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Gridfinity is a free, open source, and nearly fully 3D printable modular storage system.

The system uses integer multiples of 42×42×7 mm for all components.

Users can create custom bins, baseplates, and lids with online generators.

Passive Coherent Location uses existing cell tower signals to detect ships in harbors.

The system captures weak signal echoes bounced off boats to determine their positions like radar.

Advanced filtering separates weak ship reflections from stronger direct cell tower signals.

Community members are building a wide range of AI and machine learning tools, such as real-time speech-to-speech translators, automated curriculum generators, and AI coding agents that generate diagrams.

Several open-source hardware and IoT projects are in progress, including an open-source Nest thermostat replacement, DIY CNC machine for mold making, and an FPGA-based NES mapper for enhanced audio.

Developers are creating productivity and developer tools like syntax-based technical diagram apps, local-first embeddable databases, web-based and cross-platform code editors, and AWS console alternatives.

China’s fleet of 57,000 industrial fishing vessels accounted for 44% of visible global fishing activity from 2022 to 2024.

Chinese vessels logged over 110 million fishing hours worldwide during this period.

China conducted 30% of all high seas fishing, with more than 8.3 million hours.

Traditional Rust error handling uses large enums per module or crate, causing functions to return errors they cannot produce.

A struct-based approach represents each error independently and combines them into error sets to improve type safety.

The terrors crate follows the struct-based paradigm but requires manual mapping of errors between functions.

It provides a high-performance in-process event dispatcher for Go, allowing decoupled modules and asynchronous event handling.

It supports both synchronous and asynchronous processing with generic event types implementing an Event interface.

It processes millions of events per second, outperforming Go channels by 4x to 10x in benchmarks.

Tesla sales in Europe plunged 28% in May compared to a year earlier.

This decline marks the fifth consecutive month of falling Tesla sales in Europe.

Overall battery electric vehicle sales in Europe grew 25% year over year, with Germany’s EV sales up 45%.

Many ransomware families include a built-in failsafe to avoid installing on Windows systems with CIS-region virtual keyboards (e.g., Russian, Ukrainian).

This exclusion helps cybercriminals avoid legal scrutiny by preventing malware from running in their own jurisdictions.

Installing a CIS language keyboard on Windows can act as a simple "vaccine" against these malware strains.

mise simplifies installing, using, and managing development tools per project directory.

A mise.toml file specifies tool versions and custom tasks, and mise automatically switches tools when changing directories.

Projects can use different versions of the same tool by configuring separate mise.toml files in each directory.

NOAA will stop ingesting, processing, and distributing all data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program by June 30, 2025.

DMSP satellites deliver high-resolution global imagery twice daily, essential for tracking hurricane development and polar sea ice changes.

Scientists warn that losing DMSP data could degrade hurricane forecasts, hinder rapid intensification predictions, and set forecasting back decades with no US replacement.