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Solarpunk is happening in Africa Photos: New Phoenix Microcenter is a 'tech-heaven' for geeks Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025 Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf] Why aren't smart people happier? Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios The Last Literary Lion of New York, Gay Talese Unicode Footguns in Python The shadows lurking in the equations Timing Wheels An eBPF Loophole: Using XDP for Egress Traffic NY smartphone ban has made lunch loud again I want a good parallel language [video] Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video] Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024) Optimism associated with exceptional longevity (2019) Learning from failure to tackle hard problems Apple App Store frontend source code archive SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost Microsoft and Google overstate job creation at Chile data centers30 heise online News
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Digitaler Omnibus: EU-Kommission will Datengesetze zusammenfassen FT: Deutsche Bank sucht Ausweg aus dem Risiko der KI-Finanzierung Copyright vs KI: Londoner Gericht hilft Bildagentur Getty Images nicht Top 10: Der beste Open-Ear-Kopfhörer im Test – Soundcore vor Bose & Shokz Google-KI triumphiert bei Hurrikan-Vorhersagen – US-Modell versagt Digitalfunk-Desaster der Bundeswehr: Millionen für Berater sollen es richten Anschluss an Stromnetze: Halbleiter statt Kupfer im Solid State Transformer heise+ | Gezielt trainieren: Suunto Race 2 im Test Gnome wirft X11-Backend endgültig raus Dia-Browser für den Mac: Ein bisschen Arc Schnellere Züge für Europa: EU-Kommission will Reisezeiten bis 2040 halbieren Arbeitslos wegen KI: Laut einer Studie holen Unternehmen ihre Mitarbeiter zurück Pilze statt Silizium: Shiitake-Myzel zeigt Memristor-Eigenschaften Digitalokratie: Kann Europa die digitale Freiheit zurückgewinnen? Vertrag soll bis Jahresende stehen: Bayern will in die Microsoft-Cloud Thermostat für Fußbodenheizung: Aqara W500 im Test – auch für Home Assistant EU-Länder wollen 90 Prozent weniger Emissionen bis 2040 Arbeitsspeicher: RAM-Preise schießen hoch Wegen Sexpuppen-Skandal: Frankreich will Shein aussperren Bundesregierung will Führerschein bis Ende 2026 aufs Smartphone bringen Mac Studio mit M5 Ultra im kommenden Jahr heise+ | Netzkultur unter der Lupe: Memes entschlüsseln KI-Update: KI-Zentren im Orbit, Huxley-Gödel, Arxiv-AI Slop, KI und Bewusstsein heise meets ... Richard Seidl gewinnt den Deutschen Preis für Software-Qualität Erste Beta von iOS 26.2: Neue Features in vielen Bereichen heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Netzwerkanalyse und Fehlersuche mit Wireshark heise+ | FAQ: Windows-10-Ende aus Hardware-Sicht Rennen um autonomes Fahren: VW baut in China eigene KI-Chips Australien: Reddit und Kick fallen unter Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder Stricken statt Drucken: Maschine strickt feste 3D-Strukturen22 /r/Technology
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Sinclair, Whose ABC Stations Boycotted Jimmy Kimmel, Reports Q3 Revenue Decline of 16% and Swings to Net Loss Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI 72% of game developers say Steam is effectively a PC gaming monopoly | Studios say they can't afford to quit Steam, most of their revenue comes from it The Louvre’s video security password was reportedly ‘Louvre’ "Nobody really wants a data center in their backyard," says Microsoft attorney IBM's 8,000 Layoffs Reveal The Harsh Reality Of The AI Revolution Fox News Fell For AI-Generated Rage Bait, Rewrote Story To Pretend It Didn’t TikTok Users Crushed After Finding Out Viral Retirement Home Residents Dressed Up for Halloween Are Actually AI The FAA is set to start cutting flights to contend with delays and staffing shortages xAI Employees Were Reportedly Compelled to Give Biometric Data to Train Anime Girlfriend The tech industry came for Steam and whiffed so hard that it's had to admit that it didn't even really like making games in the first place | Amazon's New World wouldn't have to die if the company actually wanted to be an MMO developer. Detroit GM Dealership Allegedly Sold Used Cars as New How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2 The IRS' free tax-filing tool reportedly won't be offered in 2026 Comcast, Netflix, And CBS Will All Now Kiss the President’s Ass To Try And Acquire Warner Brothers And CNN New bipartisan bill would require companies to report AI job losses / The data submitted to the Labor Department would include any layoffs, hires, retraining or reduced hiring as a result of AI integration. Post-heist reports reveal the password for the Louvre's video surveillance was 'Louvre,' and suddenly the dumpster-tier opsec of videogame NPCs seems a lot less absurd 'Big Short' Michael Burry bets $1bn on AI bubble bursting DHS offers “disturbing new excuses” to seize kids’ biometric data, civil and digital rights expert says | Sweeping DHS power grab would collect face, iris, voice scans of all immigrants. Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not Global stock markets fall sharply over AI bubble fears An innovative gel that forms a layer over teeth and then recruits calcium and phosphate ions from saliva to build new enamel has the potential to change dental treatment.25 Open Source on Reddit
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The OSI is seeking its next Executive Director, responsible for advancing its mission, growing and diversifying its funding base, and fostering a global, inclusive community of stakeholders. I reverse enginereed an amazing old MMORPG server, and made it the first public open source project for it. AG-UI Protocol: the Agent-User Interaction Protocol. Bring Agents into Frontend Applications Why is everything a SaaS nowadays? Blazingly fast cross-platform reader with clean UI and many features GlobalCVE — OpenSource Unified CVE Data from Around the World ovr v5 - The Streaming Framework Looking for an Event Scheduler TidesDB - A persistent key-value store for fast storage An open-source (GPL-3.0) GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) tracker OpenChessClub - Open-Source Chess Club Management Software What’s the cleanest open-source UI you’ve seen on GitHub? nyno-lang can mix Python, JavaScript and PHP extensions for high-performing multi-language (AI) workflows - using the best of each language - sharing context via TCP. Built a CDP-powered desktop app to intercept HTTP and inspect browser memory — Wirebrowser Timeconverter: A minimal, ad-free timezone converter (GPL-3.0) Good-looking UI docs template ? I wrote zigit, a tiny C program to download GitHub repos at lightning speed using aria2c The Advancement: an open distributed overlay network for eCommerce and other things Does having a contribution to an open-source project help you to get a job? A heatmap diff viewer for code reviews Contribute to Open Source Video corruption after hibernation A journey of 4+ years to reach the 100th GitHub release of our open-source observability platform Protect Your Open-Source Project Before It's Too Late: A Legal Horror Story Looking for contributions on my open source project23 /r/space: news, articles and discussion
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All Space Questions thread for week of November 02, 2025 These cosmic outbursts normally last for minutes. This one went on for hours—and nobody knows why Trump reverses course to renominate billionaire Musk ally to lead Nasa A Japanese astronomer captured a pair of objects slamming into the lunar surface in recent days. China's Shenzhou-20 crewed spacecraft has delayed its return mission to Earth after the vessel was hit by space debris At what speed would a spacecraft theoretically start experiencing any meaningful friction in space? IFT-12 may take place in January, Booster 18 (first V3 booster) will rollout to Pad-2 within the next few weeks for testing. Ageing stars likely destroy their closest planets Workers fear NASA is quietly gutting the iconic home of Hubble and Webb. The agency says it’s strategically closing buildings Sentinel-1D is launched on Ariane 6 Star-eating black hole unleashes most energetic flare ever seen emanating from a supermassive black hole, apparently caused when this celestial beast shredded and swallowed a huge star that strayed too close. Polish made ramp for Marsian rover tested successfully. Jupiter 20 Years ago today on Nov. 5, 1996 by NASA's Galileo orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Jared Isaacman re-nominated for the next Administrator of NASA Repeated Asteroid Impacts Could Regenerate Exoplanet Atmospheres Around Red Dwarfs, Per New Study | Being tidally locked, the nightside of such Goldilocks zone planets accumulate frozen volatiles, that could be re-vaporized by impacts and re-establish the planet's atmosphere Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA-JPL is not updating this website. Super Hunter’s Moon – 2025’s brightest full moon – on November 5-6 Is the Andromeda Galaxy in a cosmic void? Interactive Astronomy Visualizations [OC] Fly through the solar neighbourhood: a 3D star atlas in your browser (20LY) Experts explain the "space oven" on Chinese Space Station - an advanced, specially designed air fryer Jared Isaacman provides summary of his plan for NASA that was in the leaked document (text in comments) Google Eyes Space-Based Data Centers With 'Project Suncatcher'21 Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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The latest Peak update does in fact see the forest for the trees with its fungus and bug-filled woods Miss the Knight from OG Hollow Knight? There's a Silksong mod that'll solve your little bug blues Forget about those real leaves you have to deal this autumn with Leaf Blower Co, which arrives later this month The Sims 4 gets a laundry list of much needed, community-voted fixes to get the game back in ship shape again Arc Raiders could get map conditions that alter the friction, for truly Tribes-esque sliding If your PC is too puny to launch Europa Universalis 5, there's a secret very low graphics preset Ditch any Fallout 4 mods which mess with the main menu ahead of its anniversary edition update, Bethesda warn I love the green fingers of Generation Exile, a solarpunk city-builder from ex-Far Cry and Firewatch devs, but it does feel quite messy The Steam Deck now lets you do low-power, screen-off downloads, finally Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod Path to Menzoberranzan's now targeting a first playable alpha release in the first half of 2026 Glittering, gut-churning FPS Hyper Demon gets a free standalone 1v1 multiplayer release on Steam Your Wreckfest 2 ride merely adopted the rust and dents; mine had its scuffage moulded by the new CRAP-IT tool Arc Raiders review Sorry our servers fell over, say Arc Raiders devs, here's some free virtual cash and a rucksack Civilization 7's nautically-themed 1.3.0 update arrives today, delivers "significant buffs" to popular civs Pillars of Eternity's turn-based mode arrives in open beta this week, and draws on lessons from Deadfire Former World of Warcraft designer Greg Street's MMO Ghost is no more, as NetEase shuts down yet another studio Lethal Company's dev talks his relationship with horror, and the Zork roots of his latest game Stop Killing Games' UK petition has been debated in parliament: "The law works, but companies may need to communicate better" Following layoffs at Heart Machine, Possessor(s)' narrative director makes a case for still picking it up The Sims 2 lead designer on the importance of the series' diversity: "It’s a medium of self-expression"23 PC Gaming
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Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - November 04, 2025 What Are You Playing Thread - November 03, 2025 Kingdom Come: Deliverance lead says Obsidian should use its Microsoft fortune to make games more like Kingdom Come: Deliverance—'Give me something more than... level grinding in a static scripted world' Redditors painstakingly measure Battlefield maps to prove BF6's biggest battlefield is only the 26th largest map since Battlefield 3 ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Says Fired Employees Were Leaking Information Football Manager 26 Now Has 'Mostly Negative' Reviews on Steam Sonic Rumble launches on Steam to Negative Reviews due to pay-to-win skins and monetisation Obsidian Knows Whenever It Announces a New Game Everyone Asks About Fallout: New Vegas 2, but It Loves Making Original IP and Sequels to Them - Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return Special Edition on Steam Dispatch, the acclaimed superhero workplace comedy from a group of former Telltale Games veterans, has already sold over 1 million copies. Monster Train 2 - Echoes from the Void update is available now I Finally Released Outside the Blocks: My Realistic & Advanced Diorama-Building Game (Made Solo, Tried to Reach AA Visuals) 'In a true RPG, you need to think about what is happening': RPGs have been coddling us, says Outer Worlds 2 director, who's glad to see games like Baldur's Gate 3 let players make mistakes Crabs Must Die! - Launch Trailer Strange Seed, a mutation between Spore, Soulslikes and old classics, is launching right now ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge | VGC 72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study 'The return of baby driver': The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is Dark Quest 4 - Official Launch Trailer Starfinder Afterlight 2e CRPG is the most backed Kickstarter game of 2025 and will pay for full professional voice acting. Every NPC and sidequest aswell Steam Deck :: Display-Off Downloads Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 PC specs confirm stricter security and handheld focus HUGE blow to Nintendo: head of U.S. patent office takes RARE step to order reexamination of “summon subcharacter and let it fight in 1 of 2 modes” patent27 Formula 1
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2025 Mexico City GP - Day After Debrief Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread William’s special Livery for 2025 Sao Paulo Grand Prix McLaren would take 2007 repeat over favouring one driver Formula E and FIA unveil the all-new GEN4 Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel collided during the 2019 Brazil Grand Prix, forcing both to retire from the race Mercedes' poster for the Brazilian Grand Prix 'Lost for words': Motorsport legend Bruce McLaren's grave vandalised. Chasing F1 dream: Mahaveer Raghunathan on journey, overcoming trolls and GT glory ‘Driven by Words’: Gulf Oil International Ltd and Atlassian Williams Racing unveil new livery inspired by fans Ferrari poster for the 2025 São Paulo GP Carlos Sainz | Passenger Princess | F1 drivers teach me to drive Racing Bulls poster for the 2025 São Paulo Grand Prix Ex-F1 racer and touring car champion Andrea de Adamich dies aged 84 Former F1 driver for Ferrari and McLaren Andrea de Adamich died today Yuki Tsunoda, who landed in Brazil, got lost at the airport because no one came to pick him up! Press Conference Schedule - 2025 São Paulo GP Sauber poster for the 2025 São Paulo GP [josh revell] The Fall and Rise of Robert Kubica Ex-F1 Engineer Modelled 2026 Cars (what's really going on) Esteban Ocon’s special helmet for the 2025 Brazilian Grand Prix Williams teasing a new Gulf Livery. More informations tomorrow Stella & Brown: McLaren’s Transformation & Drivers’ Championship | F1 Beyond The Grid Podcast Can Formula E's faster new car turn F1 drivers' heads? OTD in 2012: Kimi Räikkönen wins the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The first win since his return to F1 and the first win for Lotus since the 1987 Detroit Grand Prix. Current development won't harm Red Bull's 2026 chances - Mekies What would your ideal calendar look like?25 programming
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Please Implement This Simple SLO By the power of grayscale! Optimizing filtered vector queries from tens of seconds to single-digit milliseconds in PostgreSQL Cj: a tiny no-deps JIT in C for x86-64 and ARM64 SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python I’ve indexed all Strange Loop conference talks so you can use semantic search to find relevant videos Autark: Rethinking build systems – Integrate, Don’t Outsource How to Become a Resourceful Engineer Disassembling Terabytes of Random Data with Zig and Capstone to Prove a Point An underqualified reading list about the transformer architecture Building a highly-available web service without a database Ruby And Its Neighbors: Smalltalk Introducing pg_lake: Integrate Your Data Lakehouse with Postgres Git History Graph Command Linux Troubleshooting: The Hidden Stories Behind CPU, Memory, and I/O Metrics Fluent Visitors: revisiting a classic design pattern Benchmarking the cost of Java's EnumSet - A Second Look Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl Hacking with AI SASTs: An overview of 'AI Security Engineers' / 'LLM Security Scanners' for Penetration Testers and Security Teams Many-to-Many Relations with 'through' in Django nyno-lang can mix Python, JavaScript and PHP extensions for high-performing multi-language (AI) workflows - using the best of each language - sharing context via TCP. Voxel Grid Visibility Breaking down JetBrains’ complex AI agent strategy my thoughts on vibe coding as a university student Creating a PostgreSQL extension from scratch20 Ars Technica - All content
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Musk and Trump both went to Penn—now hacked by someone sympathetic to their cause 83-year-old man married 50 years nearly stumps doctors with surprise STI 5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected DHS offers “disturbing new excuses” to seize kids’ biometric data, expert says New quantum hardware puts the mechanics in quantum mechanics YouTube TV’s Disney blackout reminds users that they don’t own what they stream Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras If you want to satiate AI’s hunger for power, Google suggests going to space Google settlement with Epic caps Play Store fees, boosts other Android app stores How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2 Tesla’s European and Chinese customers are staying away in droves Why being too attractive can hurt fitness influencers So long, Assistant—Gemini is taking over Google Maps “So much more menacing”: Formula E’s new Gen4 car breaks cover Space junk may have struck a Chinese crew ship in low-Earth orbit In a stunning comeback, Jared Isaacman is renominated to lead NASA FDA described as “clown show” amid latest scandal; top drug regulator is out Google’s new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season New HDR10+ Advanced standard will try to fix the soap opera effect US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents20 Science – Ars Technica
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New quantum hardware puts the mechanics in quantum mechanics If you want to satiate AI’s hunger for power, Google suggests going to space Space junk may have struck a Chinese crew ship in low-Earth orbit Google’s new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season Some stinkbugs’ legs carry a mobile fungal garden Disruption to science will last longer than the US government shutdown Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane Wear marks suggest Neanderthals made ocher crayons New study settles 40-year debate: Nanotyrannus is a new species Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US The chemistry behind that pricey cup of civet coffee NASA races to keep Artemis II on schedule, even when workers aren’t being paid Westinghouse is claiming a nuclear deal would see $80B of new reactors Melissa strikes Jamaica, tied as most powerful Atlantic storm to come ashore Why imperfection could be key to Turing patterns in nature Melissa set to be the strongest hurricane to ever strike Jamaica Whale and dolphin migrations are being disrupted by climate change Clinical trial of a technique that could give everyone the best antibodies Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing20 Gaming – Ars Technica
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After confusing driver release, AMD says old GPUs are still actively supported CS2 item market loses nearly $2B in value overnight due to “trade up” update Roberta Williams’ The Colonel’s Bequest was a different type of adventure game Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code ROG Xbox Ally X: The Ars Technica review AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline It’s time for game developers to bring back the cheat code Rubik’s Cube gets a $299 update, complete with IPS screens and its own apps Rally Arcade Classics is a fun ’90s-throwback racing game Hands-on with Fallout 76’s next expansion: Yep, it has Walton Goggins EA will be a very different company under private ownership Fortnite disables Peacemaker emote that might resemble a swastika It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in $55 billion deal 30 years later, I’m still obliterating planets in Master of Orion II—and you can, too Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion Asus’ new ROG Xbox Ally X set to break the bank at $999.99 Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December Meet the first person to own over 40,000 paid Steam games Baby Steps is the most gloriously frustrating game I’ve ever struggled through Google Play is getting a Gemini-powered AI Sidekick to help you in games16 OSnews
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A lost IBM PC/AT model? Analyzing a newfound old BIOS The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: getting two processors to share the same memory bluetui and restterm: two beautiful TUI applications Sculpt OS 25.10 released Debian to add hard Rust dependency to APT Microsoft breaks Task Manager in Windows 11, hard Configuring cwm on OpenBSD V7 pwd, converted to modern POSIX systems AMD to enter ARM market with new “Sound Wave” APU Removing obfuscation in Minecraft: Java Edition How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base? OpenIndiana 2025.10 released Windows to automatically suggest a memory scan after a blue screen Python Software Foundation has bigger spine than big tech I’d like to speak to the Bellcore ManaGeR The Linux boot process: from power button to kernel15 Slashdot
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72% of Game Developers Say Steam Is Effectively a PC Gaming Monopoly Gemini AI To Transform Google Maps Into a More Conversational Experience New Bipartisan Bill Would Require Companies To Report AI Job Losses 43% of Gen Z Prefer YouTube and TikTok To Traditional TV and Streaming Danish Authorities In Rush To Close Security Loophole In Chinese Electric Buses T-Mobile Brings Free 911 Emergency Texting To AT&T and Verizon Customers Windows 11 Store Gets Ninite-Style Multi-App Installer Feature Smartphone Maker Nothing Retreats on Bloatware After User Backlash Solar Geoengineering in Wrong Hands Could Wreak Climate Havoc, Scientists Warn Deutsche Bank Explores Hedges For Data Centre Exposure as AI Lending Booms China Bans Foreign AI Chips From State-Funded Data Centres Epic and Google Settle Antitrust Case With Global Fee Cuts and Easier Third-Party Store Access Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again World Economic Forum Chief Warns of Three Possible 'Bubbles' in Global Economy Europe's Self-Driving Cars Aren't Even at the Starting Line