Mourning Steve French
From Jeremy Allison we have the sad news of the passing of Steve French. He was the maintainer of the kernel's SMB filesystem code for many...
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Self-driving Ford F-250 truck with shotgun-equipped drone-killing turret tested by US Army — autonomous system designed to blast fast-moving drones at between 10 and 100 meters range
The US Army tested an autonomous breaching vehicle with an onboard counter-UAS turret during a live-fire exercise at Fort Bragg on August 18.
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Nvidia reportedly warns biggest customers of 15% price hikes on AI servers — memory costs continue to soar
The increases will take effect on Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems shipping early next year.
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NASA Highlights Next-Gen Cargo Landers Paving the Way for a Moon Base
NASA and its commercial partners are making progress on their way to a permanent human presence on the Moon. As part of that, a recent press...
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Poetry for Engineers: Safe Distance
How do I touch youacross the ocean,across cold depthswhere light travels through glass.Not copper—fibers. Optical. Through liquid glass, through flickering lightthat carries you in fragments. Light...
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Nvidia’s GB300-powered DGX Station desktop tower listed for nearly $100,000 online — Enterprise AI powerhouse now available to buy for mere mortals with lots of cash
Nvidia's most powerful desktop offering, the GB300 DGX Station, is available to buy starting from just $94,930 and you can spec it up to $108,350. It...
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Asus ROG Swift RGB Stripe OLED Review: Clarity King
The Asus PG27UCWM brings a new sub-pixel layout to the world of OLED gaming monitors, and in my testing, I appreciated the improvements it brings to...
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Fake GTA VI ISO circulates on the internet a few days after leak, internet sleuths claim 113GB download is padded malware — testers claim file is 99.99% empty zeroes with 50KB virus embedded
A 113GB GTA VI ISO file is circulating on the internet, with its file name making it seem like it was the game build that Cyberleek...
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Modular pocket gimbal camera that transforms into a self-flying drone retroactively banned by FCC, certification revoked — Agency closes foreign UAS loophole on 230g HoverAir Versa
The Versa, a 230g pocket gimbal camera that snaps into a separate propeller chassis for flight, raised more than $230,000 at its debut.
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TP-Link Deco 7 Pro BE13000 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Value pricing, but average performance
The Deco 7 Pro BE13000 is attractively priced on the hardware front, but a subscription is needed to enable many features of the mesh system.
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Bambu Lab 3D Printers Bring a 166-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Back to Life
Fourteen desktop 3D printers spent seven weeks producing the bones of a dinosaur that lived roughly 166 million years ago. The result is now on display...
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Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on GTA VI and the state of the...
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