Mountaintop home with panoramic views of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains

September 25th, 2026 07:05 AM

The Flying Eagle is a contemporary mountaintop home designed by Pavelchak Architecture, with massive expanses of glass set between logs and overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains. The house sits perched on the ridgeline of Eagles Nest, a master-planned gated community in Banner Elk, North Carolina. Impressive glass walls frame views of the Elk River Valley […] The post Mountaintop home with panoramic views of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains appeared first on One Kindesign.

The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR’s comment section?

September 25th, 2026 08:33 PM

When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immediately) figure out the mystery.

Ubuntu 26.10 beta delayed by a week

September 24th, 2026 05:13 PM

The Ubuntu 26.10 beta, which had been due on 24 September, has been pushed back to 1 October. Yeah, you stop refreshing the Ubuntu CD image server and close the tab – the Stonking Stingray has slipped by. Canonical’s Matthieu Clemenceau, announcing the delay, said “unforeseen infrastructure issues” require pushing the release back by one week. The exact issue isn’t detailed, but Clemenceau did add that the company expects to resolve the cause shortly and that it doesn’t expect any impact on...

Soulslike 'Fountains' Gets A Free Switch 2 Upgrade Pack One Week After Launch

September 25th, 2026 04:30 PM

120fps + an exclusive "Gauntlet Mode".We're into the final week of September and the video games have been coming so thick and fast that it's hard to keep up. One such game — indie Soulslike Fountains — released just last week on 17th September, although perhaps missing out on day one wasn't such a bad thing in this case: a free Nintendo Switch 2 Edition upgrade pack has appeared on the eShop which adds 120fps support. Larvely.With a top-down view and a pixel-art aesthetic reminiscent of ...

GraphQL `useWorkItemsView` user preference

October 15th, 2026 12:00 AM

The useWorkItemsView field on the UserPreferences type and the useWorkItemsView argument on the userPreferencesUpdate mutation are deprecated in GitLab 19.5 and will be removed in GitLab 20.0. The issue-to-work-item migration is complete and the work item view is always used, making this preference unnecessary. As of GitLab 19.5, the argument is accepted but ignored and the field always returns true. Remove the argument from your mutations and the field from your queries. There is no...

007 First Light Patch 1.2.2 Improves Path Tracing Visuals & Performance

September 25th, 2026 03:38 PM

IO Interactive has released Update 1.2.2 for 007 First Light, which comes with a number of visual and performance improvements for Path Tracing. The team has also shared its full patch notes. So, let’s take a look at them. Patch 1.2.2 adds an option to enable recommended default settings to smooth out the experience. With … Continue reading 007 First Light Patch 1.2.2 Improves Path Tracing Visuals & Performance The post 007 First Light Patch 1.2.2 Improves Path Tracing Visuals &...

Blitzy Makes Sandbox for Reverse Engineering Code Available at No Cost

September 25th, 2026 04:19 PM

Blitzy has made available a sandbox where DevOps teams can reverse-engineer up to one million lines of code, generate up to 25,000 lines of tested end-to-end code, and identify security vulnerabilities across a codebase at no cost. Dan Ochs, director of AI solutions consulting for Blitzy, said the provider’s Proactive Insights platform uses multiple artificial intelligence (AI) models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, AI agents and a knowledge graph to discover vulnerabilities in code,...

Five Game-Changing Features on Garmin's Fenix 9 Pro

September 25th, 2026 07:53 PM

We may earn a commission from links on this page.Garmin's Fenix line has long been the watch to beat in the outdoor GPS category, and the new Fenix 9 Pro checks all the right boxes. You still get excellent mapping, a durable and premium build, and strong battery life, plus a handful of quality-of-life updates that make daily use even better. Here are the five features on Garmin's latest flagship that I suddenlly find I can't live without. Garmin Fenix 9 Pro Solar 47mm Titanium GPS Smartwatch...

Asteroids Named After Tom Lehrer and 'Weird Al' Yankovic

September 25th, 2026 05:34 PM

"Weird Al" Yankovic's name has just been approved for a new asteroid — (14331) Alyankovic = 1981 EC26 — by the International Astronomical Union, reports Space.com. Yankovic's asteroid was championed by planetary scientist Allison McGraw joined by "several heavy hitters in the planetary science field, according to the Tucson Star. (Astrophysicist Steve Desch from the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University; Tim McCoy, one of the main curators of meteorites at the...

Thousands of banks can now sue over Apple Pay fees in one antitrust case

September 25th, 2026 06:15 PM

Thousands of U.S. banks and credit unions can pursue their Apple Pay fee claims together after a federal judge certified their antitrust lawsuit as a class action.Using Apple Pay at a payment terminalThe financial institutions accuse Apple of blocking competing tap-to-pay wallets on iPhone while charging card issuers fees for transactions. They argue Apple could impose those fees because rival wallets couldn't compete for contactless payments on the iPhone.Judge Jeffrey White certified the...