Brightin Star’s Incomprehensibly-Thin 28mm f/2.8 Lens Now Comes In Stylish Silver

A silver Brightin Star 28mm f/2.8 lens with a detached circular metal lens cap, resting on a black, glittery surface.

Brightin Star’s X-Slim 28mm f/2.8 Pancake Lens for Leica M Mount was originally launched in black in 2023, and now it’s available in a new “Liquid Silver” finish, looking as stylish as ever.

The 28mm f/2.8 full-frame lens is remarkably thin, measuring just 9.9 millimeters (0.39 inches) long from the lens mount. It’s also very lightweight, of course, weighing

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Flight attendants and pilots have highest risk of dying from radiation-linked cancers, study says

NEW YORK (AP) — Flight attendants and pilots are at the highest risk of dying from radiation-related cancers — even more than people who work with radioactive materials, according to a new study.

Nidhogg Designer’s Mash-Up Of Pac-Man And Vampire Survivors And Everything Else Hitting Game Pass In August 2026

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Intel Arc and Panther Lake graphics get faster DXVK performance in Mesa 26.3

Intel Arc graphics gain up to 5% in DXVK games with Mesa 26.3 buffer compression

Intel graphics are getting another gaming performance improvement on Linux through the Mesa ANV Vulkan driver. A change merged for Mesa 26.3 enables buffer compression for DXVK workloads, with Intel reporting gains of up to 5.26% in its testing.

DXVK translates Direct3D 8, 9, 10 and 11 calls to Vulkan and is commonly used by Valve Proton and Steam Play. Intel had already enabled

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歐洲嘗過了美國靠不住的苦澀,現在輪到韓國了

各位好,8月19日出刊的法國世界報頭版關注點如下:法國稅務局官網遭黑客大規模襲擊,近70萬名納稅人敏感信息泄露,法國政府在信息與公共服務的數字化方面的脆弱性引發關注、專家分析以色列即將迎來議會選舉、為

日俄領土爭端:莫斯科召見日本大使,抗議日方“反俄言論”,不排除對日反制

俄羅斯外交部8月18日星期二召見了日本駐俄羅斯大使,就日方譴責俄羅斯總統普京訪問擇捉島(俄稱伊圖魯普島)一事表達不滿。

ChatGPT for Teens launches with protections and features ‘to promote healthy use’

OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Teens. It calls the new effort “an experience designed to help teens learn, think critically, deepen understanding, and use AI with confidence.” ChatGPT for Teens is enabled when OpenAI systems estimate a user is between 13 and 17 or if the user’s age is directly stated.


土瓜灣75歲老翁捱小巴撞 留醫5日後不治

土瓜灣上周四(13日)發生一宗交通意外,一輛車身印有「基督教家庭服務中心」字句的私家小巴駛至落山道與美善同道交界時,撞到一名過路的75歲姓黃老翁。警方經調查後,以涉嫌「危險駕駛引致他人身體受嚴重傷害」


In Spain’s Ceuta, migrant women tell of sexual harassment: ‘it’s really bad’

Some women who entered Spain’s ⁠North African enclave of Ceuta on July 30 as part of a mass migrant crossing say the ⁠hardships of sleeping rough as they wait to be registered are compounded by the threat and fear of sexual harassment.

More than a dozen women have set up camp on a wooded roadside running up to the barbed wire fencing that surrounds the government-run migrant reception centre, near the urban beach of El Trampolin.

The facility is sheltering about 700 people, 200 more


Ex-PlayStation Boss Shuhei Yoshida Backs Discless Future, But Admits Used Market Will Be Hit In 2028

PlayStation’s decision to sunset physical game releases in 2028 remains an extremely controversial decision among both gamers and developers , despite a market that’s shifting more and more towards the dominance of digital sales. While acknowledging the disappointment of many, the Japanese company is not planning to revise its decision, and even former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida doesn’t understand if not having a disc is such a big issue.

Speaking in a new interview with GamerBraves , Yoshida-san confirmed he wasn’t aware PlayStation