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New study finds HGST, WD hard drives fail less often than Seagate and Toshiba
Posted on Sunday August 16, 2026
The peer-reviewed IEEE study was written by Christoph Siemroth of the University of Essex and Yeomyung Park of Sungkyunkwan University. It reviewed data on 443,156 drives used in Backblaze data centers from 2013 through the second quarter of 2025. The sample covered more than 1.66 million drive-years.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
This Carrier Pidge app delivers texts at 110 mph, unless your virtual pigeon gets lost, distracted, or dies
Posted on Sunday August 16, 2026
The iOS app Carrier Pidge is the work of Noah Iarrobino, who vibe coded it in about three weeks. Refreshingly, he admits that it's both "pointless" with "genuinely no practical use," but it's still interesting to discover how long it would take to deliver a message by pigeon power.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia's $5 billion Intel bet is now worth nearly $25 billion, and its SpaceX stake isn't far behind
Posted on Sunday August 16, 2026
Nvidia bought $5 billion in Intel stock last year as part of the companies' AI infrastructure partnership, creating one of the company's most valuable equity positions. The stake was valued at $24.9 billion in the latest filing.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
UK researchers are growing miniature human tissue from NHS patient cells to improve drug testing
Posted on Sunday August 16, 2026
The work is part of the government's plan to reduce the use of animals in research by expanding alternatives known as new approach methodologies. These include organoids, organs-on-chips and AI tools that can process biological data and model disease.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
France's court just blocked Macron's plan to ban kids from social media
Posted on Saturday August 15, 2026
France's highest court struck down a law this week that would have banned children under 15 from accessing social media networks such as Facebook and X. The legislation had previously sailed through the lower chambers of government with unusually broad bipartisan support.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Three new Windows flaws can bypass security, gain system privileges, and even install malware remotely
Posted on Saturday August 15, 2026
The "Download More RAM" vulnerability, which was presented at the 2026 USENIX Security Symposium in Baltimore, was discovered by researchers from the University of Birmingham and Durham University. It reportedly allows malicious actors to bypass Windows 11 security and gain system privileges without physical access by exploiting the lack of write protection...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Gamer drops laptop temperatures by up to 15°C by switching from a wooden desk to a metal table
Posted on Saturday August 15, 2026
The user, MentalReserve2351, posted the results in r/GamingLaptops after testing the setup while playing Cyberpunk 2077 in an air-conditioned room. The laptop had been reaching 80-90°C on the wooden desk, according to the post. On the metal table, temperatures reportedly ran between 75°C and 83°C.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Intel may refresh Raptor Lake for a third time as high DDR5 prices push buyers toward older hardware
Posted on Saturday August 15, 2026
Robert Hallock, Intel's vice president and general manager of enthusiast channel business, recently told Tom's Hardware that the company plans to continue offering Raptor Lake CPUs, first launched in 2022, for a while longer. Intel, like AMD, is responding to sustained demand for hardware that supports DDR4 RAM.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
A Windows Defender bug is making VLC take 30 seconds to open an MP3 file
Posted on Saturday August 15, 2026
Is VLC media player taking tens of seconds to load an MP3 file just because open-source software development is now in an embarrassing state? Jonathan Blow, designer of puzzle games Braid and The Witness, accused the VideoLAN team of doing a very bad job with VLC programming. The VideoLAN team...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Samsung says Claude Code can cut chip design work from weeks to days, but it still makes serious mistakes
Posted on Saturday August 15, 2026
Claude Code has helped Samsung's System LSI division complete work that would usually take weeks in a matter of days, according to a report in Chosun Biz. But it has also lowered the severity of error messages instead of fixing the underlying problems, rolled back unrelated completed work, and attempted...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »