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Over the past four years, US media, film, and arts industries have lost more than 200,000 jobs, about 50,000 in the last year alone — a downturn as severe as the 2001 and 2008 recessions, but without…
Ryan Walker built a cheap stereo vision board around the Rockchip RV1103, a 1.1 GHz Cortex-A7 SoC with 64 MB RAM and a MIPI CSI-2 bus in a QFN-88 package. The four-layer PCB runs Buildroot Linux, cap…
Google ended support for first- and second-generation Nest Learning Thermostats in October 2025, cutting off app control, remote access, and Google Assistant integration. The devices still work manua…
Wayne, a longtime tinkerer, explains his attraction to Gopher in 2026: it's for people who need to know how tools work, not just use them. He sees his 17-year-old and friends with ADHD seeking refuge…
Argus is a self-hosted, MIT-licensed security operations platform that watches cloud, identity, code and devices around the clock. It detects AI-driven attacks like agent swarms and machine-speed rec…
A self-hosted web interface for location trackers that runs on Apple FindMy, Google Find My Device, and Samsung SmartThings without any vendor-specific hardware. The backend relies on malmeloo's Find…
Lead production in England's Derbyshire Peak District began by the mid-seventh century, with large-scale smelting contaminating the environment around Castleton by the mid-eighth. By analysing lead c…
Researchers at MIT put an LLM agent inside the training loop: it watches gradient statistics, then rewrites the optimizer's source code on the fly. Called OPAL, it matches or beats the best off-the-s…
A user reported that Shift+2 worked on the main keyboard but not the numeric keypad, and only on Windows. Marcin Wichary follows the thread back to IBM's 5251 keyboard, the 1981 IBM PC's Num Lock, an…