Your Old Potato PC Might Game Better With This Linux Kernel Patch
As a gamer, if you have gamed on Linux with hardware that’s seen better days, there’s some work happening in the kernel that’s worth keeping an...
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How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evolutionary Extreme
When an optometrist shines a bright light into your eyes, a vast, branching tree sprouts in your field of vision. This is the shadow of blood...
Read moreTeaching software company strikes a deal with hackers to get customer data back, defying FBI guidance
A strange choice with details to follow.
Read moreMeasure the Earth’s Rotation Victorian Style
You’ve probably seen a Foucault pendulum in a museum. This Victorian-era science demonstration is named after physicist Léon Foucault and shows how the Earth rotates compared...
Read moreHow to Use OpenCode for AI-Assisted Python Coding
OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that runs in your terminal and lets you analyze and refactor a Python project through conversational commands. In this...
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Northrop Grumman targets lunar navigation market with Webb-derived guidance system
The LR-450 is designed for spacecraft operating in the absence of GPS signals
Read moreWhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private
The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations.
Read moreTemporal hits 3,000 paying customers with its crash-proof workflow engine
If you work the high wire at a circus, you’d better have a net down below if you want to continue in that line of business....
Read moreMicrosoft’s MDASH AI System Finds 16 Windows Flaws Fixed in Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has unveiled a new multi-model artificial intelligence (AI)-driven system called MDASH to facilitate vulnerability discovery and remediation at scale, adding that it’s being tested by...
Read moreGCC 16 Produces Faster Binaries Than GCC 15, Competitive Race With LLVM Clang 22
GCC 16.1 released at the end of April as the latest major, annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. Early benchmarks showed some nice leads...
Read morePsyche Spacecraft Spies Mars Ahead of May 15th Gravitational Assist
A close flyby past the Red Planet this week will send NASA’s Psyche mission on its way towards its final destination. The mission’s closest approach to...
Read moreKen Levine says Steam Machine shows we’re hitting ‘diminishing returns’ with bleeding-edge graphics tech—just look at BioShock to see why art is more important
Keep your traced rays, I’m attaching barnacles to things.
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