VLC is Wrongly Blamed for Microsoft Defender's Clumsiness
VLC takes a long time to play MP3 on Windows? Blame it on Microsoft Defender, not VLC.
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APOD: 2026 August 13 – Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 13 – Total… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the...
Read moreJohn Oliver Doubles Down After Latest Buc-ee’s Trademark Bullying Lawsuit
The Buc-ee’s trademark bullying saga continues! The company, once best known for building ridiculously enormous gas station and convenience store combinations has more recently become nearly...
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Have Scientists Stuck the Landing on the Glueball Discovery?
Exciting discoveries in particle physics are one of those things that it can be easy to get blase about. Some people get caught up in the...
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Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement
The comments are "remarkably pathetic," the writer said in response.
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Virgin Galactic delays resumption of commercial flights to 2027
Virgin Galactic says it will not start commercial flights of its new suborbital spaceplane until early 2027, a delay of a few months. The post Virgin...
Read moreRsync 3.5 Released As "Extraordinary" Update To Fix 33 Security Issues
Rsync as the widely-used, open-source remote sync software for synchronizing files and directories across networks is out today with a very important update...
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Big Walk devs talk the Australian bush and friendslop: 'I'd prefer the second word wasn't slop'
The open world was based on a real world national park.
Read moreComma.ai Launches A PCIe Gen4 x4 To USB4 Dock With Open-Source Firmware
George Hotz of Comma.ai and Tinygrad today announced the Tiny Chestnut eGPU Dock and the "Chestnut" Dock complete with an AMD Radeon RX 9060 8GB GPU...
Read more[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 13, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: BPF and binfmt_misc; CrossPoint ebook firmware; KVM planes; BPF formal verification; shadow-utils; new storage-code testing features. Briefs: Django releases;...
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How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Color Overlay Tool Using JavaScript
Sometimes you don't want to change the actual content of a PDF. You simply want to add a colored layer over part or all of the...
Read moreManage bare metal like a cloud with Red Hat Bare-Metal-as-a-Service for OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 includes general availability support for Red Hat Bare-Metal-as-a-Service (BMaas) for OpenShift, enabling organizations to manage bare metal, virtual machines (VMs), and application...
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