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A community-created tool combines existing mods to bring Nvidia's latest upscaling and frame-generation tech to RTX 20, 30, and 40-series cards, leveraging AMD's FSR 3.1 for older hardware.
Autodafe's new plugin harnesses MAME's component-level emulation to recreate legendary drum machines and synthesizers—no commercial license required, though you'll need to supply your own ROM files.
Researchers have successfully mapped all 166,000+ neurons in an adult male fruit fly's brain and nervous system, and software engineers have already begun training the neural model to play classic video games.
OpenAI's research agents are clocking 3.1 workdays for every human workday, yet the company's own metrics show that human oversight—not agent capability—has become the limiting factor in research productivity.
PhoneBuff, known for robotic testing of smartphones, pitted two identical Dell XPS 13 laptops against each other—one running Windows 11, the other Fedora—using automated workflows to measure real-world performance.
The creator of Solus is emerging from retirement to build Barney, a Rust-based framework for constructing Linux distributions from source, in direct response to what he views as excessive funding behind David Heinemeier Hansson's Omarchy project.
A new analysis reveals that Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex make wildly different tool choices for identical tasks, forcing software vendors to rethink their entire go-to-market strategy in an age where machines, not humans, decide what gets deployed.
The open-source Twitter alternative announced it will continue following legal counsel, weeks after X Corp demanded its shutdown with a cease-and-desist letter.
