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Amazon is funding an undisclosed portion of an Indiana nuclear project led by X-energy, whose 12 Xe-100 small modular reactors are intended to produce 960 megawatts for the grid. Amazon would be the first buyer. The sche…
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Yeo Kheng Meng has extended Windows 98 through Windows 7 with USB3.0 drivers and experimental USB4.0/Thunderbolt support. Windows 98 reaches about 200 MB/s, constrained by its 64kB USB transfer limit. The project also co…
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An Error'd roundup from The Daily WTF collects five small interface failures. A TikTok page turns scrolling into a stack of nested bars. Word reacts badly to dragged table cells. Southwest loses sight of bag scans. Strip…
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Raymond Chen traced WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN to the Windows 95 era, when 32-bit Windows expanded windows.h and compilation was painfully slow. The macro restored a smaller header set, saving about three seconds per C file on …
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Philip Zimmermann’s 1991 essay, revised in 1999, argues that ordinary people need strong encryption because electronic communications made routine surveillance cheap. It links PGP’s release to U.S. proposals involving Se…
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Original Ferranti engineering files for Sinclair’s 8-bit machines have resurfaced after decades in private hands. The material covers the ZX81, Spectrum, ZX printer, Microdrive, Interface 1 and a flat-screen TV. Sky, whi…
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Steve Allen’s historical page plots ΔT against Earth rotation. Other figures cover atomic and relativistic time scales. The material explains why UTC became a hybrid system and warns that removing leap seconds would sepa…
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Swedish developer Aaron Ardiri has released about one gigabyte of Palm OS development material from personal backups dating back more than 25 years. A pull request for his Lemmings code revealed that enthusiasts still im…
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antirez’s c64-hw-sim reproduces every chip and connection on a Commodore 64 ASSY 250407 board, so users can inject hardware faults without risking vintage equipment. Cycle-accurate models cover the processor and CIAs. Th…
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Bo Made It’s InkBoy runs emulated Game Boy games at 30 frames per second with four gray shades on a stock 1.54-inch Waveshare ESP32-S3 e-paper board. His custom driver raises performance from the original 3.33 fps and ma…
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Remy Porter links two security failures. Denmark’s CPR database exposed personal data for 8.8 million people after a third-party account used “123456”. A separate supply-chain attack hid a microcontroller and cellular mo…
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Oxide Computer Company’s Voxel turns a Helios machine into a software model of a complete Oxide rack. The Rust and illumos stack runs Omicron, Propolis sled VMs, P4 switching, network topologies, and emulated service pro…
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A new browser project recreates the look of Apple's first iPhone, released in 2007. Its skeuomorphic interface and old proportions are convincing, but the emulation remains partial. Calculator works, but Contacts is unre…
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Comedian Graham Dot Zip let his AI representative, Victor, handle an interview with an AI recruiter. Victor misstated his qualifications and offered a salary of about $60,000, while Graham wanted $140,000 to $150,000. Th…
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Lobsters’ historical channel links to a YouTube video about KDE’s history. The supplied entry contains no synopsis, speakers, release date, runtime, or technical details beyond the video link. That leaves the software pr…
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The General Conference on Weights and Measures is expected to approve a new UTC tolerance that would take effect on 20 May 2027. The allowed gap between UTC and Earth-rotation time UT1 would expand from 0.9 seconds to on…
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A C++ developer made virtual inheritance a blanket safety rule and applied it to a class declared `final`. In multiple inheritance, the feature prevents the diamond problem by ensuring that a shared base class appears on…
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This historical YouTube video covers three computer architectures: Intel iAPX 432, Inmos Transputer, and AT&T CRISP. It groups them under the broad idea of radical design, making the topic gloriously niche even by comput…
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Christopher Drum revisits Lotus Improv on a NeXTstation Turbo running NeXTSTEP 3.3. The 1990-era spreadsheet replaced cell coordinates with named dimensions, live views and conflict-aware formulas, foreshadowing modern p…
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Remy Porter examines a C++ codebase where Animal::StealTentacle uses runtime checks to restrict behavior to Octopus and Squid. A macro first forces pointers through Organism before calling dynamic_cast, and callers then …
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Ken Shirriff traced a ceramic Harris IC marked F1-10-5 to the HF-10, a 1985 implementation of National Semiconductor’s MF10. Microscope images reveal 72 matched polysilicon capacitors, CMOS clock switches, six op-amps, a…
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Robert G. discovered a concurrency bug in a train operator’s booking system after a disrupted journey forced him onto another service. The app and confirmation email assigned him and another passenger the same seat, with…
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Microsoft’s presentation of the Surface Laptop Ultra included an accidental product rename: a slide about ports labelled the range “Surace.” Pavan Davuluri was presenting the machine when the typo appeared on screen for …
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The 2008 Nintendo DSi gets a peculiar second career through RNDS-Stream, a homebrew project by gavff64. A Linux PC sends an MJPEG view of an X11 or xWayland window to the handheld at roughly 15 to 20 FPS. Counterstrike w…
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Artmuseum.artfrompixels.com turns art-history material from Wikipedia into a navigable 3D museum. Visitors move along a timeline, select periods or artists, and enter galleries showing related works. The site covers move…
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Remy Porter examines a Java example meant to teach a junior developer how to accept A or B from standard input. The senior developer wraps one character in Optional and routes it through nested maps and Map.Entry objects…
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A retrocomputing project by Levente Szabadkai reconstructs the Commodore 64 keyboard lettering from photographs and publishes it as a vector font on GitHub. The uppercase-only package also covers punctuation, PETSCII gly…
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AnyPS5 is an open-source project that relinks PS5 executables for Linux and Windows and supplies replacement system PRX libraries for dynamic linking. Its status page reports the share of functions it knows from its decl…
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Alan C. Kay’s 1993 history follows Smalltalk from 1960s research to the Xerox PARC systems that shaped personal computing. It connects the language’s object model with the Burroughs 220, B5000, Sketchpad, Simula, LISP, F…
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Remy Porter revisits DJ’s first paid web project, written when he was 19. To choose a banner record, the PHP code scans every row, records the largest ID, rolls random numbers until one exists, then builds a SQL query by…