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If you’ve ever wondered how the Internet Archive uploads all the physical documents on its site, now you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the process. The Internet Archive launched a new YouTube livestream that shows the digitization of microfiche in real time — complete with some relaxing, lo-fi beats. Microfiche is a sheet of film that contains multiple images of miniaturized documents. It’s an old form of storing newspapers, court documents, government records, and other important documents. The Internet Archive uses these microfiche cards to digitize and upload documents to its online library. The livestream shows a close-up look at one of the five microfiche digitization stations at the organization’s Richmond, California location, along with a look at the document that it’s working on. App maker Sophia Tung, who created a LoFi music livestream showing Waymo’s robotaxis returning to their parking lot, also set up the microfiche livestream for the Internet Archive. “Operators feed microfiche cards beneath a high-resolution camera, which captures multiple detailed images of each sheet,” Chris Freeland, the Internet Archive’s director of library services, writes in a post on the site. “Software stitches these images together, after which other team members use automated tools to identify and crop up to 100 individual pages per card.” From there, the Internet Archive processes the pages, makes them text-searchable, and then uploads them to its public collections. The livestream runs from Monday through Friday from 10:30AM ET to 6:30PM ET. “During the day, you’ll see scanners working on custom machines to digitize all the microfiche in the world,” Tung says. “During the off hours, you can also see everything else that the Archive has to offer, like silent films in the public domain or historical pictures from NASA.”

Bevy ECS in Godot Engine / News / May 22, 2025 / Godot, Rust The Bevy game engine is an open-source data driven ECS based game engine using the Rust programming language that lacks an editor. The Godot game engine is the most popular open-source project with a robust set of tools and an integrated editor. So what happens if you add Rust and ECS from Bevy to the Godot game engine? That is exactly what these two GDExtension based open-source projects do, they bring Bevy to Godot. godot-bevy Godot-Bevy is a Rust library that brings Bevy’s powerful Entity Component System (ECS) to the versatile Godot Game Engine. Use Bevy’s ergonomic and high-performance Rust ECS within your Godot projects to get the best of both worlds. Features Seamlessly integrate Bevy ECS in Godot 4 projects Use Bevy systems to control Godot nodes Spawn Godot scenes from Bevy Maintain clean separation between ECS logic and Godot’s scene tree Leverage the full power of Bevy’s Rust-based ECS while using Godot’s editor and rendering capabilities Systems can be scheduled for the visual or physics frame bevy_godot4 Bring the design power of Bevy’s ECS to the mature engine capabilities of Godot 4. At it’s core, this crate is just a godot Node that stores a Bevy App that you add as an autoload in your Godot project. However, this library also provides utilities to be able to work with Godot nodes from within the Bevy framework. The architecture in this crate is based on bevy_godot, a similar crate for working with Godot 3 and GDNative. In the video below we show you how to get started with both of these Bevy -> Godot extensions, including a few install hiccups you may encounter along the way.

Microsoft has just released two new Witcher 3-themed Xbox controllers that look pretty awesome. Both Witcher 3 Special Edition 10th Anniversary Xbox Controllers are available now, exclusively from the Microsoft Store, in standard ($79.99) and Elite Series 2 ($169.99) versions. The reason for the release is because The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt turns 10 years old this month, which is pretty wild, at least for this fan of the game.Witcher 3 Special Edition 10th Anniversary Xbox ControllersXbox Wireless Controller - Witcher 3 Special Edition 10th Anniversary$79.99 at Microsoft StoreXbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 - The Witcher 3 10th Anniversary Special Edition$169.99 at Microsoft StoreThe two controllers look very similar, with the same Geralt of Rivia-inspired etchings on them. The wolf medallian Geralt wears around his neck is etched into the center of the controller. The blog post announcing the controllers says they "also feature Glagolitic script, the oldest known Slavic alphabet and the same one found in the game itself." Finally, the right grip features the red claw marks that act as the "III" of the title on the cover of the game. It looks great.Aside from the Witcher-y design, the controllers act just like their standard counterparts that come in a variety of other colors. The current Xbox controller is far and away my personal favorite controller ever made. It feels terrific in hand and is sturdy enough to stand up to the beating my kids put on it. The Elite Series 2 model has some extra features to justify its added cost. It has adjustable-tension thumbsticks, hair trigger locks, and a wrap-around rubberized grip. It also has interchangeable components like thumbsticks of various heights, different D-pad designs, and rear paddles you can assign to whatever buttons you want.Like all new Xbox controllers, these controllers are compatible with Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, iOS, and Android devices. If you're not an Xbox-exclusive household, you may also want to take a look at the new Death Stranding 2-themed PS5 controller that went up for preorder today.Chris Reed is a commerce editor and deals expert for IGN. He also runs IGN's board game and LEGO coverage. You can follow him on Bluesky.

Anyone who has seen the first three movies in theFear Street series knows that they’re indebted to horror of the past. Fear Street: 1994 borrowed from Scream‘s self-awareness. Fear Street: 1978 had a masked killer stalking a campground, just like Friday the 13th: Part II. The folk horror films from the 1960s and ’70s provided a model for Fear Street: 1666. Fear Street: Prom Queen breaks from the original trilogy though by telling a standalone story. For Prom Queen writer and director Matt Palmer, that division brings to mind another horror forerunner. “I keep thinking about Halloween III: The Season of the Witch, which I quite like even though it didn’t go well with audiences in the 1980s,” Palmer tells Den of Geek. Halloween III famously ditched Michael Myers for a new story about cursed masks and Celtic witches. It was an attempt to turn the series into an anthology instead of the continuing adventures of a silent killer. “I like that idea of a Halloween franchise, a world where you could just tell vastly different stories form different subgenres. I think there’s potential for that to happen in Fear Street.” The latest entry in the movie adaptations of author R.L. Stine‘s teen novels, Prom Queen follows teen Lori Granger (India Fowler), who becomes an unlikely prom queen favorite when a masked killer starts offing the competition. In addition to young stars such as Fowler, Suzanna Son, and Ariana Greenblatt, Prom Queen also features an impressive adult cast, which includes Lili Taylor, Katherine Waterston, and 2000s mainstay Chris Klein. But the most surprising name in the credits is Palmer’s, and not just because he takes the place of Leigh Janiak, who directed the first three films. Palmer’s debut Calibre focused on two Scottish young adults whose friendship is tested when a hunting trip goes horribly wrong. It’s rural and thoughtful, and a million miles from the 1980s American setting of Prom Queen. But to Palmer, the two films both feel complementary. “I guess there’s two of me,” he says, thoughtfully. “There’s one side of me that’s into heavier movies and quite intense thrillers in the Deliverance mold. But horror was my first love in terms of genre. I do a festival at an all-night horror event in the UK once a year. We show five horror movies from the ’70s and ’80s, all the way through the night.” That experience makes Prom Queen “a dream project” for Palmer, “making a movie that could potentially fit in with the ’80s movies I show at my event.” While there’s plenty of ’80s influence in Prom Queen, Palmer also adds elements of giallo, the lurid Italian murder mysteries that were precursors to the American slashers, especially with the look of the central masked killer. “I really liked the black leather raincoat and the black gloves in gialli, so I started from that,” says Palmer of his process of designing the killer. “Then our concept artist said the killer can’t be all black because they’ll get lost in the dark. So we started looking at a yellow coat but that felt a bit too much like Alice Sweet Alice—which was a visual influence on the movie. We looked at blue and then the concept artist announced red on red, and we were like ‘boom! Yeah!'” Palmer brought a similar level of erudition to designing what many would consider the most important part of a slasher: the over the top kills. Join our mailing list Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! “One of the things I’ve noticed about modern slashers is that they sometimes don’t have wide shots in the kill scenes. I think that’s a mistake because I want the audience to understand the space where the kill is going to happen, and then you can start cutting into closer shots. Because then they can compute from that wide shot where people are. It makes the scene more frightening because you know where the dark spots are and you know how big the room is.” As academic as that approach may sound, Palmer’s careful to keep focused on the main thing, the blood and guts that audiences expect. “We shot all of the kill scenes in one day,” Plamer reveals. “Some of them have a lot of shots, so they were heavily storyboarded,” meaning that Palmer and his team made comic book style drawings of every shot in the sequence, so they could shoot them more efficiently. “There was a funny moment when we were storyboarding one of our kills and we got really excited about the lighting, because it’s somebody moving through different planes of lighting and you can see certain things. The storyboard artists and the director of photography [Márk Gyõri] started talking about this mist and the light, and it started turning into a real art film geek conversation, all about the mystery. Then the storyboard artist turns to me and asks, ‘so what happens next?'” and I said, “and then all her guts fall out.’ Lets’s not forget what kind of movie we were really making.” While that might sound like he’s committed to making a lean and mean slasher, and he did emphasize the fact that he wanted the film to come in under 90 minutes, Palmer does find surprising moments of stillness in Prom Queen. “I didn’t realize this until after Calibre, but I give scenes a bit of breathing space so you can be with the characters and go a bit deeper with them. But then in between scenes, the escalation of plot is quite steep.” He adds, “I prefer movies that are a bit more sedately paced, but sometimes I’m watching a movie from the ’80s and wondering, ‘Why are we holding here? Cut, cut, cut! I’ve got the information, so move on!’ People assimilate information faster now, so I’m trying to find that sweet spot where you can still have that breathing room to go a little bit deeper with the characters, but also be aware that people need things these days to move a bit quicker.” Palmer’s awareness of both classic horror and modern audiences make him a perfect choice for the Fear Street franchise, which has a huge audience among early teens, newcomers to the genre. “I feel like the characters should be youngsters and the focus should be on the younger characters,” Palmer explains. “I went to my first all-night horror event when I was 16. I was underage and it was the most exciting thing, and I think that’s the genesis of my process. I asked myself what kind of movie I would have wanted to see when I was 15 and tried to go back and capture a bit of that magic.” For the other big audience of Fear Street, Palmer had to go beyond himself and get some outside help. “I think there’s also a skew towards the female in Fear Street’s following, so we all wanted to have a female-led story. That was obviously a challenge for me because, you know, I’m male. Fortunately, I had really strong female producers on this to guide me if I went astray on any of the characterizations.” After seeing Prom Queen, most will agree that Palmer didn’t go astray in any regard, which raises some questions. Prom Queen may be a one-off, but does Palmer have more to say within the world of the series? “Well, I’ve had my dream project in the franchise, so I don’t want to be greedy. But If I was going to do another one, it would probably take place a couple of years later in the ’80s and be a Satanic Panic thing with ouija boards.” Palmer trails off here, not wanting to get ahead of myself. “But I’ve already had my Fear Street adventure,” he says with a smile and gesturing back to the Halloween-style anthology that he wants the franchise to become. Still, if Prom Queen hits with fans as well as the other Fear Street movies, it’s hard to imagine that we won’t Palmer making his Satanic Panic movie soon. Fear Street: Prom Queen arrives on Netflix on May 23, 2025.

Pictured Above: Designer Annie Anderson's Colonial home in Kansas City.Jump to:Colonial-style homes belong to one of the most recognizable residential architectural styles in the United States. It originated during the European colonization of the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries—British, Dutch, Spanish, and French settlers brought with them building traditions from their home countries, which were then adapted to suit local climates using local materials. As a result, Colonial-style architecture encompasses various subtypes based on the country of origin and regional adaptations within the U.S.Of course, there are many overlaps between these variations in Colonial-style architecture. In general, Colonial-style homes are most easily recognized for their symmetrical façades, gabled roofs, and closed-concept interiors. While Colonial-style homes have evolved over the centuries—their modern interpretation is the Colonial Revival style—they remain one of the most popular residential architectural styles in the U.S. today. Here's what you need to know about their historical design.Related StoriesKey Features of a Colonial-Style HouseThomas LoofA center hall Colonial home built in 1790 on five acres in Bedford, New York.Most Colonial-style homes share a number of key characteristics.Symmetrical façades: Colonial-style homes most commonly have a balanced, rectangular shape with a centered front door and evenly spaced windows.Two or more stories: Traditional Colonial-style homes are typically two or three stories tall, with living spaces on the first floor and bedrooms on upper floors.Gabled roofs: These homes commonly have gabled roofs with steep pitches.Central chimney or double chimneys: Early Colonial-style homes usually feature a large central chimney, though later variations may have pairs of chimneys, one located on each side of the house.Double-hung windows: Double-hung windows with multiple panes are evenly spaced across the façade of Colonial-style homes. They often, but not always, have shutters.Wood, brick or stone exteriors: Traditional exterior materials include clapboard siding, brick, and stone, depending on regional influences.Minimal embellishments: Colonial-style homes feature simpler design choices, particularly on their exteriors.Types of Colonial HomesColonial-style homes can be found across the U.S., with various regions featuring different adaptations. But the most dominant factor in determining subtypes is the architectural style's country of origin.FOTOGRAFIA INC.//Getty ImagesBritish Colonial: The most common subtype of Colonial-style homes, British Colonial architecture emphasizes symmetry and simplicity. On their exteriors, they often have brick or wood façades, shuttered windows, and central doorways. Interiors are compartmentalized, typically with a central hallway flanked by formal living and dining rooms.Johnrob//Getty ImagesDutch Colonial: Dutch Colonial-style homes are easily identified by their gambrel roofs, which make them look like classic barns. These homes were originally constructed by Dutch settlers in the Northeast and may also feature flared eaves, dormer windows, and broad porches.csfotoimages//Getty ImagesSpanish Colonial: Found primarily in the American Southwest and parts of California, Spanish Colonial-style homes are the most distinctive type of Colonial-style architecture, veering away from East Coast styles. Often a single story and built around a courtyard or patio, they are typically constructed with white stucco walls, red clay tile roofs, and arched entryways.TerryJ//Getty ImagesFrench Colonial: Popular in Louisiana and along the Mississippi River, French Colonial-style homes are known for their square profiles, wide porches, hipped roofs, and high-ceilinged floors.VELEZGREENE//Getty ImagesGeorgian: Georgian Colonial-style homes emphasize proportion and symmetry to a high degree—they will always have perfectly symmetrical façades. Common characteristics include paneled front doors with pilasters, brick exteriors, and dual chimneys. They were most popular during the reign of Britain's first four King Georges, or roughly from the early 18th to early 19th centuries.John Penney//Getty ImagesSaltbox: A subtype of Colonial architecture specific to New England, the saltbox house has two stories in the front and one story in the back. Its most distinctive trait is a long, pitched roof that slopes down from front to back, creating a distinctive asymmetrical profile. Originally developed as a way to add space without constructing a full addition, saltbox houses are usually wood-framed with clapboard siding and often feature a large central chimney.Advantages of Colonial-Style HomesJared KuziaInterior of a Boston Colonial Revival home, designed by Cecilia Casagrande.Colonial-style homes offer numerous benefits that continue to appeal to modern homeowners.Classic curb appeal: Their symmetrical design and timeless style are attractive to many homeowners.Defined spaces: Separate rooms in the closed-concept plan provide privacy and noise reduction, which can be ideal for families or remote work.Easy to expand: The simple rectangular floor plan makes it relatively straightforward to add extensions.Strong resale value: Their enduring appeal and association with tradition often make them desirable in the real estate market.Related StoryDisadvantages of Colonial-Style HousesThough Colonial-style homes are admired for their beauty, they do come with a few drawbacks, depending on personal preferences. Closed-concept layout: If you're interested in open floor plans, a traditional Colonial-style home might not be for you. Plus, some spaces, such as kitchens, may be smaller than you're accustomed to.Multi-floor living: Because Colonial-style homes almost always have multiple floors, they're not ideal for those with decreased mobility.Traditional style: Some might find the very traditional aesthetic of Colonial-style homes to feel boring or cookie-cutter.Renovation costs: Updating a Colonial-style home to modern standards—especially in terms of HVAC, plumbing, or electrical systems—can be costly due to the home's age and structure.Related StoryWhat's the Difference Between Colonial-Style and Colonial Revival Homes?ferrantraite//Getty ImagesWhile Colonial-style and Colonial Revival homes share many similarities, there are important distinctions between the two. Colonial-style homes were built during the 17th and 18th centuries by European settlers in the Americas. Colonial Revival homes, on the other hand, emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a nostalgic reinterpretation of these earlier designs. While Colonial Revival homes mimic the symmetry and styling of historic Colonial architecture, they are often designed with updated amenities, including open floor plans, larger windows, and improved insulation.Follow House Beautiful on Instagram and TikTok.

Right after yesterday’s bombshell announcement that OpenAI had acquired Jony Ive’s AI startup to form a new company called io, the entire tech world immediately began asking, “OK, but what is it?” Now, supply chain analyst and frequent Apple leaker Ming-Chi shared what he was able to gather about the mysterious io device. iPod Shuffle… necklace? According to Kuo, mass production of the device is slated to begin in 2027, and assembly and shipping will occur outside China, hoping to reduce geopolitical risks. He says Vietnam is currently the most likely assembly location. As exclusively reported by The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI and Jony Ive intend to ship 100 million units of their AI-powered devices. One of the biggest question marks about the product is how people will use, since it has already been reported that it is not a smartphone or smart glasses. Kuo says the device’s current form factor is “compact and elegant as an iPod Shuffle,” and it is currently a little bit bigger than Humane’s AI Pin. He also said the device is meant to be worn around the neck, which is a form factor that companies like Limitless have been experimenting with. According to Kuo, the device will have cameras and microphones in order to capture the user’s environment and context, and will rely on the user’s smartphones for computing and display capabilities. Would you be willing to wear an AI gadget around your neck? Let us know in the comments. Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed.  FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.You’re reading 9to5Mac — experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Don’t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

"Of course, it’s going to be optional whether you want to get into the bunker."Feel The AGIOpenAI's former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, has long been preparing for artificial general intelligence (AGI), an ill-defined industry term for the point at which human intellect is outpaced by algorithms — and he's got some wild plans for when that day may come.In interviews with The Atlantic's Karen Hao, who is writing a book about the unsuccessful November 2023 ouster of CEO Sam Altman, people close to Sutskever said that he seemed mighty preoccupied with AGI.According to a researcher who heard the since-resigned company cofounder wax prolific about it during a summer 2023 meeting, an apocalyptic scenario seemed to be a foregone conclusion to Sutskever."Once we all get into the bunker..." the chief scientist began."I’m sorry," the researcher interrupted, "the bunker?""We’re definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI," Sutskever said, matter-of-factly. "Of course, it’s going to be optional whether you want to get into the bunker."The exchange highlights just how confident OpenAI's leadership was, and remains, in the technology that it believes it's building — even though others argue that we are nowhere near AGI and may never get there.RapturousAs theatrical as that exchange sounds, two other people present for the exchange confirmed that OpenAI's resident AGI soothsayer — who, notably, claimed months before ChatGPT's 2022 release that he believes some AI models are "slightly conscious" — did indeed mention a bunker."There is a group of people — Ilya being one of them — who believe that building AGI will bring about a rapture," the first researcher told Hao. "Literally, a rapture."As others who spoke to the author for her forthcoming book "Empire of AI" noted, Sutskever's AGI obsession had taken on a novel tenor by summer 2023. Aside from his interest in building AGI, he had also become concerned about the way OpenAI was handling the technology it was gestating.That concern ultimately led the mad scientist, alongside several other members of the company's board, to oust CEO Sam Altman a few months later, and ultimately to his own departure.Though Sutskever led the coup, his resolve, according to sources that The Atlantic spoke to, began to crack once he realized OpenAI's rank-and-file were falling in line behind Altman. He eventually rescinded his opinion that the CEO was not fit to lead in what seems to have been an effort to save his skin — an effort that, in the end, turned out to be fruitless.Interestingly, Hao also learned that people inside OpenAI had a nickname for the failed coup d'etat: "The Blip."Share This Article

A Chinese-speaking threat actor tracked as UAT-6382 has been linked to the exploitation of a now-patched remote-code-execution vulnerability in Trimble Cityworks to deliver Cobalt Strike and VShell. "UAT-6382 successfully exploited CVE-2025-0944, conducted reconnaissance, and rapidly deployed a variety of web shells and custom-made malware to maintain long-term access," Cisco Talos researchers Asheer Malhotra and Brandon White said in an analysis published today. "Upon gaining access, UAT-6382 expressed a clear interest in pivoting to systems related to utility management." The network security company said it observed the attacks targeting enterprise networks of local governing bodies in the United States starting January 2025. CVE-2025-0944 (CVSS score: 8.6) refers to the deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability affecting the GIS-centric asset management software that could enable remote code execution. The vulnerability, since patched, was added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in February 2025. According to indicators of compromise (IoCs) released by Trimble, the vulnerability has been exploited to deliver a Rust-based loader that launches Cobalt Strike and a Go-based remote access tool named VShell in an attempt to maintain long-term access to infected systems. Cisco Talos, which is tracking the Rust-based loader as TetraLoader, said it's built using MaLoader, a publicly available malware-building framework written in Simplified Chinese. Successful exploitation of the vulnerable Cityworks application results in the threat actors conducting preliminary reconnaissance to identify and fingerprint the server, and then dropping web shells like AntSword, chinatso/Chopper, and Behinder that are widely put to use by Chinese hacking groups. "UAT-6382 enumerated multiple directories on servers of interest to identify files of interest to them and then staged them in directories where they had deployed web shells for easy exfiltration," the researchers said. "UAT-6382 downloaded and deployed multiple backdoors on compromised systems via PowerShell." Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.

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