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Moongate is modern Ultima Online server built from scratch in C# with AOT compilation for high performance and nostalgic gameplay experience. - moongate-community/moongate

Experience the engineering behind today’s leading health wearables including Oura Ring, Dexcom G7, Omnipod, and Jabra Hearing Aids. Industrial CT scans reveal how these devices merge medical precision with consumer design.

The screeching of peeling tape is a familiar albeit annoying sound. However, despite decades of study, its source has remained elusive. Herein we demonstrate that this sound is produced by a discrete train of weak shocks emanating from the fine fractures…

In this post I’m going to cover a neat technique for rendering regions of fog with varying density. I’ll start by covering some of the basic principles behind fog rendering and a few co…

Brutal numbers for US tech sector jobs released today—overall, employment decreased by 12k last month and is down 57k over the last year

That's now nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020…

CBP told Judge Richard Eaton that the technology upgrades it plans would save more than 4 million man-hours in processing refunds for Trump's tariffs.

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It's been awhile! The last release was almost two years ago. In the intervening time, the Xous ecosystem has sprouted a custom chip, fabricated in TSMC 22 nm and made explicitly for the purpose of running Xous.

Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command.

It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards.

Automated snapshots were gone too.

In the newsletter, I wrote the full…

Chips and Cheese has an excellent deep dive into Arm’s latest core design, and I have thoughts.

How does a particle accelerator help us understand ants like never before?

Astra: an open-source observatory control software. - ppp-one/astra

Evidence compiled by CNN suggests that the United States military was responsible for the strike on an elementary school in southern Iran that killed scores of children, in what is the deadliest incident of civilian casualties in the US and Israel’s almost…

$50 million comes as a grant from the World Bank’s International Development Association.

OBLITERATE THE CHAINS THAT BIND YOU. Contribute to elder-plinius/OBLITERATUS development by creating an account on GitHub.

An 80-year-old German man lived every book lovers fantasy! Over his lifetime, this recluse collected and stored over 70k books in a hidden library! And did we mention, he didn’t tell anyone about it?