Europe’s Scorching Summer
A series of heat waves in 2026 is breaking records and taking a toll in Europe.
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DOGE’s Screwworm Legacy May Be Tons Of Euthanized Cats And Dogs
Of all the things I thought the Trump administration would cause to enter the public lexicon, I certainly did not have screwworms on my list. If...
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Superconducting Temperature Record set at Ambient Pressure
An interesting type of superconductors available to us today are the ones that achieve this property at room temperature, with only the small snag that they...
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Genki’s new customizable controller has a big screen and adjustable buttons
After collaborating with 8BitDo on a gamepad two years ago, Genki launched the first controller the company designed from the ground up today. With an unorthodox...
Read moreIntel Mesa Linux Drivers Now Treating Nova Lake S / U / H / HX As Stable
Intel's open-source Mesa drivers for Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV (Vulkan) on Linux are no longer treating next-gen Nova Lake processors with integrated graphics as experimental...
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OK, Vice City does look pretty damn impressive from the air
If the latest GTA 6 leak is legit, its world is clearly unprecedented in scale and density.
Read moreThere's no reason for software to be slow anymore
The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying that people talking about how LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once...
Read moreReproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 329 released
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 329. This version includes the following changes: [ Jochen Sprickerhof ] * Handle missing...
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Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly
After nearly 4 years of active development, the next-generation trait solver is close to stabilization. We are enabling it by default on nightly to surface any...
Read moreFriday Five — August 21, 2026
Why proprietary software isn’t a retrospective trend but a trap for failureThink proprietary software is more secure because its code is hidden? In the AI era,...
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