On April 30, 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web to the planet, free-of-charge.
The “collaborative information system” was used by the scientists at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, to communicate without delay across countries and continents, but deciding this tool was too useful to keep to themselves, the boffins over at CERN handed out the concept and code for everyone to use.
CERN wrote a letter on April 30 titled “Statement concerning CERN W3 software release into public domain,” (via The Register). It reads:
“The following CERN software is hereby put into the public domain:
- W 3 basic (“line-mode”) client
- W 3 basic server
- W 3 library of common code.
“CERN relinquishes all intellectual property rights to this code, both source and binary form and permission is granted for anyone to use, duplicate, modify, and redistribute it.”
There’s a great interview with Walter Hoogland, former CERN directo…
Whether you just need a helpful clue to point you in the right direction, general tips to improve your daily Wordle, or desperately want someone to tell you the answer to the February 9 (600) puzzle before you lose your win streak, all the Wordle advice you could ever wish for is on this very page.
The greens came early today—well, most of them did. Towards the end, I had that one dreaded gap left to fill and more potentially winning letters left than I had guesses to use up. Thankfully blind luck brought me to the answer just in time.
Wordle hint
A Wordle hint for Thursday, February 9
Today’s word is the name for the area in a theatre the actors usually perform from, but it can also refer to a specific part of a long process too, amongst other things. Something that’s just begun might be described as being in the opening _____, for example. There are two vowels to find today.
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AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX made their debut in December 2022. They’re high-end cards made with the most powerful RDNA 3 GPU: Navi 31. Flagship cards are always the first to release, and normally, the next GPU to be released would be one tier lower. Not this time, though.
The next card to be released was the Navi 33-based RX 7600, a full five months later than the RX 7900 cards. Where the heck are Navi 32-based RX 7800 cards? They remain conspicuously absent. There could be any number of reasons why. Maybe AMD isn’t happy with the performance, or the GPU needed a re-spin, or there was some unexpected errata. We’ll probably never know.
While we wait for Navi 32 cards, Igor’s Lab undertook an interesting experiment. He took AMD’s Radeon Pro W7800 graphics card, disabled half of its 32GB of memory and tweaked the power limits in order to simulate what to expect from a hypothetical RX 7800 XT.
Before looking at the results, it’s important to remember that t…
Two months before this week’s mass layoff of more than 200 staff at Bungie, “Payback,” the codename for a third-person perspective spinoff project set in the Destiny universe, was cancelled in order to prioritize development of the upcoming Marathon extraction shooter, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier.
According to the blog post from Bungie CEO Pete Parsons that announced the layoffs—which was apparently how some staff got the news—the studio’s second major downsizing in less than a year is the result of an “overly ambitious” management decision to initiate “several incubation projects,” which left Bungie’s development staff spread “too thin, too quickly.” One of those projects was Payback, a Destiny spinoff that Schreier’s sources said would “shake up the formula in major ways.”
Described as “a significant departure” that would borrow elements from Warframe and Genshin Impact, Payback traded Destiny’s first-person pe…