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GitHub has officially archived the Atom project’s codebase into read-only mode. Once a high-profile text editor, Atom released version 1.0 in May 2015, attracting millions of developers. Microsoft launched its own text editor, VS Code, in 2015. After acquiring GitHub in 2018, Atom became a Microsoft project. In the past few years, the number of […]

Concorde, the world’s first supersonic airliner, was decommissioned 18 years ago as an engineering feat but never profitable. Startup Boom Supersonic is trying to change that. The company’s planned supersonic airliner, Overture, is modeled using software, built from ultra-light materials and uses ultra-efficient engines. This week the company revealed Overture’s Symphony engine, designed and consulted

A planned spacewalk by Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin has been canceled following a leak from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft MS-22 docked with the International Space Station. Ground teams in Moscow, Russia, are assessing the nature of the leaked fluid and the impact on the integrity of the Soyuz spacecraft. The Soyuz spacecraft

University of Florida student Jack Sweeney Elon Musk’s personal Twitter account and @ElonJet, the bot account he ran to track the movements of Elon Musk’s private jets, were both blocked around the same time, and Musk formally filed a lawsuit against him. Musk claimed his son’s car was being followed, and the stalker even blocked

Tesla’s Model S and Model X electric vehicles are beginning to integrate Valve’s Steam platform, and passengers will be able to play thousands of Steam games on the display. Tesla rolled out the Steam Beta to the Model S and Model X as part of a holiday update. Steam integration is only available on the

Can you imagine the scene of aerosols containing various germs splashing when flushing the toilet? US scientists have used green lasers and camera equipment to reveal how tiny water droplets invisible to the naked eye are quickly ejected into the air when people flush open toilets in public bathrooms. For the first time, the study

FTX chief engineer Nishad Singh made secret changes to the trading platform’s software in August 2020, exempting founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)’s hedge fund Alameda Research. The original function of the software was to automatically sell Alameda’s assets after it lost too much of its borrowed capital. Singh explained in a note to the modified software

Twenty years after releasing Dwarf Fortress for free, brothers Tarn and Zach Adams have a new identity: millionaires. The image upgrade version of “Dwarf Fortress” was released on December 6, and the price is 30 US dollars. The price in different regions varies slightly, and the price in China is 108 yuan. It sold 160,000

Microsoft canceled multiple Microsoft hardware developer accounts because the drivers submitted by these accounts through the Windows Hardware Developer Program certification program were signed and used for cyber attacks including ransomware. Security firms SentinelOne, Mandiant and Sophos reported the activity on Oct. 19, and a subsequent investigation found that multiple developer accounts in the Microsoft

Linux 6.2 incorporates a patch submitted by Huawei developer Zhen Lei, which increases the search speed of kallsyms_lookup_name() by 715 times. kallsyms_lookup_name() is used to look up the address of a symbol by name, and can be used to look up any symbol in the kernel symbol table. Zhen Lei previously explained in the patch

Billionaire Elon Musk attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci (Anthony Fauci), the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on his Twitter platform last Sunday, saying that Fauci should be sued, accusing Fauci of Chi lied to Congress and funded research that killed millions. Fauci responded to Musk’s attacks via Nature, saying he

Synopsys’ The Cost of Poor Software Quality in the US: A 2022 Report estimates that software quality issues cost the US $2.4 trillion in 2022. Software quality issues include cyber attacks caused by existing vulnerabilities, intricate problems between software supply chains, and the rapid accumulation of technical debt is becoming more and more influential. Cybercrime

The Bugzilla project is alive and well. Project lead Dave Miller announced plans for future releases. Bugzilla is a web-based bug tracking system and testing tool originally released in 1998 as part of the Mozilla.org project, and currently supported versions include the Bugzilla 4.4 branch released in 2013 and the Bugzilla 5.0 branch released in