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MonoLisa v3 splits into Code and Text fonts, leans into the AI-assistant workflow
MonoLisa, a commercial typeface aimed at programmers and designers, has reached version 3 with a notable structural change: the family now splits into MonoLisa
Nub: a Rust-built toolkit that bolts Bun-style DX onto stock Node.js
Nub is a Rust-written command-line toolkit that aims to give Node.js developers the conveniences of Bun and Deno without swapping out the runtime. Rather than s
Open-Source Project Turns Raspberry Pi Pico W Into a USB Wi-Fi Dongle
A GitLab project repurposes the Raspberry Pi Pico W as a USB Wi-Fi adapter. Instead of running its own firmware in isolation, the board connects to a host compu
OpenAI's first custom silicon, 'Jalapeño,' targets inference costs and Nvidia reliance
OpenAI has revealed Jalapeño, its first in-house processor, co-designed and manufactured with Broadcom and aimed squarely at inference — the job of running alre
Quaise drills 100m into granite with millimeter-wave beam, no drill bit
Quaise Energy says it has bored 100 meters into hard granite at a Central Texas test site using a gyrotron-powered millimeter-wave beam that vaporizes rock inst
RubyLLM unifies a dozen AI providers behind one Ruby interface
RubyLLM is an open-source Ruby library that wraps the APIs of every major AI provider—OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, Bedrock, VertexAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, loca
Samsung's 3D Stacked FET wins VLSI Best Paper with triple-nanosheet channels at 42nm
Samsung's Semiconductor Research Center has built a working 3D Stacked FET at a 42nm gate pitch, stacking n-type and p-type transistors vertically instead of pl
SSH Tunnels Demystified: Local vs. Remote Port Forwarding
SSH port forwarding remains one of the most useful tricks in a developer's kit, yet the exact syntax is notoriously easy to forget. This tutorial walks through
St Andrews physicist says Python bugs sink Microsoft's Majorana quantum claims
Dr. Henry Legg, a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, published a peer-reviewed critique in Nature on 24 June 2026 arguing that Microsoft's headline topol
The Microsoft engineer who gave us Word's red squiggle dies
Tony Krueger, a longtime Microsoft developer, has died. While Wikipedia credits him mainly for porting the game Chip's Challenge to Windows—a feat he pulled off
The voicemail that jailed Kevin Mitnick — and the Porsche he left behind
In the 1990s, Shawn Nunley was a network administrator at Novell when the company's NetWare servers became a target for a persistent intruder. Late one night, N
Turning Gaussian Splats Into Physical Objects With a PolyJet 3D Printer
Artist Dany Bittel documents a collaboration with crysta.ai that takes a Gaussian splat — a point-cloud-style 3D capture, in this case of an insect — and fabric