Collaborate Disseminate
The KDE desktop’s new login manager (PLM) in the upcoming Plasma 6.6 will mark the first time that KDE requires that the underlying OS uses systemd, if one wishes for …read more Continue reading KDE Binds Itself Tightly to Systemd, Drops Support for Non-Systemd Systems
There are a few possible ways to do a teardown of new electronics like the Apple AirTag 2 tracker, with [electronupdate] opting to go down to the silicon level, with …read more Continue reading Teardown of an Apple AirTag 2 With Die Shots
Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile researchers, this might indeed be the case based on observed patterns …read more Continue reading How Vibe Coding is Killing Open Source
Although generally described as a document format, PDFs have ballooned from a Postscript-lite format into a mutant featuring XML and JavaScript support, basically turning what once was a fairly simple …read more Continue reading Running DOOM and Super Mario 64 Inside a PDF File
Although not intended to be a game console, the CD-i would see a a couple of games released for it that would cement its position in gaming history as the …read more Continue reading Fixing Sony and Philips’ Doomed CD-i Console
Not everyone will write their own optimizing compiler from scratch, but those who do sometimes roll into it during the course of ever-growing project scope creep. People like [Michael Moroz], …read more Continue reading Writing an Optimizing Tensor Compiler from Scratch
Although most of us simultaneously accept the premise that magnets are quite literally everywhere and that few people know how they work, a major problem with magnets today is that …read more Continue reading Rare-Earth-Free Magnets With High Entropy Borides
In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them. Whereas the 6502 used separate circuits for operations, and the …read more Continue reading The Inner Workings of the Intel 8086’s Arithmetic Logic Unit
Over the past years there have appeared in the media increasingly more alarming reports about micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) and the harm that they are causing not only in the …read more Continue reading Did We Overestimate the Potential Harm from Microplastics?
In a recent video [QWZ Labs] demonstrates an interesting technique to use 3D printing to make creating custom PCBs rather straightforward even if all you have is a 3D printer …read more Continue reading Using 3D Printing and Copper Tape to Make PCBs