Hypernovae May Be All Hype, No Nova
Astrophysicists think that hypernovae are the most powerful stellar explosions in the Universe. They're the most explosive type of core-collapse supernova. But the evidence for them...
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Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware
Topgolf and VMware "ran deep" before the migration.
Read moreGhostscript flaw lets hackers hijack servers via PDF uploads
A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-39919) in the Ghostscript interpreter and rendering engine could allow remote code execution through specially crafted PDF files. [...]
Read moreAnthropic warns self-replicating AI could spread to your smart devices
Anthropic is warning that small AI models could soon be able to self-replicate across consumer IoT devices, from Android TV boxes to smart ovens, creating distributed...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RQuantLib 0.4.29 on CRAN: New QuantLib, Plus Small Fixes
A new release 0.4.29 of RQuantLib arrived on CRAN this evening, had already been built for r2u as well as on r-universe and has just been...
Read moreIntel ISPC 1.32 Released With AVX10.2 & APX Support, Even AMD Zen 6 Too
Intel ISPC 1.32 released today as the newest version of this Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler built atop LLVM/Clang. ISPC is a variant of the C...
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Legendary level designer Richard ‘Levelord’ Gray has died
Gray got his start with Duke Nukem 3D, before moving to co-found Ritual Entertainment.
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OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room
An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as...
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NASA Names Astronaut Christina Koch Acting Deputy Chief Engineer
NASA engineer and astronaut Christina Koch will serve as the agency’s acting deputy chief engineer beginning on Sunday, Nov. 1, following the retirement of Katherine Van...
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World of Warcraft: Forever won’t destroy what made the old classes so satisfying by modernizing them into oblivion: ‘The level of mechanical complexity found in the beta classes is indicative of our intentions’
You will wait patiently for your next ability and you will learn to love it.
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Escher’s Dream is a Portal 2 mod inspired by the non-euclidean works of the classic artist that will leave you feeling only a little bit nauseated
You know, given the ubiquity of his work, I'm surprised there aren't more M. C. Escher inspired games in this world There are a few, like...
Read moreU.S. Car Privacy And Security Remain An Absolute Shitshow
In 2023, Mozilla released a report noting that modern U.S. cars had the worst security and privacy standards of any major technology industry the organization tracks....
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