Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC — third-party OmniDrive firmware unlocks game rips from physical media on select players

Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC — third-party OmniDrive firmware unlocks game rips from physical media on select players

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Backing up physical media on older consoles such as the GameCube, Wii, original Xbox, and Xbox 360 has long been a frustrating experience for retro gamers. However, according to a YouTube video from Archades Games, modern Blu-ray players can now rip physical media from these consoles to a PC with new specialized firmware from OmniDrive.The OmniDrive firmware unlocks the ability for compatible Blu-ray players to read the proprietary formats of physical media on older consoles. Compatibility is strictly limited to select external and internal Blu-Ray…
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SpaceX’s Starlink business has been awarded the US Airways contract, another IPO win

SpaceX’s Starlink business has been awarded the US Airways contract, another IPO win

💥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Space,Transportation,American Airlines,In Brief,IPO,SpaceX,Starlink ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: American Airlines said Tuesday it plans to install Starlink on more than 500 Airbus narrowbody planes starting early next year, the latest airline to choose a SpaceX unit for in-flight Wi-Fi. The deal provides more than just a financial boost to Starlink, the space communications network and SpaceX's only significant revenue-generating business unit. It also gives SpaceX a win over competition — such as Amazon Leo and other legacy providers like Viasat. Starlink satellites are used in low Earth orbit to provide broadband…
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Is “colorectal cancer” rising in “young people”?

Is “colorectal cancer” rising in “young people”?

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: (Yes, but.) Over the past few years, I’ve seen many articles about mysterious rise in colorectal cancer (CRC) in young people. There are various stories for why this might be happening: General health. Maybe modern people are unhealthy (obesity, low physical activity, diabetes, poor sleep), leading to insulin resistance and chronic inflammation, meaning faster epithelial cell proliferation and a miscalibrated immune system that fails to stop early cancers? Ultra-processed food. Maybe people are eating more ultra-processed foods that contain additives (like emulsifiers) that degrade…
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IPL 2026: RCB beat Gujarat Titans to reach the 2026 final

IPL 2026: RCB beat Gujarat Titans to reach the 2026 final

💥 Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Captain Rajat Patidar smashed 93 off just 33 balls as defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru qualified for the 2026 Indian Premier League final with a 92-run win over Gujarat Titans.RCB led 94-3 in the ninth over, with veteran Virat Kohli bowled out for 43, but Patidar hit nine sixes as well as five fours to take his side to 254-5.The total was the highest in an IPL playoff with 126 runs coming from the last seven overs.Gujarat, which only moved up to first place in…
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The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Interesting article: [Wayback/Archive] Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News. with this important quote: The complex questions still get asked on Stack because there’s no other place. If the LLMs are only as good as the data, which is typically human curated, we’re one of the best places for that, if not the best for technology. I wonder about how far it has declined now, and also think these are reasons for…
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Ghost Hackers: The Unsolved Cybersecurity Mystery

Ghost Hackers: The Unsolved Cybersecurity Mystery

🔥 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,hackers,Hacking mysteries,The Shadow Brokers 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In the long history of hacking, there have been many data breaches that remain unresolved years or even decades later. The countless hackers and hacking groups behind them have yet to be revealed. But prolific hacking groups are being caught. This is true whether they are cybercriminals like LAPSUS$, a notorious extortion ring that hacked companies like Microsoft and Nvidia and had many of its members arrested, or sophisticated government hacking groups from Russia and China, whose members have been named, indicted…
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Founding Software Engineer at Sage Care

Founding Software Engineer at Sage Care

💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: About Sage Care Home care agencies run on relationships — but they're drowning in paperwork. Intake coordinators spend hours manually transcribing calls, building care plans, and chasing follow-ups. That overhead slows agencies down and pulls their attention away from the people they're trying to serve. Sage is building the operating system for home care agencies — an AI-native CRM and virtual assistant that turns every client call and home visit into structured care plans, follow-up tasks, and system records, automatically. We integrate directly with…
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The Dutch government prevents an American company from taking over under the pretext of “risks that threaten the public interest.”

The Dutch government prevents an American company from taking over under the pretext of “risks that threaten the public interest.”

💥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Government & Policy,Security,TC,cybersecurity,digital sovereignty,Trump Administration,us government ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Dutch government has prevented US IT giant Kyndryl from acquiring Solvinity, a Dutch cloud company that hosts the Dutch online identity platform. The government in The Hague said the deal constituted a “potential risk to the public interest.” The government has imposed a “total ban” on the takeover, Dutch Digital Economy Minister Willemen Aerdts said in a machine-translated message published on Monday. The deal would have allowed Kyndryl to purchase Solvinity for an undisclosed sum. Solvinity hosts a platform…
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The Real Cost of Owning a Home — Eric Turner

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: You've probably heard someone say something to the effect of "renting is just throwing your money away". Don't believe it. It's a glib statement that simply isn't true. There are so many hidden costs to home ownership that most people who have never owned a home don't know about. If you want to make an informed decision about whether to buy a home or keep renting, then you need to understand these costs. I'll break them down for you in this post, showing my actual…
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This startup is betting that the Indian economy is capable of training the world’s robots

This startup is betting that the Indian economy is capable of training the world’s robots

🚀 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,robots,wing vc,physical ai,Human Archive ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In the last few years, the online food delivery market in India has grown significantly, with Zomato and Swiggy going public and an increase in the number of cloud kitchens. Meanwhile, home services startups, such as on-demand home staffing platforms including Urban Company, Snapbit, and Pronto, have gained popularity. Silicon Valley startup Human Archive is exploiting this trend, partnering with these companies to have workers wear special hats equipped with cameras to collect selfish video data (a first-person view) of everyday tasks…
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