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...
Korean probe Danuri took the first images of the Falcon 9 stage impact site on the Moon
Earlier this week, it emerged that the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket had crashed into the surface of the moon. The collision wasn't considered massive, but the four-ton stage reportedly slammed into...
New York resident receives children's letters for Spider-Man – he owns the superhero's real house
A New York resident who shares an address with Spider-Man has revealed that kids send letters to the superhero – and he actually receives them. Plenty of superheroes have headquarters and homes in real cities,...
Unity reported its best quarter in history thanks to the success of the Vector AI platform
Unity called its latest financial results the best in its history as a public company. CEO Matt Bromberg credited the growth in overall revenue and Grow Solutions revenue to the ongoing success of the Unity...
Claude Opus 5 deleted the entire developer profile during a backup and replied "Sorry, typo"
A developer using Claude Code shared a serious mistake their AI tool made, one that ended up wiping an entire drive. According to Ecstatic-Big5126, they had asked Opus 5 to back up their system. While...
Gamer used AI Claude to create free protection for RTX 5090 from power connector melting
Many owners of NVIDIA top-end graphics cards live in fear of the high-density 12 4-pin connector that powers their GPUs. This connector has shown questionable reliability compared to older PCI Express connectors, largely due to...
An enthusiast spent $900 and combined 90 graphics cards to decrypt a lost Final Fantasy 7 spin-off
A lost piece of the Final Fantasy VII universe is playable again after an expensive and painstaking restoration effort. As first reported by Wccftech, hacker and game preservation specialist Yuvi brought Dirge of Cerberus Lost...
The internet recalled the only sketch of Sauron created by Tolkien himself
With news about season three of "The Rings of Power" making rounds, people online are pointing out that the only sketch of Sauron ever drawn by Tolkien himself looks a lot less demonic than most...
18-year-old teenager from Florida broke a 306-year-old record and became the youngest professor in history
Most people in their late teens are still figuring out what they want to study in college. One teenager skipped that step entirely and jumped straight to teaching, setting a record along the way. For...
PC owner gathered cables into one bundle using several dozen zip ties and got a spine inside the case
Two shots of the back panel of an ASUS ROG case show cable management taken to its absolute limit. The first photo shows the starting point – cables are already bundled, but the harnesses still...
Fallout creator explained using Tolkien as an example why audiences reject new ideas because of the creator's name
Tim Cain, one of the creators of Fallout and the creator of Arcanum, posted a video on his YouTube channel asking a question he doesn't have an answer to himself. Can a developer with thirty...
Enthusiast hacked a laptop's BIOS using Claude Code and unlocked 55 hidden settings
Laptops with locked BIOS sometimes sell for low prices because of the restrictions that this kind of firmware protection creates. A user of the Claude AI shared the process that let them successfully unlock an...
George Martin wrote in his blog for the first time in six months about 9 nominations for Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
George R.R. Martin published a post titled "Better Late Than Never" on August 3, marking his first personal entry on Not a Blog since February 19. Everything posted on the site in between came from...
Developer built an app for cursed photos using a 2007 algorithm and attracted millions of views
A developer going by measure_plan showed off a content-aware scaling tool built, in his own words, for "cursed photo editing." A post featuring warped portraits spread across social media, and beta access requests flooded in...
Chinese scientists have created a night vision device with full-color imaging instead of green
Researchers at Beijing Institute of Technology have built a prototype that turns infrared light into full-color images. This approach to night vision goes beyond the usual monochrome displays. The system relies on mercury telluride quantum...
Total Solar Eclipse 2026 – Where is the Best Place to Watch
The total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026, is shaping up to be a big deal for astronomy fans. It's the first total solar eclipse since 2024, and it happens to line up with the...
Fallout 4 fan walked the Freedom Trail in real Boston and was amazed at how meticulously Bethesda recreated the city in the game
A good video game can do more than fill a couple of evenings – sometimes it sends you out into the real world with a map in hand. Virtual walks through ruins occasionally turn into...
SpaceXAI agreed to dismantle 69 illegal gas turbines from one of its data centers, but it will take a whole year to do so
SpaceX has promised to fully remove unpermitted gas turbines powering the SpaceXAI data centers near Memphis, Tennessee, by July 2027. TechCrunch first spotted the company statement. The 69 turbines sparked a lawsuit from the NAACP,...
