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Spain Bars Palantir From State-Linked Firms Over Data Sovereignty Fears
Madrid has begun ordering companies under the state holding company SEPI to stop signing new contracts with Palantir, the U.S. data-analytics and AI firm, citin
The Oven Startup: A Parable of How Half-Baked Products Get Shipped
A fable dressed as a business case study, this piece follows a charismatic non-technical founder who spots a spreadsheet opportunity — capture 10% of Spain's ov
The 'Short Leash' Method: Expert Devs Beat Frontier AI by Never Looking Away
A maintainer of security-critical software at okTurtles lays out a workflow for using AI coding agents without surrendering code quality or your own understandi
Valve releases MIT-licensed 'Inkterface' plans for a DIY Steam Machine e-ink front plate
Valve has published everything needed to build an e-ink display for the front of the upcoming Steam Machine, but it won't sell the part itself. The design—dubbe
Virginia bans selling location data — but its narrow 'sale' definition leaves a gap
Virginia has become the third state to prohibit selling consumers' geolocation data. Governor Abigail Spanberger signed S.B. 388 on April 13, 2026, amending the
Wordgard: ProseMirror creator ships a new schema-based rich-text editor
Marijn Haverbeke, the developer behind ProseMirror and CodeMirror, has released Wordgard, an open-source JavaScript library for building in-browser rich-text ed
A graphics programmer's roadmap: master the GPU, the CPU, and write your own path tracer
Modern rendering splits into two hard-to-learn-simultaneously halves: the CPU side (explicit APIs like DirectX12, Vulkan, or Metal, plus the engine plumbing to
A Software Engineer's Case Against Winning Arguments
A software engineer reflects on abandoning his long habit of arguing for technical correctness in code reviews, design meetings, and online threads. His core re
Anthropic's @claudeai Account Announces "Fable 5 Is Back"
A post from Anthropic's official @claudeai account on X states simply that "Fable 5 is Back." Fable 5 is one of Anthropic's current-generation Claude models (mo
Box2D creator ships Box3D, an open-source 3D physics engine
Erin Catto, the author of the widely used Box2D physics library, has released Box3D, a 3D physics engine now available on GitHub. It began as a fork of Dirk Gre
Cloudflare will let sites charge AI agents per request via x402 micropayments
Cloudflare is building a Monetization Gateway that lets its customers put a price on any resource behind its edge — web pages, APIs, datasets, or MCP tool calls
F-Droid Frames Google's Mandatory Android Developer Verification as 'Malware'
F-Droid, the open-source Android app repository, has published a polemic recasting Google's upcoming Android Developer Verification (ADV) program as malware. Th