Collaborate Disseminate
Until the fall of the Soviet Union around 1990 you’d be forgiven as a proud Soviet citizen for thinking that the USSR’s technology was on par with the decadent West. …read more Continue reading Soviet CDs And CD Players Existed, And They Were Strange
Just six days ago — and 30 minutes after a Disney-OpenAI meeting about a project with Sora — Disney’s team was “blindsided” with the news Sora was being discontinued, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, describing OpenAI’s move … Continue reading Disney Ends $1B OpenAI Investment After Sora’s Surprise Closure. What’s Next?
[Casey Bralla] got his hands on a Rockwell AIM 65 microcomputer, a fantastic example of vintage computing from the late 70s. It sports a full QWERTY keyboard, and a twenty …read more Continue reading Play a .WAV Instead of Typing Line After Line Into Vintage Microcomputer
“Emergency out-of-band fixes issued by enterprise IT giants Microsoft and Oracle have shone a spotlight on issues around both update cycles and patching,” reports Computer Weekly:
Microsoft’s emergency update, KB5085516, addresses an issue that arose… Continue reading Do Emergency Microsoft, Oracle Patches Point to Wider Issues?
It’s one thing to learn about transmission lines in theory, and quite another to watch a voltage pulse bounce off an open connector. [Alpha Phoenix] bridges the gap between knowledge …read more Continue reading Watch Electricity Slosh: Visualizing Impedance Matching
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: ClickFix attacks are ramping up. These attacks have users copy and paste a string to something that can execute a command line — like the Windows Run dialog, or a shell prompt.
But MacRumors reports that mac… Continue reading MacOS 26.4 Adds Warnings For ClickFix Attacks to Its Terminal App
The new Samsung earbuds compete with the flagship Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds 2. Here’s how they stack up. Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2: I tested both, and here’s the winner
[Tommy] at Oskitone has been making hardware synth kits for years, and his designs are always worth checking out. His newest offering Space Dice is an educational kit that is …read more Continue reading Playful ‘Space Dice’ Kit Shows Off Clever Design
It’s FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining packages for NixOS. But “a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight” afte… Continue reading SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification Field, Suggests Installer-Level Disabling
“IBM says its quantum computer can now simulate real magnetic materials and match actual lab experiment results,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, “which is something people have been waiting years to see.”
Instead of just theoretical output, the … Continue reading IBM Quantum Computer Simulates Real Magnetic Materials and Matches Lab Data