While Jannik Sinner’s duopoly with Carlos Alcaraz looks unbreakable, Aryna Sabalenka is dominating despite a more competitive women’s top 10 “No, I think it’s all an individual sport,” Jannik Sinner says, chuckling quietly, as he reflects on another triumphant fortnight at the Miami Open after his efficient win over Jiri...
Eddie Howe faces seven-game test to secure Newcastle job for next season
Chief executive says he has no ‘stance on Howe’s future’ David Hopkinson ‘expects great run to end of the season’ Eddie Howe has seven games to reassure Newcastle’s hierarchy that he remains the right manager to lead the club into next season. Newcastle sit 12th in the Premier League and...
Does going to the moon still matter? – podcast
If all goes to plan, Artemis II, Nasa’s mission to return humans to the moon, will launch this week. The mission will mark the farthest that humans have travelled from Earth, and the first return to the moon in more than 50 years. It will also pave the way for...
‘This was the real thing’: Meet the woman who alerts the world when an asteroid could hit
Aarti Holla-Maini of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs is primed to spot a potential planetary strike – and a year ago, she thought the moment had come The UN official had trained for this moment. She had run drills and table-top exercises at her offices in Vienna, housed...
Doom now runs over DNS, loading from nearly 2,000 text records
A recently released port of Doom can load into memory from Cloudflare without ever writing files to the disc. The project encodes the iconic first-person shooter's shareware version into 1,964 DNS TXT records, which boot the game via a PowerShell command. Read Entire Article
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II studio axes human translator in favor of AI
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II will most likely be Warhorse Studios' last game to receive a human translation. According to a recent post by a Czech translator, the Prague-based studio is switching to LLM-based machine translations for future projects. Fans are far from thrilled as the studio's co-founder seems intent on......
Price spike hits Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus a week after launch, but value proposition remains
The Core Ultra 5 250KF Plus, Core Ultra 5 250K Plus, and Core Ultra 7 270K Plus are selling well above MSRP on Newegg, Microcenter, B&H, Amazon, and other online retailers. For example, the 270K Plus is currently listed at $350 on Newegg, $50 above its official $300 MSRP, while......
Hackers are using fake coding jobs to spread malware through GitHub
The malware at the center of it, dubbed Omnistealer by investigators, uses public blockchains not just for payments, but as part of the delivery system itself. Once running, it digs through a victim's machine and pulls out almost everything of value. Read Entire Article
It was 1995, 15-inch 800×600 monitors were the norm, what kind of monitor did John Carmack use to code Quake?
Pentium 133MHz days! Read Entire Article
Robots just installed 100 MW of solar panels in the desert
According to Maximo, its Version 3.0 robots now enable crews to install solar panels at rates previously impossible by human teams alone. Workers using the robots have been able to place as many as 24 photovoltaic modules per hour per person, supported by machines that assemble panels at a rate......