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October 27, 2026

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The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]

An OpenAI preprint claims to disprove the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH), a foundational conjecture in computational complexity theory. If verified, this would imply that certain NP-hard problems c...

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Anthropic S-1

Anthropic has filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC, marking a significant step toward a potential IPO. The filing reveals details about the company's financials, business model, and compe...

8.0

About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs

Apple is blocking 12 certificates from compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs that issue TLS certificates, after their private keys were breached on October 19, 2026. While Apple devices automatically b...

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The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive

The EPA is silently removing documents and pages from its public website and web archive, raising concerns about transparency around environmental regulations, Camp Lejeune water contamination records...

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Type Server Protocol

Microsoft has published a specification for the Type Server Protocol (TSP), a standardized protocol enabling language servers to offload type-checking work to a dedicated background process. This sepa...

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GPT-6.1 Terra

OpenAI has announced GPT-6.1 Terra, a new iteration in its GPT model series, with dedicated API documentation now available on their developer portal. The model release has generated significant engag...

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Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

Solar power has overtaken nuclear power in global electricity generation capacity, marking a significant milestone in the energy transition. The BBC Future article explores how rapidly declining costs...

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Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM

The article details how the team at Ubicloud identified and fixed tool-call accuracy issues in vLLM's function calling implementation. They improved the reliability of LLM tool use by addressing edge ...

7.0

A faster way to compute signed 64-bit floor division by constants

The article presents optimized algorithms for signed 64-bit floor division by compile-time constants, which round toward -∞ unlike standard truncating division. The author introduces a new approach th...

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Stalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the Planet

Stalwart v1.0 is the first stable release of an open-source mail and collaboration server written in Rust, featuring support for JMAP, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV, and WebDAV. The development te...

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The result of the C++26 DIS ballot

C++26 has failed its DIS ballot for the first time in history, marking a significant milestone in standards body history. The rejection centers primarily on the highly controversial contracts feature,...

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This startup’s self-driving excavators help dig up $600M in new funding

Bedrock Robotics, a startup focused on self-driving excavators, has raised $600 million in new funding and is now valued at $4.1 billion. The company is addressing a growing shortage of skilled heavy-...

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Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to approximately 60,000 employees across select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK, targeting VP-level and below in divisions including Xbox, Windows, C...

7.0

Anthropic officially files for its public debut

Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI sa...

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Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to approximately 60,000 employees globally, representing roughly a quarter of its workforce, in what marks the company's second voluntary workforce reduction ef...

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Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing

Early iPhone Duo units are reportedly experiencing OLED display failures within hours or days of use, with bright pixel lines appearing below the screen's midpoint. The defect affects devices with min...

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iPhone Duo now supports Apple Pencil with iOS 27.2

Apple released iOS 27.2, adding Apple Pencil support and a new "Edge Light" feature for the iPhone Duo foldable. The update brings more refined controls across the device's dual screens, while many ma...

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New iPad mini

Apple announced its most significant redesign of the iPad mini to date, marking a major overhaul after years of incremental updates. The refreshed device introduces notable hardware and design changes...

6.0

Gram 3.4.0 released

Gram 3.4.0 was released primarily due to security concerns around the eMudhra CA debacle and vulnerable rustls-webpki/webpki-roots packages bundled with the editor. The release also introduces several...

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Heavenly delights of hashing numbers under EQUALP

The author revisits ECL's generic function dispatch optimization work, which led to implementing new hash tables and hash functions. A key achievement is fixing consistent hashing of numbers under Com...

6.0

From impulse purchase to pocket studio: The M-Vave FM-1

The M-Vave FM-1, a budget $60 pocket FM synthesizer initially marketed as a compact Yamaha DX7 clone, has seen its capabilities dramatically expanded through community reverse-engineering. In response...

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SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo

SpaceX has secured a $40 billion GPU financing deal with Apollo Global Management, providing an alternative funding path for its expanding AI ambitions outside traditional debt markets. The agreement ...

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Matiks raises $10M to expand its math and puzzle gaming platform

India-based Matiks raised $10M in pre-Series A funding led by General Catalyst to expand its math and logic puzzle gaming platform. The app saw rapid growth, with daily users jumping from 22,000 to ov...

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Apple reveals updated iPad mini with a bigger OLED screen for $700

Apple has unveiled the 8th-generation iPad mini, featuring a significant upgrade with an 8.5-inch OLED display (up from 8.3 inches), the A20 Pro chip, and an IP67 water/dust resistance rating. Priced ...

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Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race.

Tesla is pivoting from leading the electric vehicle market to competing in autonomous driving, eyeing recurring revenue from software and AI services. A potential merger with SpaceX could accelerate t...

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Anthropic is burning gas to feed the AI boom

Anthropic's S-1 filing reveals its growing dependence on natural gas for powering AI data centers as it prepares to go public. The company acknowledges intense competition for electrical supply and hi...

6.0

The RealReal won’t let AI agents hog designer clothing

The RealReal is updating its bot defense system to prevent AI agents from exploiting its cart hold mechanism, which blocks human shoppers from purchasing items. The change follows a Verge investigatio...

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Five weird details from Anthropic’s IPO filing

Anthropic filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC, revealing executive compensation details, IPO spending plans, and business risks in over 300 pages. Co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei are disclosed ...

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Quoting Jason Koebler

Jason Koebler observes that ChatGPT is increasingly redirecting users with routine tech support issues to 404 Media, treating ordinary technical problems as journalistically notable stories. This high...

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New Boox Picco Now Listed on Onyx’s Amazon Store

Onyx has listed the new Boox Picco mini e-reader on its official Amazon store, with reports indicating the device is already shipping. The listing is currently sold out, but a restock is expected soon...

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Kindle for Android now supports handwriting

Amazon has added native handwritten ebook note-taking support to its Kindle Android app, bringing the feature in line with the Kindle Scribe's flagship note-taking experience.

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Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

A blog post exploring which is the oldest GUI application that can still run natively on Windows 11, highlighting the impressive backward compatibility Microsoft has maintained across decades of Windo...

5.0

A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting

A technical essay exploring the tendency of software engineers—especially newer developers—to over-abstract code, drawing parallels to time-travel fiction. The author discusses how abstraction without...

5.0

Pharo 14

Pharo 14, a major release of the Pharo Smalltalk programming environment, has been announced. The release brings updates and improvements to the long-standing Smalltalk ecosystem.

5.0

Why is it so expensive to send an email?

Evan Czaplicki explores why sending email costs so much, discovering that the actual SMTP transmission is trivial compared to the real expense: ensuring emails land in inboxes rather than spam folders...

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The passkey is worse

Kevin Coleman describes a sophisticated phishing attack where a fake YouTube support page attempted to steal his Google credentials, then switched to a fraudulent Apple Passkey prompt and a Bitwarden-...

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writing about pratt parsing so I remember it

The author writes a personal educational article about Pratt parsing, sharing their experience transitioning from shunting yard to Pratt parsing while building a C expression parser. They compare both...

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(VCF Midwest 2026) Building a Living 90s Internet for Vintage Computers

A presentation at VCF Midwest 2026 covering efforts to recreate a living 90s-era internet experience for vintage computers. The talk likely explores the technical approaches and community projects beh...

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The Small Web Is Huge

The talk explores the Small Web movement, which advocates for independent personal websites as an alternative to platform-dominated social media. It discusses tools, philosophies, and examples that em...

5.0

Web Page Crawler Revealed - tracking down requests from Contabo GmbH

A technical investigation tracing a series of web crawlers operating out of Contabo GmbH's infrastructure, with the author documenting request analysis methods and acknowledging difficulty in categori...

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Simple Sudoku Solver in Assembly

The author writes an AArch64 assembly Sudoku solver for macOS, completing a series that explores solvers across different paradigms—from Agda with correctness proofs to raw assembly with zero safety n...

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Worms mate in man's eyes, get plucked out right before larvae burst out

A 71-year-old South Korean farmer had 11 living Thelazia callipaeda roundworms removed from his eyes after two months of discomfort. The worms were found to be pregnant at extraction, narrowly avoidin...

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Everything old is new again with the Fitbit Edge

The Verge reviews the Fitbit Edge, a $179.99 fitness tracker that revives the design language of Fitbit's 2014-2020 era bands like Charge, Ionic, and Inspire. The article draws a parallel between the ...

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webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox

Simon Willison evaluates webframe, a lightweight Go-based tool by Jeff Lindsay that executes web pages headlessly and outputs JavaScript console results to stdout/stderr. Testing found it comparable i...