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...
Naughty Dog Designer Called Uncharted Development "a Real Hell" Because of PS3 and Attempts to Imitate Gears of War and Tomb Raider
The first Nathan Drake adventure launched in November 2007 and marked a complete reinvention for Naughty Dog: the studio left its cartoonish platformers behind and dove into a cinematic third-person shooter. As it turns out,...
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...
James Gunn responded to accusations of "lack of a unified tone" in the new DCU films and series and pointed out that "it was the same in the comics"
DC Studios boss James Gunn has jumped to the defense of the DCU, pushing back against complaints about tonal whiplash between its various entries. The debate kicked off after the premiere of Lanterns, a show...
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....
Phison's head believes that the shortage of NAND flash memory and the rising cost of SSDs will last another four years
The memory crisis that kicked off in 2025 and already rewrote RAM and SSD price tags worldwide isn't slowing down anytime soon, according to the latest comments from the industry. Phison CEO Pua Khein-Seng laid...
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...
Fallout 4 fan decided to find out if it's possible to meet Virgil at the very beginning of the game – the answer was disappointing
Any open-world game eventually tempts players into an experiment: what if you just sprint straight to the final location? Skip the quest chain, ignore every clue, and head directly for wherever the story would take...
Half of paid games on Steam earned less than $3,600, while the top 1% of the most successful releases brought in 85% of the revenue
A new analysis of 99,206 paid games on Steam shows just how polarized the economics of Valve's platform have become. Half the catalogue has earned less than $3,622 over its entire lifetime, while the top...
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...
Carrier Pidge messenger delivers messages at a speed of 177 km/h, but with a 0.2% chance the pigeon will die en route
Developer Noah Iarrobino released an iOS app called Carrier Pidge that deliberately breaks the one thing modern messengers are supposed to get right – instant delivery. Instead, your text travels to its destination the way...
Microsoft will finally remove from Windows a utility familiar to administrators since Windows XP
Microsoft has confirmed that WMIC will soon disappear completely from supported Windows editions. The news showed up in the changelog for a new Windows 11 Insider Preview build numbered 26100.9267/26200.9267. According to the changelog, WMIC...
Peak hours revealed DeepSeek's user geography
The past few weeks have seen plenty of discussion in the US about the spread of Chinese open-weight AI models, with worries that American businesses might switch to them en masse. But DeepSeek new peak-hour...
Old age in Crusader Kings 3 has become too harsh after recent patches – just like in real life
Reaching old age in Crusader Kings 3 is a questionable pleasure. One moment your character is winning tournaments, weaving plots, and building an empire, and the next you open the character sheet and spot the...
You can live for free in Hawaii if you take care of rescued pigs for 20 hours a week
If you've been dreaming of free accommodation in Hawaii, one pig sanctuary is looking for workers and will put you up for a few months. Seriously. Plenty of people across the globe toy with the...
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...
Rapper Post Malone used the "One Ring" for the first time – the rarest and most expensive Magic: The Gathering card
Post Malone did what collectors everywhere feared – he put a card worth more than two million dollars into an actual game. The card in question is his one-of-a-kind copy of The One Ring from...
Netflix shut down Oxenfree developers just a month and a half after the release of the "very successful game" Unhinged
Netflix confirmed the closure of two of its game studios: Night School Studio and its Helsinki-based Moonloot. The timing makes the news sting even more. Unhinged, the game Night School released on June 30, looked...
The only drawing of Sauron created by Tolkien was "brought to life" using AI
Based on the only surviving sketch of Sauron, drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, someone created a photorealistic reconstruction using AI. Tolkien drew the sketch in 1954 as an early concept of Sauron for The Return...
Gamers unanimously consider the lockpicking skill tree in Skyrim to be the most useless, while the final archery skill is simply broken
Skyrim has a special category of perks that seem designed to waste precious perk points. These are abilities that either duplicate each other or become pointless right around the time a player finally reaches them....
