France Had Never Seen a ‘Fire Cloud’ Until This Month’s Record-Smashing Blazes
Extreme fire conditions on the ground have created unprecedented conditions in the atmosphere.
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Zach Cregger may have made the best Resident Evil movie yet, but a faction of fans aren't happy about it
The latest reboot of the Resident Evil movie series is taking some heat for not looking Resident Evil-ey enough.
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: #057: Conditionally Quieten Compilers
Welcome to post 57 in the R4 series. R packages with compiled codes can use the file src/Makevars to set compilation flags. We often rely on...
Read moreTrump Officials Want To Use Human Rights Aid To Advocate For White South Africans And Right-Wing Causes In Europe
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. For decades, the U.S. Department of State gave money to groups protecting free speech, human rights and...
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X Money is launching in the US starting today
X Money, a core part of Elon Musk's mission to turn X into an "everything app," is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform...
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Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.
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Mission Center adds battery, partition and power draw info
A new version of Linux system monitoring app Mission Center is available for download, adding new hardware stats, first-run setup prompt and bug fixes. Mission Center...
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Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers
Starlink has a Texas factory but also makes routers in Vietnam.
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13 Ubisoft games go free on PC if you own them on Xbox
Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Far Cry 6, Skull and Bones, Rainbow Six Siege, and others are now part of Xbox's 'Console to PC' program.
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Agentic Browsers Rewind Web Security by 20 Years
PleaseFix class of flaws makes it easy to socially engineer agentic browsers and highlights weaknesses in how they handle cross-origin requests.
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After leaving Epic Games last month, its former 'Unreal evangelist' is now building his own game engine
Sjoerd De Jong aims to combat game development "stagnation" he says has emerged from Epic and Unity market dominance.
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'Wtf is going on': Indie dev discovers their neglected Steam game is powering an Undertale multiplayer mod following its freak 1700% jump in player activity
Little-known platformer Crashphalt is enjoying an unexpected popularity—but its players are enjoying something else.
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