Collaborate Disseminate
“The clock is ticking” on the Hubble Space Telescope,
writes the space news site Daily Galaxy, citing estimates from the unofficial “Hubble Reentry Tracker” site (which uses orbital data from the site space-track.org, created by tech integrator SAIC):… Continue reading How Many Years Left Until the Hubble Space Telescope Reenters Earth’s Atmosphere?
Alphabet-owned Wing “is expanding its drone delivery service to an additional 150 Walmart stores across the U.S.,” reports Axios:
[T]he future is already here if you live in Dallas — where some Walmart customers order delivery by Wing three time… Continue reading Walmart Announces Drone Delivery, Integration with Google’s AI Chatbot Gemini
Gentoo Linux posted its 2025 project retrospective this week. Some interesting details:
Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories, Gentoo currently considers and plans the migration of our repository mirro… Continue reading Gentoo Linux Plans Migration from GitHub Over ‘Attempts to Force Copilot Usage for Our Repositories’
At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a magnetized needle on a cork in a cup of water. …read more Continue reading A New Kind of Inductively-damped Compass
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget:
If you received a bunch of password reset requests from Instagram recently, you’re not alone. As reported by Malwarebytes, an antivirus software company, there was a data breach revealing the “sen… Continue reading Personal Info on 17.5 Million Users May Have Leaked to Dark Web After 2024 Instagram Breach
“China recently placed a supercritical carbon dioxide power generator into commercial operation,” writes CleanTechnica, “and the announcement was widely framed as a technological breakthrough.”
The system, referred to as Chaotan One, is installed at a… Continue reading China Tests a Supercritical CO2 Generator in Commercial Operation
Remember that re-discovered computer tape with one of the earliest versions of Unix from the early 1970s? This week several local news outlets in Utah reported on the find, with KSL creating a video report with shots of the tape arriving at Silicon Va… Continue reading That Bell Labs ‘Unix’ Tape from 1974: From a Closet to Computing History
Some users encounter the “Hard disk SMART Command Failed” error when they turn on their computer. This error usually occurs when there is a hardware fault in your system. However, sometimes it can be due to loose cable connections or a temp… Continue reading Hard disk SMART Command Failed, Press F1 to Resume
Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode contains the …read more Continue reading The Intel 8087 and Conditional Microcode Tests
Alongside the recently introduced Write and Rewrite features, Microsoft has now added a Summarize feature to the Notepad app. This new feature allows you to quickly transform long pieces of text into short, high-level summaries, making it easier to rev… Continue reading How to use Summarize in Windows 11 Notepad to Enhance Writing with AI