Apple’s new phones are here
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Your car is selling your data
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on cars, data privacy, and autonomous vehicles, follow...
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StarCraft is back, but it's not the RTS you remember – it's an open-world shooter coming spring 2030
Blizzard's next StarCraft game will be an original open-world shooter and it's coming spring 2030. Read more
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This remarkable mod transforms the most frightening horror game of the decade into Mirror's Edge
Have faith in Bunker's Edge.
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Mexican cartel's crypto farm seized in mountain raid — 300 GPUs, satellite links, and industrial transformers tapped hydroelectric power
There is increasing evidence that Mexican drug cartels are diversifying into cryptocurrency mining and are using crypto platforms to launder their ill-gotten gains.
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Waymo robotaxi calls cops on riders handling loaded AR-style ghost gun — Waymo alerted San Francisco police, then juvenile riders were stopped and arrested
Following a tip-off from robotaxi firm Waymo, San Francisco police conducted a 'high-risk vehicle stop' and arrested two juveniles for illegal possession of a firearm.
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Diablo 5 is coming spring 2029, and a Netflix show is in development
Blizzard has officially announced Diablo 5, confirming the next mainline entry in the series is expected to arrive in spring 2029. Read more
Read moreBFS File-System Being Removed For Linux 7.4
The latest upstream file-system to be removed from the mainline Linux kernel is... BFS...
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Keeping Time on Tumbling Icosahedra
Clocks are almost the ideal devices to inspire creativity in hackers — they have a simple, well-defined task, but there’s an almost unlimited number of ways...
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I fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold on it.
The manufacturer has a service that lets owners repair their own equipment.
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Playable Tomb Raider runs on a humble 1-watt chip — $25 board with dual-core 400 MHz ESP32-P4 MCU scales OpenLara up to 1,024 x 600 playable pixels
A retro video gaming devotee has showcased Lara Croft adventuring in and among ancient tombs on a humble ESP32-P4 microcontroller.
Read moreARCTIC's Fan Controller Driver For Linux Being Dual-Licensed With BSD-2-Clause
Earlier this year ARCTIC published a fan controller driver for Linux. Besides being rare for an enthusiast-oriented company to publish a Linux driver themselves where typically...
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