time, genomes, and quantum bottlenecks

Friday, October 16, 2026

I stole fire and brought it back to my people.

1. Leap seconds die — replaced by a future “leap hour”
2. Tiny fish have tiny genomes — and evolution discovered this trick at least three times
3. Google cracks a long-standing quantum computing bottleneck in hardware
4. A database of 13,626 US properties whose backyard is federal wilderness
5. Man 3D-prints a custom nose guard for his dog, gives it away, 500 dogs now wear one
6. Original Sinclair ZX Spectrum chip design documents surface on eBay, 45 years later