Over 10 years later, Gabe Newell's advice to devs still holds up
There can be a fine line between a malicious hack and a legend.
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APOD: 2026 September 20 – Analemma over the Callanish Stones
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 20 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day...
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MIT Research Could Lead to Refueling Depots on Mars
MIT PhD candidate Lanie McKinney is developing technology to convert the chemicals in the Martian atmosphere into propellant to bring astronauts home.
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Laser Your Way into Debug Mode on the RP2350
The RP2350 is actually a pretty secure chip, all things considered. It has secure boot, ARMv8’s TrustZone to split secure and non-secure execution, and you can...
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Convey is a GTK4/libadwaita fork of Linux email app Geary
Convey is a new Linux email client based on the code of Geary, remade with a GTK4/libadwaita UI and support for Microsoft 365 accounts. Somewhat like...
Read moreLinux 7.3-rc4 To Address Two Unfortunate Bugs With Btrfs
Merged today were this week's set of Btrfs file-system fixes for the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel, which include two notable bug fixes...
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High-end 8-channel oscilloscope features 12-core AMD EPYC CPU, 96GB RAM, 15.6-inch display, and more
Tektronix has launched the 7 Series DPO (Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope), and the company claims the DPO718AX model is the world’s first 8-channel performance oscilloscope with up...
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A Hotspot Becomes A Handheld
A Linux handheld computer is, in theory, easy and inexpensive given the availability of single-board computers, but in practice the budget invariably edges well into three...
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Researchers Measure the Environment Where the First Supermassive Black Holes Formed
Scientists theorize that the rapid emergence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early Universe can be explained by the direct-collapse black hole (DCBH) scenario. In...
Read moreSTH Q3 2026 Letter from the Editor A Moving Target
In our STH Q3 2026 Letter from the Editor we go into all that has happend in Q3 from the changing industry, to the behind-the-scenes The...
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Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think
Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can...
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Coreboot Hikes the Bay Trail to DRAM Initialization
This article is written on an open-source operating system, but not an open-source machine — the BIOS isn’t open-source, and even if it were supported by...
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