Semyon Usachev's bootgpt packs a whole neural network's runtime into the 510 bytes of a PC's master boot record. It loads an 11.5 KB model from the next 23 sectors and prints a Linux boot log for hardware that was never there.
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Semyon Usachev's bootgpt packs a whole neural network's runtime into the 510 bytes of a PC's master boot record. It loads an 11.5 KB model from the next 23 sectors and prints a Linux boot log for hardware that was never there.
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Blaze's Evercade Nexus uses EverSync to beam a game from one cartridge to a second Nexus nearby, no Wi-Fi needed. Nintendo's GameShare already lends games locally; the Nexus does it from a cartridge, for $199.99.
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hop downloads an official Linux ISO, checks it, makes room on your disk and puts the installer on a small partition of its own, so a Windows PC can start Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora or a dozen others without a flash drive. Undo hands the space back.
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Bartek Teodorczyk's kc compiles real Kotlin libraries like kotlinx.coroutines and Ktor in a fraction of a second, against seconds for a warm kotlinc. It's a prototype that skips most of kotlinc's checks, and its README lists exactly what it leaves out.
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Niaz Morshed's reanimate records an animation in a headless browser, rebuilds it in your own code, then films the copy the same way and compares the two, round after round, until timing and easing line up. It works from a live page, a screen recording, a GIF or a Lottie file.
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Bob Bemer, who designed IBM's Stretch character set, says a July 6, 1961 meeting of IBM, SHARE and GUIDE chose the reverse slant so ALGOL's AND and OR could be typed as two characters each; DOS found it a new job 20 years later.
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Westinghouse went on the air with the Harding-Cox election returns at 100 watts, from a shed on a factory roof in East Pittsburgh. Five men kept it going for 18 hours, 6 p.m. to noon.
Robert Morris's worm took down about 6,000 of the roughly 60,000 computers then online. He got three years' probation and 400 hours of community service.
Meta announced it was shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook and deleting more than a billion people's facial recognition templates. Photos would stop recognizing you automatically, whether or not you had enjoyed it.
1977: A megabyte of memory: about $31,000. Today: under a penny. Apple charged $1,340 to take an Apple II from 4K to 48K; Corsair sells 32 GB of DDR4 for $259.99, October 2026.
