Scientists may have finally proved that “empty” space isn’t really empty

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Astronomers may have found some of the strongest evidence yet for one of quantum mechanics’ strangest predictions: even apparently empty space can influence the way light travels. Known as ‘vacuum birefringence’, the phenomenon was predicted nearly 90 years ago by Werner Heisenberg, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics. His work suggested that a perfectContinue Reading

wordbook-is-a-modern-offline-dictionary-for-gnome

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They say never judge a book by its cover, and few do if said book is a dictionary, but what about desktop dictionary apps? I recently came across Wordbook , a modern English-English dictionary powered by OpenEnglish WordNet and eSpeak for pronunciations. Wordbook is in GNOME Circle, and its GTK4/libadwaitaContinue Reading

github-restores-services-after-nearly-8-hour-outage-disrupts-actions,-apis,-prs-and-copilot

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GitHub has restored services after a nearly eight-hour outage disrupted several of its core developer tools, including Actions, pull requests, APIs, Git operations, Webhooks, and Copilot, impacting software development workflows across its platform. “This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue,”Continue Reading

ubuntu’s-app-center-doesn’t-know-what-went-wrong

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I recently re-encountered my favourite ‘error’ dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro’s App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI software management tool. I don’t see it often, but when I do it (un)helpfully informs me: “Something went wrong. We’re sorry, but we’re not sure what theContinue Reading