Hackaday

Inside SKALA: How Chornobyl’s Reactor Was Actually Controlled

Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor.

How Anonymous Bettors Cashed In on the Iran Strike, Just Hours Before It Happened

Polymarket users placed hundreds of bets of at least $1,000 predicting an imminent American strike, raising concerns about ...

Hacked traffic cameras and US intelligence: How a plot to kill Iran’s supreme leader came together

The traffic cameras on the streets of Tehran provided a real-time view of the targets. Hacked years ago, the cameras allowed Israel to map the city in detail, establish patterns of movement, and build ...

How a controversial ‘mind control’ technique turned a gun novice into a sharpshooter — in just three days

Three days and a series of visualization exercises and mantras later, the New Yorker was ready for action. But this was far from your typical woo-woo meditation session. Lescaze reached her goal using ...

He Hatched a Plot to Kill Trump on a Napkin. The F.B.I. Was Listening.

Testimony and evidence in Asif Merchant’s trial has so far portrayed him as a zealous yet bumbling operative who never came ...

Forget 'debloat apps.' Sophia Script gives you real control over Windows 11. Here's how it works.

The Sophia Script is an open-source PowerShell module designed to debloat and fine-tune Windows 11 (and Windows 10 ). It is ...
IEEE

AIvaluate: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Answer Script Evaluation Using Large Language Models and Semantic Vector Indexing

Abstract: In conventional educational environments, it is labor-intensive, subjective, and susceptible to human error to hand-mark descriptive answers. This article ...
eLife

Inverted encoding of neural responses to audiovisual stimuli reveals super-additive multisensory enhancement

A multivariate analysis of electroencephalography activity reveals super-additive enhancements to the neural encoding of audiovisual stimuli, providing new insights into how the brain integrates ...
ZDNet

How to use your Android phone to master Linux Bash scripts (instead of doomscrolling)

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
Wall Street Journal

The case for cursive.

Free Expression is a daily newsletter on American life, politics and culture from the Opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal. Sign up and start reading Free Expression today. Cursive is back.
GitHub

Provides components that can use equations to control any value in the Unity editor without needing to write additional scripts. It works similarly to animation modifiers in ...

The Animation Modifier component allows you add basic animation to your Unity scene without needing to write any extra scripts. Here's an example where a Float Animation Modifier is being used to ...