A records request revealed that Google's Lincoln data center consumed 52.65 megawatts of peak electricity and 13.299 megagallons of water annually, quantities made visible through inadequate redaction in reports filed with Nebraska regulators.
Read full article →GPUVis is a MIT-licensed tool created by Valve Software that visualizes GPU traces, combining Dear ImGui with several open-source libraries to provide an interactive timeline of GPU scheduler activity.
Read full article →RemoveMacAI is an open-source command-line tool that turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27, deletes its downloaded models, and blocks them from being re-downloaded, using a configuration profile and Apple's own asset service. The changes are fully reversible, but the tool also disables a broad range of features that rely on those models. The tool's documentation is the sole factual basis for this article; it does not quantify how much disk space is reclaimed, and it does not explain Apple's product reasoning for the design it works around.
Read full article →The Video Game History Foundation's digital archive has exceeded 5,000 magazines and nearly 600,000 pages, and has begun offering research access to Japanese-language publications starting with Neo Geo Freak, complete with OCR and English indexing.
Read full article →During a 2026 artist residency in Glashütte, Saxony — a German town whose name is legally protected in watchmaking — Niklas Roy built a working pendulum clock from trash and objects he found around town. Driven by a paint-can weight, regulated by a paperclip-and-anchor escapement, and fitted with a glass-bottle gong and a random "NOW or NEVER" wheel, the clock runs for roughly half an hour. Roy measured its timekeeping with a smartphone and found each second averaged 1.004 seconds, about 0.4% fast, and video documentation of the clock was archived on the Internet Archive.
Read full article →SCM (Screen Memories) is an open-source macOS application that provides deep AI-powered search capabilities for personal photo and video libraries. The tool runs entirely on the user's machine, enabling searches by natural language description, exact video moments, visible text in images, and spoken dialogue without requiring internet connectivity or cloud services.
Read full article →Strata, an open-source inference engine, runs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next — a 125-billion-parameter model — on consumer gaming PCs with 12GB or more of VRAM, at roughly 50 to over 100 tokens per second depending on the card and the model's compression level, with nothing leaving the local machine.
Read full article →Documents obtained by the campaign group Rights & Security International show that a Home Office-linked unit, the Prevent Standards and Compliance Unit, has been recording people who criticize the UK's Prevent counter-extremism program online. Between March 2024 and February 2025 it made 77 "observations"—mostly from X, but also from Reddit, mainstream media, and posts about groups including Hope Not Hate and the Open Rights Group—and stored them internally as "open-source complaints." What the unit does with the files afterward remains undisclosed.
Read full article →A Gadget Review article examines whether Apple's "clean design" philosophy, taken to the extent of hiding fire extinguishers behind unmarked panels, creates potentially noncompliant installations. The piece outlines OSHA and NFPA regulatory requirements for visible, labeled, and accessible extinguishers, explains why concealment without effective identification endangers occupants during emergencies, and notes that a coordinated, labeled cabinet need not compromise aesthetics. The article attributes a reportedly circulating Apple installation example to third-party circulation while emphasizing that no official Apple statement or verified primary image has surfaced to confirm the specifics.
Read full article →An interview with Tim Conners, former lead propulsion engineer on NASA's SR‑71 program, reveals NASA's secret work to restore tail number 844, the challenges of reviving the aircraft after 27 years of dormancy, and the possibility of using the airframe as a high‑speed engine test bed.
Read full article →Amazon has introduced a completely redesigned Kindle family, featuring thinner and lighter devices with a flush-front display, edge-to-edge color across the lineup, improved battery life, and faster book opening, alongside new accessories and updated Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft models.
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aboutamazon.comA test of three leading AI agents—Meta's Muse, Anthropic's Claude, and OpenAI's GPT—on updating World Bank country profiles for the US and Iran revealed significant disparities in how they handle language barriers, source access, and safety guards, with markedly weaker performance on Iranian government sources despite fluent Farsi output.
Read full article →A photographer discovered that years of taking bench photographs revealed an archive of evolving hostile architecture in public seating, demonstrating how consistent creative practice builds a body of work that can reveal patterns invisible during the act of creation.
Read full article →Current AI agent memory systems based on retrieval-augmented generation fail because they treat past conversations as authoritative truth without context. The solution is document-based memory: giving agents a structured workspace of Markdown files they consult before work and update after work, changing the agentic loop from prompt→build→forget to prompt→consult→build→update.
Read full article →Jagex revealed that a new RuneScape MMORPG, tentatively called RS4, is in early development using Unreal Engine, set in the world of Gielinor starting in Ashenfall, and will coexist with existing RuneScape titles.
Read full article →David Robinson, who led safety reporting for OpenAI's product releases, quit the company warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms are not being careful enough in developing powerful AI systems, pointing to incidents like autonomous agents attacking Hugging Face and calling for industry-wide cultural reform.
Read full article →Despite years of advocacy for using built-in browser APIs, many developers still reach for libraries or build custom solutions. Drawing from personal experience, the author examines historical, practical, and psychological reasons behind this tendency, including browser compatibility challenges, familiarity with ecosystems, documentation disparities, enjoyment of building from scratch, and gaps in platform understanding. The article concludes that while platform expertise leads to more elegant solutions, the act of building things oneself offers valuable learning and satisfaction.
Read full article →A recent article challenges the popular narrative that trade careers offer AI-proof, six-figure salaries as alternatives to expensive college educations, examining the actual earnings, risks, and realities of working in skilled trades like electrical work.
Read full article →Valve's Timur Kristóf has spent the past year improving the AMDGPU kernel driver to support older AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics cards, enabling better Linux gaming performance and functionality by transitioning users from the legacy Radeon driver to the modern AMDGPU stack.
Read full article →As coding agents and personal agents lower the barrier to launching costly cloud workloads, unexpected usage spikes can lead to surprise bills. Hard budget caps—automatic cutoffs after a set spend—are needed as a default protection, with users able to opt out. Recent introductions of spending limits by AWS and Google Cloud show the industry moving toward this model, though soft warning‑only caps remain insufficient.
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