What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us
Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional...
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Googlebook “Better Together” phone features don’t work with Samsung at launch
Googlebooks require Android 17, but Samsung's Android 17 phones won't work yet.
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I Found The Best Amazon Prime Day Headphone Deals (2026)
I’ve tested more than 100 headphones and covered nearly a dozen Prime Days. Here are some actually good headphone deals from the sale.
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All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
Amazon Prime Day 2026 was exclusively for Prime members and ran June 23–26, 2026 with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. As part of...
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Someone’s modded Diablo 2 for VR, and seeing the world through your character’s eyes brings a whole new dimension to the series
Of all the games I thought I'd see converted to virtual reality, the Diablo games weren't among them, for some reason. But one industrious modder has...
Read moreBrazil’s Electronic Voting Machines Run Linux: How the System Works and How Secure It Is
Brazil’s electronic voting machines run a custom Linux system called Uenux. Here’s how the voting machine works, and how secure it is. The post Brazil’s Electronic...
Read moreNTS: Authenticated Time at Meta
Meta’s public time service now speaks NTS (Network Time Security, RFC 8915) at nts.meta.com. Packets are authenticated, so a device can verify the time came from...
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Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?
"The administrator's directive is a coherent and necessary vision for the future."
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“Keep it family friendly” – Sega’s official Sonic Discord swarmed by 50,000 people in six hours, as understandably strict moderation is put in place
Sega has invited chaos upon itself by launching an official Sonic the Hedgehog Discord channel. Unsurprisingly, it's proven immediately popular, and strictly locked down. There is...
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The EDG C++ Compiler Frontend has been Open Sourced
Recently [John Spicer] of the EDG C++ compiler front-end project announced that the project will be made open source, from now on managed by the non-profit...
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“Horrible day to be a Shion main” – Overwatch fans aren’t happy about five new China-exclusive skins not coming to the rest of the world
Earlier this week, Blizzard released a new trailer for an upcoming event in Overwatch. Called 'Defiled Anthem', the event features skins and cosmetics for Shion, D.Mon,...
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Scrcpy 5.0 adds hardware decoding for Android mirroring
Scrcpy, the open-source tool for mirroring your Android phone on your desktop, now supports zero-copy hardware decoding in its latest release. You're reading Scrcpy 5.0 adds...
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