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Zone Zero
There is contentious debate playing out right now across the West, about how to adapt homes and neighborhoods to this era of increasingly extreme wildfire risk. Berkeley, California has put itself at the center of this conversation with a new rule on landscaping that tightly restricts the plants you can grow around your house. These
99% Invisible · EN
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House in Dahiya / Studio Toggle
House in Dahiya gives nothing to the street. On a quiet road in Dahiyat Abdullah Al Salem, one of central Kuwait City's most premium residential districts, a stepped mass of raw exposed concrete rises between two date palms. Its principal facades are closed, and the entrance sits back behind dark vertical fins. The brief asked for exactly this: a house closed and unreadable from the street, yet open, light and generous within, and able to withstand Kuwait's heat, dust and salt air with little upkeep. Behind the sealed mass lies a protected inner world with its own climate, color and calm.
ArchDaily · EN
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Vishram Vadi Nu Ghar / Ikshhana Design Studio
Vishram Vaadi Nu Ghar is a riverside farmhouse that seamlessly integrates architecture with its natural surroundings, creating a tranquil retreat rooted in the landscape of Navsari . Designed by Ikshhana Design Studio for Mr. Sanjay Bhatt, Vishram Vaadi Nu Ghar is a farmhouse and interior design project located along the banks of the Purna River in Navsari, Gujarat.
ArchDaily · EN
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LEGO Bauhaus Chess Concept Has Hidden Clues to Its Moves
LEGO Bauhaus Chess Concept Has Hidden Clues to Its Moves A knight’s horse-shaped head is easy to recognize, but it offers no clue about that peculiar L-shaped move. That’s a small frustration with learning chess:...
Yanko Design · EN
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Web Design: Grids Season 03 by Obys Agency
Obys Agency advances educational web design with Grids Season 03, an interactive study exploring spatial tension and layout typography. Most educational websites about graphic design preach strict gri...
Abduzeedo · EN
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Affinity finally comes to iPad, and illustrators get a free all-in-one app
It's official. Canva has launched Affinity for iPad today. The single app doesn't just make your life easier – the core tools won't cost you a penny, either. If you've ever sketched in one app, turned...
Creative Boom · EN
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How Elie N’Guessan makes everyday London look like a movie
From an impromptu shoot with four curious kids to a sportswear campaign concept staged inside a car, the London photographer finds inspiration in familiar places and unplanned moments. Elie N'Guessan...
Creative Boom · EN
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Inspired by strangers' dreams, Moho builds glittering, slightly unsettling worlds
The Seoul-based artist transforms dreams submitted by people around the world into shimmering animations filled with pearls and sequins. "A dream is something we've experienced, yet it can be dif...
Creative Boom · EN
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Pratt's evolving courses reflect "broader shift in creative practice"
From architects using digital fabrication tools to how graphic designers can enhance their work with AI, Pratt Institute has responded to the increasing fluidity of creative careers by launching three new flexible programmes. Pratt Institute's School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) offers flexible programmes for both working creatives and lifelong designers who want to […] The post Pratt's evolving courses reflect "broader shift in creative practice" appeared first on Dezeen .
Dezeen · EN
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Batek Architekten designs Berlin orthodontic clinic that looks more like a boutique or gallery
Avoiding the sterile appearance of most medical interiors, Berlin-based Batek Architekten used soothing shades of pastel yellow and matt silver to bring a sense of softness to orthodontic clinic Hey. The post Batek Architekten designs Berlin orthodontic clinic that looks more like a boutique or gallery appeared first on Dezeen .
Dezeen · EN
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John Tree forms sculptural Hoop lamp from pine for Vaarni
Designer John Tree has created the monolithic Hoop Table Lamp for Finnish brand Vaarni, combining an "almost brutalistic block of solid pine" with a hooped shade of thin pine veneer. The post John Tree forms sculptural Hoop lamp from pine for Vaarni appeared first on Dezeen .
Dezeen · EN
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Windows 95 is still being used to sort eggs in Germany
PC Gamer reports on a chicken farm in Germany that still runs its egg-counting machine on Windows 95. The farm, near Duddeldorf, has a 40 by 40 metre sorting setup driven by software written for an operating system that turned 30 last month. Microsoft’s extended support for Windows 95 ended in 2001. The reason is […]
Adafruit Blog · EN
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Book reports from VCF West
Michael Martin took a break from building things and instead read through some of the vintage technical books he’s picked up at the Vintage Computer Festival over the years, writing up what he found on his blog Bumbershoot Software. The 1978 PDP-11 book turned out to be a textbook with problem sets, not the reference […]
Adafruit Blog · EN
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After stadium wins, MatSing can thrive in massive MIMO 5G blues
A pioneer of Luneberg lenses for passive antennas, MatSing has an opportunity to challenge Ericsson and Nokia in mainstream 5G.
Light Reading · EN
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Vibe Coded AO3 Clone Site Down After Fanfic Authors Buried It With 2,000 Takedown Notices in a Single Day
ao3.life was scraping and repackaging fanfiction’ works and turning them into audiobooks for sale without the original authors’ permission.
404 Media · EN
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Trackpad and touch input in macOS Golden Gate
When does PKGCore have nothing to do with packages, and when did it first appear? How does it work with AppKit and other parts of macOS to select an item in the Finder?
The Eclectic Light Company · EN
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Why did you choose the nix you nix?
I don't which nix is good and at this point I'm afraid I need to ask. (Cpp) Nix Determinate Nix Lix Or, you know, Guix ? (I suspect that Snix , Tvix , and others aren't intended for general use… but I might be wrong?)
Lobsters · EN
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Transformers Model Integration Contracts
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Hugging Face Blog · EN
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October sponsors-only newsletter
I sent out the October edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter . If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: The October inflection point for vibe game development The vulnerability apocalypse gets hot LLM releases API credits for $100+/month subscriptions What I'm using right now My software releases My September newsletter can now be seen here , as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy! Tags: newsletter
Simon Willison · EN
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I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube
I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube Genius piece of OSINT by Colsto, who demonstrates how you can take almost imperceptible background noise of planes from a video soundtrack, figure out their Doppler curves, then cross reference them against ADS-B data to find the exact location of the video based on their speed, distance, and gaps between different flights. Via Lobste.rs Tags: privacy , youtube
Simon Willison · EN
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BYD Sold More EVs Last Month Than the US Did All Quarter
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: The world's leading EV maker is showing no signs of slowing down. BYD sold 490,168 new energy vehicles (NEVs) in October, up 11% from the prior year and the company's highest monthly total in 2026. BYD's battery electric vehicles drove the growth, with a record 305,743 units sold, up 37% year over year and marking the first time its EV sales have crossed the 300,000 mark. To put that into perspective, just over 262,500 EVs were sold in the US in the entire third quarter combined, according to Kelley Blue Book estimates. By the end of the year,
Slashdot · EN