When it comes to pushing the boundaries of high-power laser systems, ACMER isn’t just raising the bar — they’re rebuilding it entirely. The ACMER X1 is the world’s first 120W & 4W IR water-cooled laser and CNC system, designed to solve the biggest limitations that have held laser technology back. With a focus on cooling, ... continue reading The post ACMER X1: The World’s First 120W Water-Cooled Laser & CNC Is Here appeared first on Nerd Techy.| Nerd Techy
Health Physicians embrace AI note-taking technology Ryan Jaslow Mass General Brigham Communications August 21, 2025 5 min read ‘There is literally no other intervention in our field that impacts burnout to this extent’ AI-driven scribes that record patient visits and draft clinical notes for physician review led to significant reductions in physician burnout and improvements in well-being, according to a Mass General Brigham study of two large healthcare systems. The findings, published...| Harvard Gazette
We went on a foreign holiday this summer and amidst all the uniqueness and differences, I noticed one thing that was all too familiar: we still had to dodge people who were too busy looking at their phones to notice where they were walking. I rolled my eyes at them, but then I remembered that … Continue reading In The Internet, But Not Of It| sethlewis.ie
Learn these hotkeys and get more done in less time! Instead of using only your mouse, keep one hand on your keyboard… and sometimes, you don’t even need to touch your mouse! This is how the “pros” do it… This video is #1 in a series of 10 – so stay tuned for the rest. […] The post Keyboard Kommando 1: Ctrl-B and Ctrl-I first appeared on Scottie's Tech.Info.| Scottie's Tech.Info
What do you do when all your desktop thumbnails turn into black squares? You fix it good! For the full-length video, watch here. Without further ado: Handy Links Subscribe to my Substack Support my work via Stripe Support my work via PayPal Thanks and see ya soon! The post SHORT: Fix Black desktop Icons first appeared on Scottie's Tech.Info.| Scottie's Tech.Info
NVMe drivers are blazingly fast. Unfortunately, they sometimes "disappear" - as in, you can't boot from the drive. What gives? The answer is quite simple!| Scottie's Tech.Info | A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her!
If you're sick of audio quality dropping every time you try to chat on a Bluetooth headset on Windows 11, this is the update for you.| BGR - Industry-Leading Insights In Tech And Entertainment
“There is a general agreement that the Y2K transition went more smoothly than any of us would have imagined. In fact, as noted in the week since the rollover, some … Continue reading →| LibrarianShipwreck
Did you own a personal computer 40 years ago? How many teachers and students had access to computers in 1983. What if I told you that a 400-page book focused on teaching computer programming to children sold more than 100,000 copies way back then? Well, it’s true. Former engineer, elementary school teacher, and member of […] The post Classic Book Now Available Online (free) appeared first on The Daily Papert.| The Daily Papert
In 1966, The Elementary Science Study published a curriculum, Behavior of Mealworms. It provided opportunities for children to engage in many scientific pursuits with readily accessible larval form of a darkling beetle. In 1977, Hal Abelson and Paul Goldenberg of the MIT AI/Logo Laboratory, published a paper, Teacher’s Guide for Computational Models of Animal Behavior. […] The post Mealworms appeared first on The Daily Papert.| The Daily Papert
Perestroika and Epistemological Politics Keynote address at the World Conference on Computers in Education at Darling Harbor, Sydney, Australia July 1990 By Seymour Papert[*] MIT Media Laboratory 20 Ames Street, E15-313 Cambridge, MA 02139 During the week of the conference you have been immersed in exciting and focused discussions about actual uses of computers in real educational settings. […] The post Seymour Papert Would Like a Word with Ron DeSantis 33 years ago appeared first on The...| The Daily Papert
The book celebrates the 50th anniversary of a seminal paper by Cynthia Solomon and Seymour Papert. Published in 1971, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer, set the course of education for the next fifty years and beyond. I created the new book, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50, to honor the vision set forth by Papert and Solomon a half-century ago. Four dozen experts from around the world invite us to consider the original provocations, reflect on their implementation, and ch...| The Daily Papert
“Our school systems are being strangled by the cost of this curious epidemic of learning disability.” Seymour Papert From Papert, S., March 16, 2000. Millennial Lecture at the Muskie Archives.| The Daily Papert
Science & Tech ‘Turning information into something physical’ Photo illustration by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff Anna Lamb Harvard Staff Writer August 11, 2025 4 min read Houghton exhibit looks at how punched cards — invented 300 years ago to streamline weaving — led to modern computing The punched card, a paper instrument invented 300 years ago to automate looms, helped create a technology that most of us today can’t live without: computers. A new Houghton Library exhibition — “Th...| Harvard Gazette
I’ve only reached middle age, but I’ve already lived to see the world remade by the introduction of personal computers and then remade again as we brought the power of the internet into our pockets with smartphones. It’s now obvious that another transformation is underway in the development of AI. As it was in the … Continue reading Means With No Ends| sethlewis.ie
These days, “censorship” runs rampant – even in supposedly free countries. We’re not allowed to read the news we want because ‘that web site’ is run by the enemy, dontcha know… And even if Country X is in fact my enemy, the idea that I’d want to read their news just to understand how they […] The post Read what you want without a VPN first appeared on Scottie's Tech.Info.| Scottie's Tech.Info
Here’s an excellent, concicse blogpost that outlines both how identity thieves can scrape sensitive information from your discarded computer and simple steps you can take to make it harder for them to do so. Stealing someone’s identity doesn’t take a lot of intelligence or even a lot of effort. The bad guys only need you […]| PooterGeek
You’ve probably seen countless laser engravers hit the market, but Creality’s new Falcon A1 Pro isn’t following the usual playbook. This 20W machine combines AI-powered autofocus with 600mm/s speeds, targeting everyone from weekend hobbyists to serious side-hustlers. While most manufacturers focus on raw power, Creality’s taken a different approach—one that could reshape how you think ... continue reading| Nerd Techy
Tech accelerationists are working to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into government. It is a rapidly growing movement, but the speed the technology is advancing is outpacing concerns about risks, explains Joe Allen, the AI editor for Steve Bannon’s War Room, to Andrew Muller for The New American. The push is being backed by several movements; ... The post The Dark Enlightenment: Fusing AI and Government appeared first on The New American.| Video - The New American
I recently purchased a Kindle book from Amazon called Operationalizing Threat Intelligence. The book itself isn't important (well it is to me, but that's not the point of this post). It's a hefty book at 600+ pages, and I don't love reading textbooks on my…| mattsayar.com
Unleash chaos in your home lab with LitmusChaos and learn how to inject failures, run Chaos Monkey style experiments, and build truly resilient container workloads.| Virtualization Howto
I spent most of a day getting my new development environment set up, because I kept hitting issues that nobody at my new employer had experienced before. A "perfect storm" of coincidences that conspired together to completely wreck my chance of a simple setup.
The factors?
Apple's M4 processors remove the SVE architecture and its instruction set, which was present in the M1 through M3
The Colima dockerisation tool still reports to arm64 containers that SVE is available
Java < 24 will, by defa...| Dan Q
Does my website load fast enough? Publii, which I use to build this site, has a 'Responsive Images' option which will load smaller images if you're on mobile, and larger images if you're on a bigger screen. That's faster for you, but it comes at…| mattsayar.com
AI tools like ChatGPT have changed our personal and professional worlds, with around 52% of American adults regularly using a large language model (LLM). Now, a new study details the immense environmental costs of our prompts, and it might make you think twice about what chatbot you use and how you…| New Atlas
Public fears that census data could be used for nefarious purposes are hardly baseless. In this extract from her new paperback, Timandra Harkness shows how mechanised data collection was used... The post Punch-cards, concentration camps and René Carmille appeared first on Significance magazine.| Significance magazine
The last week of the year is a time for rest and reflection. During that downtime, I decided to try Kagi and Orion and spent more time than I should have setting up a Gopher site, just for kicks. Kagi & Orion Kagi is a paid search engine and Orion is a privacy-minded browser they built on Webkit—not Blink!—exclusively for macOS, at least for now. Everything about those choices sounds like someone actively whittling down their market share to something so small and specific most VCs would ...| George Mandis
I've been having fun with Raspberry Pis lately. Besides my solar-powered website project, I've been playing with making tiny servers and hiding them around my apartment. To what end, I'm uncertain. Already I can see myself falling into some kind of digital "Ideal Palace" obsession like Ferdinand Cheval—little computers in my garden, my books, and other hidden nooks-and-crannies, connected to my network with playful names and curious peripherals, tasked with curious purpose... But this isn't...| George Mandis
This weekend I cobbled together all the pieces to debut a truly MVP version of what I'm dubbing Solar Pi: https://solar.mandis.dev It's a solar-powered website! Please give it a spin. There's not a lot there at the moment. It's quite meta, mostly reporting on how it's doing, the current weather and speculating about how well it's going to fare over the coming week. You might be wondering where I'm hosting this. Some forward-thinking, renewable-energy focused colocation startup in Brooklyn per...| George Mandis
Maybe this is on me; maybe I lack proficiency with English grammar. That’s always possible. I certainly have no pretension of being a grammarian, but I like to believe I have some grasp of it…| Logos con carne
Recently, somebody created a copy of KeePass - with malware added - and distributed it on a bunch of fake KeePass web sites. Oops!| Scottie's Tech.Info | A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her!
In March, a computer achieved what many thought impossible when it won a best of five series against world-class go champion Lee Sedol. The victory by the DeepMind computer was the most significant milestone in artificial intelligence (AI) since Deep Blue beat chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in…| New Atlas
ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess engine from the age of Disco Fever and the introduction of the Force did better than expected. A lot better.| New Atlas
Refurbished laptop tips from Give IT. Get IT. in Maine—learn how to protect your device from weather damage and keep it running strong year-round.| give it get it
When I wrote my own newsletter email service, I used SendGrid to handle the nitty gritty details of actually sending the emails. If I tried to roll my own email server, I would have to deal with so much nuance around security, spam, and other…| mattsayar.com
Recently, my wife was visiting Canada when she pulled out Ye Olde Facebook for a quick doome scrolle and happened upon some blocked content. Obviously, my wife respected the censorship, didn't give it any further attention, and moved on with her day. Just kidding! She…| mattsayar.com
This describes the solution I created to access Internet with my Apple IIc. I wanted it to require no special hardware, only a serial cable attached to a modern computer running a little bit of "proxy" software.| colin@colino.net
This week-end I remembered that when I got my new phone, it counted my steps on its own, and I looked up why. I discovered that there's a Google Play Service that enables developers to get the user's activity (walking, running, cycling etc) and I decided to try to code my first Android app: Stravomatic....| colin@colino.net
A few monthes ago, a user made us a €5 donation for Claws Mail's Windows version. Then asked me over email and Facebook friend request for support on "error messages that pop is starting up prior to sm something da da da" (actual quote). I just replied that this seemed like he'd need to...| colin@colino.net
After testing various complicated solutions to embed a QR Code into iReport Jasper reports, the easiest way I've found is this: 1) Put ZXing's Core and JavaSE jars in the classpath (using Tools/Options/Classpath if compiling locally, or the classpath property if using Ant and net.sf.jasperreports.ant.JRAntCompileTask) ZXing Core jar ZXing JavaSE jar 2) Add an image...| colin@colino.net
It's been a long time since I didn't post any geek stuff here, so here we go. At last! I've recently installed Stellarium, which is a great planetarium software, helping a lot to figure out what's above our heads at a given time, what will be, or what has been, which is great to learn...| colin@colino.net
It's been a long time since I didn't post any Claws Mail news... (probably because it's reaching maturity) so here are two screencasts that should please our Windows users : Hope you'll like it !...| colin@colino.net
Now that we're in 2009, it's been a few years since we're more and more aware that energy is a valuable resource that should be spared. Where I work I'm handling a medium-sized datacenter of 160 servers, and they use approximately 28 kW of power. 28.000 watts, that represents 470 light bulbs, always on, burning...| colin@colino.net
Paul (my friend, not my son) said to me some time ago, "Still obsessed with smoking, I see ;-)". That made me realize that indeed, stopping smoking sometimes make me think more about it than I did when I smoked. I guess that's rather logical, I'm still in the long process of readjustment (of...| colin@colino.net
Some time before Christmas, I was looking for a nice gift to Clo and had a idea I found good: a good quality printed version of her blog, for the souvenir, would be quite unique and nice. Problem is that printing it would be really painful, with about 80 posts, I didn't want to do...| colin@colino.net
There have been a few positive, blog-worthy notes happening in my life the past few months. The first is that by the grace of God, I found actual full-time employment working with a wonderful team …| The Cat Fox Life
The world’s most powerful supercomputer has just fired up. A newcomer named Fugaku has nabbed the number one spot in the Top500 list of supercomputers, surpassing Summit, the reigning champion of the past few years.| New Atlas
I don’t usually recommend budget laptops, which end up being useful for little more than getting online and ordering a real replacement, but occasionally there’s exceptions. Like the ASUS Vivobook 14 (X1404ZA) from 2023, which apparently was made in great numbers but didn’t sell very well, because stores are still trying to unload it. It’s not a great laptop, but for $225 or so, it’s better than most of the alternatives. (Unless you find a good deal on an ebay thinkpad, etc. An X1 C...| flak.tedunangst.com
I have a Pixelbook which Google says I need to stop using, but they’re not the boss of me, and in the process of reflashing it (long story), I needed to get out my trusty USB stick writer, a Zenbook UX305. Well, formerly trusty. After closing the lid, I noticed a small gap in the front. The laptop’s midsection has developed a serious case of the swoles. Okay, let’s get a 3rd gen Carbon X1 Thinkpad from the laptop shelf.| flak.tedunangst.com
While writing a project for Wilcox Tech that we hope to open source soon, I had reason to test the content (or, in some cases, presence) of tags in a Rails app. I came across a good s…| The Cat Fox Life
Recently I was debugging a piece of rather legacy React code and I've realized that some of the lazy components weren't unmounting properly for some reason, causing...| alinacierdem.com
People often talk about how bad AI is for the environment, but only focus on the operation of the LLMs themselves. They seem to ignore the much larger impact of what the AI scrapers are doing: not only do those take massive amounts of energy and bandwidth to run, but they’re impacting every single website operator on the planet by increasing their server requirements and bandwidth utilizatoin as well. And this makes it everyone’s problem, since everyone ends up having to foot the bill. It...| beesbuzz.biz
Could up the game of lossless power transmission, levitating trains, quantum computing, even energy-efficient detectors for space exploration.| Harvard Gazette
Researchers in China claim to have achieved quantum supremacy, the point where a quantum computer completes a task that would be virtually impossible for a classical computer to perform. The device, named Jiuzhang, reportedly conducted a calculation in 200 seconds that would take a regular…| New Atlas
There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. This thought-provoking book argues that, ironically, science’s credibility is being undermined by tools created by scientists themselves. Scientific disinformation and damaging conspiracy theories are rife because of the internet that science created, the scientific demand for empirical evidence and statistical significance leads to data torturing and confirmation bias, Read More ›Source| Books – Discovery Institute
Will machines someday replace attorneys, physicians, computer programmers, and world leaders? What about composers, painters, and novelists? Will tomorrow’s supercomputers duplicate and exceed humans? Are we just wetware, natural computers doomed to obsolescence by tomorrow’s ultra-powerful artificial intelligence? In Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will, Robert J. Marks II answers these and other fascinating questions with Read More ›Source| Books – Discovery Institute
Futurists insist that AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted human mind. What hope do we have against superintelligent machines? But we aren’t really on the path to developing intelligent machines. In fact, we don’t even know where that path might be. Source| Books – Discovery Institute
We live in an incredible period in history. The Computer Revolution may be even more life-changing than the Industrial Revolution. We can do things with computers that could never be done before, and computers can do things for us that could never be done before. But our love of computers should not cloud our thinking about their limitations. We are Read More ›Source| Books – Discovery Institute
Nearly a decade ago, I've written a blog on creating a debugging proxy server. Even though I could get away with a simple HTTP setup back in the day, web has changed a lot and almost every ...| alinacierdem.com
When the Apple II computer became available in 1977 it did not ship with a display monitor. Apple could not get FCC approval for a Radio Frequency (RF) Modulator connecting the computer to a standard Television. Instead Apple partnered with another company, M&R Enterprises of Sunnyvale California, to create the standalone Sup’R’ Mod. This device, … Continue reading "A 1982 USI Pi3 Amber CRT Monitor"| Henry Lowe
After a long and somewhat unreasonable delay, I have returned to bringing the Adélie Linux kernel package up to date with the latest LTS release, which at the time of this writing is 6.6.58. Presen…| The Cat Fox Life
While these inequalities were not caused by computers, they may well be reproduced and even accentuated by their use. We examine here three areas in which these problems arise: hardware, software, and classroom use. We present more examples on the third area because it is more apt to be overlooked in discussions of equity in computer use, and because the process by which inequalities are produced is more subtle.| Science for the People Archives
Our observations and interviews were guided by a common set of orienting questions regarding the relationship between the characteristics of schools, the students they educate and the policies and practices of computer use in the five districts we studied. We found a very strong relationship between (1) the rationale for computer use, (2) the source of funding for computer acquisition, (3) the type of students who are educated using computers, and (4) the type of instruction presented to stud...| Science for the People Archives
One of my best friends, Horst, is working on “bootstrapping” Java in the Adélie Linux distribution. This means we will be able to build the Java runtime entirely from source, not relying on binaries from Oracle or others – which means we can certify and trust that our Java is free from any third-party code. … Continue reading "A funny thing happened on the way to the Java bootstrap…"| The Cat Fox Life
0:00:00.0 Sean Carroll: Hello everyone and welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host Sean Carroll. Today's podcast has a good news, bad news situation. The bad news is there will be bad language in this podcast. Not because we're getting especially salty or profane or anything like that, but because we're going to be talking about computer simulations that were written and run using a language called Brainfuck. Sorry about that if you have sensitive ears, but this is a very real compute...| Sean Carroll
