Digging Into the Twilight Hack that Brought Us Wii Homebrew
With each new game console, there’s an effort to get around whatever restrictions exist to run your own software on it. In the case of the...
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Etsy Migrates 1000-Shard, 425 TB MySQL Sharding Architecture to Vitess
The Etsy engineering team recently described how the company migrated its long-running MySQL sharding infrastructure to Vitess. The transition moved shard routing from Etsy’s internal systems...
Read moreWhat we’ve been playing – “I do not have three thumbs, Nintendo”
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we’ve been playing. This week, Kelsey battles a terrifying enemy...
Read moreWhat are we all playing this weekend?
After months of pleading for the sun to show its face, I’m actually feeling quite warm now. Potentially, I’d go so far as to say I’m...
Read moreGoDeal24 Spring Software Sale: Get Windows 11 and Office at Deep Discounts!
GoDeal24 is an international merchant of genuine, globally-valid software, here with the Spring 2026 Software Sale. Get the software you need, such as Genuine Windows 11...
Read moreCitizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data
Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global...
Read moreOtamatone Hacked Into Different, Cooler Synth: Trautonium
Analog synths are fun because they combine music, which all humans seem hard-wired to enjoy in one form or another, and electronics, which… uh, this is...
Read moreThe Artemis II mission has ended. Where does NASA go from here?
The Artemis era well and truly began Friday evening when a shiny spacecraft that had traveled 700,000 miles around the Moon, carrying four astronauts, splashed down...
Read moreNVIDIA’s DLSS 5 Demo Video Briefly Taken Down Because YouTube’s Take Down Process Sucks
Last month, we discussed NVIDIA’s demo video for its forthcoming DLSS 5 technology and the controversy surrounding it. While I’m going to continue to be of...
Read moreNASA Welcomes Record-Setting Artemis II Moonfarers Back to Earth
NASA’s Orion spacecraft with Artemis II crewmembers NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy...
Read moreA Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator
The planet Mercury in true color. (Credit: NASA) With multiple rovers currently scurrying around on the surface of Mars to continue a decades-long legacy, it can...
Read moreFour astronauts are back home after a daring ride around the Moon
Slamming into the atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, NASA’s Orion spacecraft blazed a trail over the Pacific Ocean on Friday, returning...
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