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NASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule

The request goes beyond a one-time move to transporting all types of vehicles.

Time to Dump Windows?

Article URL: https://dennisforbes.ca/blog/microblog/2026/02/time_to_dump_windows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459969

Points: 21

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Trump FCC lets Nexstar buy Tegna and blow way past 39% TV ownership cap

Brendan Carr lets Trump-favorite Nexstar exceed national station ownership limit.

What happened at Nvidia GTC: NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a $1 trillion bet

CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every company needs an “OpenClaw strategy,” and closing with a rambling Olaf robot that had to get its mic cut. The message was hard to miss: Nvidia […]

A new Nintendo Switch 2 could be the poster child for replaceable batteries

Nintendo plans to release a Switch 2 revision in the European Union that will let users replace their own batteries, Nikkei reports. The current version of the Switch 2 has a glued-in battery. But Nintendo apparently plans to make the change in order to comply with EU rules going into effect in February 2027 that […]

Future Sony PlayStation games will use AI to imagine new frames

Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro, told Digital Foundry that ML-based frame generation tech is coming to "PlayStation platforms" in the future, letting the game console use AI to imagine new frames between the ones it's actually rendering, which can create smoother perceived image quality while (typically) introducing some […]

Amidst legal turmoil, Kalshi is temporarily banned in Nevada

It's the latest escalation in a regulatory battle over the future of prediction markets.

Gamers Hate Nvidia's DLSS 5. Developers Aren’t Crazy About It, Either

Nvidia’s new AI upscaling gaming technology struck gamers as uncanny and off-putting. Developers don't seem to like it, either, but it could be “the default” in a few years.

Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely

In 2015, Microsoft decided that you shouldn't be in control of updating your PC anymore. At first, it seemed like a good idea to keep malware at bay - but soon, users discovered their computers were automatically shutting down and erasing work in the middle of the day. Then, Microsoft abused its power to install […]

This is Microsoft’s plan to fix Windows 11

Microsoft has faced a breakdown of trust in Windows 11 and a backlash over AI additions to its operating system in recent months. After promising to rebuild trust in Windows earlier this year, Microsoft's Windows chief, Pavan Davuluri, is now revealing the company's plan to fix Windows 11 - and there are a lot of […]