▸ A site reliability engineer bought an abandoned 8-lane bowling alley and replaced its aging vendor control system with a fleet of ESP32 microcontrolle...
▸ Lumafield ran industrial CT scans on BYD components and found integration patterns Western OEMs structurally can't match.
▸ Ludic's essay argues C-suites are mandating AI adoption without evidence, then punishing teams who report the results honestly.
▸ A developer documented Gmail silently quarantining legitimate transactional and personal mail with no recourse — and switched providers.
▸ A developer wired up unused GPU VRAM as a Linux swap device using NBD, turning idle graphics memory into faster-than-SSD paging space.
▸ Anthropic's Claude Code CLI is no longer a Node/npm package — it ships as a single Bun-compiled executable.
▸ The EFF and Mayday Health are running a Texas-focused campaign warning that everyday app data — location history, period trackers, search queries, mes...
▸ Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its program to screen AI requests for biosecurity risks, into a broader operational partnership with US labs...
▸ Microsoft published github.com/microsoft/coreutils: a Rust implementation of POSIX coreutils built specifically for Windows, not a fork of the existin...
▸ Moonshot's Kimi K3 ships as open weights and posts frontier-tier scores on coding, math, and agentic tool use.
▸ The 2030 Census mandate doesn't just retire differential privacy — it forces a return to swapping and suppression, techniques that perform measurably ...
▸ OpenAI's Codex CLI has started encrypting the prompts sent to sub-agents, meaning users can no longer see what their own agent is telling itself.
▸ LG monitors are silently installing OnScreen Control on Windows machines through Windows Update, with no prompt and no opt-in.
▸ Flux.ai, the VC-backed AI PCB design startup, hired Fenwick & West to send a demand letter to Adafruit — the 20-year-old open-hardware community stapl...
▸ KDE Plasma 6.5 (scheduled for late 2026) will be the final release shipping a working X11 session — 6.6 drops it entirely.
▸ A developer used linear regression to derive per-image quantization tables, producing JPEGs smaller than what libjpeg or MozJPEG output at equivalent ...
▸ Poul-Henning Kamp — FreeBSD contributor, Varnish creator, and the man who put 'bikeshedding' into every engineer's vocabulary — has published his fare...
▸ A Stack Exchange data query shows monthly questions on Stack Overflow have fallen to levels last seen in 2009, the year after launch.
▸ Sumner Evans argues Conventional Commits forces every developer to write structured metadata for a downstream tool that most teams don't actually run.
▸ A new arXiv paper systematically ablates the Q, K, V projection trio and finds that two-projection and even shared-projection variants match full QKV ...