Netflix may have finally figured out games
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Two Point Museum’s latest DLC features a buildable studio where artists can create ‘millions’ of unique artworks, and there’s ‘no generative AI involved’ whatsoever
Two Point Museum: Arty Facts is available now.
Read moreThe attack surface moved inside the agent. So did Arcjet.
As AI agents take over more application logic, such as reading files, fetching web pages, and processing queue messages, the security tools built around HTTP boundaries...
Read moreLouis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to ‘Go (Bleep) yourself’ over its threatened lawsuit against enthusiast — Right to Repair advocate offers to pay the legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer
Louis Rossmann has officially pledged $10,000 to cover the initial legal fees for an independent software developer threatened with a cease and desist letter from Bambu...
Read moreDo you take after your dad’s RNA?
On a bright afternoon in Jiangsu, China, Xin Yin is playing personal trainer to some mice. One by one, he sets the rodents on a miniature...
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Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To Per-Core I/O Performance
Following a presentation at last week’s Linux storage, file-system, memory management and BPF summit (LSFMM) in Croatia where Linux I/O overhead compared to the Storage Performance...
Read moreAI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but ‘felt’ infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects
Residents living near data centers are raising concerns about noise pollution, as these massive sites operate 24/7 and generate low-frequency sounds that disturb the neighborhood’s peace.
Read moreSpeech Jammer Gets Jammed Up
This project is perhaps the single most passive-aggressive thing we’ve ever seen on this site: rather than tell someone directly to ‘shut up’, [Blytical]’s speech jammer...
Read moreHuge landslide created a 500-meter-high tsunami in a major tourist area
At 5:26 am local time on August 10, 2025, a massive wedge of rock with a volume of at least 63.5 million cubic meters detached from...
Read moreVivo’s X300 Ultra has the best cameras in any phone
The X300 Ultra is mostly let down by its rather dull design. A few months ago, I wrote that the telephoto camera is the only lens...
Read moreRust’s latest update adds mortars but ‘no visual guide to help you land shells,’ so get ready for some chaos
“Firing a mortar requires mastery through trial & error.”
Read moreCould Contact-Tracing Apps Help With the Hantavirus? Not Really
Contact-tracing apps were widely deployed during the Covid pandemic. They aren’t as helpful during smaller outbreaks.
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