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Your AI-Written Shortcuts Become the Codebase's House Style

Coding with LLMs makes it tempting to skip good engineering hygiene: when the model can regenerate anything on demand, why bother extracting a shared helper ins

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Apple commits $30B+ to Broadcom for 15 billion U.S.-made chips

Apple has signed a new multiyear deal with Broadcom worth more than $30 billion to design and manufacture custom silicon and wireless connectivity components in

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Bonnie Tyler, 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' singer, dies at 75

Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, born Gaynor Hopkins in a Neath council house, has died at 75. Discovered in a Swansea club after seven years playing rugby and workin

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open-sourcetech-culture

Building a Fast Lock-Free MPMC Queue in Rust With Bounded Waiting

A developer walks through their design for a bounded, array-based multi-producer/multi-consumer queue built on ticket-lock semantics. The core idea models each

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Byzantine-era city with intact church and 200 inscribed shards found under Egyptian desert

Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved 1,600-year-old settlement at the Dakhla Oasis in the Western Desert, dating to the 4th century when Egyp

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Colibrì: a 1,300-line C engine runs a 744B model on a 25GB PC by streaming from disk

Colibrì is a dependency-free inference engine, written as a single ~1,300-line C file, that runs GLM-5.2 — a 744-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model — on

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EU Parliament fast-tracks revival of expired voluntary message-scanning rules

The European Parliament has voted 331–304 to fast-track legislation that would restore the EU's expired 'Chat Control 1.0' framework, using an urgency procedure

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Good Tools Disappear: Why 'Fun' Workarounds Are a Design Failure

Gingerbill argues that a well-made tool should become invisible—it fades into the background when you're proficient, and only reappears the moment it can't hand

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Hashimoto on Ghostty: why terminals need a standards body, not a browser rebuild

Mitchell Hashimoto, the HashiCorp founder behind Terraform, Vault, Consul and Nomad, explains why he pivoted from distributed-systems tooling to building Ghostt

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IERS confirms no leap second for December 2026 — UTC stays put

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) has issued Bulletin C confirming that no leap second will be added at the end of December

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NEvo: Evolutionary AI Synthesizes Videos That Maximally Activate a Chosen Brain Region

Researchers at EPFL (Amir Zamir's lab) built NEvo, a framework that generates video clips engineered to drive a specific region of the visual cortex as hard as

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OpenAI says GPT-5.6 produced a proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture

OpenAI has posted a three-page note claiming a complete proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture, one of graph theory's long-standing open problems, first pos

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