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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat in a snap election, marking a historic victory for a student-led movement that sought to unseat him. The result signals a significant political s...
A standard ResNet-50 CNN from a decade ago surpasses leading frontier LLMs on dermatological image classification, challenging the assumption that foundation model scale guarantees medical AI superior...
Dreamhost is currently experiencing an active security incident that has forced a mass password reset for its users. The situation is being tracked on their official status page and has drawn signific...
Zig has implemented a decades-old proposal requiring parentheses for ambiguous operator precedence combinations, aimed at reducing the cognitive load on programmers. Opened in 2016, issue #114 was fin...
Goose is a new memory-safe systems programming language that eliminates the heap entirely, using compiler-managed data stacks instead of allocation, garbage collection, or lifetime annotations. Benchm...
iFixit's teardown of the iPhone Duo reveals Apple's techniques for minimizing the folding screen crease, including a matte nano-texture cover that scatters reflections and oval-shaped subpixels arrang...
Google's introduction of AI-powered search results is disrupting the long-standing reciprocal relationship between the search giant and online publishers, who historically relied on SEO optimization t...
A UC Berkeley math professor has concluded that grading homework is pointless in the age of AI, as students can easily generate answers with tools like ChatGPT. The decision reflects a growing recogni...
JetBrains has open-sourced Thinkrail, an experimental project aimed at providing AI-assisted development tooling. The repository showcases JetBrains' continued investment in AI-powered developer workf...
Cerebras has published a technical blog post detailing how they deploy trillion-parameter frontier AI models on their wafer-scale computing platform. The article covers the engineering approaches and ...
The POSIX wordexp(3) API, commonly recommended for shell-style tilde expansion in C, has dangerous default behavior that enables command substitution unless WRDE_NOCMD is passed. However, even with WR...
The author implemented a SIMD-accelerated FAST corner detector for the ESP32-S3, achieving roughly double the performance of the reference implementation at ~6ms per QVGA frame. The work also includes...
A YouTuber investigating the iPhone Duo's 'crackgate' issue reproduced the screen cracking during durability testing and disassembled the device to find the cause. The foldable's hinge mechanism, whic...
An advocate for an uncensored internet is calling on others to join them at FOSDEM 27, a major free software conference, to resist internet censorship. The post was shared on Hacker News, garnering 35...
A local news outlet in Oregon is facing a $2.5 million bill from police for public records requests about a single officer's misconduct. The case highlights how excessive fee structures can effectivel...
An enthusiast built a custom portable computer dubbed 'The Slurptop' using a Ryzen 7 7730u laptop processor, 64GB RAM, and a 14-inch screen. Notably, it runs on swappable 24V Kobalt power tool batteri...
Vim Classic is a long-term support fork of Vim 8.x, maintained entirely by humans without generative AI assistance. The first release, Vim Classic 8.3.0, was announced on June 2, 2026, aimed at provid...
A conference presentation from CCC Matrix Conference 2026 proposing a vision for next-generation timeline systems. The slides outline a conceptual framework for evolving how timelines are designed and...
A developer has created a MacOS Extensions pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0, reviving the ability to boot Mac OS on Apple's 1996 Unix server line. The ANS originally shipped only with Harpoon (a...
This 2001 USENIX paper introduces DERIVE, a tool that automatically reverse-engineers machine instruction encodings by feeding permutations into an assembler and analyzing the resulting binary output....
Grok (xAI) has released the first seven minutes of its AI-generated 'Odyssey' series, marking the debut of what it calls Episode 1. Created in collaboration with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker...
Paulina Borsook's 2000 book 'Cyberselfish,' which critiques techno-libertarianism in Silicon Valley, is getting a new edition from Tin House after going out of print. The book is experiencing a resurg...
TechCrunch compiled a roundup of the hottest AI-powered wearables and gadgets currently on the market, featuring devices like Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, and Plaud among others.
An Apollo economist claims AI has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside the tech sector, despite massive investments and widespread hype. The statement highlights the growing de...
Zen Browser is positioned as a viable replacement for the discontinued Arc browser, featuring launcher-like pinned tabs and pop-over glance views. The article notes that while Zen closely borrows Arc'...
Instagram is expanding its TV app to Apple TV, bringing its living room-focused platform with Reels, live streams, and other video content. The app was previously available on Amazon Fire TV, Samsung ...
Reddit's r/opensource subreddit has introduced new rules banning projects that use, are made by, or are intended for AI, stating AI is "incongruent" to the open source community. The decision has spar...