NASA's Next Great Observatory Could Spot Oceans on Distant Worlds
We’ve found over 5,500 exoplanets so far. Dozens of them have been in the habitable zone of their parent stars, where, at least in theory, they...
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I Fixed a Tractor Using John Deere’s Self-Repair Service. Farmers Aren’t Sold on It
The agricultural machine manufacturer has a subscription service that lets owners repair their own equipment. Why is barely anybody using it?
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Monthly News – August 2026
Hi everyone, Many thanks for your support and for your donations. We’ve got quite a bit of news this month. As usual, the features and improvements...
Read morePatches Ready For AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Enabled By Default With Linux 7.4 With FreeSync, VRR & ALLM
Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected...
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Windows 11 can now reinstall itself from the cloud — Cloud Rebuild revives dead systems without secondary boot media, wipes broken installation and downloads a fresh copy of the OS
Windows 11 users can soon recover from serious installation problems without relying on a USB drive or a custom recovery image.
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The Trump Alien ‘Disclosure Speech’ Rumors Are Reaching a Fever Pitch
The US government has been sharing more information about UFOs. That's fueling excitement over the possibility of the president announcing that humans are not alone.
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Rockstar and fired GTA developers outline core arguments during union busting tribunal
Both parties have set out their stall in legal documents obtained by Game Developer.
Read moreGit 2.56-rc0 Released With Updated Contribution Guidelines, Improvements For Swift
While still ultimately working toward Git 3.0 with SHA-256 hashes by default and the "main" branch name by default, among other breaking changes (and potentially coming...
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in August 2026
Welcome to the August 2026 report from the Reproducible Builds project! In our reports, we try to outline the most important things that we have been...
Read moreIntel Thermald 2.5.13 Restores Accidentally Deleted Wildcat Lake Support
Intel's Thermald released on Thursday as the newest update to this daemon for thermal monitoring on Intel hardware that was also recently extended for beginning to...
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Anthropic says Claude thwarted bioweapon research from state-sponsored actors — covert accounts used U.S. proxies to attempt to engineer deadlier viruses, tried to evade identification and regional blocks
Anthropic claims Claude refused instructions to potentially develop biological weapons — alleged state-linked accounts tried to evade identification and regional blocks
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How 9/11 Made Everyone a Conspiracy Theorist
Crackpot theories were once the stuff of shortwave radio, but September 11 unleashed the Age of Alex Jones.
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