Do Lightsaber Blades Have Mass?
On Star Wars Day, we put to rest a question that has bedeviled sci-fi nerds for years.
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Securing GitHub Actions CI dependencies: Recipe card
Recipe GitHub Actions CI dependencies Target audience (the chef) Project maintainers and developers who need practical, concrete steps to efficiently secure CI dependencies within their GitHub...
Read moreArticle: From Batch to Micro-Batch Streaming: Lessons Learned the Hard Way in a Delta Index Pipeline
This article describes how a production delta-index pipeline migrated from scheduled batch to micro-batch Spark Structured Streaming. It covers why record-level streaming was rejected, how partition-based...
Read morePodcast: Roq: Leveraging Quarkus to Build Static Sites at the Speed of Go
Andy Damevin, a developer who worked on Quarkus for almost a decade, talks about Roq. A project that started as an experiment to try to see...
Read moreTumbleweed Monthly Update – April 2026
There were several software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed during April and the later half of the month brought some urgency with Copy Fail, which is...
Read moreESP32-P4 + ESP32-C5 board features Raspberry Pi-compatible MIPI connectors for official displays and camera modules
We’ve come across an ESP32-P4 + ESP32-C5 board that looks similar to the Wireless Tag WTDKP4C5-S1 board, but is even more compact and features four MIPI...
Read moreOroraTech deploys wildfire constellation for Greece
KRAKOW — Four OroraTech satellites that are part of the Hellenic Fire System launched and deployed on May 3, the Munich-based company announced. The mission makes...
Read moreWhat I Packed to Run 80 Miles Across the Italian Apennine Mountains
Here’s everything you need to survive while running many mountain miles. It all fits into a 10-lb pack.
Read moreCrushing shortages have pushed long-term supply agreements for SSDs and HDDs to record five years — large customers are signing large contracts
Demand for storage devices is so high that large customers are willing to sign up to five-year long-term supply agreements, according to Sandisk, Seagate, and Western...
Read moreA Federal Worker Was Fired for Filming DOGE. Now She’s Running for Congress
Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency.
Read moreLinux File-System Proliferation A Burden: Requirements Laid Out For Any Future File-Systems
The growing number of file-systems within the Linux kernel source tree is causing an ongoing burden for upstream developers maintaining the virtual file-system (VFS) code around...
Read moreUnlike Destiny 2, Marathon’s creative director says you’ll “always be able to uncover the mysteries of Tau Ceti’s past”
Once upon a time, Bungie were quite highly regarded for their storytelling finesse in the way that Destiny unfolded across many years. Aside from the general...
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