Chris Ahchay is writing a Civ-style strategy game in C for SNK's 1999 handheld: a 64-by-64 world map, three computer rivals, research and specialists. There's no game over yet, so a player who loses every unit and city keeps watching the others take their turns.
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WinRAR, 7-Zip and unzip need room for the archive and everything in it at once. HatchZip, a free open-source extractor, works backward from the end of the archive and truncates the file as it goes, so a 180 GB download that unpacks to 200 GB needs a little over 200 GB instead of 380.
Charles Miller, who worked at Cirrus Technologies in 2001, writes down how Hibernate began: management chose hand-written SQL over Gavin King's persistence idea, everyone went to the bar, and King wrote the first classes the next day before his flight home.
ICANN's measurements caught unnamed ISP resolvers asking three public resolvers the same question, over IPv4 and IPv6, with half the repeats inside 100 milliseconds. Chrome, the old DNS hog, has faded to the noise.
Chris Ahchay is writing a Civ-style strategy game in C for SNK's 1999 handheld: a 64-by-64 world map, three computer rivals, research and specialists. There's no game over yet, so a player who loses every unit and city keeps watching the others take their turns.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
Chris Ahchay is writing a Civ-style strategy game in C for SNK's 1999 handheld: a 64-by-64 world map, three computer rivals, research and specialists. There's no game over yet, so a player who loses every unit and city keeps watching the others take their turns.
Ben Winding's static site restores a pre-booted Windows 95 snapshot in the v86 emulator and streams the Encarta CD 256 KB at a time, with every article reachable by its own URL.
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Ben Winding's static site restores a pre-booted Windows 95 snapshot in the v86 emulator and streams the Encarta CD 256 KB at a time, with every article reachable by its own URL.
A researcher pulled Flock's own device list through an access token its servers handed out without a login, mapped it, and got a cease-and-desist and a 'malicious actor' email to Flock's customers. Proton now runs the map, searchable by ZIP code.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
A researcher pulled Flock's own device list through an access token its servers handed out without a login, mapped it, and got a cease-and-desist and a 'malicious actor' email to Flock's customers. Proton now runs the map, searchable by ZIP code.
WinRAR, 7-Zip and unzip need room for the archive and everything in it at once. HatchZip, a free open-source extractor, works backward from the end of the archive and truncates the file as it goes, so a 180 GB download that unpacks to 200 GB needs a little over 200 GB instead of 380.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
WinRAR, 7-Zip and unzip need room for the archive and everything in it at once. HatchZip, a free open-source extractor, works backward from the end of the archive and truncates the file as it goes, so a 180 GB download that unpacks to 200 GB needs a little over 200 GB instead of 380.
Charles Miller, who worked at Cirrus Technologies in 2001, writes down how Hibernate began: management chose hand-written SQL over Gavin King's persistence idea, everyone went to the bar, and King wrote the first classes the next day before his flight home.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
Charles Miller, who worked at Cirrus Technologies in 2001, writes down how Hibernate began: management chose hand-written SQL over Gavin King's persistence idea, everyone went to the bar, and King wrote the first classes the next day before his flight home.
ICANN's measurements caught unnamed ISP resolvers asking three public resolvers the same question, over IPv4 and IPv6, with half the repeats inside 100 milliseconds. Chrome, the old DNS hog, has faded to the noise.
By Chris PirilloRead the story
ICANN's measurements caught unnamed ISP resolvers asking three public resolvers the same question, over IPv4 and IPv6, with half the repeats inside 100 milliseconds. Chrome, the old DNS hog, has faded to the noise.
Sony had only 500,000 consoles for the launch, weeks behind schedule, and many were already pre-sold before the midnight sales began.
Yahoo shut down GeoCities, the free web host that started in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet and gave the world a lot of under-construction GIFs. Archivists spent the final days racing to save what they could.
A court injunction forced LimeWire to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software after a long fight with the music industry. Its CEO said the company was disappointed, which surprised no one.
It went on sale at 12:01 a.m. local time alongside Windows RT, a version for ARM tablets. Anyone on XP, Vista or 7 could upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99 through January.
Rockstar's western sold over $725 million worldwide in its first three days, which Take-Two called the biggest opening weekend in entertainment history. In 8 days it sold in more units than the original Red Dead Redemption did in 8 years.
2010: A gigabyte of phone data: $12.50 on AT&T's $25, 2 GB plan. Today: $10 on Google Fi's Flexible plan. Sixteen years, $2.50 off.
October's cloud bills: a six-hour Google Cloud outage in London that its SLA prices at a 10% credit you have to ask for, and three developer platforms whose stored customer secrets went to attackers after AI keys.
Raven runs a Windows program's own code on the CPU in a sandbox and answers every system call itself: processes, files, the registry, windows and input. Notepad++ passes its full test, on day-one software its maker won't call an alpha.
In RingRTC before 2.72.0, a local hang-up was one more event at the back of the call's queue. A peer who kept that queue full could stall the teardown. Signal's fix ends calls out of band, with a five-second deadline.
One maker built a laptop-shaped luggable around a $300-class mini PC, a 14-inch screen, an 82-key mechanical keyboard and a trackball made from a loose ball and a gaming-mouse sensor, then powered it from a cordless-drill battery. Four hours on a 4Ah pack, with 20V still left.
A hypervisor on the Zenbook A16 fakes the Apple silicon parts the macOS kernel expects, and a new driver stack draws the desktop on the laptop's Adreno GPU. Every boot still runs from a Mac over USB-C.
One developer rebuilt the Platinum look as its own window manager, file browser, menu bar and control panels, with no Apple code inside. Bring your own ROM and classic Mac OS runs in the built-in emulator, and it still talks AppleTalk to a Power Mac.
Martin Finkel raced VLC's 2007 blur filter against a C# copy inside the same player, on the same frames, with byte-identical output. The language gap shrank to single digits. The algorithm gap did not.
Jared Woodruff's remaster plays the original game files in a browser or a desktop app, redraws more than 3,200 images in HD, and lets one key flip back to the 320-by-200 original at any moment. He credits Claude as his AI coder.
Paste one line and Latch finds your search box, buy buttons, forms and nav, then offers them to AI browsers as WebMCP tools they can call. About 6 KB gzipped, MIT, and it does nothing at all in a browser without WebMCP.
Krebs warned that the Windows USB tool Rufus infects PCs. Its maintainer showed Defender flags the Linux ISO's files as Rufus copies them, and Krebs edited his post the next morning. The Defender logs went with the wiped machine.
Joseph Zhou's homebrew turns the 3DS's two screens into the iPhone Duo's two halves: wiggle-mode icons, a lock screen, book mode on the L button, and a Music widget you drag up past the hinge.
Kunal Kushwaha's Koala gives every agent its own ARM64 kernel, disk and network on Apple silicon, keeps its API keys in the Mac's login keychain, and lets a broker add them only to requests a policy allows.
Data scientist Ayo Omolewa took apart Block Blast on Android and iPhone and published the code: a downloaded rule waits for three good rewarded ads, a loaded ad priced at 3.5 times the last one, and a score 1,000 past your record, then asks for a hand no placement can finish.
Four Ubuntu upgrades, one interrupted hop that left 1,337 packages ahead of systemd, a security claim the agent got wrong, and a local RAG server: a dusty Pavilion now runs with its lid closed and Windows one boot-menu choice away.
A small HEPA purifier sounds like a classic fan-in-a-box sleep machine. Jeff Kaufman ran the numbers: a 34-CFM unit at 45 dB takes a 10x10 room from AQI 200 smoke to about 72.
A one-person web studio in New South Wales built a free, self-hosted dead man's switch: weekly check-ins, next of kin asked first, contacts told at most 13 days after you go quiet. PHP 8.1, no database, MIT.
Red-teamer Dahvid Schloss decoded a Cisco type 7 enable password on a big US pharmacy chain's edge firewall. The hour-long shouting match that followed was really about who got paid.
Dietrich Gebert's Ponytail is one prompt file that makes a coding agent check what already exists before writing anything. His 585-session benchmark says it cut code 53% and cost 26%, and admits where it lost.
