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EuroBirdPortal turns citizen bird sightings into animated maps of European migration
EuroBirdPortal is a collaborative platform that pools observation data from national bird-recording schemes across Europe and renders it as animated maps showin
First Contact: The 1930 Discovery of a Million People Hidden in New Guinea
In 1930, an Australian gold prospector named Mick Leahy pushed inland through the malaria-ridden jungles of New Guinea and into mountains that outsiders assumed
Lina Khan: no AI exemption from existing law — prosecute the executives
Former FTC chair Lina Khan argued on X that the debate over new AI-specific regulation is a distraction from a simpler point: AI companies and their leaders are
Linux From Scratch: Build Your Own Distro from Source, One Package at a Time
Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a long-running educational project that walks builders through assembling a complete, custom Linux system directly from source code
Microsoft's September patches break RDP, USB audio, and Excel paste
Microsoft's September 2026 update cycle fixed security holes but introduced a cluster of functional regressions across Windows and Office. Remote Desktop Servic
Mullenweg Reclaims Automattic CEO Seat 33 Hours After Board Vote to Oust Him
Automattic's board briefly removed founder Matt Mullenweg as CEO this week, placing him on paid leave without stating a reason and installing CFO Mark Davies as
Nike drops out of the S&P 100 as IT and data-infrastructure names move in
Nike will leave the S&P 100 on September 21 after nearly 18 years, a casualty of a multiyear slide that erased more than $200 billion in market value. The stock
Ninth Circuit: Perplexity's Shopping Agent Didn't 'Hack' Amazon Under the CFAA
The Ninth Circuit on August 4, 2026 vacated an injunction that had barred Perplexity's Comet AI assistant from shopping on Amazon.com, holding that an AI agent
Rebuttal: Amodei's 'Pace the Frontier' Is Regulatory Capture Dressed as Safety
This is a pointed rebuttal to a blog post by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei titled 'We Must Pace the Frontier.' The author argues that Amodei pairs utopian promises
Squeezing Every Country's Flag Into ~11 Bits With Huffman Trees
Inspired by a math video that used flags to illustrate matrix operations, a developer set out to see how compactly a country's flag could be encoded. The premis
The privacy case for self-hosted LLMs — and why huge prompts thrash locally
The author makes a distrust-driven argument for moving AI agent workloads off frontier providers like Anthropic and OpenAI and onto local hardware. The real ass
Tuning Tokio: Yield for Latency, Batch for Throughput, Fear the Mutex
Writing async Rust that performs well on Tokio comes down to trade-offs rather than fixed rules, and the first discipline is skepticism. Long polls—stretches wh