A native Horizon mod (Minecraft 26.3, Horizon Nightly 2026-11-01, c9d474d) that is a client for the Simple Voice Chat protocol. It uses the same protocol as the Java mod, so on any server with the ...

There's a new hoop to jump through before landing a junior role at McKinsey: You may have to talk your way through a mock client meeting with an AI avatar. The Wall Street Journal's Chip Cutter ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Senior full-stack engineer. I build realtime systems and AI agents in Python, and write about the parts that hurt in production. I’ve been building realtime products for years: group chat, voice ...

The Apache Software Foundation has patched a dozen security vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat, the widely deployed open-source Java servlet container, with fixes rolled into version 11.0.25. The flaws, ...

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The source code for Microsoft Comic Chat is now available, opening up the workings of a project released in 1996 that turned the walls of text from chats into comic strips, generating panels and ...

A real-time, multi-client, and multi-threaded chat application built in Java using plain TCP sockets, concurrency models, and a GUI Client using Java Swing. This repository is designed to demonstrate ...

Some teams default to WebSocket the moment they hear “real-time”. But guess what? They end up paying for bidirectionality they don’t use. The protocol question is simpler than it looks. Does your ...

Andy is a senior writer and former Mac editor at HTG. He has over 20 years experience as a consumer tech journalist, and has covered everything from the old Palm Pilots to the original iPhone and ...

Today, Battlefield Studios put out the latest community update, which included new details on its 2026 roadmap and several community-requested features in the works. Specifically, proximity chat is ...

Running one application per physical server sounds sensible until you look at the hardware utilization numbers. Industry estimates suggest a typical server operates at just 15% to 25% of its capacity ...