Pixel EffectsTwo runners cross a wet plaza at night, seen from behind. A woman in a white tank top with a braided ponytail leads a black-and-white border collie on a leash, and a man in a navy tee runs a step…
3VThe most interesting release in this batch is a product launch, and it’s a security one. Rubrik has built Code Guardian, a service that runs Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 against customer source code.…
Ancient RomeAn Augustan denarius held about 3.8 grams of silver. An antoninianus of Claudius II, struck about 290 years later and tariffed at two denarii, held about six hundredths of a gram. The face value…
AutomobilistDaimler-Benz built 48,912 Pagodas between June 1963 and February 1971. That single figure hides three quite different cars, a one-year model most people forget, and a market split that matters a lot…
Hormuz.netSix months into the war, nobody can agree on how many ships are getting through the Strait of Hormuz. Washington says traffic is climbing and the lanes are clear. Tehran says the strait is shut to…
PhotographyCanon announced the EOS R8 Mark II on September 15, about three and a half years after the original R8 went on sale in early 2023. The sensor is the same 24.2MP full-frame chip. The autofocus is the…
PhotographyPut a Helios 44-2 on a Fuji body and it stops being a 58mm lens, at least as far as framing goes. It frames like an 87mm. On an Olympus Micro Four Thirds body it frames like a 116mm. Same glass, same…
ReferentlyThree agencies rate most of the world’s traded debt: S&P Global Ratings, Moody’s and Fitch. They use the same underlying ladder, written two different ways. S&P and Fitch use letters with plus and…
Israel NewsI took this photo in the Terminal 3 duty-free hall on Friday, September 29, 2023, a little after one in the afternoon. Sukkot was starting that evening and half the country seemed to be flying…
DossierTraffic across the network slipped this week. The 66 sites (one more than last week) logged 15.54k visits and 16.73k page views between September 6 and 12, down 17.69% and 16.14%. Median page load…