Will We Ever Be Able To Forecast Volcanic Eruptions Like Weather?
In the summer of 1991, Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines, self-destructed. The eruption started on June 12, and three days later it culminated in a...
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The Material Science Behind A Spacecraft’s Impact Armor
Aerospace engineers have to consider numerous factors when designing a spacecraft, but one that comes up more and more often is the need to design against...
Read moreRally Point: What’s it like to be in charge of the Xenonauts? Um. Two?
Thank you for agreeing to meet me, Commander. Have you met the head scientist? I hate him. I… haven’t met him yet. Should I? Don’t, he’s...
Read morePricing and censorship complaints be damned: Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen GBA ports sold over 4m units in six weeks
We learned quite a lot in Nintendo’s latest financial report; whether it’s the fact that Switch 2 sold nearly 20m units in its first year on...
Read moreHow GitHub Is Securing Agentic Workflows in Modern CI CD Systems
GitHub detailed a defense-in-depth security architecture for agentic workflows in CI/CD pipelines, focusing on isolation, constrained execution, and auditability. The design aims to safely integrate autonomous...
Read moreNorth Korean fake remote worker scam lands two Americans 18-month prison sentences for hosting laptops — US firms unknowingly shipped laptops to “employees” who secretly worked from overseas via remote desktop, generating $1.2 million for Pyongyang
Two Americans have been sentenced to prison for helping North Korean operatives infiltrate nearly 70 US companies through fraudulent remote IT jobs, enabling overseas access to...
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HP Z6 G5 A Continues Working Out Well For Linux-Friendly, High-End Workstation
In late 2023 I reviewed the HP Z6 G5 A workstation that at the time was built around the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series and...
Read more2K makes layoffs at Project Ethos developer 31st Union
The free-to-play shooter is still in the works, despite an undisclosed number of reductions.
Read moreHow climate change makes your allergies worse
It’s not in your head. Climate change is contributing to longer and more severe pollen seasons across the Northern Hemisphere. Dr. Neelima Tummala, an ear, nose,...
Read moreNVIDIA Releases CUDA-Oxide 0.1 For Experimental Rust-To-CUDA Compiler
A new NVIDIA Labs project is greatly improving the capabilities of using the Rust programming language for developing CUDA kernels for NVIDIA GPUs…
Read moreNvidia’s VP of deep learning says AI workers are already ‘far beyond the costs of the employees’
How much will AI workers really cost in the end?
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