Incarcerated People Share the Prison Rules They Live By
The Marshall Projectby Tammy Galarza·14 Jul 2026
“Sending Kites” is a monthly column from The Marshall Project that explores challenges faced by people with incarcerated loved ones and by people in jails and prisons. Check our previous columns.
How to Fix Grievances in Federal Prison, According to the Prisoners
The Marshall Projectby Christie Thompson·14 Jul 2026
For people held in federal prisons and who have a complaint about conditions, obtaining relief is nearly impossible, a new investigation by The Marshall Project and NPR found.
MIT engineers find a precise way to grow artificial blood vessels
MIT Newsby Jennifer Chu | MIT News·14 Jul 2026
Tissue engineers are finding ways to grow living organs and tissues from cells, with the aim of replacing diseased and damaged counterparts in the body.
Systems Engineering Playbook: Optimizing Qwen 3.5-397B MoE on Ironwood (TPU7x)
Google Developers Blogby Google·14 Jul 2026
Deploying and serving a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model like Qwen3.5-397B on specialized hardware accelerators presents significant systems engineering challenges.
Devcon 8 Tickets Are Live: Find Your Path to Mumbai | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Ethereum Foundation Blog·14 Jul 2026
Devcon 8 tickets are live! 🇮🇳 This November, the Ethereum community will gather in Mumbai for a more focused and intimate Devcon.
Test & Set
Public Objectby Jesse Wilson·13 Jul 2026
Working with threads always feels hazardous to me. Non-determinism limits how much we can exercise with simple tests. Stress tests can shake out some bugs, but they’re slow and potentially flaky.
After Testing 19 Portable Power Stations, These 4 Will Keep Your Fridge Running the Longest - CNET
CNETby Ajay Kumar·13 Jul 2026
Portable power stations are lifesavers during a blackout, easily keeping your phones, laptops and routers fully charged.
How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks
History of MITby Nicole Estvanik Taylor | Department of Urban Studies and Planning·13 Jul 2026
In May 2019, the government of Baltimore, Maryland, fell into chaos. Cybercriminals had locked the city out of many of its critical files and demanded payment to decrypt them.
NVIDIA Ising Decoding Cuts Color Code Logical Error Rates by Over 300x | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Nvidia Developer Blogby Elizabeth Goodman·13 Jul 2026
Useful quantum computers will require fault tolerant logical operations. Researchers are actively exploring many different quantum error correction (QEC) codes to enable this, improving the Logical...
Alexander Zverev and the contours of tennis’ new ‘Big Three’
The Hinduby N Sudarshan·13 Jul 2026
Tennis fans of recent vintage never tire of talking about the ‘Big Three’ of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
4 Ways to Save for a Cruise Trip Without Earning More Money
MoneyNingby Jessica Sommerfield·13 Jul 2026
A few months ago, a group of my husband’s online gaming friends mentioned they’re planning to take an Alaskan cruise next spring or fall, and invited us to join.
The 1858-Rated Kid Who Beat a Super-GM - The Underdog
Chess Newsby Arne Kaehler·13 Jul 2026
7/13/2026 – In this episode of The Underdog, Robert Ris presents a spectacular upset from the Asian Esports Chess Cup, where a young Thai player (Pakornnarong Liukasemsarn) defeats super-GM Andrey...
The Personality Trait That Indicates Depression Risk - PsyBlog
PsyBlogby Dr Jeremy Dean·13 Jul 2026
Being neurotic is the strongest risk factor for depression and anxiety. Neuroticism is a tendency to experience negative emotions like fear, guilt, shame, sadness and anger.
Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler
Engineering at Metaby Blaise Sanouillet; Sunyi Shao; Jeff Song; Gosh Arzumanyan; Shawn Wu; Tejun Heo; Praveen Sampath; GP Musumeci·13 Jul 2026
TL; DR - At Meta’s scale, a few milliseconds of latency degradation can have a significant negative impact on ads performance.
Lessons Learned from CISA’s Recent GitHub Leak
Krebs on Securityby BrianKrebs·13 Jul 2026
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a recent data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials — including AWS...
Extreme Event Likelihoods with Guided Generative Models | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Nvidia Developer Blogby Elizabeth Goodman·13 Jul 2026
Across science, engineering, and finance, many of the most important risks come from low-likelihood, high-impact events.
Fragments: July 13
Martin Fowlerby Martin Fowler (martin@martinfowler.com)·13 Jul 2026
Fragments: July 13 Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat. When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Harness Engineering.
Hindutva and the remaking of trans identity in India
Himal Southasianby Hritik Lalan·13 Jul 2026
WHEN INDIA’S MINISTER for Social Justice, Virendra Kumar, introduced the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 (TPA) in the lower house of parliament on 13 March this...
SpaceX, Mega-IPOs, and Efficient Markets
Oblivious Investorby Mike·13 Jul 2026
A reader writes, asking “With Spacex’s recent IPO and other upcoming IPOs and the changes that the index fund providers are making, would it be more advantageous right now (until at least things...
12 Faceless Business Ideas To Make Money Without Showing Your Face
Making Sense Of Centsby Michelle Schroeder-Gardner·13 Jul 2026
Do you want to start a business, but you don’t want to show your face online? When I first started my business, I did not show my face.
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