superfan has recreated Frodo’s exact journey from Bag End to Mount Doom in a 10-hour virtual trek through Lord of the Rings Online, an 18-year-old MMO.

Despite Boromir’s iconic warning, it turns out you can, in fact, simply walk into Mordor

patterns that arise in origami can be translated into a set of points that together form the amplituhedron

French lawmaker calls for criminal inquiry into TikTok’s effect on children

CaptainObviousStrikes, Folge #85331

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show

Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog

xD bzw. what the hell happened here!?

climate misinformation is turning the crisis into a catastrophe, according to the authors of a new report

Nuclear weapons: France spent €90,000 countering research into impact of Pacific nuclear tests

“Without the Champions League, nothing would be normal,”

With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster

aha.

Lung cancer diagnoses on the rise among never-smokers worldwide

Research shows need for further studies into air pollution and other causal factors, expert says

largest study yet into the effects of cannabis on the brains of 18- to 36-year-olds has found that the drug can reduce brain function during cognitive tests

Vor 20 Jahren noch ein Grund für's Krankenhaus, heute und spätestens seit der Pandemie plötzlich ein Teil des "Lifestyle"

Noice!

Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’

800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China

packaging manipulates children into craving sweets

xD

"let it crash". The core idea behind it has to do with the fact that modern applications have a huge number of states that they can find themselves in. The more complex your application is, the more variables you need to keep track of everything. Eventually it becomes impossible for developers to predict all combinations of state that these variables will form. Once your app gets into an undesirable state, the best thing you can do is to reset it and start from a fresh, well known and correct state