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- Perseverance Takes Its First Drive on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover rolled about 6.5 meters across Jezero Crater on March 4, and its landing site now bears a new name.
- Nvidia's RTX 3060 Mining Limiter Cracked Within Days of Launch
A driver update briefly unlocked the RTX 3060's full hash rate, forcing Nvidia to ship a patch just over a week after the card launched.
- HAFNIUM Is Tearing Through Exchange Servers, and You Need to Patch Right Now
Microsoft disclosed active exploitation of multiple Exchange Server zero-days by the HAFNIUM group, and admins everywhere are scrambling to patch.
- Why Jezero Crater Is Mars' Most Interesting Address Right Now
A look at why NASA picked Jezero Crater for Perseverance, and what makes its ancient river delta such a promising place to hunt for past life.
- Why 2021's Chip Shortage Is Hitting Gamers and PC Builders Hardest
A global semiconductor crunch is colliding with crypto demand to make GPUs and next-gen consoles nearly impossible to buy at MSRP.
- One Year of Remote-Work Software: How Dev Tools Held Up
A year into the pandemic shift to remote work, looking at how collaboration and dev tooling scaled - and what habits might outlast the office return.
- February in Hardware: Chip Shortages, GPU Scarcity, and a $425M Gaming Bet
A month-end look at how the chip shortage kept squeezing consoles and GPUs while Nvidia and HP doubled down on gaming demand.
- What's Next for the Mars Fleet: Ingenuity's Helicopter Gambit
With three missions now at Mars, focus shifts to Perseverance's plan to deploy the experimental Ingenuity helicopter this spring.
- Facebook Blinks: Australian News Returns After Canberra Deal
Facebook agreed to lift its week-long Australian news ban after the government agreed to amend the News Media Bargaining Code.
- Nvidia's RTX 3060 Arrives at $329, With a Mining Blocker Built In
Nvidia's mainstream RTX 3060 launches at $329 with 12GB of memory and a first-of-its-kind Lite Hash Rate limiter aimed at crypto miners.
- One Year Into the GPT-3 API: What Are Developers Actually Building?
A year after OpenAI opened commercial access to GPT-3, a look at the copywriting tools, chatbots, and code helpers developers are shipping.
- HP Buys HyperX for $425 Million, Right as Fry's Electronics Closes Its Doors
HP is acquiring gaming brand HyperX from Kingston for $425 million, the same day Fry's Electronics announced it's shutting down after 36 years.
- Why 'Zero Trust' Became Security's Favorite Buzzword
Remote work is permanent and the perimeter is gone, so security teams are pitching zero trust architectures instead of trusting the corporate network.
- Perseverance Sends Home Mars's First Color Pictures and the Sound of Wind
Days after landing in Jezero Crater, Perseverance beamed back color images and the first audio recording of Martian wind.
- TypeScript Is Eating JavaScript, One Codebase at a Time
Static typing is winning over plain JS as remote teams lean on TypeScript to catch bugs the code review chat can no longer catch.
- Can't Find a PS5? Gamers Are Buying Headsets and Keyboards Instead
With consoles impossible to find, gamers are pouring money into headsets, keyboards, and mice, turning peripheral brands into hot commodities.
- Perseverance Sticks the Landing on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover touched down in Jezero Crater today, the most precise Mars landing ever attempted.
- Facebook Just Turned Off News in an Entire Country
Facebook blocked all news links in Australia overnight, and the collateral damage hit health and emergency services pages too.
- Why ARM Laptops Are Suddenly Interesting
Three months after the M1 MacBooks shipped, their battery life and efficiency are forcing a serious rethink of ARM in laptops.
- 60 More Starlink Satellites Reach Orbit, But SpaceX Loses the Booster
A Falcon 9 delivered 60 Starlink satellites Monday night, but its first stage missed the droneship, prompting a review of upcoming launches.
- Can an AI Chatbot Actually Be Your Valentine?
A Valentine's Day look at Replika and the growing world of AI companion apps built on large language models.
- The Pandemic Wearables Boom: Fitness Trackers and Rings Go Mainstream
Home workouts and health anxiety have pushed Fitbit and Oura from niche gadgets to everyday health monitors during the pandemic.
- Tianwen-1 Slides Into Mars Orbit, and China Joins a Very Short List
China's Tianwen-1 orbiter-lander-rover mission entered Mars orbit on Feb 10, becoming just the sixth successful arrival at the planet.
- Git-First and Loving It: What a Year of Remote Work Taught Us About Dev Tooling
A year into distributed work, pull-request-centric, async-friendly workflows are quietly replacing centralized dev processes.
- Automakers Slash Production as the Chip Shortage Bites Harder
Ford and GM confirm deep Q1 production cuts as the global chip shortage forces automakers to idle plants and delay vehicles.
- UAE's Hope Probe Enters Mars Orbit, Making History for the Arab World
The UAE's Hope orbiter reached Mars orbit today, making the UAE the first Arab nation to reach another planet.
- CD Projekt Red Hit by Ransomware, Attackers Claim to Have Source Code
CD Projekt Red says it was hit by ransomware; attackers claim to have stolen source for Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, and Gwent.
- PS5 and Xbox Series X Restocks Are Still a Nightmare Three Months In
Three months after launch, PS5 and Xbox Series X remain nearly impossible to buy at retail, and Microsoft says the shortage runs at least through June.
- A Year Into Remote Work, Developer Tools Are Having a Moment
GitHub's 2020 Octoverse data shows Git-centric tools climbing the ranks as distributed teams lean on async collaboration.
- Mars Traffic Jam: Three Missions Converge on the Red Planet This Month
Hope, Tianwen-1, and Perseverance all arrive at Mars within nine days of each other this February.