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DOS Zone: Browser-Based Archive of Classic DOS Games Runs on js-dos
DOS Zone is a free, ad-free web portal that streams thousands of classic MS-DOS, early Windows, and IBM PC titles directly in the browser via the js-dos emulato
Flipper One: an open ARM Linux platform built in public, and a call for help
Flipper Devices is unveiling Flipper One, a project distinct from Flipper Zero rather than a successor. Where the Zero handles offline point-to-point protocols
Flipper One Specs Surface: RK3576 SoC, 8GB RAM, M.2 Slot, Dual Gigabit Ethernet
Flipper Devices has published preliminary technical specifications for the Flipper One, a substantial hardware leap from the original Flipper Zero. The device p
Google injects Gemini-powered ads into AI Mode search results
Google is rolling out new ad formats that embed sponsored content directly into its AI-driven Search experience. Conversational Discovery ads will generate tail
Gödel at 95: What Incompleteness Still Means for Math, Logic and Physics
Kurt Gödel's 1931 incompleteness theorems proved that any formal mathematical system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove,
Homer's Iliad Found in Roman-Era Egyptian Tomb as Cultural Passport to Afterlife
Archaeologists working a 1,600-year-old Roman-era tomb in Al Bahnasa, Egypt have recovered papyrus fragments of Homer's Iliad buried alongside a mummy — specifi
How McCarthy-era paranoia handed China its rocket program
Qian Xuesen helped found Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was among the most consequential aerospace engineers in mid-century America, with deep access t
Indexing a year of video locally with Gemma 4 31B on a 2021 MacBook
A developer splitting his year between Kenya's Maasai Mara and software work faced the same problem every videographer hits: an archive of raw footage growing f
Inkwell iOS app stuck in App Review limbo over a dead Apple trademark
Manton Reece submitted Inkwell, the iOS companion app to Micro.blog, to Apple on April 21st and a month later is still trapped in review. He's worked through a
Interactive Gaia-based star map plots the route from Project Hail Mary
A developer built a browser-based stellar navigation chart that traces the fictional voyage of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary against real astrometric data from
Intuit Cuts 3,000 Jobs in AI Pivot Despite Profitable Quarter
Intuit is eliminating roughly 17% of its workforce — about 3,000 employees — as CEO Sasan Goodarzi pushes the TurboTax and QuickBooks maker to restructure aroun
Knuth's 1980 Treatise on Designing the Letter S
Donald Knuth's 1980 paper examines one of typography's most stubborn design problems: rendering the letter S so it looks balanced to the human eye. The piece gr