Collaborate Disseminate
Word processors and editors are a funny thing. It doesn’t really matter what’s “best,” whatever that means. If you have finger memory built up for one program, it’s painful to …read more Continue reading WordStar Lives Again (and Again)
This year’s Hugo Award winners were announced last weekend at Worldcon — the world’s longest-running science fiction/fantasy convention. The Orange County Register reports there were fans “clad in capes, gowns and elaborate character costumes,” w… Continue reading 2026 Hugo Award Winners Include Ursula Le Guin-Authored Graphic Novel
[Gadget Industry] bills it as “a PC inside a Mouse“, but that depends on your definition of a “PC”. This is a Personal Computer inside a mouse, yes, but there’s …read more Continue reading There’s Whole Computer Inside This Mouse
Rockstar Games and the mayor of Miami-Dade county are discussing a joint marketing campaign transforming parts of the county to look like areas from Grand Theft Auto 6, reports the blog Rock Paper Shotgun:
The proposed publicity event would include “a… Continue reading To Promote Grand Theft Auto 6, Mayor Might Transform Miami into ‘Vice City’
With the recent release of its GPT-6 Astra model, OpenAI explicitly pushed the claim that it is capable of designing complete circuit boards in KiCad, starting from a provided schematic …read more Continue reading Can AI Now Design PCBs That Just Work?
39 U.S. congressional candidates “reported paying for an OpenAI subscription this election cycle,” writes the Washington Post, citing campaign finance disclosures.
This means the campaigns “are using the technology to court voters — despite lim… Continue reading How US Campaigns Are Already Using AI to Try to Sway Voters
The computer business in 1984 was a bizarre mix of hobby-level companies, a few small companies that had made it big, and a lot of big companies starting to take …read more Continue reading Running Apple ][ Software on a Commodore 64 — Silently
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is now on Bluesky, they announced this week. But “We can’t advocate that you sign up for a Bluesky account like we do with Mastodon or PeerTube since signing up for Bluesky means loading the registration page’s nonfre… Continue reading FSF is Now on Bluesky – But Won’t Advocate Signing Up Due to Nonfree JavaScript
“There are now more seniors in the world than young children,” reports the International Business Times, citing a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau report. And it warns that “The share of the population aged 65 and over is projected to nearly doub… Continue reading The World Now Has More Seniors Than Young People – for the First Time In History
If you are unable to upload PST files to OneDrive, you are not alone. The upload may get stuck, fail with a sync error, or remain on the Preparing to upload screen without making any progress. This usually happens because Outlook is still using the PST… Continue reading Unable to upload PST files to OneDrive [Fix]