The Curious Olympus Camera Selling Like Hotcakes

Olympus has introduced some brilliant cameras over the years. The companies PEN F, E-P5, OM3 are some models that continue to be important for photographers. While it is believed that the Micro Four Thirds or Four Thirds system is now redundant, the truth is far away from that.…

35 Photographers. One Title. The World Food Photography Awards Shortlist Is Here

Food photography is one of the most underrated forms of the medium. Food not only allows one to reconnect with the traditions of a place but also with multiple communities that shape it. In fact, food is one of the easiest ways to understand a culture that may be fading away. Fo…

The 3 Best Full Frame Cameras For Dynamic Range

Mirrorless cameras have come a long way over the years. From Sony's first a7 series to Nikon's Z system, mirrorless cameras have come a long way in terms of performance. With many photographers trying to get the most details out of their cameras, there is a new demand for camera…

“ LLM-generated passwords…appear strong, but...

“LLM-generated passwords…appear strong, but are fundamentally insecure, because LLMs are designed to predict tokens – the opposite of securely and uniformly sampling random characters.”

Great Unreleased Track From Kendrick Lamar: Bloody Murder

This has been out in the world for a while, but I just ran across it the other day: Bloody Murder is an unreleased track recorded during the studio sessions for Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. It samples Radiohead’s Everything In Its Right Place and it’s gooood. Available on YouT…

From Heatmap News & MIT, the Electricity Price Hub is...

From Heatmap News & MIT, the Electricity Price Hub is “a new public data platform that provides monthly, utility-level estimates of residential electricity rates and bills across the United States going back to 2021…”

Creation

Scientists have genetically engineered tobacco plants to...

Scientists have genetically engineered tobacco plants to produce five psychedelic compounds, including psilocybin, DMT, and psychedelic compounds secreted by the Sonoran Desert toad.

On Stewart Brand’s Maintenance: Of Everything

I was thankful to read Marcin Wichary’s review of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance: Of Everything. I first heard about the book months and months ago; it sounded potentially interesting but I was afraid it was going to suffer from a now-familiar myopia of the “tech” old guard…

A letter to John Ternus

As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who loved computers started making great computers to inspire more people to love computers. That spirit is difficult to find in the tech business today. Immense scale, soulless op…

Not sure what level of prank/gag/stunt this is (note...

Not sure what level of prank/gag/stunt this is (note today’s date), but this is supposedly a fully functional compass that only points to the Olive Garden in Times Square.

The Pioneering Coffee House Serving Since 1645 ....

The Pioneering Coffee House Serving Since 1645. “In Oxford, ‘runners’ would go from coffee house to coffee house, picking up all the best news and delivering it back to customers, said Garner. You’re talking human wi-fi.”

Wednesfool

You're welcome I don't hate April Fools Day. I'm just too busy to participate. So this is a fooling-free blog post. Much to munch on Getting great hang time with Jon Udell (who also manifests here) lately. Here are two of his recent publishings ya'll might dig:• Introducing…

After two years off, Tom Scott is back with a new...

After two years off, Tom Scott is back with a new YouTube series: “I took a road trip through every county in England, and filmed something interesting in each of them.”

“All of Humanity’s Problems Stem From Marc Andreessen’s Inability to Sit Quietly in a Room Alone”

Tech investor and billionaire Marc Andreessen has many bad opinions (as evidenced by his investment portfolio). On a recent podcast, he shared a real boner: that he isn’t introspective, that people 400 years ago weren’t at all introspective, and that introspection was a cons…

Nikon Agrees to Acquire Viltrox After Lawsuit

For a while now, Nikon has been in a lawsuit with Viltrox over not paying a licensing fee to make lenses for the Nikon Z camera system. That move has majorly annoyed many photographers. And in private circles, Nikon reps have been telling folks that they will be doing a "scorche…

The End of an Era: Kodak Alaris is Shutting Down

Since being founded almost 20 years ago, Kodak Alaris is now being shut down and integrated into Eastman Kodak. Eastman was the one manufacturing the film while Alaris, for many years, was the one distributing and selling it. But as of recent years, Eastman had started selling t…

Nothing Works in Trump’s America — Except Racism ....

Nothing Works in Trump’s America — Except Racism. “Trump is objectively bad at running the government, but he’s objectively good at running a Klan rally, and his supporters value the latter so much that they forgive the former.”

The 2026 issue of the HTML Review , “an annual...

The 2026 issue of the HTML Review, “an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web”.