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Bitchat Ships Its Source to Radicle's Peer-to-Peer Code Network
Bitchat, the decentralized messaging app that routes chats over Bluetooth mesh rather than central servers, has published its codebase on Radicle. Radicle is a
Button Stealer: A Browser Extension That Hoards a Button From Every Site You Visit
Anatoly Zenkov's "Stolen Buttons" is a novelty browser extension art project that grabs a copy of a button from every website the user visits and files it away
Cambridge's Hannah Fry Wins 2026 Leelavati Prize for Public Maths Outreach
Hannah Fry, Cambridge's first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics, has won the Leelavati Prize at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
Claude Opus 5 Tops Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard at 61
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, running in Adaptive Reasoning at Max Effort, now sits at the top of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 61 acr
Community Nvidia driver brings native Half-Life 2 and real GPU acceleration to Haiku
A community effort to port an Nvidia GPU driver to Haiku — the open-source BeOS successor — has reached the point where Half-Life 2 runs natively on the OS, com
ECB shortlists 10 studios in first euro banknote redesign since the currency launched
The European Central Bank has narrowed its long-running effort to redesign euro banknotes down to ten shortlisted proposals, now published for public viewing. A
Faking Print Halftones on the Web with a Single ImageMagick Command
A blogger walks through the technique they use to give website images a printed, halftone look, freely admitting up front that they're not an authority on dithe
Firefox 153 Bakes Multi-Account Containers Into the Browser as a Native Feature
Mozilla is previewing native Containers in Firefox 153, promoting a capability that has lived in the Multi-Account Containers extension for nearly a decade into
Google Weighs Restricting Android's On-Device ADB, Threatening Shizuku Ecosystem
A comment from a core ADB maintainer on Google's IssueTracker has raised alarm that Android may soon curtail on-device ADB — the practice of running an ADB clie
How DBOS pushed Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY to 60K writes/sec by batching notifies
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY is often dismissed as unscalable, but DBOS argues the real problem is a narrow, poorly documented bottleneck rather than a fundamental li
India orders GitHub to pull Jack Dorsey's Bitchat mesh messenger
India's Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), the Home Ministry's cybercrime unit, has directed GitHub to take down Bitchat, a Bluetooth mesh messaging a
Inside Fedora 45's Build Pipeline: From a Git Push to Installable Images
A packager's commit to a per-package Git repo on src.fedoraproject.org is the starting point for every Fedora artifact. The fedpkg tool wraps the routine work,