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AI Reconstructs Rules of a 1,800-Year-Old Roman Board Game From a Carved Stone
Researchers have recovered the rules of Ludus Coriovalli, a Roman blocking game that had been unplayable for roughly 1,800 years because no written instructions
Australia to Mandate Three Hours of Free Midday Power for Households
Starting 1 July 2026, energy retailers in New South Wales, South-East Queensland, and South Australia must offer households at least three hours of free electri
Before the camera: how Emily Eden hand-drew 1830s India for the empire
Decades before photography became the empire's default way of seeing, Emily Eden documented northern India in pencil and paint. A writer and artist from a power
Booting Linux on the Sega 32X — three CPUs, 320KB of RAM, no sync primitives
A firmware engineer continues a run of retro-console Linux ports — following an earlier Atari Jaguar effort — by bringing the kernel up on Sega's ill-fated 1994
California bill would force social platforms to strip addictive features for under-16s
California Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal has reworked AB 1709, a bill originally modeled on Australia's outright social media ban for minors, into a mandate tar
Densha: a live voxel Tokyo that turns the Yamanote line into a Japanese study room
Densha is a browser-based ambient experience that puts you on a voxel-art rendering of Tokyo's Yamanote loop line, with the world synced to Japan's actual clock
DOGE shuts down having erased its own paper trail — and the fight over its records is just starting
The Department of Government Efficiency has formally wound down after driving the largest federal restructuring in decades, yet it left behind no public record
Fired NOAA scientists rebuild Trump-axed Climate.gov as nonprofit Climate.us
A small team of former NOAA staff has relaunched the federal government's shuttered Climate.gov as an independent nonprofit site, Climate.us, which went live on
Git's new 'history' command borrows jj's best tricks — no new tool required
Git 2.54 and 2.55 quietly shipped an experimental `git history` command that tackles the pain of reworking commits deep in a stack. It offers three subcommands:
Homemade Latency Rig Debunks Linux Gaming Lore: Wayland Isn't the Problem
Tired of unverifiable folk wisdom about optimizing Linux for competitive gaming, the author built a hardware latency tester to settle the debate empirically. Th
Japanese recycling process reclaims up to 90% of lithium from spent EV batteries
Engineers at a Japanese recycling facility report a process that recovers roughly 90% of the lithium in used EV batteries, well above the sub-50% typical of con
JetBrains open-sources YouTrackDB, an object-oriented graph database
JetBrains has released YouTrackDB, a graph database it already runs internally in production. The design centers on treating relationships as first-class links