Image: Alienware If you’ve been on the hunt for a superpowered gaming laptop at an excellent price, then stop what you’re doing! I’ve found one for you. Right now at Best Buy, this Alienware 16X Aurora is $400 off, bringing its price down from $1,800 to just $1,400. Don’t scott at that tag, though, because …
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Image: Antonio Salaverry / Shutterstock.com Meta, the owner of WhatsApp, is planning to replace the current Windows app for a simpler web wrapper version. According to Windows Latest, the latest beta version of WhatsApp for PC users will abandon the native Windows UWP framework in favor of an app that’s built on Edge’s Chromium-based WebView2 …
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July 20, 2025 “How to Log” is a surprisingly deep topic in software engineering with many different viewpoints, and they’re almost all valid in different situations. I’m going to argue that when processing lots of events, it’s best to log every X seconds, rather than every X messages. This is a simple concept, but I’ve …
July 17, 2025 Albert Ziegler Head of AI This spring, we had a simple and, to my knowledge, novel idea that turned out to dramatically boost the performance of our vulnerability detection agents at XBOW. On fixed benchmarks and with a constrained number of iterations, we saw success rates rise from 25% to 40%, and …
connmap is an X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map. (Works on Wayland as well!) Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/h2337/connmap –depth 1, install the dependencies (see below), run make install, then run the resulting executable ./connmap.elf. If you want to run it without attaching it to …
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Have you ever had a magical experience with software? I have. The magic of Merlin With just 5 simple questions, you can almost identify any bird in North America. These questions are easy: location, time of year, size, color, and what the bird was doing. The Merlin app uses your answers to narrow down candidate …
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If you’re still on Windows 10, you have to know that Microsoft is ending support soon. Don’t let that end-of-life date creep up on you! You have to start thinking about what you’re going to do when it hits, and maybe that means upgrading to Windows 11. You can do that for free if your …
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