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Valve's peer-to-peer networking library has been broken for more than two months, and the silence from the company has developers frustrated. The GameNetworkingSockets issue tracker shows the bug sitting unresolved, affecting games that rely on Valve's infrastructure for direct player connections. For a company of Valve's scale, two months is a long time to leave a foundational tool in disrepair.
On a very different frontier, Quanta Magazine is asking a genuinely strange question this week — can memories be transferred between organisms, or even consumed? Researchers exploring RNA-based memory transfer in animals are finding early evidence that something encoded in biology might move between bodies. It's early science, but the implications for how we understand the mind are hard to overstate.
And in a story worth revisiting from the history books, a new piece highlights Oleg Losev, a Russian physicist who demonstrated semiconductor amplification roughly twenty-five years before American engineers are typically credited with the invention. His work, largely ignored in his lifetime, raises real questions about how innovation gets attributed and whose contributions get written into the record.
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