Episode Details

Table of Contents

• Whimsical Innovations
  • A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava
  • NASA Figured Out How to Keep Its Voyager 2 Probe Running for Another Year
• Cutting-Edge Developments
  • DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
  • Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
• Security and Sustainability Concerns
  • Hardware Backdoors in Some x86 CPUs
  • The Nixpkgs Core Team Has Disbanded
• Tech Nostalgia and Archaeology
  • ao486: x86-Compatible Verilog Core Implementing All Features of a 486 SX (2014)
  • Tell Abu Hureyra – Prehistoric Archaeological Site
• Cosmic Discoveries
  • An All-Sky Map of Half a Million Supermassive Black Holes
  • From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree