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An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light

Researchers have achieved quantum entanglement between a beam of light and a suspended glass bead, a macroscopic object—marking a significant experimental milestone. The breakthrough demonstrates quan...

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Theranos.world

The domain Theranos.world documents the Theranos blood-testing fraud scandal—a cautionary tale of a $9 billion startup that claimed revolutionary single-drop blood testing technology but was exposed a...

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Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

Whistle is a highly compact speech-to-text model that achieves impressive transcription capabilities in just 16.9 MB, making it suitable for edge devices and low-resource environments. The achievement...

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64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027

Let's Encrypt announces that starting Feb 10, 2027, all certificates will default to 64-day lifetimes (down from 90 days), with staging testing beginning Oct 14, 2026. The CA also reduces authorizatio...

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B-Trees Are Back: Engineering Fast and Pageable Node Layouts

This research paper presents novel B-tree node layout designs that achieve high read and write performance while maintaining pageability for efficient disk storage. The authors demonstrate that carefu...

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Thinking will become a hobby

Diomidis Spinellis argues that AI is rapidly surpassing human cognitive abilities across performance, cost, and availability, making human-dominated knowledge work increasingly obsolete. He identifies...

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Beyond the &

Tyler Mandry, lead of Rust's language team, presented at RustConf 2026 on the "Beyond the &" project, which aims to make user-defined smart pointers as flexible as built-in references. After extensive...

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Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses

Google is transforming Gemini into an agentic AI capable of planning and executing tasks across business applications. The system can delegate work to subagents, utilize multiple AI models, and is bei...

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Waymo locks in $5B loan from Blackstone, PIMCO to fuel robotaxi expansion

Waymo secured a $5 billion loan from major lenders including Blackstone and PIMCO, marking its first debt financing as it accelerates commercial robotaxi expansion across the US, Europe, and Japan. Th...

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Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign

Newly disclosed internal ExxonMobil documents from Massachusetts' lawsuit reveal the company's own scientists expressed doubts about its promoted climate solutions, including biofuels and carbon captu...

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SpaceX announces plan to become a ‘major mobile carrier’

SpaceX has acquired a portfolio of low-band spectrum licenses in the 800 MHz band, aiming to deploy Starlink Mobile as a major US carrier. Once FCC-approved, the company will combine its satellite-to-...

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I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities

The author used Claude Opus 5.5 with a single prompt and six hours of compute to create visualizations of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. The project explores how modern LLMs combined with image gen...

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Yes, and

An htmx essay applying the improv principle 'Yes, and' as a philosophy for web development and project growth. It argues for embracing existing conventions and building iteratively on what's already t...

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The people holding up the internet

Billions of Android and iPhone devices rely on a single text file — the time zone database — to determine local time, kept up to date mostly by one UCLA lecturer, Paul Eggert. The article highlights h...

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OLED burn-in test: 30-month update

A long-term OLED burn-in test reaches its 30-month mark, providing real-world data on panel degradation and image retention over extended use. The update likely examines whether manufacturer improveme...

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The Missing Piece in Rust Error Handling

The article examines the common pain points in Rust error handling, particularly the trade-off between precise enum-based error types with boilerplate versus convenient box error types that lose speci...

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Bevy 0.20

Bevy 0.20 was released on October 8, 2026, featuring a significantly improved Solari path-traced renderer with macOS Metal support, BSN scene system syntax improvements, new UI widgets via Bevy Feathe...

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The Performance Cost of RwLock in Our Read-Heavy Workload

The author explores the performance tradeoffs between RwLock and lock-free atomic approaches in a read-heavy, single-writer service. The article walks through a concrete data model using parking_lot R...

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The history of the Hetzner Cloud network stack

Hetzner Cloud engineers publish a technical overview of their network stack evolution, detailing how they built custom Open vSwitch-based solutions for VM host connectivity rather than relying on smar...

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The Goose Programming Language

Goose is a new memory-safe systems programming language that eliminates the need for a heap allocator, garbage collector, and lifetime annotations. Claims in its repository benchmarks suggest it can r...

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Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger

Natura has launched its Interface smart ring priced at $99, combining AI agent assistance with health tracking. The ring allows users to summon AI agents via a finger press to complete tasks, capture ...

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Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules

The NHTSA is launching a negotiated rulemaking process to rewrite outdated FMVSS headlight regulations, which have long prevented US automakers from adopting advanced lighting technologies like adapti...

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Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches

A federal jury in Texas awarded Alek Schott $76 after his civil suit against Bexar County revealed his traffic stop was based on a bogus pretext—the officer admitted the stated reason was fabricated a...

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US plans livestream of execution by firing squad

The US government plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan on December 3rd. Major platforms including YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, Meta, Rumble, and Kick were contac...

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AMD will bring FSR 4 to handhelds by the end of 2026

AMD has confirmed that its AI-based FSR 4 upscaling technology will be coming to handheld gaming devices by the end of 2026, per AMD consumer chip boss Jack Huynh. However, it remains unclear whether ...

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Paramount is making a Cyberpunk 2077 film

Paramount Pictures is developing a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 film based on CD Projekt Red's sci-fi video game franchise. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, known for producing the Transformers films, will serve...

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Amazon releases new Alexa Tablets

Amazon has released a new line of Alexa-branded tablets that run Android 16 instead of the usual FireOS, giving users full access to the Google Play Store. This marks a significant shift in Amazon's t...

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jujutsu (jj) 0.46.0

Jujutsu v0.46.0 introduces workspace colocation via Git worktrees, controlled by new --colocate flags and git.colocate settings. The release raises the minimum supported Git version to 2.42.0 and Rust...

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Extending Guix

The article explains how users can extend Guix with custom commands, including both built-in and user-created extensions. It covers the new extension schema that treats extension modules as standard G...

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`specialArgs` considered harmful

The article argues that using specialArgs in Nix/NixOS to pass inputs and shared data between modules reduces portability and makes configuration reuse difficult. The author observed this problem when...

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Migrating Git repos to SHA-256

An article exploring the migration of Git repositories from SHA-1 to the newer SHA-256 object format introduced in Git 2.42. The author outlines the basic migration steps using fast-export/fast-import...

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A rant about APIs

Developer Clinton Blackburn shares frustrations from integrating with multiple SaaS APIs (e-signature, invoicing, CRM, payments) for Vori's onboarding automation. His main complaints are gated documen...

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Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed

Ben Affleck is gaining viral attention for his impressive technical knowledge of AI, including neural networks and transformers. The actor, who previously sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix ear...

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OpenAI’s math solutions aren’t meeting the field’s standards yet

OpenAI's math proof solutions are falling short of standards set by mathematical researchers consulted by the company. The automated proofs generated by OpenAI's systems deviated from established guid...

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Spotify is getting more serious about selling enterprise software

Spotify is launching technology.spotify.com, a new site aimed at external customers to showcase and sell its internal technology. This signals a strategic push into enterprise software as a revenue st...

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Quoting Carson Gross

Carson Gross reflects that computer programming is fundamentally about problem-solving and controlling complexity, and he sees no future where these skills become less valuable despite the rise of AI ...

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California is trying to shut down robot vs. human cage matches

California's State Athletic Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order to Rek, a startup that hosted a human-vs-robot boxing match in September. The fight pitted human Frankie LaPenna against a hu...