Category: Technology

Building one meant understanding what a chimney actually does, which isn't quite what the forum posts assume. Hot air rising is just convection, and it happens around anything warm. A chimney works because that rising air is trapped inside a tall channel, so as it climbs it drags cool air......

A flaw in Coldcard's firmware has put the spotlight on a basic part of wallet security: how the device generates its seed in the first place. The issue came into focus after an attacker drained 1,196 Bitcoin addresses on July 30 in a 41-minute stretch, taking 1,082.65 BTC worth about......

Patch notes that the system needs a way to properly identify these low-power cores in user space, since they currently show up as "unknown" in the CPU topology. Read Entire Article

David Vernet, a Linux kernel hacker at Meta, recently unveiled a series of new patches for the open source kernel. He explained that the code is designed to cut down on stuttering and frame-time spikes on AMD APU-based gaming handhelds, thanks to a new operating mode added to the amd-pstate......

The Game Industry Hardship Fund bundle is live on itch.io through August 13. The collection currently includes more than 100 indie titles, along with a few soundtracks, assets, and other materials, all for just $10. Read Entire Article

That distinction is key. Traditional infrared imaging systems rely on detectors that capture a broad range of wavelengths but don't preserve much detail about them, so the output is typically rendered as brightness differences in a single color, often green. Effective as that is, it doesn't take advantage of how......

In a statement, James said Kalshi violates New York's anti-gambling laws, which are designed to protect minors from betting and combat gambling addiction in adults. "No matter what they call themselves, prediction markets like Kalshi are gambling platforms, plain and simple," she said, adding that Kalshi's actions are harming the......

Police in Roseville, California, found that, out of 1,427 incidents in which the town's AI-powered license-plate cameras flagged a vehicle as stolen or used in a felony, the cameras misread the plate in 71% of cases. Read Entire Article

A Brazilian creative studio called Seneda & Abrucio has teamed up with Playtype, a Copenhagen-based type foundry, to build something that doesn't rely on asking nicely to keep crawlers away. They call it ShieldFont, and it's essentially a free, open-source web font with a twist. It works by showing you......

Reuters sources claim that Intel is entering into a secret agreement with RosaicLabs Inc., a company incorporated in Delaware just a couple of months ago. The agreement covers the register-transfer level (RTL) code for Intel's Atom CPUs, although we don't have any specific clues about which generation of Atom chips......