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AI's memory appetite is pricing the world's poor out of smartphones
IDC projects worldwide smartphone shipments will fall 13 percent in 2026, the steepest single-year drop ever recorded, with Africa and the Middle East seeing de
Cleve Moler, MATLAB creator and numerical computing pioneer, dies
Cleve Moler, the mathematician and computer scientist who created MATLAB and co-founded MathWorks, has died. Moler originally built MATLAB in the late 1970s as
Europe's Wero alliance unites 130M users behind Visa/Mastercard alternative
Five major European mobile payment networks — France's Wero, Spain's Bizum, Italy's Bancomat, Portugal's MB WAY, and the Nordic Vipps MobilePay — are merging in
Freenet relaunches as P2P platform for decentralized browser apps
Freenet pitches itself as infrastructure for applications that run without centralized servers or cloud dependencies. Peers self-organize into a small-world rin
Google's Antigravity update silently replaces IDE with a chatbot
A Google AI Ultra subscriber describes waking up to find their Antigravity IDE replaced by a Codex-style conversational prompt box after a background update pus
Independent researcher's $48K home GPU rig beat cloud rental by $17K
An ex-FAANG researcher built 'grumbl,' a six-GPU RTX 6000 Ada server, for $48,000 after quitting to do independent work. The 6000 Ada won out over A100 and H100
Meta geo-blocks human rights NGOs in Saudi Arabia and UAE on government request
Meta has restricted more than 100 Facebook and Instagram accounts from reaching users in Saudi Arabia and the UAE since March 2026, complying with state request
Migrating a 10-Year-Old Blog from Ubuntu 16.04 to FreeBSD Jails on Hetzner
A developer migrated a personal blog stack from a long-unsupported Ubuntu 16.04 Digital Ocean droplet to a Hetzner VPS running FreeBSD 14.3. The old server had
Multi-Stream LLMs: Parallel Tracks for Thinking, Reading, and Acting
A new arXiv paper argues that today's LLM agents are bottlenecked by their single-stream chat lineage. Whether coding, browsing, or using tools, models still se
Mycorrhizal Fungi: The Underground Network Powering Plant Life
Mycorrhizal fungi form symbiotic partnerships with the vast majority of land plants, extending root systems through fine hyphal networks that dramatically incre
Slumber: A YAML-Configured Terminal HTTP Client for REST Workflows
Slumber is a terminal-based HTTP client aimed at developers who prefer staying in the shell over reaching for GUI tools like Postman or Insomnia. It offers two
Spotify to Reserve Concert Tickets for Top Streamers via Live Nation Deal
Spotify announced Reserved, a feature that holds concert tickets for premium subscribers identified as an artist's most dedicated fans based on streams, shares,