Reading QR Codes by Hand
QR codes can be a handy way to send a link or contact details without all that tedious mucking about with typing in a link, but...
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China-Linked Hackers Use ARTEX AI Agents in ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack
Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that a China state-aligned actor dubbed Storm-0940 was behind the recent supply chain compromise of the ConnectWise Cloud Backup application. During the...
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APOD: 2026 October 22 – The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 22 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the...
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Fires Char New Guinea
Emissions on both sides of the island are unusually high as human-set fires spread in a landscape parched by drought.
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Epic Rolls Out Vibe-Coded Launcher Update & It’s Absolute Trash
Alright, I don’t quite know what to make of what Epic Games is doing with this AI-driven nonsense, but it’s not great. I’ve spent a bit...
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Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched
Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They’re now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.
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Making a Five-Segment Display with Platinum-Titanium Cathodes
Before the advent of effective semiconductor LEDs many display types existed to display things like numbers and other characters. The Nixie tube is a well-known one,...
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The next Mass Effect would have had ‘a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match’, according to BioWare veteran
BioWare had paid attention to Larian and CD Projekt.
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Linux 7.4 Begins Landing Patches To Speed Up The Kernel Build Process
There are notable patches by Arm engineer Lorenzo Stoakes that have begun landing in Linux 7.4 for speeding up the Linux kernel build process. This work...
Read more[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 22, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Android vendor hooks; Reproducible builds and kernel integrity; Rust data structures; NFS server changes; Setting no_new_privs for PID 1;...
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Holy crap, they’re making Serious Sam: The Third Encounter
I've been waiting a quarter-century for this.
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