🧬 Everyone alive today carries DNA from a mysterious "ghost" ancestor — an unknown archaic human species that no fossil record has ever captured.

Using a new method called TRACE, scientists analyzed 503 modern genomes and found that 0.5-1% of our DNA comes from an unidentified hominin lineage that split from us over 800,000 years ago.

This ghost lineage interbred with early Homo sapiens in Africa before the out-of-Africa migration. Unlike Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA, which is mostly absent from speech-related gene regions, the ghost DNA appears even in those areas.

The discovery also revealed an even older "super-archaic" lineage — one that branched off nearly 1.8 million years ago and reached us indirectly through Denisovans.

We carry the genetic legacy of ancestors we never knew existed.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/everyone-alive-may-carry-dna-from-a-ghost-lineage-of-human-ancestors/

#HumanEvolution #Genetics #Science

<hyper-card> v2.0.3 shipped with new glow color option thanks to @chriskirknielsen!

https://github.com/zachleat/hypercard

Another step closer to release!

The official website is now live at https://littlefedi.org/ with documentation and project details.

Take a look and let me know what you think!

#littleFedi #Fediverse

❤️ Jason just liked Static Dress - Pharmacy Film on LastFM 🎶

https://www.last.fm/music/Static+Dress/_/Pharmacy+Film

❤️ Jason just liked Roman Candle - Blasphemous Act on LastFM 🎶

https://www.last.fm/music/Roman+Candle/_/Blasphemous+Act

I need some stickers to put on my personal MacBook to differentiate it from my work MacBook. Where's a good place to get sticker packs?

When things are going great

www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

Has anyone ever put a computer in a beef Wellington?

bukmark.club is close to 400 listed pages and could use some help with directory maintenance.

It'd be great, if some fine folks could click on a couple of links and report broken links and non-compliant sites here:
https://github.com/ttntm/bukmark.club/issues/29

Boost are much appreciated 🌐

#SmallWeb

If you need to deactivate half of the system settings, uninstall dozen of useless pre installed stuff, get into registry and/or group policies to change things you have no clue what it does you're just following online guides, just to make Windows 11 acceptably annoying, then the whole "yeah but Linux is harder to setup" has poorly aged pretty fast.

Fractl.art

https://fractl.art/

mixed bag 08-11-26

https://iwebthings.joejenett.com/mixed-bag-08-11-26/

Anthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/anthropic-says-it-will-watermark-text-generated-by-its-ai-models/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I'm quitting my job and devoting my life to building the world's first lasagna computer.

Pray for Columbia. Wow.

Has anyone ever put a computer inside of a lasagna? 🤔

😎 I like the new brrr (https://brrr.now/) feature, that allows custom icons (https://brrr.now/learn/custom-icons/) on the notifications.

Good morning. ☕

🗣AAAAAAAAAUGH!

❝ Kennedy claimed at one point: “Something happened in the mid-90s that changed our children, and it has to be an environmental exposure.” ❞
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-vaccines-executive-order-measles

i am one of those mothers who had her child have an anaphylactic reaction to the MMRs in the 1990s and am here to tell you this fascist fuckwad should know it had nothing to do with the #vaccines and everything to do with the changes to FDA regulation that happened in 1994 during the Clinton administration

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🔬 Chinese researchers grew a rare form of graphene at over 99% stacking purity, solving a manufacturing bottleneck that could matter for future quantum computing.

Rhombohedral graphene layers stack in an ABC pattern instead of the usual AB. That tiny shift creates flat electronic bands with exotic properties like superconductivity and the quantum anomalous Hall effect, relevant to topological qubits.

Until now, the only way to get it was peeling graphite with tape and hunting under a microscope for the <1% of flakes with the right stacking.

A Peking University team led by Liu Kaihui used a copper-nickel alloy on a stepped sapphire surface to guide graphene into rhombohedral stacking during growth, reaching >99% phase purity at sizes up to 160x80 micrometers. Published in Science on July 23, 2026.

No qubits were encoded and no quantum gates operated. This is a materials breakthrough, not a quantum computer. But reliable manufacturing of the material is the prerequisite for everything that comes next.

Sources:
https://www.graphene-info.com/researchers-grow-rhombohedral-graphene-scale-opening-path-graphene-based
https://xenospectrum.com/en/pku-rhombohedral-graphene-growth/

#graphene #quantum #materials