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Gleam Moves Its Repository to Tangled
The Gleam programming language — a type-safe, friendly language aimed at building systems that scale — has relocated its project home to Tangled, a git collabor
GoPro on the brink: founder floats $20M lifeline as buyer hunt drags on
GoPro is running out of runway. Founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman is personally lending the company $20 million at 6.5% interest to keep it afloat while advisers
Hiding video inside a single JPEG by abusing progressive scans
Progressive JPEGs split their compressed data into sequential "scans," each declaring its own spectral (DCT) range so a partially downloaded image renders as a
Kaiser call-center nurses say AI monitoring and call-time quotas erode patient care
Kaiser Permanente advice and triage nurses tell CalMatters that algorithmic management is pushing them to cut patient calls short at the expense of care. Seven
LG and Dell monitors auto-install bloatware via Windows Update, no consent asked
Plugging certain LG monitors into a Windows PC can trigger Windows Update to silently pull down LG's Monitor App Installer and related components — with no cons
Project Orion: The Nuclear Pulse Rocket Nobody Was Brave Enough to Fly
Nuclear pulse propulsion — most famously Project Orion — proposed powering a spacecraft by detonating a stream of small nuclear bombs behind a heavily shock-abs
Rebuilding search: an S+ tree that beats binary search by 40x
Ragnar Groot Koerkamp takes the static B-tree (S+ tree) design from Algorithmica and pushes it to the limit for one narrow but common problem: given a sorted ar
Running SQLite in Production: ANALYZE, Single-Writer Pain, and Backups
Julia Evans documents lessons from running a Django site on SQLite, her fourth SQLite-backed project but the first where the Django ORM pushes the database hard
SpaceX briefly dips below its $135 IPO price as Musk hype cools
SpaceX shares touched their $135 IPO price for the first time on Wednesday, wiping out the 50%-plus surge the stock posted in its opening days last month. The s
The 'Butthole Era' of Design: Why Every AI Logo Looks the Same
A tongue-in-cheek but pointed critique argues that AI company branding has converged on a single visual template: a circular or snowflake-like mark with a soft
The Zilog Z80 Turns 50: How an 8-Bit Workhorse Shaped Computing
Zilog's Z80, launched in July 1976, is marking half a century since it became one of the most influential processors ever built. Binary-compatible with Intel's
TP-Link Kasa cameras broadcast owners' home GPS unauthenticated for six years
Researcher Christopher Childress physically extracted firmware from a TP-Link Kasa Spot EC71 indoor camera and confirmed three vulnerability chains, all now pat