Russia’s silence over the death of a lab worker underlines that pandemic preparedness amounts to nothing if information on threats is withheld In pandemic preparedness work, scientists like to focus on the technical challenges: identifying pathogens, diagnosing infections, understanding their effects and developing vaccines and treatments. Each step promises progress...
Roman fort found in Wales could prove myth of emperor’s camp is real
Exclusive: Finds suggest account in medieval folklore of a camp near Frenni Fawr hill was rooted in reality Magnus Maximus, the Roman emperor who ruled Britain in the fourth century, led his troops against the Picts and Scots, but a theory that he also established a military camp near Frenni...
The Atari 800XL is back as a $220 retro machine with a real keyboard, HDMI, and a working cartridge slot
Atari's latest foray into retro gaming is The 800XL, a "faithful" recreation of the original 800XL 8-bit computer first released in November 1983. The 25 built-in games should provide enough thrills for Atari aficionados. The machine also offers wider compatibility and expansion options for both commercial and homebrew Atari software....
Open-source project moves one step closer to letting you run PlayStation 5 games natively on PC
AnyPS5 has successfully decoded the GPU instruction set used by the PS5's "Oberon" SoC, which pairs an 8-core AMD Zen 2 CPU with a custom RDNA 2 GPU. The developers note, however, that only instructions recognized by the decoder were counted, while decoded opcodes absent from AMD's public list were...
Vibe coder brings PS2 game disc support to jailbroken PS5 consoles
PlayStation 2 emulation is alive and well, even on the latest PlayStation 5 models. A vibe-coding enthusiast recently demonstrated the trend by sharing a new PS2-based "experience" that can allegedly run original PlayStation 2 games directly from the PS5's Blu-ray drive. Needless to say, the recently released PS5SX2 emulator largely......
Hackers hit European supermarket refrigeration systems, spoiling food and forcing stores to dump stock
A spokesperson for the supermarket chain told Bloomberg that attackers infiltrated controls for the cooling systems and activated the defrost mode, which heated them to 50 degrees Celsius, or 122 degrees Fahrenheit. Roughly six hours passed before employees noticed. By that time, all of the food in the coolers had...
Police are using AI to locate homes from a single interior photo, and even a picture of a washing machine can be enough
The tool, which is called Raven, is being used by the Los Angeles Police Department and Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office (MDSO), reports 404 Media. Made by a company called Graylark Technologies, Raven had been called GeoSpy before its new home-identification features were added. Read Entire Article
Fugitive businessman taken into US custody in Venezuela bribery case
A businessman wanted in the U.S. for allegedly bribing top Venezuelan officials.
Erie shooter who killed 8 was family’s patriarch, slain toddler’s dad says
The gunman was a grandfather who never seemed distressed, acquaintance says.
Judge orders the Trump administration to cancel taxpayer-funded promotional TV ads
A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to cancel any remaining television commercials paid for with millions of dollars in taxpayer money to promote his political message