NASA Testing Aims at Supercooled Large Droplet Aviation Safety
NASA is leveraging its expertise and enhancing its test facilities to help address a rare but persistent aviation hazard: icing that occurs when aircraft encounter unusually...
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Claims that genAI speeds up PC ports of classic games are either "false" or missing the point, says Banjo Kazooie: Recompiled developer
The software developer behind an unofficial PC version of N64 platformer Banjo-Kazooie has posted an impassioned screed about the usage of generative AI tools for rush-job...
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Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher
Unconfirmed reports have suggested there was a laboratory accident.
Read moreRustConf recordings
The Rust Foundation has posted the recordings from RustConf 2026 in Montreal, Canada. Photos of the event are also available. LWN covered four talks from RustConf...
Read more[$] An update on the Sashiko patch-review system
Patch review has long been one of the limiting constraints for the kernel project (and most others); there just aren't enough people to properly review all...
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XCOR launches to trace outages in minutes. It still pages engineers.
Palo Alto Networks introduced a new approach to AI-driven observability last week, signaling a shift from dashboards and manual incident The post XCOR launches to trace...
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Suspected Second-generation Planet Solves NASA Hubble Cold Case
New analysis of archival Hubble data points to the possibility of “dead” white dwarf stars hosting second-generation planetary systems.
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“It has to be more over the top, more insane, more in your face” – Rockstar explains why GTA 6 doesn’t satirise real-world events
In a new interview, Rockstar has discussed its revered approach to crafting the satire the Grand Theft Auto series is famous for - particularly relating to...
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Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns part 2: do-while
Continuing our journey on decompilation patterns, here's another common one: Let's say m2c outputs code like this: loop_151: ... if (var_s0 > var_s1) goto loop_151; then...
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Siemens Abruptly Takes Down OpenRadioss, But a Fork is Already Live
Another reminder of why open source saves software from being lost forever.
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Ninja Theory developers announce they are facing redundancy, as the studio starts laying off staff following widespread Xbox cuts
More bad news for Ninja Theory today, as the studio's consultation process with Xbox - following a second wave of cuts last week - seems to...
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You can get an OLED gaming monitor for a penny under $300, which is an absolute steal in my book
My big ol monitor book, that is.
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