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Why '98% browser support' still leaves 150 million people staring at a broken page

A high percentage only reads as impressive when the stakes are trivial. Winning the lottery or acing exams 98% of the time is remarkable, but a restaurant that

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vulnerabilitycloud

16-Year-Old KVM Use-After-Free Lets Guests Escape to Cloud Hosts on Intel and AMD

Researcher Hyunwoo Kim disclosed Januscape (CVE-2026-53359), a use-after-free bug in the shadow MMU emulation of KVM/x86. A guest can corrupt the host kernel's

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aitech-culture

30papers.com Repackages Ilya Sutskever's ML Reading List for Newcomers

A new site, 30papers.com, collects the roughly 30 machine learning papers that Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder and prominent deep learning researcher, has

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aitech-culture

A Developer's Case Against Anthropic: Lock-In, Surprise Billing, and Vibe-Coding

In an opinion piece that gained traction on Hacker News, developer Raheel Junaid argues that Anthropic has burned through developer goodwill via vendor lock-in

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aitech-culture

A DIY biohacker sequenced his own genome five times with a benchtop nanopore rig

Bradley Woolf documents running his own DNA through an Oxford Nanopore MinION at home, taking a full end-to-end high-quality run from cheek swab to analysis fiv

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aicybersecurity

Anthropic finds a 'global workspace' inside Claude — a silent scratchpad for its thoughts

Anthropic researchers report that Claude has spontaneously developed a privileged internal channel they call the J-space, named after the Jacobian-based techniq

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open-sourcetech-culture

Booting Linux on the Atari Jaguar, a 68000 console with no MMU

A developer has coaxed a modern Linux kernel into booting on the Atari Jaguar, the commercially doomed 1993 console built around Motorola's 68000 CPU. The port

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open-sourcedevops

Clojure 1.13 alpha adds checked destructuring keys that fail fast on missing values

Clojure 1.13.0-alpha1 introduces checked variants of the map destructuring directives — `:keys!`, `:syms!`, and `:strs!` — that throw an exception when a requir

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clouddevops

Cloudflare's Workers Cache puts a tiered cache in front of every Worker

Cloudflare has launched Workers Cache, which places a tiered, network-wide cache in front of a Worker and is turned on with a single Wrangler config line. Cachi

via Hacker News ·
open-sourceprivacy

CoMaps: A Privacy-First Offline Maps App Forked from Organic Maps

CoMaps is a free, open-source navigation app built for offline use, letting hikers, cyclists, and drivers search waypoints and plan routes using only GPS—no mob

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policytech-culture

EU battery law forces Nintendo hardware redesign, ends original Switch sales in 2027

To comply with EU battery regulations taking effect in mid-February 2027, Nintendo will begin rolling out revised versions of selected products in Europe with u

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privacypolicy

EU Parliament Revives Chat Control 1.0 Through Procedural Trick Before Recess

The European Parliament narrowly cleared the path to reinstate the so-called "Chat Control" transitional regulation, voting 331 to 304 (with eleven abstentions)

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