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How to claim a free *.city.state.us locality domain in 2025
Locality domains—US-geographic names like frederick.seattle.wa.us that have existed since 1992—remain available to register for free, but the process is manual
Kempelen's Impossible Board: A Century-Old Chess Puzzle Resurfaces
A hobbyist has built an interactive web version of a chess problem attributed to Wolfgang von Kempelen, the 18th-century inventor better known for the Mechanica
Lifespan Heritability Hits 50% Only After Redefining What Heritability Means
A recent Science paper claims human lifespan is roughly 50% heritable, far above the 23-35% figure that traditional twin studies produce. The dynomight author a
Linux Kernel Absorbs Windows Sync Primitives to Speed Up Proton Gaming
Linux gaming hit a milestone in March 2026, crossing 5% of Steam's user base, driven by Windows 10's end of support and the Steam Deck's quiet conversion of mil
MacBook Neo Teardown: A18 Pro Hits M3 Speeds, Then Throttles 87% Under Load
Apple's $599 MacBook Neo, launched March 2026, swaps the M-series for the iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip on TSMC N3E. Cold Geekbench 6 runs landed at 3,569 single
Meta AI account on Threads can't be blocked, sparking user backlash
Meta is testing a tagable Meta AI account on Threads in Argentina, Malaysia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, mirroring how X users summon xAI's Grok for an
MIT President: Endowment Tax and Federal Pullback Shrink Research, Grad Pipeline
MIT President Sally Kornbluth told the campus community that despite Congress partially restoring research agency funding earlier this year, federal dollars are
NGINX heap overflow CVE-2026-42945 enables unauthenticated RCE via rewrite module
A critical heap buffer overflow in NGINX's ngx_http_rewrite_module, present since 2008, allows unauthenticated remote code execution against servers that use re
One Developer's Migration From US SaaS to a European-First Digital Stack
A developer documents swapping out US-based cloud and SaaS tools for European equivalents, motivated less by cost than by digital sovereignty concerns: data res
Open Source Resistance: Maintain Your OSS Dependencies on the Clock
A new manifesto, Open Source Resistance, argues that engineers who maintain open source projects their employers depend on should simply do that maintenance dur
Princeton ends 133-year proctor ban as AI cheating overwhelms honor code
Princeton's faculty voted Monday to require instructor proctoring at all in-person exams starting July 1, dismantling an honor system that has run on student se
Python core devs revert incremental GC after pathological real-world slowdowns
Python 3.14 and 3.15 are rolling back the incremental garbage collector after users surfaced cases where seemingly innocuous workloads triggered quadratic-time