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Being Cryptonator for a day! An AI Experience

22 Jun 2026 3 minute read 4 comments rah

This article is slightly tongue in cheek. I am sure you are familiar with Cryptonator. I will openly confess that he is one of my favourite bloggers on here and I absolutely love his avatar with oversized glasses. He is not aware that I am writing th...

Smart Fabric That Turns Air Into Drinking Water Raises Global Hopes

22 Jun 2026 2 minute read 0 comments CondividiSulWeb

A new generation of advanced materials is bringing a once science-fiction idea closer to reality: fabrics capable of extracting drinkable water directly from the air.Researchers from institutions such as MIT and studies published in journals like Nat...

The AI PC Dream Just Got Real: NVIDIA's RTX Spark Is a Windows Superchip Built for Local Agents

21 Jun 2026 3 minute read 0 comments HMx10

The AI PC Dream Just Got Real: NVIDIA's RTX Spark Is a Windows Superchip Built for Local Agent   Intel and AMD have been fighting a cute little war over mobile efficiency. NVIDIA just changed what the battlefield looks like. At Computex 2026, the gre...

Italy Bet on People Over Bots: Ambitious National Plan to Regulate AI

21 Jun 2026 2 minute read 0 comments CondividiSulWeb

Italy has taken a significant step toward regulating artificial intelligence by approving a set of draft legislative decrees that begin to define how AI will be integrated into key sectors such as work, education, and public safety. According to r...

Textures and Swizzling in GLSL: How Shaders Read and Rearrange Data

20 Jun 2026 1 minute read 0 comments karoshi31

When most people start learning shaders, textures seem straightforward. They are images made up of pixels. But in GLSL, textures are much more than images. They are data containers, and understanding how to access that data efficiently is where swi...

The Tripwires: Monitoring Your Online Presence

20 Jun 2026 5 minute read 3 comments Investigator515

Passive, low-effort tools for keeping track of your own digital footprint before someone else does. At some point, someone is going to Google your name. It might be a recruiter reviewing your application, a client checking you out before a call, or m...

Generative Text Fields in TouchDesigner (DAT + Feedback System)

19 Jun 2026 1 minute read 0 comments karoshi31

In this setup, we build a live generative text field using a Text DAT and turn it into an evolving visual texture using Feedback TOPs. The result is a constantly shifting “data surface” made of random characters. This can be used for: cyberpunk bac...

Your First GLSL Line: Understanding Coordinates in a Fragment Shader

19 Jun 2026 1 minute read 0 comments karoshi31

This shader creates a grayscale gradient and then draws a green diagonal line across the screen. The line runs from the bottom-left corner to the top-right corner because the shader compares the X coordinate with the Y coordinate. Whenever they becom...

Palantir - Digital Operating System for Power

19 Jun 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Sdom

For over two decades, Silicon Valley giants tried to convince us that their sole purpose was to "connect people" and make the world a better place. While this was rarely true, the narrative sounded light, fluffy, and safe. However, modern geopolitica...

What The Tech?! The Pager

19 Jun 2026 5 minute read 5 comments Investigator515

Before the evolution of the mobile phone, the pager was king. With the smartphone being an all-in-one device, it can often be difficult to picture how things worked before the internet was everywhere. And, rather than having an all-in-one device, soc...