Tech news for Gen Zs
Handwriting notes boosts retention and deep understanding of complex technical concepts compared to passive digital methods.
Neuroscience shows writing by hand activates multiple brain regions, leading to up to 90% retention versus much lower rates for typing.
Using pen and paper for new concepts and digital tools for quick references balances efficiency with deep learning.
US power grid is a major bottleneck for AI growth, making Silicon Valley kinda sus.
China’s energy setup is on lock, adding more power yearly than Germany uses, no cap.
US companies are building their own power plants to dodge sus grids, big yikes.
Good system design relies on simple, well-tested components and avoids unnecessary complexity, making systems reliable and self-effacing.
Services should minimize statefulness by centralizing write logic in one service and keeping others stateless, while optimizing databases with flexible schemas, targeted indexes, and read replicas.
Slow operations should be offloaded to background jobs and caches used judiciously, events and push/pull patterns applied appropriately, and hot paths monitored with robust logging, metrics, retries, and fail-safe mechanisms.
Talks went sus when oil states ghosted binding rules, leaving treaty efforts mid no cap.
Consensus-based voting became a big yikes, ’cause any one country could flex BDE and block progress.
Despite the drama, most reps stan a future round to cook up an agreement, periodt.
Researchers used Raman spectroscopy to detect 1–10 µm microplastics indoors, finding a median of 528 particles/m³ in homes and 2,238 particles/m³ in cars.
Adults inhale an estimated 68,000 of these tiny plastics daily (children ~47,000), which is 100× higher than previous estimates based on larger particles.
Most microplastics are <10 µm and can embed in lungs, enter the bloodstream or gut, and carry harmful chemicals like heavy metals and endocrine disruptors.
$5/month for unlimited 500kbps is kinda mid, but the vibe is bussin’ no cap.
Dope latency means you can still slay multiplayer input games and voice chat, periodt.
Carmack’s cooking up text-first web scrolling, progressive images, and snappy remote shells for a fire experience.
Microsoft’s dropping a 3-day a week RTO for folks IRL within 50 miles (some squads doing 4-5 days), bet no cap.
Office vibe is sus with too many peeps fighting for focus rooms and desk drama while campus glow-up lagging.
This RTO flex might ghost coasting crew and set the vibe check for hybrid work across the board, periodt.
OG elites are throwing shade 'cause airport lounges are getting too basic and sus.
Straight up elite overproduction: too many STEM grads chasing not enough fire gigs, big yikes.
The professional-managerial crew is sipping tea on identity politics instead of flexing for economic justice, periodt.
Europe’s IPO vibe check is mid, raising just $208M, lowest in 30 years.
Tech stars and finance squads are ghosting London for NYSE, US IPO scene bussin’ with ~$40B.
London’s markets are shook, listings dipped 20%, making Europe feel extra basic, periodt.
PuTTY flexes a fresh landing page, giving major aura.
It’s the GOAT free SSH client for Windows and Unix with xterm vibes.
Slide into the download link or main site ASAP, no cap.