Triple Header for Privacy’s Defender in New York
You’re invited on a journey inside the privacy battles that shaped the internet. EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn has tangled with the feds, fought for your...
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Simulating a glowing fireplace with an RP2040
Today, fireplaces, their cozy glow once a household staple, are mostly a thing of the past. In fact, a decent amount of old fireplaces are completely...
Read moreIce Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability
Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal American...
Read moreSkyscraper brings Bluesky to the Linux terminal
Skyscraper is a free, open-source Bluesky terminal client written in Rust. Browse, post and reply without leaving the command line – here’s how to run it...
Read moreAn Aerobot With ISRU Capabilities Could Explore Venus’ Atmosphere for Years
In a new proposal, a team of scientists explores how aerial robotic platforms (areobots) with in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) capability could operate for years in Venus’...
Read moreWine 11.6 Begins Reviving Its Android Driver
Wine 11.6 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms…
Read moreIn Chiles V. Salazar The Supreme Court Issues A Bad Good First Amendment Decision
The Supreme Court’s decision last year in U.S. v. Skirmetti, upholding a law depriving young trans people the healthcare they need, is insupportable, rendering people unequal...
Read moreThe FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction for Drones is a Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE
Legal intern Raj Gambhir was the principal author of this post. The Trump administration has restricted the First Amendment right to record law enforcement by issuing...
Read moreAs Artemis II zooms to the Moon, everything seems to be going swimmingly
As the Artemis II lunar mission moved into its third day on Friday, and with the spacecraft’s big engine firing behind it, the four astronauts on...
Read moreNASA Sets Coverage for Northrop Grumman’s CRS-24 Resupply Launch
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft, carrying more than 11,000 pounds of new science investigations and supplies for the Expedition 73 crew, approaches the International Space...
Read moreThis AI startup envisions ‘100 million new people’ making videogames
Tesana says we can create our “dream game” with prompts, but would 100 million people doing that actually be “exciting”?
Read moreSlay the Spire 2 adds end-of-run badges ‘to let you know what was unique about each adventure’ in latest beta patch
The update, available in the public beta branch, makes numerous reworks, tweaks, and fixes, and so far hasn’t sparked nearly the level of backlash the last...
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