How Do You Measure Snow From Space? First, Climb a Mountain.

A new satellite could transform how water is studied worldwide. But to help unlock its capabilities, scientists first needed ...

Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.
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I set up this open-source tool to see what my network was doing, and I found things I didn't expect

Ntopng breaks down and simplifies complex data, exposing bandwidth hogs, suspicious activities, and more.
Hackaday

Writing An Open-World Engine For The Nintendo 64

Anyone who has ever played Nintendo 64 games is probably familiar with the ways that large worlds in these games got split up, with many loading zones. Another noticeable aspect is that of the ...

Why China Is Winning The Open Source AI Race

China begins to take over the open source AI race as models like DeepSeek and Qwen see greater adoption among developers.
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100 new alien worlds: Scientists find hidden haul in data from NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...

Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right?

This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions ...

Build Your Own Private ChatGPT: How to Run Open-Source AI Locally

How to run open-source AI models, comparing four approaches from local setup with Ollama to VPS deployments using Docker for ...
Decrypt

What Is Bluesky? The Decentralized Social Media Rival to Elon Musk's X

While Bluesky seems familiar on the surface, the AT protocol architecture it runs on has the potential to be revolutionary.