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Oura admits to government data requests but won't say how many
Health wearable maker Oura confirms it receives government demands for user data but refuses to publish a transparency report disclosing the volume, scope, or f
Prusa: Bambu's Closed Networking Blob Violates PrusaSlicer's AGPL License
Josef Prusa argues that Bambu Lab's BambuStudio slicer, a fork of the AGPL-3.0 licensed PrusaSlicer, has been out of compliance since launch. While Bambu publis
P.T. Barnum's 1880 Rules for Making Money, Distilled
A Cool Tools newsletter revisits The Art of Money Getting, the book P.T. Barnum published at 70 after a career that included building a famous New York museum,
Reverse-engineered 80386 microcode reveals 40-year-old IO permission flaw
A team of hardware researchers has fully disassembled the microcode ROM of Intel's 80386, a 94,720-bit black box that had resisted analysis for decades. Working
Rubish: A Bash-Compatible Unix Shell Built Entirely in Ruby
Rubish is a Unix shell written in pure Ruby that parses shell syntax, compiles it to Ruby code, and runs it on the Ruby VM. It aims for full bash compatibility
SpaceX Flies Starship V3 for First Time, Loses Engines but Hits Trajectory
SpaceX launched the debut flight of Starship Version 3 on May 22 from a new second pad at its Starbase facility in South Texas, marking the rocket's first missi
SpaceX Launches Starship V3 Prototype After Scrubbed Attempt
SpaceX got its Starship V3 prototype off the pad on May 22, 2026, one day after scrubbing the originally scheduled launch over unspecified technical issues. The
sp.h: A 15K-line single-header C library that ditches libc and null-terminated strings
A developer has spent the past year building sp.h, a single-header C99 library that aims to replace libc rather than wrap it. The library talks directly to roug
Texas town jails resident over Facebook post about contaminated water it later confirmed
Trinidad, Texas police arrested Jennifer Combs on a state jail felony charge after she posted on her community Facebook page that residents had reportedly been
The Underused <dl> Element: HTML's Semantic Tool for Name-Value Pairs
The description list element trio—<dl>, <dt>, and <dd>—offers a semantic way to mark up name-value pair patterns that developers routinely build with nested <di
USCIS ends in-country green card adjustments, forcing applicants to consulates abroad
The Trump administration is rolling back the long-standing ability for many green card seekers to adjust status from inside the United States, requiring them in
Waylandcraft Mod Embeds a Full Wayland Compositor Inside Minecraft
A new Linux-only Minecraft Java Edition mod called Waylandcraft turns the game into a working Wayland compositor, letting players launch real desktop applicatio