This DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors
In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid...
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New AI-compute cryptocurrency Pearl sparks a GPU mining rush but profitability is already sliding — RTX 5090 daily revenue has halved to $17.19 since April
A new cryptocurrency called Pearl has set off a short-lived GPU mining rush.
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Dutch Authorities Dismantle Botnet Linked to 17 Million Infected Devices
Dutch authorities have announced the takedown of a botnet that enslaved millions of infected devices, including computers, tablets, smartphones, and IoT devices, to carry out malicious...
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The 'ultimate mosquito killer' uses lasers and AI — custom model trained to detect and lock lasers on these pests
A computer vision and robotics expert has created and trained what he boasts is “the ultimate mosquito killer” using machine learning and a laser.
Read moreRussell Coker: Links May 2026
Ron Garrett wrote an interesting blog post about the mathematical possibility of abiogenesis [1]. Cory Doctorow wrote an interesting blog post about the way the current...
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This fan remake of 1999's Medal of Honor proved so popular that its creator added a level cut from the original game
Version 1.1 of Medal of Honor: Retro Remake lets players infiltrate Colditz Castle.
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Orpheus II ISA soundcard returns due to ‘popular demand’ — aimed at DOS and early Windows users, this card includes hardware to support every major audio standard
Want real Sound Blaster, Gravis UltraSound, OPL3 FM synthesis, and MPU-401 MIDI support? You got it.
Read moreHow to Install WP-CLI the Right Way: A Complete Wp-CLI Setup Guide for Linux, macOS and Windows
Learn how to install WP-CLI step by step on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, macOS, and Windows WSL. The post How to Install WP-CLI...
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Okay, maybe I could be convinced AI monitors aren't all bad
MSI's "world's first agentic AI monitor" has one neat trick. The rest of its AI tricks, however...
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Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve just popped up on PEGI's website
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, has popped up on the PEGI website with a "pre-release date": 30th May, 2026. Read more
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You can still run the original Nvidia Control Panel by grabbing it from the Microsoft Store today — app remains useful to adjust a handful of RTX Pro and Quadro features, and may be handy for troubleshooting
The old Nvidia Control Panel is now a separate, optional download, but is it worth grabbing?
Read moreWine-Staging 11.10 Fixes 14 Year Old Bug, Also Fixes Issue Of Some Games Being Too Dark
Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.10 is now the Wine-Staging 11.10 experimental/testing flavor with nearly 300 additional patches atop that upstream code...
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