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Cringely Returns After Three-Year Hiatus, Teases AI Architecture Patent
Veteran tech columnist Robert X. Cringely has resumed writing after going silent since 2022. He spent the intervening years co-founding 2Brains, an AI startup w
DeepSeek Locks In 75% Price Cut on V4 Pro API After Promo Ends
DeepSeek is converting what had been a temporary 75% discount on its V4 Pro model API into the permanent list price. When the promotion ends on May 31, 2026, th
Deno 2.8 ships audit fix, deno ci, deno pack, and drops the npm: prefix
Deno 2.8 lands a batch of new subcommands aimed at making the runtime a more credible drop-in for the npm toolchain. The headline addition for security-consciou
Google Antigravity 2.0 Wins Pantheon Build-Off in OpenSCAD LLM Benchmark
ModelRift pitted six AI coding agents — Codex 5.5 High, Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, Cursor Composer, Google Antigravity 2.0, and ModelRift's own system — agains
Italy Drops Boeing KC-46, Picks Airbus A330 MRTT Tankers in €1.39B Deal
Italy has signed a €1.39 billion contract for six Airbus A330 MRTT tanker aircraft, formalised by ARMAERO on 16 April 2026 and published on the EU's TED portal
Kanbots: Open-source kanban desktop app dispatches parallel AI coding agents per card
Kanbots is an MIT-licensed Electron desktop app that reframes AI coding assistants around a kanban board instead of a chat window. Each card on the board can di
Microsoft pulls Claude Code licenses, pushes engineers to Copilot CLI
Microsoft is winding down internal access to Anthropic's Claude Code by the end of June, redirecting thousands of developers to its own GitHub Copilot CLI. The
New U.S. Rules Curb Research Publishing With Foreign Co-Authors
U.S. researchers are encountering fresh federal restrictions on co-authoring and publishing scientific work with collaborators based abroad, particularly those
Oura admits to government data requests but won't say how many
Health wearable maker Oura confirms it receives government demands for user data but refuses to publish a transparency report disclosing the volume, scope, or f
Prusa: Bambu's Closed Networking Blob Violates PrusaSlicer's AGPL License
Josef Prusa argues that Bambu Lab's BambuStudio slicer, a fork of the AGPL-3.0 licensed PrusaSlicer, has been out of compliance since launch. While Bambu publis
P.T. Barnum's 1880 Rules for Making Money, Distilled
A Cool Tools newsletter revisits The Art of Money Getting, the book P.T. Barnum published at 70 after a career that included building a famous New York museum,
Reverse-engineered 80386 microcode reveals 40-year-old IO permission flaw
A team of hardware researchers has fully disassembled the microcode ROM of Intel's 80386, a 94,720-bit black box that had resisted analysis for decades. Working