpacking (2026): Zenbivy, REI

Best lightweight quilt for backpacking (2026): Zenbivy, REI

🔥 Check out this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Outdoor,Wild and Free 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Less is less, Don't let anyone convince you otherwise. This is especially true when you're carrying everything you need to live for a week on your back, which brings us to the backpack quilt: It's a sleeping bag, but less. In many cases, a backpack quilt is all you need, and I've liked it better than sleeping bags for all but the coldest trips.These quilts are not like the ones your grandmother gave you. Backpack…
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Half-Baked Product | Weli’s blog

Half-Baked Product | Weli’s blog

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The FounderA freshly minted founder decides to get into the oven business. He can’t bake a cake or knead bread, but he knows the kitchen appliance market inside and out. He’s analyzed every business in Spain and reached a conclusion: if he sells a new oven to the country’s pizza makers, pastry chefs, and bakers, he only needs to capture 10% of the market to become a billionaire.10% always looks small when you type it into an Excel spreadsheet.The founder is very good. He…
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The making of Independence Day at 30: ‘I panicked and raced to set to rewrite’ | Science fiction and fantasy films

The making of Independence Day at 30: ‘I panicked and raced to set to rewrite’ | Science fiction and fantasy films

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Science fiction and fantasy films,Will Smith,Jeff Goldblum,Culture,Film,Action and adventure films ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The architects of cinema’s most popular alien invasion have slightly differing accounts of how exactly the original plans for Independence Day came to them. But they both agree that it began with the now-famous image of a massive spaceship looming over a city skyline.Roland Emmerich, the director, recalls explaining the scope of the concept to Dean Devlin, the co-writer and producer, at the latter’s home: “He lived in an area on a…
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Top 11 TV Shows to Air This Month (July 2026)

Top 11 TV Shows to Air This Month (July 2026)

✨ Discover this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / TV,Streaming Guides 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The good news, of course, is that there are 43 seasons of the classic series to keep you busy until a new plan is confirmed: the original 26 seasons are on BritBox and Tubi, while the two Gatwa seasons will remain on Disney+, where they originated (in the US). But as of June 11, the first thirteen seasons of Modern Era, also known as NuWho, have found a new home on AMC+. There, fan-favorite Doctors Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter…
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EFF and Allies: X’s FTC Petition to Waive Privacy Violation Order Should be Rejected

EFF and Allies: X’s FTC Petition to Waive Privacy Violation Order Should be Rejected

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: X Corp. should not be able to escape privacy compliance because it changed its name.  On May 15, X Corp. filed a petition before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to set aside or modify an order issued in 2022 requiring the company to report regularly to the FTC for its violations of user data. The order or “consent decree” is a result of misleading the platforms’ 140 million users by using private information given to secure accounts, like phone numbers and email addresses, for targeted…
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How big is Love Island USA? More than 10 million people are already using its app

How big is Love Island USA? More than 10 million people are already using its app

🔥 Read this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Reality Bytes 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: String bikinis? Checks. Extra sunscreen? Checks. Walls of cameras so millions of Americans can watch your hot summer adventures happen in real time? Checks. Love Island in the USAin which contestants pair off, spar and fight while lounging around a neon-colored villa in swimsuits, is currently approaching the "peak" of its eighth season. The biggest bomb of this summer? the Love Island in the USA The app, where viewer engagement levels were so high that it crashed during the…
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Introducing the Safari MCP server for web developers

Introducing the Safari MCP server for web developers

🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In Safari Technology Preview 247, we’re introducing the Safari MCP server — a Model Context Protocol server for web developers that makes your web development and debugging workflow faster and more powerful. We know agents are increasingly integral to the coding process and the Safari MCP server gives your agent the ability to know how your code actually renders in the browser by connecting it to a Safari browser window. Any MCP-compatible client can connect to the Safari MCP server. By connecting your agent…
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The Onion’s “Infowars” parody is here. Alex Jones is going to hate it

The Onion’s “Infowars” parody is here. Alex Jones is going to hate it

✨ Discover this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Shock Jocks ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: “Legally, we have to say this is a direct parody of Alex Jones and all that crap, so we're allowed to seize all his stuff,” Collins tells WIRED. "But until then, we'll have a lot of fun." Jones' lawyers did not respond to requests for comment. Messages to Information warfare Email accounts were returned as undeliverable.Lawson calls for a takeover Information warfare They called it "karmic justice" for the families of Sandy Hook, who have yet to receive any settlement money…
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how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore

how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore

💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When we shipped Auto Embeddings — the feature that turns any text column into a vector automatically, with no separate model service to run — the most common piece of feedback was about speed. The previous path went through SentenceTransformers on top of Candle , Hugging Face's pure-Rust ML inference runtime, and it left a lot of CPU on the floor: most workloads sat in the low-double-digits of docs/sec no matter how we fed them, and concurrent calls serialised on a single model session.So we…
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Politicians from the European Union investigated Pegasus spyware. Then it ended up on one of their phones

Politicians from the European Union investigated Pegasus spyware. Then it ended up on one of their phones

💥 Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks,Compromised 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The research stopped short of naming any government that may have used Pegasus against Kologlou, noting in particular that it found no indication of Greek government involvement. But Citizen Lab says it found overlaps between the attacks on Kologlu's phone and the use of Pegasus against seven Russian- and Belarusian-speaking journalists and activists between August 2020 and January 2023.“Not only did they target an MEP, they spied on the spyware abuse investigation itself. This shows the absurdity of the whole…
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