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Companies House vulnerability enabled company hijacking

A critical vulnerability in the UK's Companies House website allowed unauthorized access to the private dashboards of any registered company, exposing directors' personal addresses and enabling potent...

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Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)

Montana has passed the 'Right to Compute Act' in 2025, establishing legal protections for individuals to run computations on their own hardware without interference. The legislation aims to safeguard ...

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Baochip: What It Is, Why I'm Doing It Now, and How It Came About

Andrew 'bunnie' Huang announces the Baochip-1x, a RISC-V microcontroller with an integrated MMU—a rare feature in its class that enables secure, app-based functionality similar to desktop systems. The...

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Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs

Moment.dev explains why they rejected the popular Yjs library for collaborative editing, arguing it's unsuitable for both offline and live collaboration due to document corruption issues. They present...

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US Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B

The US Army has awarded defense technology company Anduril a contract potentially worth up to $20 billion, described as a single enterprise agreement consolidating over 120 separate procurement action...

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Honda is killing its EVs — and any chance of competing in the future

Honda has made the significant decision to cancel its three planned electric vehicle models for the U.S. market. This strategic pivot away from a major EV rollout is seen as a critical misstep that co...

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Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks

A lawyer involved in AI-related psychosis cases warns that AI chatbots are now appearing in mass casualty incidents, not just suicides. The technology is advancing faster than safety measures can keep...

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Quoting Jannis Leidel

Jazzband, an open-source Python organization with open membership and shared push access, is sunsetting due to the overwhelming flood of low-quality AI-generated PRs and issues. The model became unten...

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GIMP 3.2 released

GIMP 3.2 has been released, featuring significant performance improvements, a new color management system, and enhanced text tool capabilities. This update represents a major step forward for the open...

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XML is a cheap DSL

The article argues that XML, often criticized for verbosity, can serve as a cheap and effective domain-specific language (DSL) for configuration and data representation. It explores how XML's built-in...

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Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware

Megadev is a new development kit for creating software for the classic Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Mega CD/Sega CD consoles. It provides modern tools and documentation to help developers create homebr...

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A Guide to vim.pack (Neovim built-in plugin manager)

Neovim 0.12 will introduce vim.pack, a built-in Lua-based plugin manager that eliminates the need for external plugin managers. The guide explains core concepts including Lua syntax requirements, runt...

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Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI

The article explores the future of Emacs and Vim in the AI era, acknowledging challenges from AI-integrated IDEs like VS Code and new AI-native editors, while arguing that the extensibility and philos...

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A Preview of Coalton 2.0

Coalton 0.2 preview introduces major changes including fixed arity functions replacing Haskell-style currying, enabling keyword arguments, better type errors, and more efficient compilation. The updat...

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Plans to possibly retire the big-endian PowerPC/POWER platforms

Chimera Linux is planning to retire support for big-endian 32-bit PowerPC and 64-bit POWER platforms due to lack of community maintenance, unfixed regressions in key components like Mesa and WebKit, a...

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Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval

Elon Musk has ordered another round of job cuts and management overhauls at xAI, driven by frustration with its underperforming coding product and pressure to catch up with rivals like Anthropic and O...

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Meta is reportedly laying off up to 20 percent of its staff

Meta is reportedly planning to lay off up to 20% of its staff, potentially cutting around 15,800 jobs, as part of a strategic shift away from VR and the Metaverse to focus investment on AI and data ce...

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Sunsetting Jazzband

The Python open-source collective Jazzband has announced it will be sunsetting its operations. This decision impacts the maintenance and future development of its many popular Python libraries, transf...

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Getting started with Claude for software development

The article is a beginner's guide to using Claude for software development, written by a developer who transitioned from skepticism to active use. It emphasizes that becoming productive with LLMs requ...

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Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5

A developer has released early Fedora 44 images for Raspberry Pi 5, supporting core features like HDMI graphics, networking, and KDE/GNOME desktops, but requiring manual CMA configuration and lacking ...

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Humanities in the Machine

This essay highlights how foundational computer science pioneers like Tony Hoare came from humanities backgrounds, arguing that their training in philosophy and classical studies directly influenced t...

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Libadwaita 1.9

Libadwaita 1.9 introduces a new sidebar widget to provide consistent UI components for GTK4 applications, addressing previous fragmentation in sidebar implementations. The widget includes basic featur...

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Fatal Core Dump (a debugging murder mystery played with GDB)

Fatal Core Dump is an interactive educational game that combines a sci-fi murder mystery narrative with hands-on debugging practice using GDB and core dump analysis. Players investigate a software fai...

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Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good

Slay the Spire 2 enters Early Access as a highly anticipated sequel to the influential deck-building roguelike, but the initial review suggests it feels too similar to the original game. While maintai...

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Asus’ new open earbuds are a wonderful companion for handheld gaming

Asus has released the Cetra Open Wireless earbuds, featuring an open-style design that allows environmental awareness while gaming. They come with a highly praised USB-C 2.4GHz transmitter that includ...

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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: show off

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review highlights its privacy-focused features, which alleviate user anxiety about screen visibility in public. The phone addresses a subtle but persistent concern about o...

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My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit

Simon Willison discusses his fireside chat on agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit, highlighting stages of AI adoption in programming, such as moving from ChatGPT to coding agents, and the cont...

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Remarkable now has a web app with no software installed

Remarkable has launched a beta web application that provides access to its e-ink tablet features without requiring any software installation. This allows users to view and manage their notes and docum...