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Our Best View Yet of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

A comet unlike any seen before has fixated astronomers around the world. An observatory in Hawaii has unveiled the most stunning image of this ancient interstellar visitor yet. The Gemini North telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii, recently snapped a close-up of 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever discovered. The telescope’s highly sensitive Multi-Object Spectrograph captured the comet’s compact coma—a cloud of gas and dust surrounding its icy nucleus—in striking detail. 3I/ATLAS is inbound t

Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices

An international law enforcement action dismantled a Romanian ransomware gang known as 'Diskstation,' which encrypted the systems of several companies in the Lombardy region, paralyzing their businesses. The law enforcement operation codenamed 'Operation Elicius' was coordinated by Europol and also involved police forces in France and Romania. Diskstation is a ransomware operation that targets Synology Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices, which are commonly used by companies for centralized

Synology masters both ease and control with BeeStation and DiskStation

Synology is synonymous with NAS, or network-attached storage, and there’s good reason for that. The DiskStation line of products is reliable and robust with a great community that supports consumer and professional use cases. More recently, Synology has reached beyond traditional NAS solutions with BeeStation, a private and family cloud storage solution. I’ve recently been testing the BeeStation Plus, a somewhat less capable, but much more approachable, product, and the DiskStation DS925+, a tra

Prime Day Is the Prime Time to Add a SanDisk Memory Card to Your Camera or Laptop for Peanuts

It’s not here quite yet but the day may come when SanDisk enters that rarified category of brands that are synonymous with their entire product category, like Kleenex or Band-Aids or Popsicles. When you think of a SD card to add to your camera, laptop, or other device, you think of SanDisk, and Prime Day is a great time to think of adding a SanDisk or two to your tech collection now that the 256GB Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-II model is just $53. SanDisk did not come by its stellar reputation lightly.

This Samsung 2TB External SSD Costs Almost Nothing on Prime Day, Only $0.055 per GB

SanDisk is the brand of choice for external SSDs whose prices sell out by the truckload during major sale events. This Prime Day, Amazon is offering record-breaking deals on all storage densities in the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD line, and they are so good that it’s creating waves amongst geeks. The best-seller of the 2TB model is available for only $119 (down from $209), which is an astonishing $0.055 per gig. The 1TB one is also not to be overlooked at $77 (down from $129), or about $0.077

SanDisk 1TB SSD Gets Prime Day Slammed, Now at Its Lowest Price on Amazon

SanDisk has long been the gold standard for consumer SSDs and Prime Day is always the best time to upgrade your storage with one of these high-performance drives. Amazon holds this event as its biggest sale of the year because it offers massive discounts on prime tech products. These deals are so much of a bargain that inventory does not typically last long, so it’s wise to act quickly while supplies last. This year, the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD in 1TB is now priced at just $99 which is a s

After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM

On Tuesday, software engineer Doug Brown published his discovery of how to trigger a long-known but previously inaccessible Easter egg in the Power Mac G3's ROM: a hidden photo of the development team that nobody could figure out how to display for 27 years. While Pierre Dandumont first documented the JPEG image itself in 2014, the method to view it on the computer remained a mystery until Brown's reverse engineering work revealed that users must format a RAM disk with the text "secret ROM image

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I tried using the world's thinnest SSD enclosure and it exceeded my expectations

ZDNET's key takeaways The Sharge SSD has thin and sleek design that not only looks good but also dissipates heat really well. It takes up to 4TB of storage. You do have to deal with some tiny fasteners, as it's a compact SSD. View now at Amazon Do you need more storage for your iPhone, MacBook, or pretty much any device with a USB-C port? Do you need something faster than a flash drive? A portable SSD enclosure is the way to go. While most SSD enclosures are rather chunky, accessory maker Sh

Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now. This story starts with me on a lazy Sunday using Hex Fiend in conjunction with Eric Harmon’s Mac ROM template (ROM Fiend) to look through the resources stored in the Power Mac G3’s ROM. This ROM was used in the beige desktop, minitower, and all-in-one G3 models from 1997 through 1999. As I write this post in mid-2025, I’m having a really diff

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I tried using the world's thinnest SSD enclosure - it made a big impact on my workflow

ZDNET's key takeaways The Sharge SSD has thin and sleek design that not only looks good but also dissipates heat really well. It takes up to 4TB of storage. You do have to deal with some tiny fasteners, as it's a compact SSD. $39 at Amazon Do you need more storage for your iPhone, MacBook, or pretty much any device with a USB-C port? Do you need something faster than a flash drive? A portable SSD enclosure is the way to go. While most SSD enclosures are rather chunky, accessory maker Sharge

I tested the world's thinnest SSD enclosure - here's why it's the perfect PC accessory for me

ZDNET's key takeaways The Sharge SSD has thin and sleek design that not only looks good but also dissipates heat really well. It takes up to 4TB of storage. You do have to deal with some tiny fasteners, as it's a compact SSD. $39 at Amazon Do you need more storage for your iPhone, MacBook, or pretty much any device with a USB-C port? Do you need something faster than a flash drive? A portable SSD enclosure is the way to go. While most SSD enclosures are rather chunky, accessory maker Sharge

Apple introduces ASIF disk image format in macOS 26 Tahoe for faster virtual storage

What just happened? Apple's latest update for Macs, macOS 26 Tahoe, introduces a significant leap forward in disk image technology with the debut of the ASIF format – a development that could reshape how users and developers handle virtual storage on Apple silicon Macs. For years, disk images have been a staple for Mac users, enabling everything from encrypted file storage to virtual machine management. However, these images have long suffered from sluggish performance, especially when encrypti

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Filedb: Disk-based key-value store inspired by Bitcask

filedb A key-value store inspired by Bitcask. FileDB is a Zig-implementation of Bitcask by Riak1 paper. FileDB stores record metadata in a log-structured hashtable and parallely keeps 1 disk file open for inserting records in append-only mode. On restarts or MAX_FILE_REACHED , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading only . , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading . A compaction process running every config.compactionInterval se

Filedb: Disk Based Key-Value Store Inspired by Bitcask

filedb A key-value store inspired by Bitcask. FileDB is a Zig-implementation of Bitcask by Riak1 paper. FileDB stores record metadata in a log-structured hashtable and parallely keeps 1 disk file open for inserting records in append-only mode. On restarts or MAX_FILE_REACHED , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading only . , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading . A compaction process running every config.compactionInterval se

Why does my ripped CD have messed up track names? And why is one track missing?

A delve into CD ripping and metadata As of late, I've been getting into growing my music collection by buying and ripping CDs. That was all fine and dandy until I discovered that one of my albums, Echo Afternoon by Finish Ticket, was slightly off. On the left, the artist's Bandcamp page. On the right, my ripped files in VLC. There are three problems here: One track has changed name - Raincloud has turned into "Rainclous". Nothing Coming Soon should be 41 seconds long, but is instead 4 minute

Why Does My Ripped CD Have Messed Up Track Names? and Why Is One Track Missing?

A delve into CD ripping and metadata As of late, I've been getting into growing my music collection by buying and ripping CDs. That was all fine and dandy until I discovered that one of my albums, Echo Afternoon by Finish Ticket, was slightly off. On the left, the artist's Bandcamp page. On the right, my ripped files in VLC. There are three problems here: One track has changed name - Raincloud has turned into "Rainclous". Nothing Coming Soon should be 41 seconds long, but is instead 4 minute

macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format

Disk images have been valuable tools marred by poor performance. In the wrong circumstances, an encrypted sparse image (UDSP) stored on the blazingly fast internal SSD of an Apple silicon Mac may write files no faster than 100 MB/s, typical for a cheap hard drive. One of the important new features introduced in macOS 26 Tahoe is a new disk image format that can achieve near-native speeds: ASIF, documented here. This has been detailed as a major improvement in lightweight virtualisation, where i

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