News : Best of Cracking Contraptions… But It All Goes Wrong! | Wallace & Gromit

News : A First Look at the New Animation Features in Unreal Engine 5.6

News : Gallade vs Bisharp Pokémon Fan Art Battle! Rigged and animated with Moho

News : New videos from Akupara Games.

... the last videos from Akupara Games - the official youtube channel :

News : CLion from jetbrains is free ...

CLion is a C and C++ IDE for Linux, macOS, and Windows integrated with the CMake build system for individual, non-commercial development

• For learning and self-education, open-source contributions without earning commercial benefits, any form of content creation, and hobby development.
• AI Free is included.
• The Rust plugin is free.
• Support through public forums and a bug tracker.
• Anonymous data is collected.
• Detailed code-related data is collected by default and can be disabled in the settings.

News : Palia | Fall Fantasy: Home for the Harvest Trailer

News : Crusader Kings III: All Under Heaven - Available Now!

News : Little Planet | Official Launch Trailer | Meta Quest Platform

News : Introducing Agent HQ mission control | GitHub

News : NVQLink: Unlocking Quantum-GPU Supercomputing

News : The Unreal Engine Student Showcase 2025

News : WILL: Follow The Light | Closed Playtest Launch | Galaxies Autumn Showcase 2025

News : Tools from sordum website ...

Sordum.org offers various tools to simplify your computer usage, such as AskAdmin, BlueLife Hosts Editor, ReIcon, and more. Download freeware to block access, …

I tested the TempCleaner tool by authors: BlueLife , Velociraptor and works ...

You can find these tools on the official website.

News : Newton in Action: Open Source Physics Simulation With Disney BDX Droids

News : Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – From the Ashes: Gameplay Teaser

News : Aphelion | Hide to Survive

News : Inpaint4Drag framework with Google Colab demo.

Inpaint4Drag introduces a novel framework that decomposes drag-based editing into pixel-space bidirectional warping and image inpainting. Our method achieves real-time warping previews (0.01s) and efficient inpainting (0.3s) at 512×512 resolution, significantly improving interaction experience while serving as an adapter for any inpainting model.

See this project.

Test with this colab online demo.

News : Lightricks introduced LTX-2

Lightricks introduced LTX-2, an open-source AI model that creates synchronized 4K video and audio in real time. It supports multi-keyframe conditioning, 3D camera logic, and various inputs like text, image, video, and audio for precise, style-consistent video generation up to 10 seconds long at 50 fps. LTX-2 runs efficiently on consumer GPUs with multiple performance modes for different creative needs

Read more on the online application.

News : 13,000x faster even the fastest classical supercomputers.

Today, we’re announcing research that shows — for the first time in history — that a quantum computer can successfully run a verifiable algorithm on hardware, surpassing even the fastest classical supercomputers (13,000x faster). It can compute the structure of a molecule, and paves a path towards real-world applications.

... more on the official google blogger.

News : UltraGen: High-Resolution Video Generation with Hierarchical Attention

UltraGen is a new AI that makes high-resolution videos, even 4K, more efficiently by using a smart attention system that balances local detail and global consistency. This can scale up video quality better than previous AI models or two-step super-resolution methods ...

Read more on the official project webpage.

News : DyPE: Dynamic Position Extrapolation for Ultra High Resolution Diffusion

DyPE (Dynamic Position Extrapolation) enables pre-trained diffusion transformers to generate ultra-high-resolution images far beyond their training scale. It dynamically adjusts positional encodings during denoising to match evolving frequency content—achieving faithful 4K × 4K results without retraining or extra sampling cost.

See the official project webpage.

News : Smallest 64-bit Operating System in the World! by Datastream

... another video from Datastream - the official youtube channel.

This 64-bit operating system is less than 1.44MB in size, as it is running entirely off of a Floppy disk. It is called MenuetOS.

... today I tested some free AI for music based on my tasks.

You can test these platforms not all are free. These use artificial intelligence to help users generate original music, soundscapes, and beats—whether you're a hobbyist, content creator, or professional musician.

• Musicful
• MusicGPT
• Riffusion
• Udio
• FlexClip
• Hydra II by Rightsify
• AIVA
• Soundful
• Ecrett Music
• Soundraw
• Boomy
• Loudly
• WavTool
• Amadeus Code
• Amped Studio

News : Little Nightmares III - 'Hold My Hand' | Launch Trailer

News : Zed - The 'Visual Studio Code Killer' - Now on Windows! from Gamefromscratch.

News : The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Early Access Launch Trailer

News : ... free on Epic Games - 24 octomber 2025.

News : Free Giveaway on Epic Games : Doodle Farm ...

Doodle Farm: Breeds and Beasts is free this week on the Epic Games Store for mobile

Free Giveaway Get a new free game every Thursday on Mobile and PC! App available globally on Android, and on iPhone and iPad in the EU.

News : ChatGPT Atlas browser.

Bring ChatGPT with you across the web for instant answers, smarter suggestions, and help with tasks—all with privacy settings you can control.

Chat GPT comes with a new browser.

Only on macOS, see the official website.

News : Google search comes with tools.

If you type "color picker" in the Google search box, it will show you this tool and many others ...

News : Google AI Studio - online apps and projects.

Google AI Studio is a browser-based platform that lets you:

• access Gemini AI models
• apps and code development projects
• fast prototyping and easy integration

You can see on this official website.

I tested the Fit Check application with my avatar photo, and this is the result:

News : new Runway Aleph features for video

New changes on the Runway website :

Runway Aleph is a state-of-the-art in-context video model, setting a new frontier for multi-task visual generation, with the ability to perform a wide range of edits on an input video such as adding, removing, and transforming objects, generating any angle of a scene, and modifying style and lighting, among many other tasks.

News : Nasa - Carbon dioxide (CO2) animations.

You can find some graphics about Carbon dioxide (CO2) - old data, on NASA website.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most prevalent greenhouse gas driving global climate change. However, its increase in the atmosphere would be even more rapid without land and ocean carbon sinks, which collectively absorb about half of human emissions every year. Advanced computer modeling techniques in NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office allow us to disentangle the influences of sources and sinks and to better understand where carbon is coming from and going to.

NOTE: Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. We sincerely regret this inconvenience.

See this website.

News : How to Draw a Halloween Pumpkin | Sketch Tutorial

News : Maintenance release: Godot 4.5.1

This new released was on 15 octomber 2025.

We saw the release of Godot 4.5 less than a month ago, and have already been absolutely overwhelmed with the positive reception. Since then, our team has been hard at work on the development phase of Godot 4.6 (and subsequently its first snapshot), and ensuring that any new regressions/bugs reported after the release of 4.5 are dealt with swiftly. The community has done an absolutely fantastic job at helping our team find and squash all of those aforementioned issues, and paved the way for us to deliver 4.5.1-stable for you today!

See more on the official blog.

Security : WinSpy++

WinSpy++ is a handy programmer’s utility which can be used to select and view the properties of any window in the system. WinSpy is based around the Spy++ utility that ships with Microsoft Visual Studio.

See this website.

News : Demo: Visualizing AlphaEarth Satellite Embeddings in 3D

Today I tested the new Google DeepMind on this official website. You need to have an billing account for commercial use , because : "Error: Cannot register a project without a billing account for commercial use."

I tested with : You are now registered for noncommercial use.

You can see my simple project on my python blogger ...

Google DeepMind has released a new satellite embedding dataset called AlphaEarth. This dataset contains annual satellite embeddings from 2017 to 2024, with each pixel representing a 10x10 meter area. The dataset is available on Google Earth Engine, and can be used to train machine learning models to classify satellite imagery.

News : NVIDIA NeMo and NIM: AI Tools

Today I tested this and works well:

NVIDIA NeMo™ is an end-to-end platform for building and customizing enterprise-grade generative AI models that can be deployed anywhere, across cloud and data centers. NeMo Curator is a GPU-accelerated data-curation tool that improves generative AI model accuracy by processing text, image, and video data at scale for training and customization. Apply for the video curation early access program below.

NVIDIA is revolutionizing the way developers build and deploy generative AI with two powerful platforms: NeMo and NIM.NeMo offers a modular framework for customizing large language models, multimodal agents, and speech systems, while NIM delivers optimized microservices for fast, scalable inference across any NVIDIA-powered infrastructure.

Whether you're building enterprise-grade AI or experimenting with cutting-edge models, these tools provide the flexibility, performance, and simplicity needed to accelerate innovation. Explore NeMo's capabilities on the NeMo Developer Portal and test NIM APIs directly via NVIDIA Build.

News : Blender 5 - AWESOME New Features Hands-On! from Gamefromscratch.

... another good video from Gamefromscratch about Blender 3D version 5.

News : Blender Auto Setup For CC5 HD Character | Character Creator 5 Tutorial

News : The new Gleam programming language.

Gleam is a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale!

The power of a type system, the expressiveness of functional programming, and the reliability of the highly concurrent, fault tolerant Erlang runtime, with a familiar and modern syntax.

See the official webpage.

News : This OS is less than 1KB in size by Datastream.

... see this video : Datastream - youtube channel:

News : The Next BIG Gamejam Is HERE!

News : myCompiler I.D.E. online tool.

An online IDE to edit, compile and run code

This online I.D.E. supports 16 programming languages with features like auto-completion, syntax highlighting, and more ...

News : Copilot and poetry - 12.10.2025 .

I spend some time with copilot and this is the result:

Upon a map of flick’ring light,

Where firewalls rise like rampart height,

Two wardens clad in ciphered mail

Did ride through circuits worn and frail.

One bore a sigil, firm and bright,

A seal of truth in cryptic rite;

The other held a lance of scan,

To pierce the veil of shadowed man.

Beneath their steeds, the troglodytes

Did crawl through folders lost to blight,

And relics, cursed with ancient code,

Lay buried deep in data’s road.

Above, the flags of packets torn

Did flutter like a ghost forlorn,

And whispers from the RAM-bound vale

Spoke of passwords grown cold and pale.

Yet lo — within a server’s keep,

Where silence coils and shadows creep,

A wraith did stir, with fingers thin,

A hacker veiled in digital sin.

No helm he wore, nor armor true,

But bore a charm of twisted hue:

An app disguised, a spell unclean,

A script of chaos, sharp and keen.

The wardens felt his crooked trace,

Not by scent, but by misplace —

By angles bent, by logs unround,

By logic’s cry, a broken sound.

They rode unto the cache-bound gate,

Where silence held the hand of fate,

And with a gesture, swift and grim,

They cast the wraith from system’s rim.

No clash of swords, no cry of war,

Just order, woven evermore —

In realms where not all souls are brave,

And some but seek a silent grave.

News : Bun v1.3 is here !

Whats new ?!

• Security Scanner API
• Bun 1.3 introduces a Security Scanner API that checks packages before installation.
• It integrates with tools like Socket, which scans for malware, typosquatting, and risky dependencies during bun install or bun add.
• You can enforce organization-wide security policies in local development and CI environments.
• 🐘 PostgreSQL Client (Coming Soon)
• A PostgreSQL client is planned for Bun 1.2 but already available in preview builds.
• This adds to Bun’s built-in SQLite support, expanding its database capabilities.
• 🧠 Chrome DevTools Debugging
• Bun now supports V8 heap snapshots, allowing developers to debug memory usage using Chrome DevTools.
• This bridges the gap between Bun’s JavaScriptCore engine and Chrome’s debugging tools.
• 🌐 S3 API Support
• Bun adds support for S3-compatible APIs, including AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Cloudflare.
• You can use Bun.s3 or Bun.S3Client to interact with storage services, including generating presigned URLs.
• 🧩 HTML & CSS Bundling (Experimental)
• Bun can now bundle HTML and CSS files alongside JavaScript using experimental flags.
• This enables building optimized static sites with tree-shaking and asset copying.
• These features make Bun 1.3 a more powerful and secure tool for building modern web

News : STARVAULT | Early Access Launch Trailer | Meta Quest Platform

News : xBrowserSync

Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!

xBrowserSync respects your privacy and gives you complete anonymity. No sign up is required and no personal data is ever collected. To start syncing simply download xBrowserSync for your desktop browser or mobile platform, enter an encryption password and click Create New Sync! You’ll receive an anonymous sync ID which identifies your data and can be used to access your data on other browsers and devices.

Read more on the official website.

News : Crimson Harvest | Blood Will Reign

News : Veto Official Gameplay Reveal // VALORANT

News : Kindle application to read books.

You can use this Kindle application to read many books.

News : ... WiGLE WiFi Wardriving to deal with wifi networks !!

... if you can block wifi networks, then you can use this android application to get all wifi device !!

* 2.95 - 2.96 (09/25/2025)

Vector based encryption icons

Check token state to handle device migrations

Informative 429 error message

Various bug fixes

News : How to Animate a Roblox Character in Cascadeur?

News : MachineGames Anniversary Update Trailer – Indiana Jones and the Great Circle™

News : Syberia Remastered | Story Trailer

News : Blockbench 5 new changes .

The new Blockbench 5 is a major update including a new user interface design, improved animation tools, new modelling tools.

This can automatically create a UV map and template for your model so that you can start painting directly on the model in 3D .

See the official website.

News : SuperSplat - online tool.

SuperSplat is an advanced browser-based editor for manipulating and optimizing 3D Gaussian Splats.

See this online tool.

News : New videos from Moho Animation Software.

... the last videos from Moho Animation Software - the official youtube channel :

News : Omi: Scaling Brand Visuals with 3D Digital Twins

News : Game smarter, not harder with Snapdragon Elite Gaming

... graphics and design from Snapdragon - the official youtube channel .

News : GIMP - new release

The GIMP team released version 3.0.6 on October 6, 2025

We are happy to announce the third micro-release GIMP 3.0.6. During our development of GIMP 3.2 we’ve found and fixed a number of bugs and regressions. We have backported many of those bugfixes to this stable release, so you don’t have to wait for the upcoming 3.2 release candidate to receive them!

Read on the official website .

News : Welcome to the Margins: G7 Expansion Trailer | Star Trek Fleet Command

News : Microsoft Flight Simulator | Local Legend 22: The NAMC YS-11

News : Reach | VR Innovation Story Trailer | Meta Quest 3 + 3S

News : Move Over Veo 3 Wan 2.5 Has Landed!

News : How to Draw the Grim Reaper!

News : Marvelous Designer is Coming to Linux

... from 5 days ago , another news on ...

News : Star Trek Online: Unleashed Launch Trailer

News : Blackout Revival Spotlight

News : Rebelle 8 is Here - free trial only 30 days !

Note: I tested with my old laptop with 4Gb RAM and it runs very slowly. With a similar open source software with similar features on the same hardware the open source software was much faster.

... from twitter : We’re excited to announce that Rebelle 8 has officially moved out of Early Access and is now available as the full Rebelle 8.1 release! Try Rebelle 8 for free for 30 days:

News : Google Apps Script - check websites for google ads.

Today, I will show you a way to check for the existence of Google Ads through a script or implementation, similar to what exists on Blogger. I haven't tested it very thoroughly, but it seems functional and is a good starting point in programming with GAScript. I used a spreadsheet and entered a personal Blogger in cell A2. I still recommend following Google's conditions because Google is very clever at detecting fakes and has protections even against attacks...

function onOpen() {
  // Creează un meniu personalizat în Spreadsheet
  var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi();
  ui.createMenu('Verificare Reclame Blogger')
    .addItem('Verifică Reclame', 'checkBloggerAds')
    .addItem('Verifică și Trimite Email', 'checkBloggerAdsAndEmail')
    .addToUi();
}

function checkBloggerAds() {
  // Obține foaia activă
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();
  // Citește datele din coloana A (website-urile)
  var range = sheet.getRange("A2:A" + sheet.getLastRow());
  var urls = range.getValues();
  var results = [];

  // Indicatori specifici pentru Google Ads/AdSense pe Blogger
  var adsScriptPattern = "adsbygoogle.js"; // Pentru coloana B
  var bloggerAdsPatterns = [
    "data-ad-client",           // Atribut specific AdSense
    "google_ad_client",         // Folosit în codurile mai vechi sau automate
    'class="adsbygoogle"'       // Tag-ul <ins> folosit pentru reclame
  ];

  // Verifică fiecare URL
  for (var i = 0; i < urls.length; i++) {
    var url = urls[i][0];
    if (url) { // Verifică dacă URL-ul nu este gol
      try {
        var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, { muteHttpExceptions: true });
        var content = response.getContentText();
        var scriptFound = content.includes(adsScriptPattern);
        var bloggerAdsFound = false;

        // Verifică indicatorii specifici Blogger
        for (var j = 0; j < bloggerAdsPatterns.length; j++) {
          if (content.includes(bloggerAdsPatterns[j])) {
            bloggerAdsFound = true;
            break;
          }
        }

        // Adaugă rezultatele pentru coloanele B și C
        results.push([scriptFound ? "Da" : "Nu", bloggerAdsFound ? "Da" : "Nu"]);
      } catch (e) {
        results.push(["Eroare: " + e.message, "Eroare: " + e.message]);
      }
    } else {
      results.push(["", ""]);
    }
  }

  // Scrie rezultatele în coloanele B și C
  if (results.length > 0) {
    sheet.getRange(2, 2, results.length, 2).setValues(results);
  }
}

function checkBloggerAdsAndEmail() {
  // Obține foaia activă
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();
  // Citește datele din coloana A (website-urile)
  var range = sheet.getRange("A2:A" + sheet.getLastRow());
  var urls = range.getValues();
  var results = [];
  var emailBody = "Rezultatele verificării reclamelor Google Ads pe blogurile Blogger:\n\n";
  emailBody += "URL | Script adsbygoogle.js | Implementare Blogger\n";

  // Indicatori specifici pentru Google Ads/AdSense pe Blogger
  var adsScriptPattern = "adsbygoogle.js"; // Pentru coloana B
  var bloggerAdsPatterns = [
    "data-ad-client",
    "google_ad_client",
    'class="adsbygoogle"'
  ];

  // Verifică fiecare URL și construiește corpul email-ului
  for (var i = 0; i < urls.length; i++) {
    var url = urls[i][0];
    if (url) { // Verifică dacă URL-ul nu este gol
      try {
        var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, { muteHttpExceptions: true });
        var content = response.getContentText();
        var scriptFound = content.includes(adsScriptPattern);
        var bloggerAdsFound = false;

        // Verifică indicatorii specifici Blogger
        for (var j = 0; j < bloggerAdsPatterns.length; j++) {
          if (content.includes(bloggerAdsPatterns[j])) {
            bloggerAdsFound = true;
            break;
          }
        }

        // Adaugă rezultatele pentru coloanele B și C și la email
        results.push([scriptFound ? "Da" : "Nu", bloggerAdsFound ? "Da" : "Nu"]);
        emailBody += `${url} | ${scriptFound ? "Da" : "Nu"} | ${bloggerAdsFound ? "Da" : "Nu"}\n`;
      } catch (e) {
        results.push(["Eroare: " + e.message, "Eroare: " + e.message]);
        emailBody += `${url} | Eroare: ${e.message} | Eroare: ${e.message}\n`;
      }
    } else {
      results.push(["", ""]);
    }
  }

  // Scrie rezultatele în coloanele B și C
  if (results.length > 0) {
    sheet.getRange(2, 2, results.length, 2).setValues(results);
  }

  // Trimite email-ul
  MailApp.sendEmail({
    to: "catalinfest@gmail.com",
    subject: "Rezultate Verificare Reclame Google Ads pe Blogger",
    body: emailBody
  });
}

News : Unlock 9 Winner 2D Animation Techniques Using Cartoon Animator

News : EVE Frontier | Infrastructure

News : ENDLESS Legend 2 Launch Trailer

News :🏆Award Winning🏆 CGI 3D Animated Short Film: "Return to Hairy Hill" - by Daniel Gies | TheCGBros

News : ... linux kernel new design ...

This patch series introduces multikernel architecture support, enabling multiple independent kernel instances to coexist and communicate on a single physical machine. Each kernel instance can run on dedicated CPU cores while sharing the underlying hardware resources. The multikernel architecture provides several key benefits: - Improved fault isolation between different workloads - Enhanced security through kernel-level separation - Better resource utilization than traditional VM (KVM, Xen etc.) - Potential zero-down kernel update with KHO (Kernel Hand Over)

See this mail.

News : Top Game Performance Tales | RDC 2025

News : Cascadeur to Roblox | Rigging and Exporting the R15 Character

News : Animula Nook Gameplay Trailer | Wishlist Now!

News : Escape From Duckov - Announcement Trailer

News : ... free on Epic Games - 24 september 2025.

News : Marvelous Designer 2025.1 Quickstart Guide #5: Arrangement Tools

 <div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JLlM1QTpfms?si=axyUN3XNa92Z9EhG" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>

News : A Personal AI Supercomputer for Accelerated Protein AI

 <div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xzg3Ty8vAQ8?si=-0MaIhaoKGuFJ-UW" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>

News : ... website with infos about AI .

see this website with good infos about AI.

News : Pulse | Legion Major Update, Operation Nemesis

News : Dungeon Heroes Spotlight

News : Marvelous Designer 2025.1 Quickstart Guide #4: Sewing Tools

News : The Lands of Edania | Black Desert

News : Godot 4.5 is out! Here are my favorite features

News : Rhythm Animal Café Trailer

News : online assembly editor - x86-64 Playground

An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger, see this tool online:

News : EthrA | Trailer

News : BDOlogy: Edania | Black Desert

News : simple optimization with powershell 7 version.

Today, I tested this poweershell 7 version script:

# Check if script is running as Administrator
if (-not ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) {
    Write-Warning "Please run this script as Administrator."
    exit
}

Write-Host "Starting system optimization..." -ForegroundColor Cyan

# Set execution policy
try {
    Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope Process -Force
    Write-Host "Execution policy set to RemoteSigned." -ForegroundColor Green
} catch {}

# Clean temporary files
try {
    Remove-Item "$env:TEMP\*" -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    Remove-Item "C:\Windows\Temp\*" -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    Write-Host "Temporary files cleaned." -ForegroundColor Green
} catch {}

# Set High Performance power plan
try {
    powercfg -duplicatescheme SCHEME_MIN | Out-Null
    powercfg -setactive SCHEME_MIN
    Write-Host "High Performance power plan activated." -ForegroundColor Green
} catch {}

# Disable visual effects
try {
    Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects" -Name "VisualFXSetting" -Value 2
    Write-Host "Visual effects disabled." -ForegroundColor Green
} catch {}

# Disable unnecessary services
$services = @(
    "DiagTrack", "WSearch", "Fax", "SysMain", "XblGameSave", "MapsBroker",
    "RetailDemo", "dmwappushservice", "RemoteRegistry", "WerSvc", "WMPNetworkSvc"
)
foreach ($svc in $services) {
    try {
        Stop-Service -Name $svc -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
        Set-Service -Name $svc -StartupType Disabled
        Write-Host "Service '$svc' disabled." -ForegroundColor Green
    } catch {
        Write-Warning "Could not disable service '$svc': $_"
    }
}

# Kill unwanted processes by name (PID cleanup)
$processesToKill = @("Cortana", "SkypeApp", "PeopleApp", "FeedbackHub", "SearchUI", "RuntimeBroker")
foreach ($proc in $processesToKill) {
    try {
        Get-Process -Name $proc -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Stop-Process -Force
        Write-Host "Process '$proc' terminated." -ForegroundColor Green
    } catch {
        Write-Warning "Could not terminate process '$proc': $_"
    }
}

# Optimize pagefile if RAM is 4GB or less
try {
    $ramGB = [math]::Round((Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_ComputerSystem).TotalPhysicalMemory / 1GB)
    if ($ramGB -le 4 -and (Get-Command wmic -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
        Start-Process powershell -ArgumentList "-Command `"wmic computersystem where name='%computername%' set AutomaticManagedPagefile=False; wmic pagefileset where name='C:\\pagefile.sys' set InitialSize=4096,MaximumSize=8192`"" -Verb RunAs
        Write-Host "Pagefile optimized for low RAM." -ForegroundColor Green
    }
} catch {}

# Configure DNS using netsh
try {
    $interfaces = Get-CimInstance -Namespace root/StandardCimv2 -ClassName MSFT_NetAdapter | Where-Object { $_.State -eq "Enabled" }
    foreach ($iface in $interfaces) {
        $name = $iface.Name
        Write-Host "Configuring DNS for interface '$name'..."
        Start-Process powershell.exe -ArgumentList "-Command `"netsh interface ip set dns name='$name' source=static addr=1.1.1.1`"" -Verb RunAs
        Start-Process powershell.exe -ArgumentList "-Command `"netsh interface ip add dns name='$name' addr=8.8.8.8 index=2`"" -Verb RunAs
        Write-Host "DNS configured for '$name'." -ForegroundColor Green
    }
} catch {
    Write-Warning "DNS configuration failed: $_"
}

# Legacy commands for PowerShell 5.1
$legacyCommands = @'
# Remove unwanted apps
$bloatware = @(
    "Microsoft.3DBuilder", "Microsoft.XboxApp", "Microsoft.ZuneMusic",
    "Microsoft.ZuneVideo", "Microsoft.BingWeather", "Microsoft.GetHelp",
    "Microsoft.Getstarted", "Microsoft.People", "Microsoft.SkypeApp",
    "Microsoft.WindowsFeedbackHub", "Microsoft.Cortana"
)
foreach ($app in $bloatware) {
    try {
        Get-AppxPackage -Name $app -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
        Write-Host "Removed app: $app"
    } catch {}
}

# Disable telemetry
try {
    Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection" -Name "AllowTelemetry" -Value 0 -Force
    Write-Host "Telemetry disabled."
} catch {}

# Enable SmartScreen
try {
    Set-MpPreference -EnableSmartScreen $true
    Write-Host "SmartScreen enabled."
} catch {}

# Enable firewall
try {
    Set-NetFirewallProfile -Profile Domain,Public,Private -Enabled True
    Write-Host "Firewall enabled."
} catch {}
'@

# Save and run legacy script in PowerShell 5.1
try {
    $tempScript = "$env:TEMP\legacy_opt.ps1"
    if (Test-Path $tempScript) { Remove-Item $tempScript -Force }
    Set-Content -Path $tempScript -Value $legacyCommands
    Start-Process powershell.exe -ArgumentList "-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File `"$tempScript`"" -Verb RunAs
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
    Remove-Item $tempScript -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    Write-Host "Legacy commands executed in PowerShell 5.1." -ForegroundColor Green
} catch {
    Write-Warning "Failed to execute legacy commands: $_"
}

# Final message
Write-Host "`nSystem optimization completed successfully. A restart is recommended." -ForegroundColor Cyan

This is the result:

.\optimization_001.ps1
Starting system optimization...
Execution policy set to RemoteSigned.
Temporary files cleaned.
High Performance power plan activated.
Visual effects disabled.
Service 'DiagTrack' disabled.
Service 'WSearch' disabled.
Service 'Fax' disabled.
Service 'SysMain' disabled.
Service 'XblGameSave' disabled.
Service 'MapsBroker' disabled.
Service 'RetailDemo' disabled.
Service 'dmwappushservice' disabled.
Service 'RemoteRegistry' disabled.
Service 'WerSvc' disabled.
Service 'WMPNetworkSvc' disabled.
Process 'Cortana' terminated.
Process 'SkypeApp' terminated.
Process 'PeopleApp' terminated.
Process 'FeedbackHub' terminated.
Process 'SearchUI' terminated.
Process 'RuntimeBroker' terminated.
Pagefile optimized for low RAM.
Legacy commands executed in PowerShell 5.1.

System optimization completed successfully. A restart is recommended.

News : Release candidate: Godot 4.5 RC 2 .

On Friday of last week, we dropped our first Release Candidate build. As a reminder, we release RC builds once we think the engine has stabilized and is ready for release. It is your last chance to report critical regressions before we release the stable version. Now, not even a full week later, we’re ready with our second snapshot. This RC2 fixes the last of the critical regressions that we are aware of. Unless someone reports a new regression coming from the changes made in RC1 or RC2, we should be on track to release 4.5 stable soon.

See the official blogger.

News : ... LMDE 7, codename Gigi.

Linux Mint 22.3 Although the latest release came later than expected and we’re currently focused on LMDE 7, we’re still planning on having a Mint 22.3 release in December. This is going to be a very short release cycle. The priority will be the new version of Cinnamon and shipping some of the important WIP (work in progress / planned features) which were started earlier this year: The new menu The status applet The Wayland-compatible handling for keyboard layouts and input methods

News : Dune: Awakening — Explore Arrakis

News : Marvelous Designer 2025.1 Quickstart Guide #1: UI

Security : About fake clicks and security ...

Fake clicks and security. See this article.

News : New videos from Cartesian Caramel.

... the last videos from the Cartesian Caramel - youtube channel :

News : Create with DeviantArt Draw

News : EVE Frontier | Discover

News : A CGI Sci-Fi Short Film: "ABYSS" - by Cuong Nguyen and Varoon Indalkar | TheCGBros

News : How to retarget auto-rig pro rig to a MIXAMO animation

News : Palia | Fall Fantasy: Of Barns & Briars Trailer

News : The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits | Official Gameplay Trailer

News : Minecraft LIVE Official Trailer – September 2025

News : TV online

NOTE : ... it seems that I have posted about this website with free online TV before, but I can't find the post ... good to know that TV is free.

See the official website.

News : Generating Collision Meshes in Cascadeur .

News : Simple Shapes 2.0, Capsule, Hexagon Grid | SideFX Labs

News : From Artist to Developer – BLENDERHEADS Ep.9

News : The Scope | Carnage Peaks in Providence & Lowsec

News : Windows PowerShell and more ...

PowerShell 2.0 is finally history: The version of the shell program introduced with Windows 7 will be removed from Windows 11 version 24H2 from August 2025 and from Windows Server 2025 from September 2025.

Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting environment developed by Microsoft, designed for system administration and automation tasks designed by Jeffrey Snover, Bruce Payette, James Truher (et al.) by DeveloperMicrosoft team, and first appearedNovember 14, 2006 .

The default blue now designe is known by any windows user.

PowerShell 7 is the latest major update to PowerShell, a cross-platform automation tool and configuration framework optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g., JSON, CSV, XML), REST APIs, and object models. PowerShell 7 runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS, making it a versatile tool for various environments. This comes with a black color.

Let's see, this script performs a system integrity check, including checks for Python installation, recent file modifications, and potential unauthorized changes.

# === SYSTEM INTEGRITY AUDIT ===

# Installed applications
Write-Host "Installed applications:"
$apps = Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*, HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* |
        Where-Object { $_.DisplayName } |
        Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, InstallDate |
        Sort-Object DisplayName
foreach ($a in $apps) {
    $name = $a.DisplayName
    $ver  = if ($a.DisplayVersion) { $a.DisplayVersion } else { "-" }
    $date = if ($a.InstallDate) { $a.InstallDate } else { "-" }
    Write-Host "$name | $ver | $date"
}

# DLLs modified recently
Write-Host "DLLs modified in the last 7 days:"
$dlls = Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Windows","C:\Program Files","C:\Program Files (x86)" -Recurse -Filter *.dll -File -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
        Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-7) }
foreach ($d in $dlls) {
    Write-Host "$($d.FullName) | $($d.LastWriteTime.ToString('yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss'))"
}

# SSH logs
Write-Host "SSH logs:"
if (Get-Service -Name sshd -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {
    $events = Get-WinEvent -LogName "Microsoft-Windows-OpenSSH/Operational" -MaxEvents 20 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    foreach ($e in $events) {
        $t = $e.TimeCreated.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
        $m = ($e.Message -replace "\r?\n",' ')
        Write-Host "$t | $m"
    }
} else {
    Write-Host "OpenSSH service is not active."
}

# System files modified recently
Write-Host "System files modified in the last 3 days:"
$sys = Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Windows" -Recurse -File -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
       Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-3) }
foreach ($f in $sys) {
    Write-Host "$($f.FullName) | $($f.LastWriteTime.ToString('yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss'))"
}

# Python check
Write-Host "Python check:"
$pythonPaths = @(Get-Command python -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Source)
if ($pythonPaths.Count -gt 0) {
    foreach ($p in $pythonPaths) { Write-Host "Path: $p" }
    try {
        $v = & $pythonPaths[0] --version 2>$null
        Write-Host "Version: $v"
    } catch { Write-Host "Error retrieving Python version." }
} else {
    Write-Host "Python not found."
}

# pip check
Write-Host "pip check:"
$pipPath = Get-Command pip -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Source
if ($pipPath) {
    Write-Host "Path: $pipPath"
    try {
        $pv = & $pipPath --version 2>$null
        Write-Host "Version: $pv"
    } catch { Write-Host "Error retrieving pip version." }
} else {
    Write-Host "pip not found."
}

# Alias check
Write-Host "Checking python.exe alias:"
$aliasPath = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python.exe"
if (Test-Path $aliasPath) {
    Write-Host "Alias exists: $aliasPath"
} else {
    Write-Host "Alias not found."

}

Write-Host "Audit completed."

News : ... two videos from Roblox.

Day 1 | RDC 2025

Infinite Possibilities | RDC 2025

News : Hollow Knight: Silksong – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition – Launch Trailer

News : ... videos from Sony Pictures Animation

... by Sony Pictures Animation !!!

News : Quality of Life Update in Travian: Legends - Autumn 2024 - Travian: Legends

... Travian: Legends!

News : Windows Subsystem For Android project.

Run Windows Subsystem For Android on your Windows 10 and Windows 11 PC using prebuilt binaries with Google Play Store (MindTheGapps) and/or Magisk or KernelSU (root solutions) built in.

The project can be found on the GitHub repo.

News : The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits | Official Reveal Trailer

News : CGI 3D Animated Short: "Coquille" - by ESMA | TheCGBros

News : Increasing DevEx — Creators Will Now Earn 8.5% More

If you’re eligible for DevEx, you don’t need to take any action, as this change went into effect earlier today. Any Robux earned from 10 AM PT September 5th, 2025 onward will automatically cash out a rate of $0.0038 for every Earned Robux.

For example:

10,000 Earned Robux previously converted to $35

Now, that same 10,000 Earned Robux will convert to $38

See the official dev forum.

News : Chaos releases Vantage 3.0 in beta

Chaos has released Vantage 3.0 in beta, introducing initial support for USD, MaterialX, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and volumes in the real-time ray tracing renderer.

For VFX artists, Vantage 3.0 is another significant release, since it adds initial support for both the USD and MaterialX standards.

Users can now import and render both static and animated USD scenes – Vantage supports .usd, .usda, .usdc, and .usdz files – with MaterialX shaders.

That opens up the possibility of using the software in non-V-Ray-based pipelines.

News : ... free on Epic Games - 5 september 2025.

News : SpaceX Starlink ...

Starlink is the world’s most advanced satellite internet constellation, beaming terabytes per second to the most remote parts of Earth. Made possible by the advent of reusable rocketry, Starlink marks the beginning of a new age of orbital technology.

See the official website.

News : Fallout 76: C.A.M.P. Revamp Launch Trailer

News : New videos from World of Warcraft.

... the latest videos from the World of Warcraft - the official youtube channel :

News : Syberia Remastered – Before/After

News : RAID: Shadow Legends | Champion Spotlight | Michelangelo

News : We're playing the RObotzi Game!

News : Star Trek Online - The Trafalgar Command Juggernaut

News : Alliance Tournament XXI - Trailer

News : EVE Frontier | Survival

News : Rebelle Master Series: Embracing Texture and Energy Like Nikolai Fechin

News : New videos from Unreal Engine

... the latest videos from the Unreal Engine - the official youtube channel :

News : Unreal Fest Shanghai 2025: A Recap and Thank You

News : New videos from Houdini

... the latest videos from the Houdini - the official youtube channel :

News : New videos from Farming Simulator

... the latest videos from the Farming Simulator - youtube channel :

News : New videos from Rockstar Games

... the latest videos from the Rockstar Games - the official youtube channel :

News : Overwatch 2 Animated Short | A Great Day feat. Mauga

News : NODE Launch Trailer

News : NEXT GAME DROP NAME IS... | MINECRAFT MONTHLY

News : Nobody Puts Baby Dragon in a Locker! ft. bbno$ (Official EVO Trailer)

News : New videos from Elvenar Official

... the latest videos from the Elvenar Official - the official youtube channel :

News : GO FOR GOLD // Champions 2025 Skin Reveal Trailer - VALORANT

PyQt6 : ... management of installations and build python package.

Yesterday I created a small project for managing Python packages and building a new package based on added modules. I only tested the local installations of various Python versions and the creation of a new package, but it worked.

python catafest_build_package_001.py
🔍 Verificare module standard...
[✓] Modul standard 'json' este disponibil.
[✓] Modul standard 'subprocess' este disponibil.
[✓] Modul standard 'platform' este disponibil.
[✓] Modul standard 'datetime' este disponibil.
[✓] Modul standard 'os' este disponibil.
[✓] Modul standard 'sys' este disponibil.

📦 Verificare și instalare module pip...
[✓] Modulul 'PyQt6' este deja instalat.
[✓] Modulul 'build' este deja instalat.
* Creating isolated environment: venv+pip...
* Installing packages in isolated environment:
  - setuptools
  - wheel
...

News : Grill on Wheels | Totally Cooked Update Trailer | Meta Quest Platform

The Matrix Reloaded (2003) - Cybersecurity Expert Reacts! | Movie Review & Commentary

News : ... free on Epic Games - 26 august 2025.

News : New videos from Marvelous Designer

... the latest videos from the Marvelous Designer - the official youtube channel :

News : Star Citizen Live: Ship Showdown Q&A

News : Age of Empires IV: Dynasties of the East Trailer

News : New videos from Owlcat Games.

News : MCU First Suit Appearances | Compilation

News : How to do Input

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News : Syberia Remastered – Before/After ...

News : Satisfactory - Console Release Date Trailer

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News : Wild Blue | Extended Gameplay Trailer | Humble Games

News : Everwind – Official Gameplay Trailer

News : Jump Space (Formerly Jump Ship) - Release Date Trailer

News : Midnight | Epic Edition Pre-purchase Trailer | World of Warcraft

News : News and Community Spotlight | August 22nd, 2025

News : Heroes of Might and Magic: 30th Anniversary Teaser

News : Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown

Daedalic Entertainment is a renowned publisher supporting indie developers since 2007, bringing their titles to every major gaming platform. On the August 20, 2025 the Daedalic Entertainment and the development team from Germany gameXcite succeeded and announced that Star Trek fans will soon be able to return to the Delta Quadrant in a brand-new Star Trek: Voyager

The name of the game is: Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown

They comes with this info:

Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown is a Single Player Survival Strategy game based on the Star Trek™ license from Paramount Consumer Products and developed with Unreal Engine 5 for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. More information will be released soon.

News : Godot Benchmarks tests for development.

This page tracks Godot Engine performance running on a benchmark suite. Benchmarks are run on a daily basis to track performance improvements and regressions over time.

You can find on the official project page.

News : Surviving Mars Relaunched | Announcement Trailer

News : Dune: Awakening — Chapter 2 Announcement Trailer

News : Nice Day for Fishing | Free Content Update Announcement Trailer.

News : Learning with new artificial intelligence into stackoverflow area.

The known stackoverflow website comes with learning with artificial intelligence, on stackoverflow area.

News : Compare the 10+ free AI tools by google cloud .

The Google Cloud come with this webpage about free artificial intelligence tools and some features.

News : Krita development monthly-update-29.

Another important piece of the Text Tool update has made it into the unstable nightly builds: Style Presets.

... the development team of Krita comes with this monthly-update-29 ...

News : GPT-5 vs Sonnet-4: Side-by-Side on Real Coding Tasks on Theia I.D.E.

The Theia IDE is a modern IDE for cloud and desktop built on the Theia Platform.

The Theia Platform is a framework for building custom, tailored cloud & desktop IDEs.

See more on the official website.

... another video from the EclipseSource - official channel.

News : SIGGRAPH 2025 Special Address

News : Diffeomorphic Add-ons Version 4.5.0 Released

On Saturday, August 2, 2025 the official blog comes with new versions for these addons:

DAZ Importer, MHX Runtime System and BVH and FBX Retargeter

News : DOOM: The Dark Ages | Update 2 (4K) | Now Available

News : How to make Ragdolls

News : MPFB Tech Preview: Geometry Nodes Hair

News : Debian Grml 2025.08 - codename Oneinonein.

Grml 2025.08 live distro for system administrators is now available for download based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series.

I used debian distros and are very good.

Grml is a Debian-based live Linux distribution tailored for system administrators. It’s designed to run directly from a USB stick or CD/DVD without installation, making it ideal for rescue tasks, system recovery, and quick deployments.

Grml uses the Debian package system APT to manage software. Another tool is grml-live Build System that allows users to create custom Grml images.

Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators. The 2025.08 release provides fresh software packages from Debian trixie. As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.

... see the official website.

News : GNOME 49.beta and more ...

GNOME is used as the default experience across Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora Workstation, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Vanilla OS, Endless OS, and more.

The last version is named as : GNOME 48, “Bengaluru”, see the official webpage.

This is not a news or something special, the news comes with:

GNOME 49.beta is now available. It also marks the start of the UI, feature and API freezes (collectively known as The Freeze). If you’d like to target the GNOME 49 platform, this is the best time to start testing your apps or shell extensions.

, see the official discourse - gnome.

... and they try to help users with: Continue using your old computer after the end of Windows 10 support this October. Visit endof10.org

News : KDE Gear is back ...

KDE Gear is back with a cool wave of apps for your summertime desktop!

Whether you need to brush up on your languages to visit exotic lands, plan your trips, keep up to date while on the move, meet up with friends and colleagues, create content from your holiday clips, or just chill as your quaint steam engine trundles up a picturesque peak, KDE Gear 🌞 25.08 has got you covered.

The news comes on 14 august 2025 from the official website.

KDE Gear - originally known as the KDE Applications Bundle, was first released on December 17, 2014

KDE Gear version 25.08 release include and provides powerful, user-friendly apps for everyday tasks:

• Itinerary: Travel planner that helps with tickets, delays, maps, and even health certificates.
• Dolphin: File manager with improved search and integration with Filelight for disk usage visualization.
• KOrganizer: Calendar and task manager with better navigation and tooltips.
• Kleopatra: Encryption and certificate manager with multi-window support.
• Neochat: Matrix-based chat app with polls and thread controls.
• Artikulate: Language pronunciation trainer, now compatible with Plasma 6.
• Angelfish: Web browser with customizable shortcuts and adblock toggle.

I don't use KDE very often and haven't in the past either. I prefer simpler and faster desktop environment solutions for my older hardware.

News : New videos from ZBrush

... the ZBrush software is not open-source, see the official website.

... the last videos from the Joomla! - the official youtube channel :