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3D Movie Maker Comes to Linux After 30-Year Journey via 3DMMEx Fork
Ben Stone's 3DMMEx project has achieved the first native Linux build of Microsoft's 1995 multimedia app 3D Movie Maker, 18 months after he forked the stalled 3D
Amazon staff invent busywork to hit AI usage quotas
Amazon employees are reportedly fabricating tasks to feed into AI tools in order to meet internal pressure to demonstrate higher AI adoption. Rather than reflec
Antirez on DS4: why local AI just crossed the usability threshold
Antirez reflects on the unexpectedly fast traction of DwarfStar 4 (DS4), his single-model local AI integration project built around DeepSeek v4 Flash. He credit
arXiv imposes 1-year submission ban for AI-hallucinated citations
arXiv has rolled out a new enforcement policy targeting one of the most visible failure modes of LLM-assisted writing: fabricated references. Authors caught sub
Atypical La Niña drives worst U.S. drought in decades across 60% of country
Virginia Tech climatologist Andrew Ellis says the combined intensity and geographic spread of the current U.S. drought is rare, with over 60 percent of the coun
Bun's Rust rewrite lands: smaller binaries, fewer memory bugs, no async Rust
The Bun JavaScript runtime has merged a full rewrite from Zig to Rust, passing the existing test suite across all platforms while fixing several memory leaks an
Bun's Rust rewrite ships undefined behavior, fails basic Miri checks
A bug report against Bun's in-progress Rust rewrite shows the codebase fails fundamental Miri checks, exposing undefined behavior reachable from safe Rust. The
DOJ subpoenas Apple and Google for identities of 100k+ car-tuning app users
The Justice Department has issued subpoenas to Apple, Google, Amazon, and Walmart seeking names, addresses, phone numbers, and purchase histories tied to EZ Lyn
Frontier AI access is shrinking, not expanding, as security and compute pressures mount
The popular assumption that frontier AI tokens will become cheap and universally available is breaking down. Anthropic's recent Mythos rollout — a top-tier cybe
Geoffrey Cain's new book revisits Steve Jobs's forgotten 12 years at NeXT
Journalist Geoffrey Cain's forthcoming book Steve Jobs in Exile, out 19 May 2026, examines the period from 1985 to 1997 when Jobs ran NeXT Computer after being
GGUF Bundles Models Well, But Tool Grammars and Think Tokens Are Missing
GGUF, the single-file model format used by llama.cpp, consolidates everything safetensors and Ollama spread across multiple files: weights, tokenizer data, chat
Jason Scott's ASCII: A Long-Running Chronicle of Digital History
ASCII is the personal weblog of Jason Scott, the archivist behind textfiles.com and a prominent figure at the Internet Archive. The site has served for years as