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Apple Rejected My Dictation App for Misusing the Accessibility API
An indie developer with a repetitive strain injury built WhisperPad, a Mac menu-bar app that locally transcribes speech via Whisper and injects the text whereve
Browser Vendors' 'Attribution Level 1' Is an Ad-Tracking Cartel in Disguise
Meta, Google, Apple, and Mozilla are jointly drafting Attribution Level 1, a built-in browser API that records ad impressions and correlates them with purchases
DuckDuckGo ships browser extensions to lock in AI-free search as traffic surges
DuckDuckGo released Chrome and Firefox extensions that set noai.duckduckgo.com as the default search engine, stripping out AI-generated answers, chat prompts, a
Elixir 1.20 ships gradual set-theoretic types, catches bugs without annotations
Elixir 1.20 marks the first development milestone of a multi-year effort to bolt a sound, gradual, set-theoretic type system onto the language. The release perf
Ellison pitches AI-powered total surveillance as a civic virtue
At an Oracle analyst Q&A in September 2024, co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison sketched a near-future in which networks of street, vehicle, doorbell, and body-wor
Fidonet at INET '92: How a Hobbyist Store-and-Forward Net Reached a Million Users
Randy Bush's 1993 paper documents Fidonet, the volunteer-run store-and-forward network that by the early 1990s linked more than 20,000 BBS nodes and an estimate
Getting DeepSeek-V4-Flash Running on AMD's MI300X: A Worklog
AMD's MI300X offers 192GB of HBM3 and roughly half the list price of NVIDIA's H100, but software gaps keep it underused — especially on newer models. Doubleword
Gmail's Pushy AI Features Drove a 16-Year User to Fastmail
A long-time Gmail user describes leaving the service after Google's generative AI features became impossible to ignore. Unsolicited message summaries appear abo
HP revives the HP-16C, the programmer's calculator from 1982
HP has reissued the HP-16C, a calculator originally released in 1982 and aimed squarely at programmers and computer scientists. The device handles arithmetic an
Inside BYD: CT scans reveal the engineering behind a vertically integrated EV maker
Lumafield's industrial CT scans dissect four BYD components — a Blade-chemistry LFP prismatic battery cell, the Tang SUV's driver-door switch panel, the Type 2
KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Drop X11 Session, Ending a 15-Year Wayland Transition
KDE has removed the X11 session from Plasma's development branch, making Plasma 6.8 — due in roughly five months — the first release that boots only into Waylan
Living legends of code are still online — go email them
A 46elks blog post argues that today's programmers occupy a rare historical moment: many of the field's foundational figures are still active and reachable. The