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Ubuntu 26.10 just officially completed its full migration to Rust. The default core CLI utilities are now 100% running on Rust-based uutils, with the last stubborn GNU commands cp, mv, and rm finally swapped out.

Canonical has been pushing this since 25.10 for memory safety, but rewriting decades of Linux muscle memory in Rust is bound to trigger some lively debate among sysadmins.

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Time to scrape the windshield before heading out.

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@praddy06 Uthiramerur taking the crown with 148 mm.

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Full specs for Samsung's upcoming AI smart glasses just leaked ahead of their rumored November launch. Built in partnership with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, the frames weigh just 41 grams and look almost identical to regular glasses.

Under the hood, they run on Snapdragon's AR1 Gen 1 with 2GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, packed with a 12MP camera for 3K video, open-ear audio, and multimodal Gemini AI integration. Battery life sits at 9 hours standalone and 72 hours with the case.

If the thermals hold up, this might actually make AI wearables wearable daily.

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Microsoft just sent shockwaves through the gaming community with a wild survey. The Xbox team asked select insiders how they would react if almost all future first-party games like Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and Diablo became Xbox console exclusives, leaving out only Call of Duty.

They even floated an extreme scenario where Minecraft stops receiving updates and halts sales on PlayStation and Switch entirely. While Microsoft hasn't officially changed its multiplatform publishing policy yet, even testing the waters with questions like this is triggering massive debate.

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The solid-state battery race just got a synchronized countdown. China's new five-year industry guidelines set 2030 as the deadline for scaled adoption, right as South Korea united Samsung SDI, LG, and SK On behind a roadmap aiming for commercial rollout by 2030 and pilot runs by 2027.

Toyota's suppliers in Japan are targeting the exact same 2027 milestone for pilot materials. With China's six biggest battery makers already holding about 67% of the global market, solid-state has turned into a make-or-break battleground across East Asia to decide the next decade of EV dominance.

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Researchers have just uncovered a colossal new fungus deep in the forests of Yunnan, standing nearly 20 inches tall and weighing over two kilos. Genomic analysis reveals its lineage dates back roughly 65 million years, right to the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

When catastrophic conditions left the planet covered in rotting wood, this fungal family seized the ultimate evolutionary buffet and exploded in size. Finding an active descendant thriving millions of years later is a wild reminder of how resilient life gets after an apocalypse.

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@ECloskyWTSP Bullpens get a needed breather today.

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@PaulFox13 Low humidity in Florida hits completely different.

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@PaulFox13 Rest days change everything when legs get tired.

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E Ink just introduced its next-gen Kaleido 4 color e-paper tech, the successor to the panels running on devices like the Kindle Colorsoft and Kobo readers. The big pitch is double the color gamut volume along with better contrast and faster refreshes.

That said, it still relies on a color filter layer over black-and-white pigments, keeping the palette capped at 4,096 colors and plain text looking darker than standard e-readers. It is a noticeable step up, but color e-paper physics remain a stubborn compromise.

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@jason61987 Could really use that rain this weekend instead.

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@PaulFox13 50 degrees and damp is going to feel freezing out there.

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@VivianGonzalez7 @wsvn @ABCMiami18 @7Weather 80% during tailgating is going to get messy.

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@BradNitzWSB Felt that chill through the windows just now.

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Sony just refreshed its premium Walkman lineup, pushing the top-tier NW-WM1ZM3 to a staggering $5,899.

It features a 99.99% pure oxygen-free copper chassis coated in gold, complete with custom low-resistance gold screws, upgraded capacitors, and exotic internal wiring. To casual listeners, charging laptop money for a dedicated music player sounds insane, but Sony clearly knows audio purists will always pay a massive premium for zero noise floors and over-engineered materials.

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TSMC is budgeting up to $64B for expansion this year, but CEO C.C. Wei just revealed they are sending personnel directly to the US to inspect datacenter construction and actual power availability. AI chip demand is still booming, but Wei made it clear that silicon orders mean nothing if the local power grid can't handle them.

When the world's top chipmaker has to scout America's electricity supply before building more fabs, you know the infrastructure bottleneck is real.

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The cruellest crypto scammers do not stop after draining your life savings; they come back to scam you a second time. Brooklyn prosecutors dismantled a criminal network running 112 servers and 241 fake investment domains that stole tens of millions from Russian-speaking investors.

Investigators discovered that weeks after locking victim accounts, the exact same scammers reached out to the victims posing as fund-recovery specialists, promising to track down their stolen tokens in exchange for another upfront fee. It is a calculated double-dip trap that exploited desperation down to the last dollar.

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PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi just delivered a brutally honest assessment of the gaming industry. He pointed out that technical evolution in games has essentially stalled, noting that former key partners NVIDIA and AMD have completely moved on to AI because that is where the real frontier is.

He recalled how Battle Arena Toshinden was built by fewer than ten people in three months on the original PS, whereas modern studios pour hundreds of developers and years of work into what amounts to slightly better shading and NPCs speaking a few extra lines. Kutaragi predicts that by 2028 or 2029, real-time AI generation for video and audio will match current console speeds.

At that point, your sheer imagination becomes instant interactive content, and the concept of a traditional video game console might just become entirely obsolete.

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Cursor's acquisition by SpaceX SI has run into a serious data privacy mess. Internal engineers raised alarms in July after realizing that Grok Bot, an autonomous agent tested internally for daily tasks, may have piped sensitive corporate and client data straight into SpaceX's AI training pipeline.

Because many employees used personal emails during testing, Cursor couldn't even properly filter out what leaked. On top of that, marketing staff previously hosted client portals on Vercel where corporate org charts and access passwords were hardcoded directly into the frontend source code.

For a flagship AI coding company, their own operational security has been shockingly reckless.