Restoring a Soviet ES-4001 Mainframe Control Panel
Recently the [Chornobyl Family] got their hands on an ES-4001 control panel for a 1970s-era Soviet mainframe, with the intention to restore it to full working...
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Canonical dev mocks up an Ubuntu launcher that uses AI
What would deeper AI integration on the Ubuntu desktop look like? Well, you don’t need to think too hard to find out. A Canonical engineer has...
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APOD: 2026 October 23 – Andromeda in Southern Spring
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 23 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover...
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El Niño Then and Now
A 35-year satellite altimetry record lets scientists hold this year’s El Niño up against its strongest predecessors.
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Trump Hides IRS Report Showing How His Big Beautiful Bill Fucked America
It seems that burying reports because he doesn’t like the data within them is becoming a habit for Donald Trump and his administration. This practice didn’t...
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NASA Batteries Survive Extreme Cold and Heat
One of the major limits of mass-produced batteries is the electrolyte. From lead-acid to lithium ion, there’s some temperature where the electrolyte will freeze and cause...
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Learn Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security
MCP bridges the gap between your AI agents and your external tools, allowing them to send Discord messages, read your emails, and interact with your environment....
Read moreLinux 7.4 Workqueue Changes Bring A “10 To 100 Times Faster” Optimization
Adding to all the exciting performance optimizations and other improvements for Linux 7.4 is an exciting workqueue improvement. It's not too often getting to talk about...
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Etsy is cracking down on AI slop listings
Etsy is announcing stricter rules about how AI can be used in listings to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform. In a post,...
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RoboParty RP1 (ROBOTO 01) – A full-stack open-source humanoid robot with up to 30 degrees of freedom
Shanghai-based RoboParty has introduced the RP1 (ROBOTO 01), an open-source humanoid robot designed for robotics research, embodied AI development, and motion-control experiments. The robot is available...
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Feng Shui for Robots: The Fly MCP Server
In Databricks’ State of AI Agents 2026 report, there’s a chart from Neon’s telemetry that’s somehow both mind-blowing and unsurprising. In October 2023, AI agents created...
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