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The Rat and Mouse Gazette published detailed guidance for owners caring for severely ill or aging rats, covering isolation from cage mates, warmth, bedding, and hygiene. It recommends moving very sick rats to a separate aquarium with soft bedding like old T-shirts, using a wrapped heating pad for warmth, and gently wiping down rats too weak to groom themselves.
After previously repairing a dead NZXT Signal 4K30 capture device by fixing a bad solder joint, the author found one HDMI source that produced garbled green and pink video during testing. The symptom matches an RGB/YUV colorspace mismatch and had already been reported by other users capturing from a PS5 and Nintendo Switch on Reddit. Since NZXT appears to have discontinued the product, the author decided to investigate the bug themselves using AI-assisted reverse engineering rather than contacting the company.
The Public Domain Review, a nonprofit publication, has shared a collection of historical photographs depicting elaborate sand sculptures created on the beaches of Atlantic City between roughly 1880 and 1920. The images document a once-popular seaside art form that flourished during that era. Alongside the feature, the outlet appealed to readers for donations, noting it operates without ads or paywalls.
OpenAI is gradually enabling GPT-6 Astra for Pro, Business and Enterprise users, who can find it labeled as GPT-6 Pro in the model picker rather than under the Astra name. Plus subscribers get access through the Work mode in web, mobile or desktop apps, while Codex users need CLI version 0.153.0 or later. Availability varies by platform, and Enterprise access also depends on workspace permissions.
Some iPhone users are encountering a 'Not Delivered' error when sending messages through Apple's Messages app. The issue can stem from the app juggling three separate messaging protocols—iMessage, RCS, and SMS—which can cause confusion when a message fails to route correctly between iPhone and Android users.
A hobbyist inspired by OpenAI's recent Navier-Stokes smoothness breakthrough created two retro MS-DOS style visualizations of fluid dynamics, using palette cycling and real-time particle animation techniques from 1990s demoscene coding. Both assembly programs were optimized to under 1,024 bytes and run authentically in DOSBox, alongside JavaScript versions for modern experimentation with expanded settings.
NASA and IBM have jointly published an open-source AI system, along with a compiled dataset drawing on over 30 aligned data layers from nine instruments across four lunar missions. The model merges multiple imaging types, angles, and resolutions to let researchers study the Moon's surface more comprehensively than existing tools allow.
IMAX's signature camera noise stems from its 15/70 film format, which uses a 65mm negative running horizontally across 15 sprocket holes per frame instead of the standard five, producing images roughly three times larger than conventional film. At 24 frames per second, this means 360 sprocket holes—about 5.6 feet of film—pass through the camera every second, requiring a powerful motor and mechanical components that create audible rattling during shooting.
Jefferson County's coroner reported that a 40-year-old unvaccinated woman died from respiratory failure linked to suspected measles after known exposure to an infected person. She had underlying conditions, including COPD, and relied on supplemental oxygen, which likely worsened her vulnerability to the virus. Her death is the third measles-related fatality in the US this year, all occurring in Pennsylvania.
A new BBC Sounds documentary, Doctor Who: Lost in Cambridge, revisits the 1979 filming of 'Shada,' a Douglas Adams-penned Doctor Who serial shot in Cambridge but never completed. Doctor Who Magazine editor Marcus Hearn shared his father's recollections as a Clare College porter, describing how Tom Baker repeatedly fell into the River Cam while learning to punt and needed blankets and brandy to recover his mood.
Signal is moving toward letting users register accounts without providing a phone number, using zero-knowledge proof cryptography to verify accounts without exposing identifying data. The technology mirrors methods Signal already uses for donation badges and group membership, where proofs confirm status without revealing which specific badge or group is involved.
In a TechCrunch interview, Insight Partners co-CEO Devin Parekh discussed why the $90 billion firm has spread investments across sectors instead of concentrating heavily on frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, even though it holds stakes in both. He also addressed missed deals such as legal-tech startup Legora, conflicts of interest in venture capital, and downplayed fears of AI-driven catastrophic risk, citing potential medical breakthroughs as a greater upside.