A simple way of making hydrogen from alcohol by using iron and UV light

Researchers discover a simple method of generating hydrogen gas by mixing iron ions with alcohol and irradiating it with ultraviolet light

https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researches/view/387/

Ferrari has released a new video of the interior for its first ever all-electric car, called the Ferrari Luce.

It was designed with Apple's former head of design, Jony Ive, who recently said "a large touchscreen doesn't work in a car."

https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2044459837598404973

Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub

https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/open-source-radar-system-is-95-percent-cheaper-than-usd250-000-commercial-offerings-has-20-kilometer-range-moroccan-engineer-designs-aeris-10-radar-shares-it-on-github

France reports over 40 cryptocurrency kidnappings so far this year

Since late 2024, French authorities have been dealing with a string of kidnappings and extortion attempts targeting the families of wealthy individuals dealing in cryptocurrencies.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/police-and-justice/article/2026/04/16/france-reports-over-40-cryptocurrency-kidnappings-so-far-this-year_6752508_105.html

Tessera: Unlocking Heterogeneous GPUs through Kernel-Granularity Disaggregation

Disaggregation maps parts of an AI workload to different types of GPUs, offering a path to utilize modern heterogeneous GPU clusters. However, existing solutions operate at a coarse granularity and are tightly coupled to specific model architectures, leaving much room for performance improvement. This paper presents Tessera, the first kernel disaggregation system to improve performance and cost efficiency on heterogeneous GPUs for large model inference.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10180

First trailer released for western starring AI version of Val Kilmer

Footage of As Deep As the Grave screened in the US, featuring an authorised visual deepfake of the actor who died in 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/16/first-trailer-released-for-ai-val-kilmer-western

15 hours ago, lenny said:

A very clever lad that.

My eldest grandson would love something like that. I might show him this later today when I visit them.

Here is another similar project, but rather larger and with RC control. Really nice design. I would say the Youtuber (Tom) could easily sell these planes if he had a mind to - especially this one:

https://x.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044933442236776794

Sequencing DNA at Home Locally on a DGX Spark and Mac Studio

https://x.com/sethshowes/status/2045289299269070978

Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive — listen now

Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he attends since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/thousands-of-rare-concert-recordings-are-landing-on-the-internet-archive-listen-now/

https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs

Stealth Signals Are Bypassing Iran’s Internet Blackout

Files hidden in satellite TV broadcasts keep information flowing

https://spectrum.ieee.org/iran-internet-blackout-satellite-tv

Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything

https://newatlas.com/electronics/meta-nfc-focused-microwaves-circuits/

MOS 6502 CPU emulator running entirely in PostgreSQL. CPU registers, flags, and 64KB memory are database tables; every opcode is a stored procedure.

https://github.com/lasect/pg_6502

The Universal Constraint Engine: Emergent Neuromorphic Architectures from Declarative Constraint Rules

We introduce the Universal Constraint Engine (UCE), a system for generating emergent multi-state architectures from declarative constraint rules over conserved quantities. Unlike conventional neural network architectures that rely on learned weights, gradient descent, and massive training corpora, UCE derives computational behaviors -- including memory, logic, hysteresis, and oscillation -- directly from symbolic constraints without any training phase.

https://zenodo.org/records/19600206

Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ crashed through railroad gate seconds before train

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Tesla 'Full Self-Driving' crashed through railroad gate s...

A Texas Tesla owner says his car on "Full Self-Driving" crashed through a lowered railroad crossing gate as a train bore down, forcing him to floor it.

Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/

A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid

Company has previously tested its technology on the International Space Station. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/a-private-space-company-has-a-radical-new-plan-to-bag-an-asteroid/

CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma 2B Just Scored Higher Than GPT-3.5 Turbo on the Test That Made It Famous — Your Laptop Can Run It, or Cloudflare for $5/Mo.

https://seqpu.com/CPUsArentDead

Chinese car company patents voice-activated 'in-vehicle toilet'

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/04/17/Seres-patent-in-car-toilet/8281776442128/

Edited Saturday at 13:483 days by lenny