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Advocacy groups representing community banks have filed a lawsuit against the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, challenging its decision to grant national bank charters to crypto companies. The suit argues that the regulator overstepped its authority in approving these charters for firms operating in the digital asset space.
Developer SupraGSX has created a custom Nvidia ForceWare 382.69 driver that brings support for Pascal-generation GPUs, including the GTX 10-series and Quadro P2000-P6000 cards, to 32-bit Windows XP. The driver combines code from several older Nvidia releases and adds modern display features like DisplayPort HBR2/HBR3 and HDMI 2.0 support, with most cards supported except the GT 1030 and experimental support for the GTX 1050 Ti.
Many wireless peripherals, such as USB dongles for mice and keyboards, operate on the 2.4GHz radio frequency, a congested band also used by microwave ovens and older Wi-Fi gear. This overcrowding can interfere with Wi-Fi signals and slow down networks, especially for routers that are not running exclusively on the less crowded 5GHz or 6GHz bands used by Wi-Fi 6E and 7.
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter, Apple's redesigned MacBook Pro will be 'significantly' lighter than current models, thanks to reengineered internals and miniaturized components. The laptops, expected within a month, will also be Apple's first with a touchscreen and Tandem OLED display, running M5 Pro and M5 Max chips rather than higher-end M6 parts.
AstroHelm is a newly launched app that uses a phone's camera to match visible stars against sky data, pinpointing a telescope or telephoto lens's exact aim with sub-arcminute accuracy. The plate-solving process runs entirely on-device, requiring no internet connection, and the app works with any telescope or lens rather than proprietary hardware. It also suggests observation targets based on location, time, moonlight and twilight conditions, and can be controlled remotely from a second device.
A new study by University of Oklahoma sociologist Samuel Perry, published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, analyzed decades of General Social Survey data from 1989 to 2024. It found that Americans who scored lower on a cognitive vocabulary test were more likely to say being Christian is important to being 'truly American' and more likely to oppose the Supreme Court's ban on school prayer.
Lukas Vogel, creator of DoomQL, has built SQLDoom, a project that runs Doom's game logic inside the CedarDB database using 5,900 lines of SQL code. A Python frontend only handles graphics, sound and input, while all game calculations and state updates happen through SQL statements against database tables converted from Doom's original WAD files.
The article recounts the Japanese legend of the senbazuru, in which folding one thousand paper cranes grants a wish, tied to the story of Sadako Sasaki, a 1945 Hiroshima bombing survivor who folded cranes while hoping to recover. It notes the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima, unveiled in 1958, where cranes from around the world are displayed, and explains that pandemic travel restrictions cut visitor numbers and crane donations, prompting Mazda's distributors, employees and local communities worldwide to fold and send cranes to the memorial.
Pairing a phone with a rental car's entertainment system via Bluetooth can prompt a sync of contacts and other data, which may be stored on the vehicle's infotainment system indefinitely unless manually deleted. Using a USB cable with Apple CarPlay or Android Auto instead offers encrypted connections that don't expose this data. Rental companies like Avis state in their policies that customers are responsible for removing their own data and that the company isn't liable for information left behind.
The U.S. Army's 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Bavaria says it conducted a live kinetic strike using an Orqa MRM2-10 drone its own soldiers assembled, fitted with a 3D-printed casing and electronic arming device dubbed the 'Dragoon Bomb.' Unit commanders say the explosive payload can be modified with ball bearings for anti-personnel use or shaped charges against light armor, and describe the strike as conducted without contractor or outside unit support.
A technology explainer distinguishes bandwidth, throughput and latency as separate measures of internet performance. Bandwidth is the maximum data capacity of a connection, while throughput—commonly called 'internet speed'—is the actual rate of data delivery, which can never exceed bandwidth due to factors like router limitations and network congestion. Latency, measured in milliseconds as ping, reflects the round-trip delay for data to reach a server and return, influenced by physical distance and connection type.
Smart ring maker Oura delayed its planned initial public offering this week, citing uncertain IPO market conditions despite signs of strong investor demand. The pullback comes as Meta, Apple, Google and OpenAI all push new AI-powered wearables—including Meta's Muse Charm and Ray-Ban glasses, OpenAI's Dots assistant, and Apple's listening-enabled Watch—into a market increasingly dogged by privacy complaints from users who say the devices can secretly record others.