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Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing

Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron face a lawsuit in the United States over alleged memory price fixing. This legal action targets the three dominant global manufacturers of DRAM and NAND flash memory chip...

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Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography

The article positions cryptographic obfuscation, specifically indistinguishability obfuscation (iO), as a foundational primitive capable of simulating a 'trustless trusted third party' for complex pro...

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Rocket Lab continues buying spree by acquiring satellite company Iridium

Rocket Lab has acquired satellite operator Iridium in an all-stock deal valuing the target at $8 billion, significantly expanding its capabilities to compete with industry giants like Amazon and Space...

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In a bold move, Rocket Lab acquires Iridium Communications

Rocket Lab has acquired Iridium Communications for approximately $8 billion, marking a strategic pivot from pure launch services to integrated space applications. This acquisition combines Rocket Lab'...

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ipv6_frag_escape: Linux LPE - Reliable Jail/Container Escape

This repository details a reliable unprivileged container escape proof-of-concept for CentOS/RHEL 10, exploiting a fixed IPv6 fragmentation bug in the Linux kernel. The attack chain allows an attacker...

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South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘RAMageddon’

South Korea's leading memory chip manufacturers have pledged over $550 billion to expand fabrication facilities, aiming to alleviate the global 'RAMageddon' shortage. This massive investment underscor...

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Quantum computing startup says it will leapfrog everybody

QuEra has announced an ambitious roadmap to leapfrog current quantum computing limitations by delivering a system with over 10,000 physical qubits to Amazon by 2028, capable of supporting hundreds of ...

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Comcast is splitting its media and broadband properties

Comcast announced a strategic split to separate its media assets, including NBCUniversal and Sky, from its broadband and wireless infrastructure, aiming to unlock shareholder value amid industry conso...

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Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

Meta is integrating user-generated photos from Instagram into advertisements displayed on its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. This feature allows brands to leverage social media content to create personal...

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Ante: New Way to Blend Borrow Checking and Reference Counting

The Ante programming language introduces a novel approach to seamlessly blend borrow checking and reference counting for mutable objects without runtime crashes or overhead. Unlike Rust's RefCell or S...

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The AT-URI Syntax Mess

Bryan Newbold highlights a critical compliance issue where AT-URIs in the AT Protocol violate IETF RFC-3986 standards due to placing DIDs in the URI authority section. This non-compliance hinders broa...

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Spindle's new microVM engine

Tangled introduces a new microVM engine for Spindle workflows, offering full virtual machine environments with rapid boot times and aggressive caching. This upgrade replaces the previous Nixery engine...

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Autocrypt v2 - Post-Quantum and Reliable Deletion

Autocrypt v2 introduces a post-quantum resistant encryption standard for internet messaging, utilizing hybrid ML-KEM-768 and X25519 algorithms within OpenPGP v6 certificates. It emphasizes reliable de...

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Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business

Arena, the widely used AI model leaderboard, has transitioned into a $100 million business less than a year after launching its commercial services. This rapid monetization highlights the growing econ...

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WhatsApp now lets you reserve usernames

WhatsApp has begun allowing users to reserve unique usernames, a feature designed to enable profile sharing without revealing phone numbers. While the full rollout occurs later this year, early access...

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US renewable boom passes key milestone in April

Preliminary data indicates that US solar electricity production surpassed coal-fired generation in April 2026, marking a significant shift in the energy landscape. However, this milestone includes a c...

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Kalshi sues Illinois over new tax on prediction market sports bets

Kalshi has filed a lawsuit against Illinois officials challenging a new state tax that classifies prediction market sports bets as unlicensed gambling. This legal battle highlights the growing tension...

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Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data

Google has raised privacy concerns regarding the European Union's proposed regulations aimed at curbing its market dominance in search and AI on Android. The tech giant argues that mandatory data shar...

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WhatsApp is launching usernames: here’s how to reserve yours

WhatsApp is introducing usernames to allow users to communicate without sharing their phone numbers, enhancing privacy. Users can begin reserving their desired handles this week ahead of the feature's...

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Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon are introducing an updated version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act to ban the sale of Americans' health and location data to...

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Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding

DeepReinforce has released Ornith-1.0, a series of self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding, built upon Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 foundations. The model variants, ranging from 9B to 397B parameters, demons...

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.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

The article introduces '.self', a proposed top-level domain aimed at facilitating self-hosting and reclaiming digital identity from centralized platforms. It outlines a vision for a human-centered int...

6.0

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage

European Internet Service Providers are advocating for legal measures to hold rightsholders accountable when their copyright enforcement mechanisms cause 'overblocking,' inadvertently restricting acce...

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Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

The article highlights Qwen 3.6 27B as an optimal balance of performance and efficiency for local development environments. It emphasizes the model's capability to handle complex tasks while remaining...

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A native graphical shell for SSH

The article introduces 'Blocks,' a native graphical shell designed to enhance the SSH experience by providing a more intuitive interface for remote terminal sessions. It aims to bridge the gap between...

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WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

The author implements WATaBoy, a Game Boy emulator that compiles Game Boy CPU instructions to WebAssembly (WASM) at runtime using Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation. Benchmarks demonstrate that this appro...

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What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

This article provides a deep dive into the execution lifecycle of a CUDA kernel, explaining how code transitions from host to device and how threads are organized on the GPU hardware. It clarifies com...

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Evaluation order and nontermination in query languages

The author discusses the theoretical challenges of adding recursion to 'λFS', a language combining functional and relational programming, specifically focusing on how evaluation order impacts terminat...

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Type-checked non-empty strings

Bellroy shares a Haskell technique using GHC 9.10's RequiredTypeArguments to create type-checked non-empty strings, replacing thousands of TemplateHaskell calls and improving build times by ~10%. This...

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You might not need… a service worker

The author argues that many common use cases for Service Workers, such as asset caching and avoiding stale deployments, can be effectively handled by simpler native HTTP caching strategies. By highlig...

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Optimizing LLVM's bump allocator

The author details optimizations to LLVM's BumpPtrAllocator, specifically removing redundant realignment operations by rounding sizes to a minimum alignment and handling edge cases like nullptr safely...

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Solod v0.2: Networking, new targets, friendlier interop

Solod v0.2 introduces networking capabilities including TCP, UDP, and Unix domain sockets, while expanding compilation targets to 32-bit platforms, WebAssembly, and bare metal. This release focuses on...

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You Don’t Know Jack About Formal Verification

This article serves as an introductory guide to formal verification, demystifying the concept for software engineers who may find it intimidating or overly academic. It explains how formal methods use...

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Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users

Google is making its personalized AI image generation feature available to eligible free users in the United States. The tool allows the Gemini chatbot to create images based on user interests and dat...

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Watch out, Amazon: The Kobo eReader now has a Goodreads rival

Kobo eReaders now support automatic syncing with StoryGraph, offering users an alternative to Amazon's Goodreads for tracking reading progress and statistics. This integration allows readers to manage...

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Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix

Waymo and Uber have ended their autonomous vehicle partnership in Phoenix, with Uber preparing to launch a new, unnamed AV collaboration in the city. This strategic shift marks a significant change in...

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Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

Cursor has launched a mobile app allowing users to prompt and manage its AI coding agents directly from smartphones, following similar moves by Anthropic and OpenAI. This release supports the industry...

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TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization

TIDAL is implementing stricter measures against AI-generated music by cutting off monetization for such tracks and deploying automated tools to remove content that impersonates artists. This move high...

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Ozone loss was a thing even before CFCs were widely used

A new study by MIT researchers suggests that ozone depletion caused by pre-CFC industrial solvents like carbon tetrachloride could have been detected decades earlier using modern scientific tools. Whi...

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Think tank games out how to respond to disaster scenarios in space warfare

The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies conducted a two-day war game involving 50 experts to analyze military responses to ambiguous space threats, such as satellite failures versus hostile attac...

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T-Mobile is booting customers from its oldest plans

T-Mobile has begun notifying customers to migrate from legacy plans dating back to the 3G and early 4G eras to modern rate plans. This initiative affects long-standing subscribers, including those on ...

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Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos reportedly wound up on the dark web

Photos and parts lists for the unreleased iPhone 18 Pro have surfaced on the dark web following a data breach at Tata Electronics, a key Apple supplier. The leaked images reportedly show a drop test o...

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At $499, Apple’s M3-powered iPad Air is a good deal

Best Buy is offering the previous-generation 128GB M3 iPad Air with 5G connectivity for $499, representing a significant discount from its original price. This deal makes the M3 model a compelling alt...

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What is `std::pin::Pin` in Rust?

This article explains the purpose and mechanics of std::pin::Pin in Rust, focusing on how it prevents memory moves for self-referential types. It highlights the critical role of pinning in the async/a...

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When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter

The author argues that significant technical performance improvements may fail to deliver expected business value if they do not cross specific human attention thresholds, such as the 10-second limit ...

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Loko Scheme 0.13.0

Loko Scheme 0.13.0 has been released, bringing bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features to this optimizing Scheme compiler. The update supports static binary generation for bare metal, Li...

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Canvas patch: we need testers

The MonadicSheep team is seeking testers for their 'Canvas' patch for GNU Emacs, with a specific focus on validating the MS Windows port due to a lack of native Windows development resources. The arti...

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Typst: Designing for Incrementality

The video discusses the design philosophy behind Typst's incremental compilation engine, which allows for near-instantaneous preview updates during document editing. It highlights how this approach im...

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What's wrong with EU age verification? (Nothing)

The author argues that criticism of the EU's online age verification mechanisms is often uninformed or misleading, asserting that such measures are necessary to protect minors from digital harms like ...

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Pocket raises $11M in bet on rising demand for AI note-taking devices

Pocket has secured $11 million in funding to support its credit card-sized AI note-taking device that attaches to smartphones. The hardware promises unlimited audio recording, transcription, and task ...