What effect does being deprived of social interaction and forced into 'loneliness' have on the brain and body?

Science

I tried three types of 'Red Pot Supervised Honkara', a retort with a whole chili pepper for spicy lovers, supervised by a chili pepper specialty store.

Tasting

OpenAI's open weight model 'gpt-oss' can be easily used on personal PCs using Ollama

Review

Headline news for August 6, 2025

Headline

Free ad blocker 'uBlock Origin Lite' finally available for Safari

Review

Reports say the US is demanding TSMC acquire 49% of Intel shares as a condition for lowering tariffs on Taiwan from 20%

Note

'Backblaze Statistical Data by Manufacturer and Model,' which visualizes HDD failure rates from actual operational status, will be released in the second quarter of 2025

Hardware

TSMC employee arrested on suspicion of leaking confidential information about 2nm semiconductors, Tokyo Electron also under investigation

Note

Intel is struggling to manufacture its 18A process, with only 10% meeting specifications by summer 2025

Hardware

DRAM prices are expected to double in just one month from May 2025 and remain high, leading to speculation that China's CXMT may stop producing DDR4 and focus on DDR5 and HBM.

Hardware

NVIDIA officially declares 'no backdoors, no kill switches, no spyware,' while the Trump administration is considering ways to track semiconductors

Hardware

How does the morning-after pill work? What are its side effects and how does it relate to BMI?

Science

ElevenLabs announces 'Eleven Music,' a commercially available studio-quality sound generator

Software

OpenAI announces OpenWeight AI inference model 'gpt-oss', lightweight version can run on laptops and smartphones

Software

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1 with improved coding capabilities

Software

Google announces 'Genie 3', an AI that can create a virtual world that can be moved by simply entering text, which may bring innovation to game development, robotics research, etc.

Software

'macOS Tahoe 26' will redesign the Mac storage icon 'Macintosh HD,' which has been around for 26 years

Software

'Google Chrome 139' stable release, abolishes automatic detection of ISO-2022-JP

Software

What are the results of asking deeper questions about the use of AI in writing classes rather than simply banning it?

Note

'Is it really foss?' to check if it is truly 'free and open source'

Web Service

We took a look at the exterior of Samsung's foldable smartphones, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7. The specs are quite different between the horizontal and vertical folding types.

Review