Interesting Engineering

Mathematicians use children’s ‘silly sprinklers’ to solve decades-old physics mystery

A team of mathematicians from US universities has solved the Sprinkler Problem, a decades-old physics mystery regarding how a ...

Hackers backdoor Jscrambler npm package with infostealer malware

The Jscrambler client-side web security company disclosed that a threat actor published a malicious version of its npm ...

HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

"Idempotent" may be jargon, but the term performs an important job in HTTP as a hall pass that gives reverse proxies and ...

Fact Check: Vance once posted 'Black Lives Matter' and 'No human is illegal' message. It was a joke

In late June and early July 2026, a rumor spread online that U.S. Vice President JD Vance once posted online: "In this house ...