Author: Jack Slater
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Raspberry Pi OS Gets 64-bit Support
The Raspberry Pi lineup of single-board computers has had a few improvements lately with a new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 that ended up being similar in performance to the Raspberry Pi 3. Finally, the Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS (previously called Raspbian), is getting official 64-bit support despite the hardware being capable of 64-bit instructions since…
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Remembering the ‘Aqua Teen’ bomb scare that shut down Boston
The original version of this website had the Mooninites borrowed prominently in the logo, so I have to link to Ilana Gordon writing for Input about the Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare that took over Boston 15 years ago: The devices that temporarily paralyzed Boston were black panels measuring around 14 inches tall by 11 inches…
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“The entire crypto fantasy…” according to Jon von Tetzchner
The Co-Founder and CEO of the company behind the Vivaldi browser, Jon von Tetzchner, in a post on the Vivaldi blog: The entire crypto fantasy is designed to lure you into a system that is extremely inefficient, consumes vast amounts of energy, uses large amounts of hardware that could better be spent doing something else…
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James Webb Space Telescope Launching Today
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally launching today, at 7:20 AM Eastern Standard Time or 12:20 UTC. 30 years in the making, NASA has a video feed that starts very soon of the European Space Agency’s Ariane 5 rocket that will carry the new telescope to space where it’ll take a good trip to…