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Matrox: Graphics for Professionals

Matrox, founded in 1976 by Lorne Trottier and Branko Matić, quickly became profitable by selling innovative video RAM and display adapters to the burgeoning professional and hobbyist computer markets.

30 Aug19 min read

Ars Technica

Tech

A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

A 12TB "teraleak" of Steam's old server architecture from 2003 to 2013 has revealed over a decade of lost PC gaming history, including cut content from popular titles.

30 Aug6 min read

9to5Google

Tech

Google Maps has renamed ‘Lake America’ for users in the US

Google Maps now displays "Lake America" instead of "Lake Ontario" for users in the United States, following an executive order and an update to the US GNIS.

30 Aug3 min read

The Verge

Tech

Chess.com launched a poker site and is planning even more classic games

Chess.com launched Gambit, a free online poker site, and plans to expand into other classic games like go, backgammon, and mahjong, utilizing AI for development and an Elo-style rating system.

No AI Fridays

A new initiative, No AI Fridays, proposes dedicating one workday per week to working without AI tools to mitigate cognitive debt and maintain critical thinking skills.

monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter

Monty-go provides a pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python interpreter, enabling safe execution of LLM-generated Python code within a sandboxed WebAssembly instance, without containers or CGO.

30 Aug7 min read

The Verge

Tech

China’s robots race ahead

China's second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing featured robots breaking records and experiencing dramatic failures, including losing limbs, catching fire, and toppling over during various events.

30 Aug8 min read

The Verge

Tech

Two new small, powerful Macs

Apple updated its Mac Mini and Mac Studio computers with new M6, M5 Pro, and M5 Ultra chips, increasing starting prices by $100 for the Mac Mini.

FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

FreeCORE, an independent fork of TrueNAS CORE 13.3, continues the system's development on FreeBSD 15 after the original upstream project concluded.

Bug Blindness

A programmer observes that many people overlook common software bugs, suggesting that "bug blindness" is prevalent and can be mitigated by actively pointing out and identifying these issues.

30 Aug26 min read

The Verge

Tech

Vicariously hike the Appalachian in the gorgeous A Trail Tale

A Trail Tale offers an interactive trail journal experience, allowing users to vicariously hike the Appalachian Trail through pixel art and an original score, reminiscent of 90s point-and-click adventures.

29 Aug3 min read

The Verge

Tech

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported

Alt-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos was deported to the UK after overstaying his US visa and failing to appear for an immigration hearing.

Hy4 preview

Tencent released and open-sourced Hy4 preview, a 770B parameter large language model with a 1M token context window, demonstrating strong performance in coding, office work, and scientific research.

Domain-Driven Agents

Large language models struggle with legacy codebases due to technical debt and a lack of shared meaning, but strategic refactoring can prepare code for AI assistance.

Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack

A method for indirectly calling GCC nested functions without an executable stack involves extracting the code address and static chain from a stack-allocated trampoline, then using `__builtin_call_with_static_chain` to invoke the function directly.

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

Debian's general-resolution vote concluded with a decision to permit the responsible use of generative AI tools, neither endorsing nor prohibiting their application in project development.

29 Aug3 min read

TechCrunch

Tech

The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy

The Theragun Sense massage gun offers visually guided routines and personalized recommendations via an AI feature, making everyday muscle recovery and relaxation surprisingly accessible.

I'm teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering

A new 12-week course will teach programmers how to build practical quantum circuits, focusing on the often-overlooked engineering of quantum oracles for real-world applications.

29 Aug3 min read

9to5Google

Tech

Mammotion Luba 3 changed my mind about robot lawnmowers

The Mammotion Luba 3 robot lawnmower uses a NetRTK satellite positioning system and LiDAR, allowing it to operate precisely without physical boundary wires or a separate RTK base station.

29 Aug7 min read

The Verge

Tech

The Galaxy Z Flip 8 is at its best when there’s friction

The Galaxy Z Flip 8's redesigned cover screen now functions more like a full Android phone, allowing users to run any app, despite some apps not scaling perfectly to the smaller display.

29 Aug10 min read

The Verge

Tech

Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters

Musicians are actively identifying and exposing instances of AI-generated music being deceptively presented as human-made art, particularly within the electronic dance music scene.

TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

TurboKV, a new async embedded key-value store in Rust, offers atomic batches, ordered range scans, configurable durability, and compression, leveraging hardware AES for its persisted Bloom-filter format.

StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator

StemDeck offers a free, open-source, and local AI stem separation tool, allowing users to split audio files into up to six stems without accounts or uploads.

Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

An analysis comparing the Sumerian King List's antediluvian reigns with paleoclimate events found no statistically significant alignment, even after exploring various anchors and bandwidths.

28 Aug13 min read

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