Venera 4 Reached Venus in 1967
In 1967, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 4 reached Venus and became the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
Read the newsXORit / JOURNAL
Journal▸
What's new in IT, AI, and science.
Briefly about what's interesting.
On This Day: 37 Years Since the Release of the Album Selena
Selena, the first album by Selena Quintanilla on a major label, was released on October 17, 1989. Its music combined cumbia and regional styles of Mexican music.
Read the news
MaPC Runs Windows Games on Apple Silicon Macs
The MaPC app, now in public beta, brings together Steam, Epic Games and GOG libraries and runs many Windows games on Mac. Compatibility depends on the individual game.
Read the news
The ocean continues to absorb record amounts of heat
The 2026/2027 edition of the report “10 New Insights in Climate Science” says the ocean is absorbing record amounts of heat, locking in further warming for years to come.
Read the news
How Cloudflare Fixed a Caching Bug in Hyperdrive for MySQL
Cloudflare investigated a rare caching bug in Hyperdrive: in some cases, client nodes received a MySQL response in the wrong format.
Read the news
Brain organoids helped recognize Braille signals
In the experiment, an algorithm recognized a letter from the activity of one organoid in 61% of cases; combining the responses of three organoids raised this figure to 83%.
Read the news
On This Day, Kepler Began Observing a Supernova
On October 17, 1604, Johannes Kepler began observing a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus. It had been spotted in Europe earlier, on October 9.
Read the news
On This Day: Kate Bush’s The Sensual World was released
On October 16, 1989, British singer-songwriter Kate Bush released her sixth studio album.
Read the news
Adobe and NVIDIA to accelerate creative apps on RTX Spark
The companies have expanded their collaboration: Photoshop, Premiere, and Substance 3D are being optimized for RTX Spark, while Frame.io has already demonstrated faster processing in specific tasks.
Read the news
Vulnerabilities found in Android data-transfer apps
Researchers from TU Graz and A-SIT found vulnerabilities in apps from seven Android manufacturers. An attacker nearby could intercept or modify data being transferred.
Read the news
PS5LM Plus runs language models on the PlayStation 5 GPU
The app uses the console’s GPU to run models locally. In tests, Qwen with 27 billion parameters generated around 20 tokens per second.
Read the news
KDE: A Documentary About the History of the Free Software Community
The film CultRepo tells the story of KDE, from Matthias Ettrich’s 1996 call to debates over Qt, competition with GNOME, and the release of KDE 4.
Read the news