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NYC to Outlaw Subscription Traps and Hidden Junk Fees Starting October

New York City has finalized a rule, effective October 1, that forces companies to offer an easy way to cancel recurring charges like gym memberships and streami

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Relativity, Not Textbook Chemistry, Governs Triple Bonds in Heavy Atoms

Brown University chemists have produced direct experimental evidence that the standard textbook model of triple chemical bonds breaks down for heavy elements. C

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Residential proxies turn millions of hijacked devices into a scraping arms race

LWN reports that the scraping onslaught against websites now arrives as coordinated bursts from millions of unique residential and mobile IP addresses, each tou

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Roughgarden's IAS Course Traces the Line Between What Computers Can and Can't Do

A free lecture course from Tim Roughgarden, now a mathematics professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, walks through the theoretical spine of computer sci

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Running a PgBouncer fleet to 4x connection-pooling throughput

PgBouncer is single-threaded, so one process saturates a single CPU core no matter how large the machine is. On a 16-vCPU box, that one core becomes the through

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SpaceX asks FCC to bless 100,000 Gen3 Starlink satellites and a huge spectrum grab

SpaceX has filed with the FCC for permission to deploy 100,000 third-generation Starlink satellites in very low Earth orbit, a nearly tenfold jump over the roug

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The Cavefish Trap: How Winning Companies Lose the Ability to See Good Engineering

The Mexican cavefish keeps its eye genes for a million years after abandoning sight — same species, same genome, but cave-born fish shut down lens development e

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US hunts for a cheaper Reaper after Iran downs ~$1B in strike drones

Leaning on MQ-9 Reapers to keep pilots out of harm's way has backfired financially: Iranian air defenses have shot down close to 30 of the hunter-killer drones

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War Atlas maps 5,000 years of named human conflict in one interactive timeline

War Atlas is a browser-based data visualization that plots every named war in recorded history onto a single interactive map and timeline. It spans roughly 5,00

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Why AI Coding Agents Pushed Scarf Off Haskell After 7 Years in Production

Avi Press, a longtime Haskell advocate and Haskell Foundation board member, explains why his company Scarf is migrating its backend away from the language it ha

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Why 'living in Emacs' works: it turns everything into a client-server call

Charles Choi pushes back on the tired claim that Emacs is an operating system, offering a more precise framing: Emacs sits above the OS kernel and orchestrates

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Why Striped Floors and Flickering LEDs Give Your Brain a Headache

A large international research team argues in the journal Vision that visual discomfort — headaches, eye strain, nausea, and perceptual distortion triggered by

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