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A Consultant's Field Report: Every Corporate AI Project He's Seen Has Failed

A consultant who runs sales and technical delivery for engagements across Fortune 500s and smaller firms argues that organizations are in the grip of AI-driven

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aiopen-source

Alibaba teases open-weight Qwen3.8, claims 2.4T params and near-frontier rank

Alibaba's Qwen team used a social-media post to preview Qwen3.8, an upcoming model it says will be released with open weights. The headline claims are aggressiv

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tech-cultureopen-source

Amiga Freeware Archive puts 10,000+ MiB of classic PD software online

A new web archive collects thousands of freely distributable Amiga programs — games, applications, demos, graphics, music, and utilities — from the platform's l

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open-sourcetech-culture

Blender 5.2 LTS Lands: Node-Based Physics, Cycles Texture Cache, Online Assets

The open-source 3D suite Blender shipped its 5.2 LTS release on July 14th, with the headline work concentrated in Geometry Nodes. A new procedural physics syste

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open-sourceai

Castor: a CLI that rips web video streams and casts them to any DLNA TV

Castor is a command-line tool that solves a narrow annoyance: getting web video onto a TV without a Chromecast, AirPlay, or laggy, resolution-crushing screen mi

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open-sourceai

Claude Code quietly ships Bun's Rust rewrite to millions of devices

Bun creator Jarred Sumner revealed that Claude Code has been running the Rust port of Bun since version 2.1.181, shipped June 17th. The switch delivered a rough

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tech-cultureprivacy

Custom mesh-radio hardware powers Strandfall, a solarpunk outdoor larp in Edinburgh

Game designer Adrian Hon, known for the ARG Perplex City and the app Zombies, Run!, is co-creating Strandfall with Alex Macmillan under a new collective called

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open-sourcetech-culture

Elixir's official website gets a visual refresh

The homepage of the Elixir programming language, elixir-lang.org, has rolled out a redesigned look. The submission is a link to the site itself rather than a wr

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policysupply-chain

EU now bans large firms from destroying unsold clothes and shoes

As of July 19, 2026, large companies operating in the EU can no longer destroy unsold clothing, accessories, or footwear. The rule is the first concrete measure

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aiopen-source

Fable 5 dominates GPT-5.6 Sol on NP-hard task; /goal wins runs but hurts averages

A researcher pitted Claude Fable 5 against GPT-5.6 Sol on KIRO, an unpublished fiber-network optimization problem with an astronomically large search space (Par

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aipolicy

Kimi K3 matches Claude on coding for a fraction of the price, one dev argues

A developer reports running the open Kimi K3 model side by side with Claude on everyday coding work and finding no practical difference — comparable output qual

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open-sourcetech-culture

Minecraft: Java Edition swaps GLFW for SDL3 in latest snapshot

Mojang's newest Java Edition snapshot (26.3) replaces GLFW with SDL3 as the backend for window management, input, and platform integration — a notable dependenc

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