Volunteers Discover Rare Space Weather Events Using Their Ears
Our planet rests inside a magnetic cocoon filled with plasma – but it’s not always peaceful and quiet. Activity from the Sun can send waves through...
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The Human Infrastructure: How Netflix Built the Operations Layer Behind Live at Scale
By: Brett Axler, Casper Choffat, and Alo Lowry In the three years since our first Live show, Chris Rock: Selective Outrage, we have witnessed an incredible expansion...
Read moreThe Division was originally a World of Warcraft style MMO, but “that skill component wasn’t there”, says Massive Entertainment
Massive Entertainment has revealed that at one point in development, The Division was a World of Warcraft style MMORPG with a hotbar and dog companion, before...
Read moreC++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model
The C++26 standard draft is now complete, reports Herb Sutter, long-time C++ expert and former chair of the ISO C++ standards committee. The finalized draft introduces...
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Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Linux Graphics Performance Up ~17% Over Past Year
Given the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release being imminent and also realizing it’s been nearly one year to the day since reviewing the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon...
Read moreSupporting juniors and sharpening your creativity
This week, writer and self-avowed former theater kid Alexa Ray Corriea swings by for a conversation about the craft of writing and how juniors can build...
Read moreMeta Reports 4x Higher Bug Detection with Just-in-Time Testing
Meta introduces Just-in-Time (JiT) testing, a dynamic approach that generates tests during code review instead of relying on static test suites. The system improves bug detection...
Read moreEvery Old Vulnerability Is Now an AI Vulnerability
AI’s danger isn’t that it’s creating new bugs, it’s that it’s amplifying old ones.
Read moreAdvancing secret sync with workload identity federation
With the release of Vault Enterprise 2.0, we are continuing to modernize how organizations secure and distribute secrets across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As part of...
Read moreHero modder gives all of Skyrim’s jarls unique sitting poses on their fancy thrones
I’d never even noticed they all sat the same.
Read moreQuantum ‘Jamming’ Explores the Truly Fundamental Principles of Nature
For the past few decades, researchers have understood that quantum computers should eventually be able to crack the widely used codes that secure much of the...
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