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The Garbage Collection Handbook returns: a 60-year survey of automatic memory management

The second edition of The Garbage Collection Handbook updates Richard Jones and colleagues' definitive reference on automatic memory management, succeeding the

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aiopen-source

Un-0 generates images with simulated oscillators, betting physics beats GPUs on energy

A startup called Unconventional AI has released Un-0, an image generator that swaps the usual deep-network-on-GPU stack for a simulated system of coupled Kuramo

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tech-cultureopen-source

WisdPi's 10G module for Framework laptops can't escape USB-C bandwidth chaos

Framework's expansion slots all route through USB-C, and that connector's tangle of overlapping standards is what undermines WisdPi's new $99 10G Ethernet card.

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open-sourcetech-culture

"You're the OS!" — a browser game that makes you the kernel scheduler

"You're the OS!" puts the player in the role of an operating system, tasked with juggling running processes, allocating memory, and handling I/O events in real

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open-sourcedevops

Zig overhauls @bitCast semantics, rethinks integer lowering for LLVM, advances SPIR-V

Zig's latest devlog covers two substantial compiler efforts. The first is a long-planned fix to how the LLVM backend lowers arbitrary-width integers (u4, i13, u

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privacypolicy

Age verification is mass surveillance dressed up as child protection

Cory Doctorow argues that there is no technical way to verify a user's age online without tracking everyone's activity in fine-grained detail. So-called age ver

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open-sourceai

AI-Generated PR Spam Is Open Source's New Email Problem

When OpenClaw became GitHub's fastest-growing repo, its pull request volume exploded from two a week to 3,400, and its merge rate collapsed from 48% to under 10

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aipolicy

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of mass 'distillation' attack to copy Claude

Anthropic has accused Alibaba of running what it calls the largest known attempt to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities, telling U.S. lawmakers that the Chi

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identitydevops

Cloudflare opens self-managed OAuth to all devs, surviving a live Hydra upgrade

Cloudflare has made self-managed OAuth available to every developer on its platform, letting them register and run their own OAuth clients for scoped, delegated

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open-sourcedevops

F3: A Wasm-Powered Columnar File Format Built to Outlast Parquet

F3 (Future-proof File Format) is a research prototype columnar storage format from a team spanning Carnegie Mellon, the University of Wisconsin, and Wes McKinne

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policytech-culture

Five months and €9,600 to start a German company — and still no invoice sent

A founder chronicles the cost of incorporating his second German business: roughly €7,600 in fees plus €2,000 in share capital locked in an untouchable account,

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aiopen-source

GLM-5.2 becomes the first open-weight model that holds up as a coding agent

Z.ai's GLM-5.2, released mid-June 2026 under an MIT license, is being framed as the open-weight ecosystem's most significant moment since DeepSeek R1. On paper

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