IT News 4 months ago

Junk is the new punk: Why we're falling back in love with retro tech - It was a simpler time It's 2025 and the latest mega-album has just been released – on cas... -

Why the UK is falling back in love with retro 90s tech

: It was a simpler time

IT News 4 months ago

How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters - The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in January 2025 left an indelible ma... -

MIT Technology Review

How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters

Lidar data allows the identification of more subtle consequences of a disaster, including fault line shifts, volcanic eruptions, and mudslides.

#climatechangeandenergy #app

IT News 4 months ago

30 Years of Satellite Data Confirm Predictions from Early Models of Sea Level Rise - "The ultimate test of climate projections is to compare them with what has played ... -

30 Years of Satellite Data Confirm Predictions from Early Models of Sea Level Rise - Slashdot

"The ultimate test of climate projections is to compare them with what has played out..." says earth sciences professor Torbjörn T&oum...

#earth

IT News 4 months ago

Lucky user finds 6TB of free SSD storage while dumpster diving — finder plans to use the six 1TB Samsung 850 Pro SSDs to download entire Steam library - Samsung 850 Pro SSDs may be old, but they’re still quite he... -

Tom

Lucky user finds 6TB of free SSD storage while dumpster diving — finder plans to use the six 1TB Samsung 850 Pro SSDs to download entire Steam library

Who would say no to free storage?

#pccomponents #storage #ssds

IT News 4 months ago

Japanese city pushes two-hour daily smartphone limit to promote healthier sleep for its citizens, particularly school-age children - A city in central Japan is considering regulating smartphon... -

Tom

Japanese city pushes two-hour daily smartphone limit to promote healthier sleep for its citizens, particularly school-age children

Toyoake in Aichi Prefecture seeks to pass this ordinance soon, though it will be non-binding and without penalty.

#phones

IT News 4 months ago

VirtualBox 7.2 fixes flaky 3D guests and adds Arm-on-Arm support - Oracle-backed FOSS hypervisor a worthy rival to Hyper-V and VMware hands on  VirtualBox 7... -

VirtualBox 7.2 fixes 3D guests, adds Arm-on-Arm support

hands on: Oracle-backed FOSS hypervisor a worthy rival to Hyper-V and VMware

IT News 4 months ago

LibreOffice 25.8 Slams the Door On Windows 7 and 8.x - BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: LibreOffice 25.8 has landed, and whil... -

LibreOffice 25.8 Slams the Door On Windows 7 and 8.x - Slashdot

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: LibreOffice 25.8 has landed, and while it packs in new features and speed improvements, the biggest he...

#windows

IT News 4 months ago

DirectX speeds up game loads up to 10X with new advanced shader compiling — feature debuts with Xbox PC app on ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X, more devices later - Microsoft moves shader compilation to the cloud, delivering... -

Tom

DirectX speeds up game loads up to 10X with new advanced shader compiling — feature debuts with Xbox PC app on ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X, more devices later

Advanced shader delivery will cut initial game loading time by as much as 85%.

#videogames #pcgaming

IT News 4 months ago

CME Group and FanDuel partner for event contracts platform - Derivatives marketplace CME Group and gaming company FanDuel announced a new partn... -

CME Group and FanDuel partner for event contracts platform

#gambling

IT News 4 months ago

Microsoft makes MCP in Visual Studio GA but researchers warn of risks - Compositional risk from multiple MCP Servers highlighted by report Microsoft has declared... -

MCP in Visual Studio is GA but researchers warn of risks

: Compositional risk from multiple MCP Servers highlighted by report

IT News 4 months ago

On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop - Oleh Kovalskyy thinks that Starlink terminals are built as if someone assembled t... -

MIT Technology Review

On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop

Elon Musk's satellite internet service has been absolutely critical to the country's defense. But staying connected through war relies on innovatio...

#featuresandinvestigations #thebigstory #culture #app

IT News 4 months ago

Trump Confirms US Is Seeking 10% Stake In Intel - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After the Trump administrat... -

Trump Confirms US Is Seeking 10% Stake In Intel - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After the Trump administration confirmed a rumor that the US is planning to buy a 10 percent...

#intel

IT News 4 months ago

Windows Power Users Frustrated as Microsoft Forces Automatic App Updates - Microsoft has removed the ability to disable automatic app updates in the Microsof... -

Windows Power Users Frustrated as Microsoft Forces Automatic App Updates - Slashdot

Microsoft has removed the ability to disable automatic app updates in the Microsoft Store, according to screenshots from Deskmodder.de. Windows use...

#microsoft

IT News 4 months ago

CLEAR to launch biometric ‘eGates’ at Seattle airport to speed security in time for World Cup - CLEAR eGates match a traveler’s facial image with their identity document and boa... -

GeekWire

CLEAR to launch biometric ‘eGates’ at Seattle airport to speed security in time for World Cup

CLEAR eGates match a traveler’s facial image with their identity document and boarding pass. (CLEAR Photo) Security company CLEAR is partnering w...

#seattle-tacomainternationalairport #sea-tacairport #travel #clear #tech

IT News 4 months ago

How Laser Headlights Died In The US - Automotive headlights started out burning acetylene, before regular electric light... -

Hackaday

How Laser Headlights Died In The US

Automotive headlights started out burning acetylene, before regular electric lightbulbs made them obsolete. In due time, halogen bulbs took over, b...

#hackadaycolumns #laserheadlights #headlights #regulation #mischacks #phosphor #fmvss

IT News 4 months ago

Did you Recently Buy a Used E.V.? We Want to Hear from You. - The prices of used electric cars have fallen sharply in recent months, making them a more... -

Did You Recently Buy a Used E.V.? We Want to Hear From You.

The prices of used electric cars have fallen sharply in recent months, making them a more attractive option.

#electricandhybridvehicles #prices(faresfeesandrates) #internal-reader-callout #contenttype:service #unitedstates #automobiles #usedcars

IT News 4 months ago

A Linux alternative? Debian/Hurd shows microkernel Unix dream is alive - The official GNU microkernel is still breathing – and now it's 64-bit Before Linux, GNU w... -

New Debian/Hurd follows closely behind new Debian Linux

: The official GNU microkernel is still breathing – and now it's 64-bit

IT News 4 months ago

More Game Workers at Microsoft's 'Blizzard' Join a Union - This week workers on Blizzard's "Story and Franchise Development" team "strongly v... -

More Game Workers at Microsoft

This week workers on Blizzard

#microsoft

IT News 4 months ago

A Second Chance for the Single Wheel Monorail? - Lately, this peculiar little single wheel monorail came to our attention. Built by... -

Hackaday

A Second Chance For The Single Wheel Monorail?

Lately, this peculiar little single wheel monorail came to our attention. Built by [extraglide1976], all from Meccano. His build started with modes...

#transportationhacks #locomotive #gyroscope #toyhacks #monorail #brennan #meccano #gimbal #track #train #gyro

IT News 4 months ago

Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline - Who knew zero-days could be so useful to highway speedsters? The lingering effects of a c... -

Dutch prosecution service attack keeps speed cameras offline

: Who knew zero-days could be so useful to highway speedsters?