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Over the past fifty years, free and open source software has gone from little-known to a critical component of today’s infrastructure. Free software is usually maintained by voluntary maintainers, but when they become critical infrastructure, the role of the maintainer changes. They used to release code out of their own interest, not to meet the […]

Paramount Pictures released the first trailer (YouTube) for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves at Comic-Con International in San Diego. This is the third time that the famous role-playing game D&D has been adapted into a movie. The first two were released in 2000 and 2005, and “Glory of the Thieves” was announced as a

An An, the oldest male captive giant panda, has died in Hong Kong at the age of 35 (equivalent to 105 human years). Ocean Park Hong Kong announced on Facebook that An An was euthanized due to his deteriorating health. An An came to Hong Kong in 1999, and Jia Jia, a female giant panda

When cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announces that it supports trading of a new token, its value usually explodes. If someone buys a lot before a new token goes public, they can expect to benefit a lot from the rise in value. This also means that the news of the new token listing involves insider trading .

Baidu has released the Apollo RT6 , an L4 self-driving car, and the company hopes to launch its driverless taxi service in 2023. The new car is priced at around $37,000, roughly half the $71,000 price of the previous version of the car with a regular steering wheel, released in June 2021. Robin Li, Baidu’s

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN ) released the latest edition of the Red List of Threatened Species in the World, declaring that the Yangtze sturgeon (Acipenser dabryanus) has changed from critically endangered to wild extinction , and confirmed that the white sturgeon (Psephurus gladius) has become extinct.

China’s largest chip maker, SMIC, has begun mass production of 7-nanometer chips, which SMIC calls its 7-nanometer process N+2. The company did not officially announce the news, but reverse engineering firm TechInsights came to this conclusion by analyzing SMIC’s foundry chips. This means that SMIC is approaching TSMC and Samsung in process technology, and is

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who has won the chess world championship five times, has announced that he will not play in next year’s world championship, giving up the title he has held since 2013. Magnus Carlsen said he had been thinking about it for more than a year, he was not motivated to play

Microsoft updated its App Store rules last month to include a “don’t try to profit from open source or other software that is usually available for free, and don’t try to overprice the features and functionality a product offers.” Microsoft’s original intentions are believed to be well-intentioned, to curb the practice of repackaging free open

Astronomers have discovered, for the first time, a dormant black hole nine times the mass of the sun outside the Milky Way. The research report was published in the journal Nature Astronomy. The researchers searched the black hole binary system for more than two years before discovering the dormant black hole known as VFTS 243.

The KF-21 Boramae, a fourth-generation fighter jet jointly developed by South Korea and Indonesia, made its maiden flight on July 19 (YouTube). The KF-21 is a twin-engine fighter jet using two F414-GE-400K turbofan engines, with a maximum range of 2,900 kilometers and a maximum speed of Mach 1.81. According to the agreement, the Korean government

Astronomers at MIT and across Canada and the United States have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a distant galaxy that blinks with surprising regularity. The signal is classified as a fast radio burst (FRB), an intense burst of radio waves from an unknown astrophysical source that typically lasts a few milliseconds at

Kastle Systems, which provides building security services to more than 2,600 buildings in the U.S., said only 30 percent of its workers were in the office on Fridays in June, the lowest figure of any workday. That compares with 41% on Monday, the second-lowest day, and 50% on Tuesday, the day with the highest percentage