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What It Actually Takes to Ship a Used MacBook to a Ugandan Refugee Camp
A developer recounts trying to send a spare MacBook to Django, a Congolese refugee in western Uganda completing a University of London CS degree on solar power
Why Japan's toilet maker now sells the chips powering the AI boom
Toto, the Japanese company behind 80 percent of the country's bidet-toilets, is up 60 percent year-to-date and saw first-quarter 2026 profit jump 230 percent. T
Why Your GPU Isn't Going Brrrr: Compute, Memory, and Overhead from First Principles
Performance tuning for deep learning often devolves into superstition, but Horace He argues it becomes tractable once you classify where time is actually being
yt-dlp deprecates Bun support, citing lockfile bug and Rust rewrite concerns
The yt-dlp project is narrowing and deprecating support for Bun as a JavaScript runtime for its ejs companion package. Going forward, only Bun versions 1.2.11 t
AI's memory appetite is pricing the world's poor out of smartphones
IDC projects worldwide smartphone shipments will fall 13 percent in 2026, the steepest single-year drop ever recorded, with Africa and the Middle East seeing de
Cleve Moler, MATLAB creator and numerical computing pioneer, dies
Cleve Moler, the mathematician and computer scientist who created MATLAB and co-founded MathWorks, has died. Moler originally built MATLAB in the late 1970s as
Europe's Wero alliance unites 130M users behind Visa/Mastercard alternative
Five major European mobile payment networks — France's Wero, Spain's Bizum, Italy's Bancomat, Portugal's MB WAY, and the Nordic Vipps MobilePay — are merging in
Freenet relaunches as P2P platform for decentralized browser apps
Freenet pitches itself as infrastructure for applications that run without centralized servers or cloud dependencies. Peers self-organize into a small-world rin
Google's Antigravity update silently replaces IDE with a chatbot
A Google AI Ultra subscriber describes waking up to find their Antigravity IDE replaced by a Codex-style conversational prompt box after a background update pus
Independent researcher's $48K home GPU rig beat cloud rental by $17K
An ex-FAANG researcher built 'grumbl,' a six-GPU RTX 6000 Ada server, for $48,000 after quitting to do independent work. The 6000 Ada won out over A100 and H100
Meta geo-blocks human rights NGOs in Saudi Arabia and UAE on government request
Meta has restricted more than 100 Facebook and Instagram accounts from reaching users in Saudi Arabia and the UAE since March 2026, complying with state request
Migrating a 10-Year-Old Blog from Ubuntu 16.04 to FreeBSD Jails on Hetzner
A developer migrated a personal blog stack from a long-unsupported Ubuntu 16.04 Digital Ocean droplet to a Hetzner VPS running FreeBSD 14.3. The old server had