2026-08-07
NASA’s Just Prolonged Voyager 2’s Science Mission With a Big Bang
Letting go is hard, especially when it concerns an irreplaceable space probe like the two Voyagers. Fortunately JPL engineers have managed to pull off a ‘big bang’ switch on Voyager...
How to craft an engagement ring in Fields of Mistria
Oh no, when I said he was "endgame" I didn't realize marriage was also very endgame content.
Following its excellent Lord of the Rings cards, Magic: The Gathering's new Hobbit set is a bit of a second breakfast
It's nice to have, but it's more of the same.
Trent Reznor on Doom: 'In some ways I felt a parallel with what I was trying to do with music'
A new range of Nine Inch Nails Quake merch is out.
Jon Bernthal’s 121 Minute 10/10 Neo-Western Thriller Is Officially a Streaming Hit
Jon Bernthal's standout supporting performance is drawing viewers back to an acclaimed 2015 crime thriller.
USS Constellation Was A Supercarrier With a Twist: A US Navy Aircraft Carrier with No Nuclear Power
USS Constellation was decommissioned in August 2003 after 42 years and later sold for scrapping — the fate of most conventionally powered US carriers.
Gurman on OpenAI’s Device: ‘A Doughnut-Shaped Speaker That Costs Over $300’
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (gift link): OpenAI expects users to rely on the smart speaker throughout the day. It will work similarly to the company’s ChatGPT voice mode on...
It Took Three Years and $20 Million to Prepare Essex-Class US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Oriskany for Sinking. She Went Down in 37 Minutes.
Preparing USS Oriskany for the seafloor took years and roughly $20 million. More than 150 workers opened and cleaned over 500 tanks, stripping fuel, oil, asbestos, batteries and the entire...
How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era
AI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem
Boeing’s X-32 Flew 144 Times, Refuelled in the Air, Went Supersonic and Landed Vertically. It Still Lost to the F-35
Boeing's conventional X-32A first flew on 18 September 2000 and completed 66 flights, demonstrating aerial refuelling, weapons-bay operations and supersonic performance. The short-takeoff X-32B added another 78 flights and landed...
Some SHA-256 hashes
These can be checked against a file distributed in the future with 'shasum -a 256 file'.Discuss
One US Navy Battleship or Nearly Eight Destroyers: The Trade the Trump-Class Program Has Never Been Asked to Justify
A modern Arleigh Burke Flight III destroyer costs about $3 billion. At $23.4 billion, USS Defiant represents nearly eight of them. Pursuing the battleship over a sceptical Congress would amount...
Rubidium Frequency Standard Explained
You’ve probably heard of rubidium frequency standards, which are used where you need an extremely accurate time or frequency reference. [IMSAI] guy has a good explainer video about what’s actually...
Resident Evil Meets Papers Please in a Wild New Xbox Game Pass Offering
Quarantine Zone combines the zombie-apocalypse vibes of The Last of Us with bureaucratic drudgery
Ukraine Built the World’s First Drone Branch in 2024 — Putin Just Ordered His Generals to Copy It, Two Years Late
Kyiv stood up the world's first dedicated drone service in 2024. Two years later, the Kremlin is doing the same — while its own ministry reportedly promises Donetsk by New...
Have models report provable security bugs in their environment
AIs are often deployed with limited permissions. They aren't allowed to reach the internet. Are given a limited set of files they can read or write. Aren't supposed to be...
What it took to film with iPhones on ’28 Years Later’
Behind the cinematography with iPhones, drone work and VFX in 28 Years Later. An excerpt from issue #63 of befores & afters magazine. The post What it took to film...
30 years after it 'ruined id Software,' Quake gets another big update while the studio once again grapples with adversity
New levels from MachineGames and archival development material have been added to the id Software classic in a free update.
Devolver Digital wants to get off the stock market, because 'the ongoing challenge of delivering growth in line with market expectations' just isn't worth the headaches
Devolver went public in 2021 and it's not working out.
Rust August Force Wipe Brings New DLC and Major Update
Rust's August force wipe is looking promising with the launch of the Bar Games and Stone Sculpture DLC and new monument changes.
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