The Complicated Legacy of Mind Controlled Toys
Imagine a line of affordable toys controlled by the player’s brainwaves. By interpreting biosignals picked up by the dry electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes in an included headset,...
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We’re Measuring Data Center Sustainability Wrong
In 2024, Google claimed that their data centers are 1.5x more energy efficient than industry average. In 2025, Microsoft committed billions to nuclear power for AI...
Read moreIntel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids Memory Scaling Performance From 6 To 12 MRDIMMs
With memory pricing being as wild as it is these days and with MRDIMMs on Xeon 6 Granite Rapids offering much more memory bandwidth than conventional...
Read moreLooks a lot like an electric station wagon: the 2026 Toyota bZ Woodland
Toyota provided flights from Columbus, Ohio to Santa Barbara, California and accommodation so Ars could drive the Woodland bZ. Ars does not accept paid editorial content....
Read moreAn update on upki
In December 2025, Canonical announced a plan to develop a universal Public Key Infrastructure called upki. Jon Seager has published an update about the project with...
Read more99% of adults over 40 have shoulder “abnormalities” on an MRI, study finds
Up to a third of people worldwide have shoulder pain; it’s one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints. But medical imaging might not reveal the problem—in...
Read moreInterop 2026
Interop 2026 is formally a thing. So, you know all of those wild, new CSS features we’re always poking at but always putting under a “lack...
Read moreSecurity updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gimp, go-toolset:rhel8, and golang), Debian (roundcube), Fedora (gnupg2, libpng, and rsync), Mageia (dcmtk and usbmuxd), Oracle (gcc-toolset-14-binutils, gimp, gnupg2,...
Read moreMoonshot AI Releases Open-Weight Kimi K2.5 Model with Vision and Agent Swarm Capabilities
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, their latest open-weight multimodal LLM. K2.5 excels at coding tasks, with benchmark scores comparable to frontier models such as GPT-5 and...
Read moreInside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents
Forum members have discussed their discomfort with mass deportation efforts, debate how federal agents have interacted with civilians, and complain about their working conditions.
Read moreWrite Python Docstrings Effectively
Writing clear, consistent docstrings in Python helps others understand your code’s purpose, parameters, and outputs. In this video course, you’ll learn about best practices, standard formats,...
Read moreAperture: Stop choosing between safe AI and fast AI
Aperture is an AI gateway inside your network, one that takes the friction out of deploying AI for your organization.
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