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:apple: A much faster Mac on a Microcontroller.

Emulating older computers on microcontrollers has been a staple of retrocomputing for many years now, with most 8-bit and some 16-bit machines available on Atmel, ARM or ESP32 platforms. But there’s always been a horsepower limit, a point beyond which a microcontroller is no longer enough, and a “proper” computer is needed.

⁉️One of those barriers now appears to have been broken, as microcontroller-based emulation moves into the 32-bit era. [Amcchord] has the Basilisk II emulator ported to the ESP32-P4 platform, providing a 68040 Mac able to run OS8.1. This early-1990s-spec machine might not seem like much in 2026, but it represents a major step forward.⁉️

https://github.com/amcchord/M5Tab-Macintosh

#apple #classic #macos #esp32 #engineering #media #retrocomputing #tech #news

:freebsd: FreeBSD 15 with KDE and Wayland on a Laptop.

More and more people discover that FreeBSD’s desktop/laptop support keeps improving rapidly. FreeBSD 15 really feels like a breakthrough release.

⁉️With KDE Plasma 6.x, you can leave legacy X11 behind and use Wayland on FreeBSD now, and support for Intel Wi-Fi chips has greatly expanded. Apparently, battery life has improved as well, which is one of the hardest problems to solve for an operating system, especially with the wide variety of hardware combinations in the x86 world.⁉️

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-15-probably-will-include-kde-as-de-installtion-option.98635/

👾It’s always been my favorite operating system for servers, but with the arrival of pkgbase, massive improvements to the LinuxKPI drivers, and the launch of the Laptop Support and Usability Project, it’s become my primary desktop, too.👾

https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/show/pkgbase

https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxKPI

https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop

#freebsd #kde #os #tech #media #news

:amigacheck: Amiga Programming with AmiBlitz.

Having owned an Amiga microcomputer is apparently a little bit like having shaken hands with Shoggoth: no one can escape unchanged from the experience.

⁉️Thirty-two years on, [Neil] at The Retro Collective remains haunted by the memories — specifically, the memory of BlitzBasic 2, an Amiga-specific programming language he never found the time to use. What better time to make a game for the Amiga than the year 2026 of the common era?⁉️

https://github.com/AmiBlitz

#amiga #basic #programming #retrocomputing #tech #media #news

:raspberrypi: SSH over USB on a Raspberry Pi.

Setting up access to a headless Raspberry Pi is one of those tasks that should take a few minutes, but for some reason always seems to take much longer. The most common method is to configure Wi-Fi access and an SSH service on the Pi before starting it, which can go wrong in many different ways. I’ve, for example, recently spent a few hours failing to set up a headless Pi on a network secured with Protected EAP, and was eventually driven to using SSH over Bluetooth.

⁉️This could thankfully soon be a thing of the past, as [Paul Oberosler] developed a package for SSH over USB, which is included in the latest versions of Raspberry Pi OS.⁉️

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/usb-gadget-mode-in-raspberry-pi-os-ssh-over-usb/

#raspberrypi #engineering #media #tech #news

:raspberrypi: Putting KDE on Raspberry Pi OS simpler than expected.

Raspberry Pi boards are no longer constrained – these days, you can get a quad-core board with 8 or 16GB of RAM to go around, equip it with a heatsink, and get a decently comfortable shop/desk/kitchen computer with GPIOs, cameras, speedy networking, maybe even NVMe and all the wireless you’d expect.

⁉️In case you ever idly wondered about giving your speedy Pi a better UI, [Luc]/[lucstechblog] wants to remind you that setting up KDE on your Raspberry OS install is dead simple and requires only about a dozen commandline steps.⁉️

https://lucstechblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/raspberry-os-bookworm-with-kde-desktop.html

#kde #raspberrypi #os #tech #media #news

:meowheadphones: Playing YouTube from the Command Line.

Generally, one opens a web browser or an app to use YouTube. However, if you’re looking to just listen to the audio, you can actually do that right from the terminal. You just need Shellbeats from [lalo-space].

https://shellbeats.com/

#shellbeats #youtube #commandline #terminal #audio #music #player #downloader #web #tech #media #news

:apple_inc: Homebrew 6.0 released with new Security Mechanism, Linux Sandbox and more.

The Homebrew team has released version 6.0 of this popular open-source package manager for macOS and Linux, with a new mechanism for trusting packages and support for sandboxing on Linux, to align with existing sandboxing on macOS.

https://brew.sh/2026/06/11/homebrew-6.0.0/

Homebrew 6.0 introduces tap trust, a "tap" being a collection of formulae, casks [a package of pre-compiled binaries] and commands which usually reside in a Git repository. The tool trusts official Homebrew taps by default, but requires an explicit agreement before it will trust third-party taps [which can include arbitrary Ruby code] before they install or run any code.

https://docs.brew.sh/Tap-Trust

#apple #macos #linux #homebrew #security #privacy #tech #media #news

Disney’s Bipedal, BDX-Series Droid gets the DIY Treatment.

[Antoine Pirrone] & [Grégoire Passault] are making a DIY miniature re-imagining of Disney’s BDX droid design, and while it’s still early, there is definitely a lot of progress to see. Known as the Open Duck Mini v2 and coming in at a little over 40 cm tall, the project is expected to have a total cost of around 400$.

https://github.com/apirrone/Open_Duck_Mini

#diy #robotics #raspberrypi #engineering #tech #media #news

WhatsApp says it blocked Pegasus Spyware Campaign linked to NSO.

The new action follows a major legal win for WhatsApp and parent company Meta in their long running case against NSO. The court had already barred NSO from targeting WhatsApp or its users after finding that the company violated federal and state hacking laws in connection with a 2019 attack on roughly 1,400 users.

This time, WhatsApp says the activity did not rely on a unknown WhatsApp vulnerability. The company said it investigated user reports and found spear phishing efforts that tried to push people toward malicious external websites. In plain terms, the aim was to get a person to click a link outside WhatsApp, a method similar to earlier one click campaigns associated with NSO.

⁉️In a press release, WhatsApp said it also found and removed test accounts and groups created on its platform. The company has published three domains it says were used in the activity so researchers, companies and users can check whether they were contacted through WhatsApp, text message, email or another channel.⁉️

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/fighting-spyware-an-update-from-whatsapp/

#whatsapp #security #privacy #media #infosec #tech #news

Building a Metal 3D Printer with a Laser Welder.

The development of cheaper, more powerful lasers has always been a cause for excitement among hackers, and fiber lasers are no exception. One of the newer tools they’ve enabled is the laser welder, which can be used to weld, cut through metal or clean off surfaces. Or, as [Cranktown City] demonstrated, you can use one to build a metal 3D printer.

https://youtu.be/dG639pDfDKw

#3dprinting #diy #engineering #media #tech #news

Mastodon 4.6 RC adds Collections, full API endpoints & ActivityPub Upgrades.

Mastodon has released the first release candidate for version 4.6, adding Collections, profile updates, API changes and several Fediverse protocol improvements ahead of the final release. Collections let users create public, curated lists of recommended accounts, with names, descriptions, topics and language settings to help with account discovery and onboarding.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4-6-for-devs/

#mastodon #fediverse #activitypub #tech #media #news

Lego Typewriter writes Plastic Letters.

Some time ago, Lego released a beautiful [and somewhat pricey] typewriter set that was modeled after one used by company founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen. To the disappointment of some, it doesn’t actually work — you can’t really write a letter with it. [Koenkun Bricks] decided to rectify this with their own functional design.

https://youtu.be/ZIWTSkCVxjk

#lego #engineering #media #tech #maker #news

🚀Fly your own Moon Mission — with the virtual Apollo Guidance Computer Emulator.

The Apollo spacecraft used for lunar missions in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s was really two different spacecraft, the Command Module [CM] and the Lunar Module [LM].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_command_and_service_module

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module

⁉️The CM was used to get the three astronauts to the moon, and back again. The LM was used to land two of the astronauts on the moon while the third astronaut remained in the CM, in orbit around the moon.⁉️

https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/

#apollo #guidance #computer #emulator #space #tech #history #retrocomputing #spacecraft #science #media #news

TMS9900-based Home Brew Computer.

[Usagi Electric] is known for minicomputers, but in a recent video, he shows off his TMS9900-based homebrew computer. The TMS9900 CPU was an early 16-bit CPU famously used in the old TI-99/4A computer, but as the video points out, it wasn’t put to particularly good use in the TI-99/4A because its RAM was hidden behind an inefficient interface and it didn’t leverage its 16-bit address space.

https://youtu.be/OUp0VRuMVCA

#16bit #homebrew #retrocomputing #media #retro #tech #engineering #news

:apple_inc: Apple sends Lock Screen Alerts to Outdated iPhones over Active Web-Based Exploits.

Apple is now sending Lock Screen notifications to iPhones and iPads running older versions of iOS and iPadOS to alert users of web-based attacks and urge them to install the update. The development was first reported by MacRumors.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/27/critical-security-alerts-sent-to-ios-17-iphones/

⁉️"Apple is aware of attacks targeting out-of-date iOS software, including the version on your iPhone. Install this critical update to protect your iPhone," the notification issued by Apple reads.⁉️

Apple also introduced a security feature in macOS Tahoe 26.4 that blocks pasting and executing potentially harmful commands in Terminal and alerts users to possible risks.

👾The new mechanism appears to be aimed primarily at blocking ClickFix attacks and has been reported by macOS users since the release candidate version of the operating system.👾

http://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/1rywb2x/woah_woah_the_rc_version_of_macos_tahoe_264/

#apple #security #privacy #media #infosec #tech #news

:apple_inc: Amos Stealer targets macOS Keychain Files and Browser Passwords.

Amos Stealer, an information-stealing malware, is targeting Apple Mac computers to steal private data, according to new details from IT-Security research firm CyberProof. Threat actors are, reportedly, actively using this malware family to run financially motivated campaigns by compromising macOS environments.

⁉️Although Amos Stealer is not new, in the latest campaign, the threat actors are distributing the infostealer through deceptive software downloads, fake websites and social engineering lures.⁉️

https://www.cyberproof.com/blog/inside-amos-stealer-how-this-threat-targets-macos-credentials-and-keychains/

#apple #macos #security #privacy #infosec #media #tech #news

Making a Machine to sort one Million Pounds of LEGO.

You know what’s not fun? Sorting LEGO. You know what is fun? Making a machine to sort LEGO! That’s what [LegoSpencer] did, and you can build your own machine — find what you need on his GitHub-Repo.

🖇️Check my Image Description’s🖇️

https://github.com/basicallysource/sorter

#lego #sorter #diy #engineering #media #maker #tech #news

Linux on a Floppy: Still [Just About] Possible.

Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering environments, and they packed in a surprising amount of useful stuff. But a version 1.x kernel was not large in today’s context, so how does a floppy Linux fare in 2026? [Action Retro] is here to find out.

https://github.com/w84death/floppinux

#linux #floppydisk #os #tech #media #news

:uranus_photo: Something supercharged Uranus with Radiation during Voyager Flyby 40 Years ago — Scientists now know what.

⁉️Scientists may have solved a long-standing mystery surrounding Uranus extraordinarily strong radiation belt.⁉️

A new analysis of Voyager 2 data suggests that a temporary space weather event may have made the planet's electron radiation belt more intense than usual as Voyager 2 was passing by. The findings could help to explain why the radiation belt was so much stronger than scientists had predicted it would be.

https://doi.org/10.1029/2025gl119311

#voyager #uranus #space #science #media #tech #news

Chrome V8 Zero-Day exploited in the Wild — Patch Now.

The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-11645 [CVSS score: 8.8], has been described as an out-of-bounds memory access in V8, Chrome's JavaScript and WebAssembly engine.

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0153744567.html

⁉️"Out-of-bounds read and write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.103 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page," reads a description of the flaw in the NIST's National Vulnerability Database [NVD].⁉️

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-11645

A security researcher named "303f06e3" has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw on April 27, 2026. The researcher has been awarded a bug bounty of $55,000 for responsible disclosure.

#google #chrome #security #privacy #media #infosec #tech #news

Microsoft Warns of WhatsApp Attachments spreading Backdoor on Windows PCs.

👾The scam arrives as a simple message on WhatsApp, but it carries a hidden danger designed to take over personal computers.👾

According to Microsoft researchers, the trouble starts when a user receives a message containing a Visual Basic Script [VBS] file. For your information, this is a type of computer code that can run various tasks on Windows. If a person clicks on this file, it starts a chain reaction that allows hackers to control the computer from a distance.

⁉️“The campaign relies on a combination of social engineering and living-off-the-land techniques. By combining trusted platforms with legitimate tools, the threat actor reduces visibility and increases the likelihood of successful execution,” researchers wrote in Microsoft’s blog post.⁉️

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/03/31/whatsapp-malware-campaign-delivers-vbs-payloads-msi-backdoors/

#whatsapp #windows #security #privacy #media #infosec #tech #news

Xcc700: Self-Hosted C Compiler for the ESP32/Xtensa.

With two cores at 240 MHz and about 8.5 MB of non-banked RAM if you’re using the right ESP32-S3 version, this MCU seems at least in terms of specifications to be quite the mini PC. Obviously this means that it should be capable of self-hosting its compiler, which is exactly what [Valentyn Danylchuk] did with the xcc700 C compiler project.

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/xcc700

#esp32 #c #programming #tech #media #news

Official SAP npm Packages compromised to steal Credentials and Authentication Tokens from Developers Systems.

Security researchers report that the compromise impacted four packages, with the versions now deprecated on NPM:

• @cap-js/sqlite – v2.2.2
• @cap-js/postgres – v2.2.2
• @cap-js/db-service – v2.10.1
• mbt – v1.2.48

⁉️These packages support SAP's Cloud Application Programming Model [CAP] and Cloud MTA, which are commonly used in enterprise development.⁉️

https://socket.dev/blog/sap-cap-npm-packages-supply-chain-attack

#sap #npmpackages #secure #programming #developer #security #privacy #infosec #tech #news

:windows: Microsoft confirms April Windows Updates cause Backup Failures.

Software impacted by this includes, but is not limited to, products from Macrium [Reflect], Acronis [Cyber Protect Cloud], UrBackup Server, and NinjaOne Backup running on Windows 11, Windows Server and Windows 10 devices.

⁉️Microsoft has now updated its support documents to confirm that the April updates include a security hardening change that adds psmounterex.sys to the company's vulnerable driver blocklist to defend users against attacks targeting a high-severity buffer overflow vulnerability [CVE-2023-43896] that allows attackers to escalate privileges or execute arbitrary code.⁉️

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/april-14-2026-kb5083769-os-builds-26200-8246-and-26100-8246-22f90ae5-9f26-40ac-9134-6a586a71163b

#microsoft #windows #security #privacy #media #infosec #tech #news

Recreating Mega Man’s Mega Buster.

Mega Man is a popular video game character who is perhaps most notable for having a sort of lasery-type blaster for an arm. A real hand cannon, if you will. It’s officially called the Mega Buster, and [Arnov Sharma] recently recreated it for cosplay purposes.

https://www.instructables.com/Mega-Mans-Mega-Buster/

#megaman #mega #buster #diy #engineering #media #maker #raspberrypi #tech #3dprinting #news

:terminal: CSS, Now it’s got Your 8086.

The modern web browser is now far more than a thing for rendering web pages, it’s a multi-faceted environment that can provide a home for almost any application you could imagine. But why should JavaScript or Wasm have all the fun? CSS is Turing complete now, right? Why not, as [Lyra Rebane] has done, write an 8086 emulator in pure CSS?

https://lyra.horse/x86css/

#intel8086 #retrocomputing #emulator #css #programming #tech #media #news

Wikipedia is now 25 Years old / World’s 7th most popular Website now has over 7 Million english Articles and 7 Billion monthly Visitors.

Wikipedia is 25. Founded in 2001, this community contributor-driven site has convincingly usurped what were once the default general reference works of choice, like Encyclopædia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta. Wikipedia is the most successful non‑commercial, non‑social, non‑search web destination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia

#wikipedia #25years #web #tech #media #news

New Mirai Campaign exploits RCE Flaw in EoL D-Link Routers.

The Mirai exploit CVE-2025-29635 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on remote devices by sending a POST request to a vulnerable endpoint, triggering remote command execution [RCE].

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-29635

Akamai's SIRT, which detected the Mirai campaign in March 2026, reports that, although the flaw was first disclosed 13 months ago by security researchers Wang Jinshuai and Zhao Jiangting, this is the first time in-the-wild active exploitation has been observed.

https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/cve-2025-29635-mirai-campaign-targets-d-link-devices

#dlink #eol #router #security #privacy #engineer #media #infosec #tech #news

:raspberrypi: The Raspberry Pi as a Studio Camera.

The Raspberry Pi has brought digital camera experimentation within the reach of everybody, with its combination of an accessible computing platform and some almost-decent camera sensors. If there’s a flaw in the Pi as a camera though, it lies in the software, which can be slow and frustrating to use.

⁉️[Martijn Braam] is here with an interesting project that might yield some useful results in this direction, he’s making a Raspberry Pi studio camera.⁉️

https://youtu.be/otN7aUJbgck

#diy #raspberrypi #camera #engineering #media #tech #maker #news

Mastodon is getting its own Version of Bluesky’s Starter Packs with Collections — a new Feature coming in Mastodon 4.6 that lets People bundle and share recommended Accounts.

Mastodon has openly said it reviewed public feedback around Bluesky’s feature before building its own take, especially around consent and removal controls. If someone adds your account to a Collection, you will be notified, able to review it, and remove yourself if needed.

⁉️Users can also opt-out entirely by disabling the existing “Feature profile and posts in discovery algorithms” setting, which makes their account ineligible for Collections.⁉️

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/

#mastodon #starter #pack #collections #tech #media #news

Google rolls out Gmail end-to-end Encryption on Mobile Devices.

The company says Gmail end-to-end encryption [E2EE] is now available on all Android and iOS devices, allowing enterprise users to read and compose emails without additional tools.

⁉️Recipients who don't have the Gmail mobile app and use other email services can read them in a web browser, regardless of the device and service they're using.⁉️

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/04/gmail-end-to-end-encryption-now-available-on-mobile-devices.html

#google #gmail #e2ee #it #security #privacy #engineer #media #infosec #tech #news

:github: GitHub jumps on the Bandwagon and will use your Data to train AI for Bug Detection to expand Security Coverage.

GitHub is adopting AI-based scanning for its Code Security tool to expand vulnerability detections beyond the CodeQL static analysis and cover more languages and frameworks. The developer collaboration platform says that the move is meant to uncover security issues "in areas that are difficult to support with traditional static analysis alone."

CodeQL will continue to provide deep semantic analysis for supported languages, while AI detections will provide broader coverage for Shell/Bash, Dockerfiles, Terraform, PHP and other ecosystems.

⁉️The new hybrid model is expected to enter public preview in early Q2 2026.⁉️

https://github.blog/security/application-security/github-expands-application-security-coverage-with-ai-powered-detections/

#github #code #security #ai #infosec #developer #tech #media #news

🦠'Zombie' Coronavirus Fragments not only help drive Inflammation in long-COVID, but also destroy our Immune Cells.

A recent study by an international team of more than 30 authors reveals how the destruction of the virus within our body leaves dangerous protein fragments that target specific immune cells, which may explain some of the debilitating consequences millions of people with long-COVID now face.

⁉️"These fragments target a specific kind of curvature on the membranes of cells," explains bioengineer Gerard Wong from the University of California, Los Angeles. "Cells that are spiky, that are star-shaped, or that have lots of tentacles end up getting preferentially suppressed."⁉️

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/covid-19-viral-fragments-target-kill-specific-immune-cells

#covid #virus #healthcare #science #media #health #tech #news

🌑China is Shooting for the Moon — Sooner Than You Think.

Humanity first reached the moon in 1969. We went back a few times, then lost interest within three short years, and we haven’t been back since. NASA has just flew a quartet of astronauts around the moon this year, and hopes to touch lunar soil by 2028. But the American space program is no longer the only game in town.

⁉️China has emerged as another major player in the second race for the Moon. Having mastered human spaceflight 23 years ago, the country’s space program has been moving from strength to strength. A moon landing is on the cards, with the country hoping to plant its boots, and presumably flag, in 2030.⁉️

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16125399

#CNSA #chinese #lunar #mission #space #tech #rocket #science #media #news

:rust: Rust Core Library partly polished for Industrial Safety Spec.

The latest update to Ferrocene, an open source Rust compiler toolchain for safety-and mission-critical systems, comes with [International Electrotechnical Commission] IEC 61508 (SIL 2) certification for portions of the core library. Memory-safe Rust code can now be more broadly applied in devices that require electronic system safety.

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/ferrocene-libcore-news-release/

#rust #DevSecOps #secure #programming #media #developer #tech #news

:python: Hades PyPI Attack: 19 Packages poisoned to Auto-Run Bun Credential Stealer.

The Miasma supply chain campaign has sparked a fresh attack wave called Hades, this time involving 37 malicious wheel artifacts across 19 packages in the Python Package Index [PyPI] registry, as the Mini Shai-Hulud-style attacks continue to be refined and splintered to target specific ecosystems.

⁉️"The compromised releases shipped a *-setup.pth file that attempts to execute automatically during Python startup, download the Bun JavaScript runtime, and run an obfuscated JavaScript payload named _index.js," Socket said in a new analysis.⁉️

https://socket.dev/blog/shai-hulud-descends-to-hades-miasma-pypi-wave

#pypi #secure #python #programming #developer #security #privacy #media #infosec #tech #news

Creating an Ultra-Stable Lunar Clock with a Cryogenic Silicon Cavity Laser.

Phase-coherent lasers are crucial for many precision tasks, including timekeeping. Here on Earth the most stable optical oscillators are used in e.g. atomic clocks and many ultra-precise scientific measurements, such as gravitational wave detection.

⁉️Since these optical oscillators use cryogenic silicon cavities, it’s completely logical to take this principle and build a cryogenic silicon cavity laser on the Moon.⁉️

https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2602.06352

#ultrastable #lunar #clock #space #tech #engineering #media #science #news

:apple_inc: Developers have made $550B on Apple’s App Store since 2008.

Apple services had a “record-breaking year,” according to a blog post by senior vice president Eddy Cue. In 2025, Apple had 850 million average weekly App Store users [up from 813 million in 2024], over $100 billion in Apple Pay merchant sales, and a 36% increase in monthly Apple TV engagement.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/2025-marked-a-record-breaking-year-for-apple-services/?1768226341

#apple #developer #tech #media #news

Anthropic's Claude Mythos finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws across Major Systems.

Artificial Intelligence [AI] company Anthropic announced a new IT-Security initiative called Project Glasswing that will use a preview version of its new frontier model, Claude Mythos, to find and address security vulnerabilities.

⁉️The model will be used by a small set of organizations, including Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan Chase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks, along with Anthropic, to secure critical software.⁉️

https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing

#anthropic #it #security #privacy #engineer #media #infosec #tech #news

Study shows playing Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi Games fights Burnout and can enhance Happiness in Life [popular Titles are proven to ‘instill childlike wonder’ among young Adults].

Many people play games after work to relax, but a study has just proven that these could help reduce the risk of burnout among young adults. According to the study published in JMIR Publications, popular titles like Super Mario Bros. foster “childlike wonder” and increase the overall happiness in life of the participants.

https://games.jmir.org/2025/1/e84219/

#gaming #science #media #tech #news

:terminal: BASIC on a Calculator again.

I’m always amused that we can run emulations or virtual copies of yesterday’s computers on our modern computers. In fact, there is so much power at your command now that you can run, say, a DOS emulator on a Windows virtual machine under Linux, even though the resulting DOS prompt would probably still perform better than an old 4.77 MHz PC.

⁉️Remember when you could get calculators that ran BASIC? Well, [Calculator Clique] shows off BASIC running on a decidedly modern HP Prime calculator. The trick? It’s running under Python.⁉️

https://youtu.be/a1LwXHX0U1o

#basic #calculator #engineering #python #programming #tech #media #news

1Password teams with OpenAI to Stop AI Coding Agents from leaking Credentials.

The companies announced a new integration for OpenAI Codex that gives AI coding agents access to credentials during development workflows without exposing those secrets in prompts, source code, repositories, terminals or the model’s context window.

https://1password.com/blog/1password-trusted-access-layer-for-openai-codex

AI coding has become the de facto go-to tool for developing new apps. But there are two issues with this approach: the coding tool is agentic AI and inherits all the agentic security concerns; and app development requires widespread company access to credentials.

⁉️“Every action that AI coding agents take against a database, an API, or a deployment pipeline requires access to credentials,” explain Dennis Kromhout van der Meer and Robert Menke in an accompanying blog post. “Today, these credentials typically live in .env files, scripts, or hardcoded in repositories, where they can be easily exfiltrated and are difficult to govern and audit.”⁉️

#1password #security #privacy #tech #media #ai #coding #agents #infosec #secure #vibecoding #developer #news

:terminal: The Sweetest Programming Language: MNM

Admit it. If you haven’t created your own little programming language, you’ve probably at least thought about it. [Muffed] decided to create a unique — and sweet — programming language that uses M&M [or, at least, M&M-like] candies as the building block of programs.

⁉️If this sounds strange, it is because, honestly, it is. It all started when a packet of GEMS [the Cadbury’s version of M&Ms] spilled and randomly fell in the shape of an arrow. There are only six symbols corresponding to the colors in a package. You create your program by arranging the candies and creating a digital image of the result. In practice, you’ll probably use ASCII text to represent your candy layout and let the compiler render the image for you.⁉️

https://mufeedvh.com/posts/i-made-a-programming-language-with-mnms/

#mnms #diy #self #programming #language #engineering #media #tech #news

🦛Hallo Brötchen! Berlin Zoo welcomes Baby Pygmy Hippo.

Meet Brötchen. The pygmy hippopotamus [Choeropsis liberiensis] was born on May 9th at Germany’s Zoo Berlin, weighing in at 13 pounds. “Brötchen” means “breadroll,” in German, and the zoo’s new member is rapidly becoming everyone’s favorite carb. The baby girl is making headlines and gracing the zoo’s Facebook cover photo. What’s more, its name was revealed in a social media post on June 10 that has now accumulated over 6,000 likes.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DHZrTaCVs/

⁉️A number of Brötchen’s internet appearances involve water. In fact, “water plays an incredibly important role for pygmy hippos,” the zoo explains. “Bathing helps care for their sensitive skin while also allowing the little one to slowly and comfortably get used to the water.”⁉️

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1315126294132912

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:sgicube: Developer creates Real-Time 3D Shader Demo for the Game Boy Color — You can download the ROM or interact with the 3D Teapot online.

A canny developer has managed to coax a Game Boy Color [GBC] into running an interactive, user-controlled, real-time 3D shader demo. [Danny Spencer] shared a video, blog post, downloadable ROMs, source code, and even embedded the demo in an online GBC emulator, so anyone interested can give his Lambert-shaded 3D teapot a spin.

https://blog.otterstack.com/posts/202512-gbshader/

#gameboy #color #gbc #realtime #3d #shader #demo #retro #gaming #programming #engineer #media #tech #news

Elite — David Braben's 8bit Space Combat Trading Simulator of Elite gets an Atari XL/XE Port Demo Update.

I’ve seen a few fan based remakes appear as well as improvements and ports to different 8bit systems. But this latest news may interest you, if you have an Atari computer however, as [reifsnyderb] has released a demo update of a port to the Atari XL/XE.

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/385615-elite-ported-from-the-bbc-micro-disk-version-to-the-atari-8-bit

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🤖This Autonomous Aquatic Robot is smaller than a Grain of Salt.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have succeeded in developing the smallest fully autonomous robot in history. It measures less than 1 millimeter and can swim underwater for months powered only by light.

⁉️Autonomous robots must sense their environment and make decisions about how to navigate it. All of this must be controlled by a chip measuring less than 1 mm. David Blau and his team at the University of Michigan took on this challenge.⁉️

https://www.seas.upenn.edu/stories/penn-and-umich-create-worlds-smallest-programmable-autonomous-robots/

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Why haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 yet?

If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about ‘quantum computing’, then we are on the cusp of a computing revolution, yet back in the real world things look a lot less dire. At least if you’re worried about quantum computers [QCs] breaking every single conventional encryption algorithm in use today, because at this point they cannot even factor 21 yet without cheating.

https://algassert.com/post/2500

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