2026-03-18

Zip-Drive Emulator Puts Big Disks Back on LPT

Zip-Drive Emulator Puts Big Disks Back on LPT

Iomega’s Zip drives filled an interesting niche back in the 1990s. A magnetic disk that was physically floppy-sized, but much larger in capacity– starting at 100 MB, and reaching 750...

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2026-03-17

Monday Military Quote of the Day from Napoleon: ‘I have fought sixty battles, and I have learned nothing which I did not…’

Monday Military Quote of the Day from Napoleon: ‘I have fought sixty battles, and I have learned nothing which I did not…’

Isaac Seitz, defense columnist and Strategic Intelligence graduate, examines how Napoleon Bonaparte's ego — the same force behind his victories at Austerlitz and his Italian campaigns — ultimately destroyed the...

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78,000 Tons: France’s New PANG Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Has a Message for the U.S. Navy

78,000 Tons: France’s New PANG Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Has a Message for the U.S. Navy

Isaac Seitz, defense columnist and Strategic Intelligence graduate, examines France's Porte-Avions de Nouvelle Génération — Europe's largest warship ever planned. At 310 meters and 78,000 tons displacement, the nuclear-powered PANG...

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B-52J: America’s 74-Year-Old Bomber Is Going Nuclear Again and Getting Rolls-Royce Engines

B-52J: America’s 74-Year-Old Bomber Is Going Nuclear Again and Getting Rolls-Royce Engines

Christian D. Orr, former Air Force Security Forces officer and Pentagon contractor, traces the evolution of the Boeing B-52H Stratofortress — from its 1960 maiden flight and Pratt & Whitney...

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OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that leadership wants OpenAI, the company, to focus. Seems like a plain old business strategy story. Nope! First, in more prosaic terms, the all-hands...

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Subnautica 2 set for early access release in May as Krafton signals surrender: 'We look forward to working with Ted Gill to support a smooth transition and work toward a successful launch'

Subnautica 2 set for early access release in May as Krafton signals surrender: 'We look forward to working with Ted Gill to support a smooth transition and work toward a successful launch'

A judge ruled yesterday that Krafton improperly fired Gill in 2025, and ordered that he be restored as CEO of Unknown Worlds.

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“This is an interactive story about In Vitro...

“This is an interactive story about In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) told from two perspectives: Parent and Child. Select one to continue.”

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Crimson Desert release time in your time zone

Crimson Desert release time in your time zone

Here's when the massive open-world game Crimson Desert releases in different time zones and when you can preload Pearl Abyss's new game.

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Your AI Agents Have Too Much Access. You Just Can't See It Yet

Enterprises spent years not fully solving the access sprawl problem. AI agents just made it move 10x faster. Shadow AI deployments, ungoverned non-human identities, and transitive permission chains are creating...

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2 months ago

Quoting Ken Jin

Great news—we’ve hit our (very modest) performance goals for the CPython JIT over a year early for macOS AArch64, and a few months early for x86_64 Linux. The 3.15 alpha...

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Does the Adam Optimizer Amplify Catastrophic Forgetting?

Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks isn’t just a model problem—it’s heavily influenced by how we train and measure it. This study shows that optimizer choice, especially between SGD and Adam,...

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Makko AI

Make 2D game art and playable games. No drawing. No coding. Discussion | Link

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The Psychopathy Spectrum

The Psychopathy Spectrum

The term “psychopathy” is a mess, so I've written a sequence to tease apart all the different meanings along several dimensions.Article 1: The Problem. An introduction to why it's so...

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LLMs as Giant Lookup-Tables of Shallow Circuits

Early 2026 LLMs in scaffolds, from simple ones such as giving the model access to a scratchpad/"chain of thought" up to MCP servers, skills, and context compaction &c are quite...

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2 months ago

The Mysterious Redditor Who’s Changing the Way We...

The Mysterious Redditor Who’s Changing the Way We Do Laundry. “Most of the world uses powdered laundry detergent, which allows for more enzyme flexibility; Americans generally prefer liquid, which doesn’t...

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What time does Death Stranding 2 release on PC in your time zone?

What time does Death Stranding 2 release on PC in your time zone?

Death Stranding 2 will be released on PC on Thursday, March 19. Here's when it will be available in your time zone.

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Requiem for a Transhuman Timeline

The world was fair, the mountains tall,In Elder Days before the fallOf mighty kings in NargothrondAnd Gondolin, who now beyondThe Western Seas have passed away:The world was fair in Durin's...

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2 months ago

What Happens When You Let AI Write Your Code for a Week?

What happens if developers let AI write their code for an entire week? This article explores real effects on productivity, debugging, workflows, and how it connects to ai software development...

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A Delaware judge ruled that Krafton must reinstate Ted Gill as CEO of Unknown Worlds Entertainment (Subnautica) with full operational authority. The court found that Krafton's CEO used ChatGPT to...

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Grand Theft Auto faces no threat from AI, Take-Two boss says

Grand Theft Auto faces no threat from AI, Take-Two boss says

Generative AI can't make Grand Theft Auto 6, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick says, praising the need for human creativity in making games.

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