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Lydia Mee, reporting for Motorsport:

IMAX has announced that a select number of races will be shown live in IMAX locations across the United States in 2026. The new fan viewing experience is part of a collaboration with Apple TV, which has taken over the broadcasting rights for the championship in the US on a multi-year deal from 2026.

“F1 is a rapidly growing force in sports and culture in the US, and by bringing F1 on Apple TV live to IMAX theatres nationwide, we’re delivering the energy and excitement to even more screens in a truly immersive way,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of music, sports, and Beats.

You know what would add even more screens in an immersive way? If Vision Pro users had access to the same live screenings on virtual IMAX screens.

Link: motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-to-screen-live-in-imax-theatres…

In a video for the V&A Museum, stone carver Miriam Johnson hand-carves a pair of hieroglyphs “using both sunken relief and raised relief techniques”.

The video has minimal narration; mostly it’s just a master craftsperson quietly tapping away at the stone — and getting bits of rock all over the sleeve of her jumper. The effect is pretty relaxing, especially with the more rhythmic tapping for the second carving. (via the kid should see this)

Tags: art · Egypt · language · Miriam Johnson · museums · sculpture · V&A Museum · video

An appreciation of Flickr’s URL structure. “It was a beautiful and predictable scheme. Once you knew how it worked, you could guess other URLs.”

Toy Story 5 joins the fight against screentime for kids. “Toys are for play, but tech…is for everything.”

In-browser puzzle game: “Enclose the horse in the biggest possible pen!”

A data analysis of how women’s clothing doesn’t actually fit women. “That leaves millions of people — over half of all adult women — who are excluded from standard size ranges” in their 20s and beyond.

In the 1930s, a radical conservative political group almost succeeded in overthrowing Finland’s democracy: Called the Lapua movement, it was a far-right group of Finns who sought to overthrow the republic, marginalize communists, and install an authoritarian government. ...

A list of all the media (movies, books, TV shows, plays, etc.) consumed by Steven Soderbergh in 2025.

The Brattle theater is playing what they call the Ultimate Double Feature: “we play the first movie up until the point when the characters enter a cinema to watch a different film”, then play the entirety of that 2nd film, then finish up the 1st film.

Gemini 3.1 Pro The first in the Gemini 3.1 series, priced the same as Gemini 3 Pro ($2/million input, $12/million output under 200,000 tokens, $4/$18 for 200,000 to 1,000,000). That's less than half the price of Claude Opus 4.6 with very similar benchmark scores to that mode...

You know who else had a Greenland obsession? “Greenland appears to have been a lifelong preoccupation of Adolf Hitler’s.”

I love these collage illustrations of various celebrities and famous characters by artist/designer Fries Vansevenant: Han Solo & Luke Skywalker, Notorious BIG, Heath Ledger’s Joker, Beatrix Kiddo, David Beckham. There are more on his Insta. Tags: art · design · Fries Vansevenant

Cocaine can make you feel powerful and euphoric in seconds, but it hijacks your brain’s reward system and strains your heart. Here’s what really happens inside your body when you take it. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #drugawaren...

I've long been resistant to the idea of accepting sponsorship for my blog. I value my credibility as an independent voice, and I don't want to risk compromising that reputation. Then I learned about Troy Hunt's approach to sponsorship, which he first wrote about in 2016. Tro...

A reader pointed out that the 2026 Formula 1 season starts in Australia on March 8. You will recall from October that Apple TV is now the exclusive broadcast partner for F1 in the U.S. Apple is already dabbling with live immersive sports broadcasting for VisionOS with a limi...

Maybe when you think of Los Angeles you think of mega highways, gridlock traffic, and urban sprawl. But our guest today argues that it is actually an underrated destination for enjoying the outdoors. Rosecrans Baldwin, author of Everything Now: Lessons from the City State of Los Angeles, shares his favorite places in the city to enjoy nature, from urban parks to mountain trails…and then he’ll also take us even further out there, to a wilderness survival course and a class on talking to plants.

More about today’s guest: https://www.rosecransbaldwin.com/

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SWE-bench February 2025 leaderboard update SWE-bench is one of the benchmarks that the labs love to list in their model releases. The official leaderboard is infrequently updated but they just did a full run of it against the current generation of models, which is notable be...

No one wants to stick their neck out, but it's getting hard to find abiotic explanations

LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Abandon Swift adoption

Back in August 2024 the Ladybird browser project announced an intention to adopt Swift as their memory-safe language of choice.

As of this commit it looks like they've changed their mind:

Everywhere: Abandon Swift adoption

After making no progress on this for a very long time, let's acknowledge it's not going anywhere and remove it from the codebase.

Via Hacker News

Tags: ladybird, swift