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Firefox has publicly committed to supporting uBlock Origin as Microsoft Edge moves to the restrictive Manifest V3 extension API, making it the last major browser to offer full ad-blocking functionalit...
nixpkgs-multiverse introduces a 'fast mode' that provides direct store paths for any historical package version without downloading or evaluating the full Nixpkgs tree. By querying a cache-first index...
SpaceX has officially closed its acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, as announced on the Cursor blog. The deal, initially disclosed in April, will give Cursor access to SpaceX's m...
Serokell's GHC team continues its ongoing effort to implement dependent types in Haskell, presenting three major contributions—visible forall in GADTs, namespace-specified imports, and type instances ...
Herb Sutter's influential article argues that the era of easy performance gains through increasing clock speeds is over, as CPU manufacturers pivot to multicore and hyperthreading architectures. This ...
Depot Registry rebuilt its garbage collector using TLA+ model checking, which uncovered a real bug missed by tests and code reviews. The article explains how TLA+ models systems as states and transiti...
This article traces the technical journey of a single player action in 2004 RuneScape to reveal how Jagex engineered a massively multiplayer RPG to function over 56k dial-up connections. The team achi...
PayPal is reportedly in active negotiations for a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent. The discussions come as PayPal's new CEO tries to steer the company toward a turnaround amid ...
Ukraine struck Russia's Progress Rocket Space Center in Samara with ground-launched FP-5 'Flamingo' cruise missiles, damaging what appears to be an avionics clean room. The facility assembles Soyuz-2 ...
Sony has launched the A7R VI, a 66.8-megapixel flagship camera featuring a new fully stacked sensor and Bionz XR2 processor. This marks a significant shift from earlier high-resolution cameras by enab...
A recent study published in Alzheimer's & Dementia suggests that semaglutide, the weight-loss drug behind Ozempic and Wegovy, is associated with a lower predicted risk of dementia. This finding adds t...
The author describes their approach to a GPU Mode auto-research contest where they used Codex to optimize a batched square compact-Householder QR factorization kernel, achieving a 232x speedup over th...
A deep cervical lymphatic-venous anastomosis (dcLVA) surgery, pioneered in China, claims to reverse Alzheimer's symptoms by rerouting brain waste drainage through the neck's lymphatic system. The firs...
Cryptographer Matthew Green warns that AI-driven software security improvements could make traditional encryption bypasses obsolete, causing U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies to lose acce...
The article explores the deep mathematical connection between compression and prediction, showing that minimizing log-loss in probabilistic modeling is equivalent to minimizing encoded bit length via ...
A seminal 1983 paper by L. Bainbridge examining how automating industrial processes can paradoxically expand rather than eliminate challenges faced by human operators. The paper explores strategies wi...
A woman has joined a lawsuit against xAI over Grok after alleging her stepfather used the chatbot to generate over 7,000 explicit images from a childhood photo taken when she was 11. The original suit...
Analysis of 368 utility-scale US power plants that went online in H1 2026 reveals solar dominance, with the massive SunZia Wind farms leading in capacity. The data highlights both long-delayed renewab...
Disney's D23 2026 event revealed multiple high-profile announcements across its major franchises. Highlights include a new trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, the X-Men cast reveal, teaser trailers for Ah...
CrossPoint Reader, a free alternative firmware for Xteink e-readers, is introducing third-party plugin support that will let X3, X4, and X4 Pro users access DRM-protected ebooks through OverDrive's Li...
Davide Piffer argues that AI's apparent mathematical superiority may stem not from better reasoning but from vastly larger working memory—its ability to retain the entire problem, hundreds of equation...
An at-home test for detecting Lyme disease in ticks could help patients make faster treatment decisions after a bite. With over 31 million Americans experiencing tick bites annually and 476,000 Lyme d...
The author expresses ongoing skepticism about LLMs for practical software development after four years of the AI revolution, arguing that the industry has delivered little tangible improvement in soft...
The author compares RISC-V RVA23 and ARMv9 ISAs through a small experiment measuring dynamic instruction count and code density, using chibicc compiling itself as the benchmark workload.
Anthropic has released more details on how AI-generated content from Claude will be watermarked, addressing concerns about detectability, potential removal through editing, and impact on code outputs....
TechCrunch published a security guide on detecting and recovering compromised accounts on major AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. The article recommends using unique passwords with a ...
Fusion startups have collectively raised $7.1 billion to date, with the bulk of funding concentrated among a small number of companies that have each surpassed the $100M mark. The article catalogs eve...
A fun browser-based game called "Your AI Slop Bores Me" lets humans roleplay as AI chatbots, with one person submitting prompts and another pretending to be an LLM for 150 seconds. It uses a credit/to...
The Verge reviews Elektron's budget-friendly Model:Samples and Model:Cycles grooveboxes, arguing they offer exceptional power and fun despite being overshadowed by flashier brands like Teenage Enginee...
Marvel officially revealed the cast for its upcoming untitled X-Men film at D23, set for release on May 5, 2028. The lineup includes Inde Navarrette as Rogue, Adam Driver in an undisclosed role, Kit C...
An iOS developer named Sean Byrne was denied access to App Store Connect after being matched to a different person on a U.S. restricted-party list under the same name. Despite providing his passport, ...
Several characters in Japan's JIS X 0208 encoding standard were added in 1978 with no clear origin or pronunciation, earning the nickname "ghost characters." A 1997 investigation traced most of them t...