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SteamOS 3.7 brings Valve’s gaming OS to other handhelds and generic AMD PCs
Valve is releasing version 3.7 of SteamOS to the general public, and among the routine updates and changes is a big one: This is the SteamOS release that finally adds official support for some kinds ...
US solar keeps surging, generating more power than hydro in 2025
Despite the rise in coal use, the fraction of carbon-free electricity held steady year-over-year, with wind/solar/hydro/nuclear accounting for 43 percent of all power put on the US grid. That occurred ...
FDA advisors for COVID shots left in the dark over how they’ll be regulated
At the outset of the meeting, the FDA's new top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, said he and FDA leaders wanted to "give people a little more time to digest the policy." He said that the FDA is still ...
Glass redux: Google aims to avoid past mistakes as it brings Gemini to your face
It's been 13 years since Google announced its Google Glass headset and 10 years since it stopped selling the device to ...
Trump threatens Apple with 25% tariff to force iPhone manufacturing into US
Donald Trump woke up Friday morning and threatened Apple with a 25 percent tariff on any iPhones sold in the US that are not manufactured in America.
What I learned from my first few months with a Bambu Lab A1 3D printer, part 1
But I could never quite imagine myself using one consistently enough to buy one. Then, this past Christmas, my wife forced the issue by getting me a Bambu Lab A1 as a present. Since then, I've been ...
Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 years
Researchers have found malicious software that received more than 6,000 downloads from the NPM repository over a two-year span, in yet another discovery showing the hidden threats users of such open ...
CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say
On April 1, the staff of the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was terminated as part of the agency's reduction in force, according to NPR. The staff included epidemiologists, ...
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In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”
In November, Microsoft began testing an update that allowed users to rewrite or summarize text in Notepad using generative AI. Another preview update today takes it one step further, allowing you to ...
FAA: Airplanes should stay far away from SpaceX’s next Starship launch
The Federal Aviation Administration gave the green light Thursday for SpaceX to launch the next test flight of its Starship ...
Musk’s DOGE used Meta’s Llama 2—not Grok—for gov’t slashing, report says
Wired reviewed materials showing that affiliates of Elon Musk's DOGE working in the Office of Personnel Management "tested and used Meta’s Llama 2 model to review and classify responses from federal ...