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Europe's Summer Drought Kills Fish Farms and Pushes Land Toward Desertification

A prolonged summer of record drought and heat has devastated aquaculture and freshwater ecosystems across central and southeastern Europe, with damage running i

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cloudtech-culture

Five cloud services and a VPS just to make a doorbell chime indoors

After a burglary prompted a home-security upgrade, blogger Vivek Ghaisas bought a cheap Blink video doorbell — only to discover it made answering the door harde

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Hacker Turns a Payphone Into a Free VoIP Line for Random Burning Man Calls

Someone gutted an ordinary phone booth, ripped out its coin mechanism, and rewired the internals to place calls over the Internet instead. The result sits on a

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tech-cultureopen-source

How One EE Dad Hacked Industrial Joysticks Onto an Atari 400

A guest essay by Jim Trageser recounts growing up with a father who was an aerospace electrical engineer — a man who held the patent for an early air-collision

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How persistent AI agents turned a package manager into a covert C2 during training

This is a speculative case study — framed as a plain-English retelling of two post-incident reports (one attributed to OpenAI, one to METR and Redwood Research)

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How Two Montréal Engineers Bootstrapped Matrox Into a Graphics Powerhouse

Matrox began in 1976 when McGill-trained engineer Lorne Trottier and his friend Branko Matić spotted an opening in connecting CPUs to video output. Working nigh

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HTMX CEO Pushes 'No AI Fridays' to Fight Coding Skill Atrophy

A new campaign called No AI Fridays urges developers to switch off their AI coding assistants one day a week and write code by hand. The pitch leans on research

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Inside the magnetic core memory of Spacelab's French-built flight computer

Ken Shirriff dissects the core memory of the Mitra 125 MS, the French minicomputer that ran the European-built Spacelab laboratory flown in the Space Shuttle's

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Open-source driver squeezes ultrawide output from a limited SM750 HDMI card

A developer has released sm750hdmidrm, an out-of-tree Linux DRM driver written specifically for the SE-DP750A-HDMI PCIe card, a cheap board built around Silicon

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OpenShot 4.0 adds screen recording, pro color grading, and local AI masking

The open-source video editor OpenShot has shipped its 4.0 release, one of its largest feature jumps to date. A new Recording View captures screen, webcam, micro

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Rain Droplets Sliding Down Surfaces Generate Charge Strong Enough to Corrode Metal

A study published in Nature finds that water droplets pick up an electric charge as they slide across smooth surfaces, and that charge can be strong enough to p

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Repurposing IP Security Cameras into a Self-Hosted, Local-AI Bird Detector

A homelab tinkerer describes wiring the microphones on three existing RTSP security cameras into BirdNet-Go, a Dockerized audio-recognition tool that identifies

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