Good News

The most interesting things published in the last 24 hours, with the rage, politics, crisis and press-release removed.

  1. A 66-million-year-old tooth reveals T. rex was nearly as warm as a human

    Chemical clues preserved inside fossilized T. rex teeth reveal that the dinosaur maintained a body temperature of about 97 degrees Fahrenheit, almost identical to humans. The finding provides direct evidence that the giant predator was warm

    Science Daily · sciencedaily.com ·

  2. Einstein’s “spooky action” just survived one of physics’ most extreme tests

    Physicists have detected strong evidence that heavy, fleeting Z bosons can become quantum entangled during Higgs boson decays at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The result shows that Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” survives even unde

    Science Daily · sciencedaily.com ·

  3. At an old steel site in Pittsburgh, bacteria evolved to survive—and eat—industrial pollution

    Across Appalachia and the Rust Belt region, including throughout the city of Pittsburgh, former industrial sites are being transformed into new neighborhoods, research centers and technology hubs.

    Phys.org · phys.org ·

  4. No GPU, No Problem: Flagship LLMs on a GPU-less Teenaged Server

    There are lots of reasons to run LLMs locally, from privacy concerns to just wanting to futz about with the technology, but if you want to run the big models, ...read more

    Hackaday · hackaday.com ·

  5. Quarkdown: Turing-complete Markdown typesetting system

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    Lobsters · github.com ·

  6. Reverse Engineering A Sony Car Stereo LCD

    For his own reasons, [Jose Luis Monteiro] (aka [emsyscode]) decided he needed to drive the LCD on a Sony CDX-A250 car stereo's front panel using an Arduino. There's probably a ...read more

    Hackaday · hackaday.com ·