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Tuesday September 2, 2025. 05:37 PM
In Of Floating Isles (September 2, 2025), Kawika Guillermo masterfully his lifelong relationship with video games with reflections on identity, loss, and belonging. Through vignettes spanning childhood to adulthood, Guillermo explores how games served as both escape and...
For an operating system that was once incredibly popular and expected to become a standard for a long time to come, it’s remarkable how little experience most people have with CP/M. In fact, many conventions and historical limitations you might be aware of – like the 8.3 file...
As a rule, if a package is shipped with a Debian release, users can count on it being available, and updated, for the entire life of the release. If package foo is included in the stable release—currently Debian 13 ('trixie')—a user can reasonably expect that it will...
The FastCode site has a lengthy article on how large language models make open-source projects far more vulnerable to XZ-style attacks. Open source maintainers, already overwhelmed by legitimate contributions, have no realistic way to counter this threat. How do you verify ...
A new report shows that 52 percent of UK SMEs are already using or plan to adopt AI tools within the next 12 months. The study, from fintech company SumUp, is based on a survey of 750 business owners and decision makers within small UK businesses and finds that 27 percent...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, mod_http2, postgresql, postgresql:15, and python39:3.9), Debian (libsndfile), Mageia (ceph, glibc, and golang), Oracle (postgresql and python39:3.9), Red Hat (aide, postgresql:12, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, and...
Mathematician Eugenia Cheng once attempted to learn Russian, struggling with a particularly difficult letter. щ. She says. 'the session with my teacher went something like this' Me: shTeacher: noMe: shTeacher: noMe: shTeacher: yes!Me: shTeacher: noMe: shTeacher: yes! —...
Dolby Laboratories has introduced Dolby Vision 2, a new version of its picture technology designed for modern televisions. The announcement includes support from Hisense, which will be the first manufacturer to adopt the format, and CANAL+, which confirmed it will deliver...
The Swiss have something of a reputation for being methodical -- particularly when it comes to things like banking -- so it’s no surprise that they take a similar approach to creating a large language model. EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre...
Sling TV has announced a new subscription option designed to give viewers short-term access to live sports and entertainment. The company rolled out the new $4.99 Sling Orange Day Pass today, which provides 24 hours of streaming without contracts, bundles or hidden fees. The ...
When people ask whether Linux can run Photoshop, the answer is usually no. But many users discover that GIMP is not only a capable alternative, it offers features that stand on their own. The latest development release, GIMP 3.1.4, moves closer to the upcoming 3.2 milestone, ...
My goal with this article is to share my perspectives on the web, as well as introduce many aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with. I’m not trying to make you give up JavaScript, I’m just trying to show you everything that’s possible, leaving it up to...
Seeing screenshots of Blocky World (playable in-browser on Itch.io) made clear what it is—a Minecraft clone with a spherical world—but did not prepare me for the experience of being on a spherical voxel planet. For starters, the curvature of the world is quite alarming...
Jussi Pakkanen, creator of the Meson build system, has some words about modules in C++. If C++ modules can not show a 5× compilation time speedup (preferably 10×) on multiple existing open source code base, modules should be killed and taken out of the standard. Without...
The Atlas of Space shows one star, eight planets, ten dwarf planets, moons, comets, asteroids, spacecraft and trans-Neptunian objects. All in slowly-orbiting 3D. Clicking on these celestial objects brings up a detailed encyclopedia entry about it; for example, Huygens. An...
Windows 10 support ends in just over a month, but close to 50% of PC installations are still running the old OS, according to PC makers. In earnings calls last week, Dell and HP executives said that the PC upgrade cycle to Windows 11 was still ongoing, and would continue...
Microsoft has gone all in with its embrace of Android and its various moves towards making Windows 11 play nicely with Google’s mobile operating system. We’ve already seen the Link to Windows app get some serious attention, and most recently Microsoft added a very...
The MKV format (Matroska Video) is one that has been around for a very long time now, and it is loved for its high quality and flexibility. It has been supported by many web browsers, and even Windows 10, for quite some time, but not Firefox. But now Mozilla is taking action ...
Microsoft researchers are developing technologies for a new class of video AI agents to explore three-dimensional spaces before making decisions. The technology framework, called MindJourney, uses a range of AI technologies to understand and analyze 3D spaces, reason about...
Artificial intelligence is making its way into more and more areas of our lives and it seems that includes our dreams. New research from Amerisleep.com, shows that one in five Americans have dreamed about AI and 16 percent are doing so several times a month. While these...
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