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Binance has resumed withdrawals in phases after a $6.3 billion hack, announcing it has covered 95% of stolen assets. The exchange confirmed users will not bear financial losses and that withdrawals wi...
The FBI has linked North Korea to a massive $6.3 billion cryptocurrency heist targeting Binance that occurred on October 29. The agency labeled the attack as "TraderTraitor" and reported that the hack...
Seoul Viosys has started production of a rare-earth-free white light emitter, marking a significant step toward reducing dependence on scarce rare-earth materials in LED manufacturing. The company ann...
Openreach is shutting down the UK's traditional landline (PSTN) network within 100 days with no extensions to the deadline. The switch-off marks the end of an era for copper-based telephone infrastruc...
This paper investigates non-determinism and overcounting in x86_64 hardware performance counters, finding that supposedly exact events like retired instructions show run-to-run variation. The primary ...
Org mode has received a complete rewrite of its LaTeX preview system, delivering near-WYSIWYG math rendering while preserving Emacs's text-first, extensible design. The author details the architecture...
An Apollo economist argues that most companies are seeing zero financial return on their AI investments, challenging the widely held assumption that AI adoption automatically translates to profitabili...
U.S. workers received their lowest share of national capital since records began in 1947, reflecting a growing divide between labor and capital compensation. The trend highlights structural shifts in ...
A Reddit post warns users about an email scam related to Frontier Airlines, suggesting the airline may have experienced a data breach. Users are being cautioned about phishing attempts impersonating F...
Renowned mathematician Terry Tao argues that the practice of mathematics has fundamentally shifted and that the academic community should adapt its norms and incentives accordingly. The piece calls fo...
A Lenovo fingerprint-encrypted USB drive has been revealed by security researchers to contain nothing more than an unencrypted SD card inside its casing. The hardware encryption and biometric authenti...
OmniDiff is an open-source (AGPLv3), Rust-based content-aware Git diff tool that supports 25 languages, images, PDFs, archives, fonts, and more. The author trained its diff pipelines by manually analy...
This paper advances the Platonic Representation Hypothesis by demonstrating how Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) can provide both theoretical validation and practical improvements. The...
A Databricks Source Control team member provides an outsider's technical perspective on Anthropic's new centralized version control system Scion and its design inspiration from Facebook's Mononoke. Th...
KDE developer Eike Hein has launched Kwi, a new terminal emulator built on Ghostty's libghostty-vt, GPU-accelerated Qt Scene Graph rendering, and Kirigami-based UI. Positioned as a modern, streamlined...
Ori Bernstein continues development of GEFS (Good Enough File System) for OpenBSD, with updated code rebased and error handling improvements. The filesystem now includes userspace tools like mkfs, bug...
Daniel Lemire demonstrates custom-optimized techniques for signed 32-bit integer division that outperform what mainstream compilers generate. The post explores hand-tuned assembly and algorithmic tric...
Google's Pixel 11 Pro Fold sticks to a traditional rectangular foldable design despite market trends toward wide-format phones like the iPhone Duo. It brings incremental upgrades—lighter weight, sligh...
NASA is soliciting proposals from the commercial space industry to boost the Hubble Space Telescope's orbit, which is slowly decaying due to gravity. Without intervention, Hubble will re-enter Earth's...
Hidden code in HomeView 27.2 suggests Apple is building security camera capabilities into its smart home hub, including motion detection, live streaming, recording, and HomeKit Secure Video integratio...
A fully playable version of the canceled Portal prequel F-Stop has been reconstructed from the massive Valve data leak, with additional assets shared via a Valve Cut Content Discord server. The game, ...
Apple's second-generation HomePod Mini ($149) brings a faster chip, improved AirPlay, and new color options, but notably skips a speaker upgrade. The hands-on review finds the device significantly sna...
California's Proposition 45, framed as a shortcut for essential infrastructure, could inadvertently give data center developers a loophole to bypass environmental review and limit public legal challen...
Kyle Kingsbury reflects on how LLMs erode trust in documentation, software, and the organizations that produce them, noting that traditional signals of system maturity are now easier to counterfeit. H...
Nolan Lawson examines the growing hidden costs of JavaScript frameworks driven by AI tooling, analyzing how LLM-generated code and AI-assisted development are increasing bundling sizes, build times, a...
The article argues that most Pratt parsing tutorials overemphasize the algorithm's implementation at the expense of understanding its underlying properties. The author contends that Pratt parsing shou...
A C++ developer demonstrates how comparing a std::string_view with a std::string can produce unexpected results when compiled with optimization flags like -O2. The article frames the bug humorously as...
A PhD researcher presents Ouros, a combinator-based graph reduction machine that runs Haskell programs directly on an FPGA without any software runtime or kernel traps. The processor handles IO throug...
Solene presents braindead-local-intelligence, a project that simplifies running local AI by bundling a LLM server, image generation server, web search, and a web UI into Podman containers with automat...
OpenAI is reportedly preparing a PR campaign to rebrand its data centers as 'AI compute campuses,' aiming to improve public perception ahead of the 2028 presidential election cycle. Chris Lehane, Open...
TechCrunch Mobility launches a revamped series focused on the future of transportation and AI's growing role in mobility. The piece signals what the publication frames as a new, larger wave of autonom...
AI and data centers have emerged as a dominant political topic in Brooklyn's midterm elections, with conversations spanning from council member events to party debates. The issue reflects growing loca...
Several cities are struggling to cancel their contracts with Flock Safety after voting to terminate them, with the company failing to acknowledge requests. In Plymouth, Minnesota, Police Chief Eric Fa...
The Verge examines how two of 2026's biggest game releases — a new Zelda title and Grand Theft Auto VI — represent a bygone era of the gaming industry, built around massive single-player experiences t...
Amazon Kindle and Rakuten Kobo e-readers are experiencing an automatic timezone bug that specifically affects users in British Columbia, likely causing incorrect time display and disrupting time-depen...