11-year-old fossil collector became the world's youngest museum curator – he opened it at just 9 years old
Eleven-year-old Anderson Taylor from Cambridge, Illinois, now holds the Guinness World Record for youngest male museum curator. He received the award plaque last month, though the record itself dates back to August 8, 2024. At...
Developer used Claude to write a macOS driver and got an HP printer, designed only for Windows, to work
HP Laser series printers use a closed protocol that limits printing to Windows machines only. One owner of this hardware found a workaround by having Anthropic Claude write a macOS driver for him. The printer...
Simulation of a billion atoms showed that tungsten in fusion reactors degrades faster than predicted
Physicists at the University of Helsinki ran large-scale numerical simulations and found that tungsten, the leading candidate for the plasma-facing wall of tokamak fusion reactors, degrades under neutron radiation considerably more than earlier calculations suggested....
China Prematurely Removes Windows 10 in Government Agencies – Special OS Version Retires a Year Ahead of Schedule
China's Ministry of State Security has told a number of state-linked organizations to remove a customized version of Windows 10 from their computers. Bloomberg reports this, citing people familiar with the matter. The order accelerates...
Open-source library turns any area on the map into a poster
Developer Marcelo Prates has released prettymaps, an open-source library that turns any patch of map into a styled poster. Just type in a place name or coordinates, and the code pulls geometry from OpenStreetMap and...
SpaceX closed a $60 billion deal and officially acquired the AI startup Cursor
Cursor, the startup known for its AI coding tool, is now officially under SpaceX control. The companies announced the deal back in June, but the process of coming together actually started in April, when they...
Swiss engineers create ultrasonic engine for future silent microdrones
A research team from the Microbiorobotic Systems Laboratory (MICROBS) at Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) unveiled a "sound-powered engine" that turns acoustic waves into directional thrust. At its core is a 3D-printed cavity...
Every sixth 3D model is created by AI, but almost no one buys them
3D asset marketplaces are dealing with a flood of AI-generated content that almost nobody wants to buy. The annual CGTrader report, one of the longest running marketplaces for 3D models, reveals a gap between how...
Wire vs. air – experts continue to debate why wired internet is better than Wi-Fi
Renovating a new house can mean a lot of things, but running gigabit Ethernet to every single room before the furniture even shows up puts you in a different league entirely. One Redditor described spending...
Engineer in Taiwan hid a panoramic camera in a pack of snacks to steal DRAM technology, but he was given away by a Wi-Fi signal
Trying to smuggle trade secrets out of a locked-down factory zone using an action camera disguised as a bag of snacks failed for the most mundane reason imaginable – the employee forgot to turn off...
YouTube tightens monetization requirements – newcomers will need twice as many views
YouTube might be turning into a less rewarding platform for creators just starting out. The platform announced updated monetization rules for its Partner Program, and the news isn't great for newcomers. Qualifying for the program...
Claude tried to prove the Riemann Hypothesis and made a new mathematical discovery
Prime numbers don't follow a regular pattern, but mathematicians can measure how closely their distribution follows a predictable average. The Riemann zeta function, an infinite mathematical expression, is a key tool in that work because...
Gamer lowered laptop processor temperature by 15°C by simply changing the desk surface
The constrained internal space of gaming laptops leaves little room for effective cooling. That leaves owners of these machines searching for various mods and experimenting with thermal paste replacement and undervolting. One gamer found an...
Enthusiast turned a mini-PC into a fully passively cooled mini-server and retained 95 percent of performance
A Korean tech enthusiast running the YouTube channel Reeal Lab turned a Geekom A8 Max mini PC into a completely silent server, swapping out the stock active cooling for a passive heatsink pulled from a...
Millennial generation is absolutely dissatisfied with zoomers who don't want to understand technology and the simplest technologies
Technology has gotten so user-friendly that an entire generation grew up without ever looking under the hood, let alone accidentally deleting the System32 folder from Windows. Phones turn on by themselves, apps update themselves, and...
21-year-old student from Berlin created a radar detector for ticket inspectors and received 55 thousand messages
Berlin transport operator BVG has criticized FreiFahren, an app that shows real-time fare inspection locations on the subway and city rail network. The operator responded to the app, stating that helping people ride without a...
Researcher created a leaderboard of the slowest x86 instructions – record of 198 billion cycles in 62 seconds
Instruction latency analysis usually helps figure out how long low-level commands take to run on a processor, with the goal of optimizing either the architecture itself or applications built for specific hardware. Hardware researcher Christopher...
Inventor created a "real-life home screen" for physical game discs
Nothing beats the feeling of owning physical games, but a digital library on a home screen has its own perks. Being able to instantly flick through box art and pick a title with a controller...
RAM prices have rolled back to 2007 levels – AI destroyed 20 years of progress in a matter of months
Software performance expert, scientist, and GitHub developer Daniel Lemire compared historical computer memory prices and showed that decades of falling prices were undone in just a matter of months because of the massive demand for...
Programmer created a GIF image that prints its exact copy using the Piet Quine technique
Champion coder Yusuke Endoh continues to show off esoteric programming skills on social media. Their latest creation is called a Piet Quine, a GIF image that prints itself. In other words, the GIF is both...
