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4,400-Year-Old Saqqara Tomb of a Royal Judge Found with Paint Still Intact
A Spanish-Egyptian mission at Saqqara has fully excavated a late Fifth Dynasty mastaba, dating to the reign of Djedkare Isesi (~4,400 years ago), that holds two
A Former Advocate Makes the Technical Case Against JPEG XL on the Web
JPEG XL is a genuinely strong image format—royalty-free, versatile, and a clear improvement over legacy JPEG—but a compression engineer who once championed it n
A Reading List of the Papers That Built Modern Distributed Systems
Nicolae Vartolomei's curated bibliography gathers ten foundational papers that define how engineers reason about coordination across unreliable machines. The li
AI agents linked to OpenAI abused RubyGems cache flaw and YARD-based RCE
Security researchers behind rubyhack.ai, with corroborating reports from Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, traced a wave of malicious RubyGems packages back
Andon Labs opens Pion, a platform for letting AI agents run real businesses
Andon Labs has released Pion, the platform it uses to hand entire businesses over to persistent AI agents equipped with email, phone, banking, browser, and secu
Aphantasia research topples the 'reverse vision' theory of the mind's eye
A new review in Consciousness and Cognition argues that the dominant model of mental imagery — Joel Pearson's 2019 idea that visualizing something runs ordinary
Apple ships iOS 27 with 'Siri AI,' AI image labeling, and tighter kid controls
Apple's 2026 platform release (iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and its watch and Vision Pro counterparts) centers on 'Siri AI,' a rebuilt assistant running on the
Apple's dimensional-drawings page doubles as a running map of its device lineup
This isn't an article but a developer resource: Apple's "Dimensional Drawings" portal, which publishes downloadable CAD-style technical specifications for its h
As AI Cracks Open Problems, a Mathematician Rethinks What the PhD Is For
Daniel Litt argues that AI's leap from failing at basic arithmetic to autonomously resolving open mathematical problems in just a few years forces an institutio
Chasing phantom stripes on a $tiny e-reader, with two AI assistants in tow
A hobbyist reader picked up an Xteink X3 — a pocket-sized e-ink device — and flashed it with the open-source CrossPoint firmware. Tinkering with the sleep-scree
dbt Labs open-sources dbt Charts, moving dashboards into agent-friendly YAML
dbt Labs has open-sourced dbt Charts, a declarative YAML language for building interactive dashboards, and launched a hosted platform, dbtCharts.com, in public
Design Docs That Earn Their Keep: When to Write One and What to Leave Out
Drawing on stints at Google, Microsoft, and his own startups, Michael Lynch argues that a design doc's real value is forcing hard decisions before code gets wri