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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)