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Kraftwerk's Radioactivity at 50: From Sci-Fi Hymn to Anti-Nuclear Anthem

Kraftwerk's 1975 album Radio-Activity, reissued for its 50th anniversary, cemented the Düsseldorf quartet's shift into fully electronic music and showcased thei

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aiopen-source

Needle: A 26M-Parameter Model Distilled from Gemini for On-Device Tool Calling

Cactus Compute has released Needle, a 26-million-parameter model distilled from Gemini 3.1 that specializes in single-shot function calling. Built on a new "Sim

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supply-chainopen-source

Obsidian Launches Automated Plugin Reviews and Safety Scorecards

Obsidian has launched Obsidian Community, a new directory and developer dashboard replacing its previous GitHub-based plugin submission flow. With over 4,000 co

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tech-culturecybersecurity

Operation: Epic Furious — Hacker News post points to bare landing page

A Hacker News submission titled "Operation: Epic Furious" links to epicfurious.com, but the page itself contains nothing beyond the operation's name. No descrip

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open-sourcetech-culture

OrcaSlicer Fork Restores Cloud Printing for Bambu Lab Hardware

A community fork of OrcaSlicer published under the FULU Foundation reinstates full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers, letting users send jobs over the

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tech-culturepolicy

Petition Urges NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to Stop Blocking the Wayback Machine

A public petition is pressuring major news outlets to reverse decisions that prevent the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine from preserving their journalism. Si

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open-sourcetech-culture

Rust on an ATtiny85: A Rube Goldberg LED Graduation Cap

A Purdue graduate built a microcontroller-driven LED graduation cap programmed in Rust, triggered by a reed switch and magnet that detects the ceremonial tassel

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open-sourcedevops

Scrcpy 4.0 migrates to SDL3, adds flex displays and camera controls

Genymobile's Android screen-mirroring tool scrcpy has shipped version 4.0, headlined by a migration from SDL2 to SDL3. The switch brings active upstream mainten

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vulnerabilityopen-source

Six CVEs hit dnsmasq as AI-driven bug hunting overwhelms maintainer

CERT disclosed six serious, long-standing vulnerabilities in dnsmasq on May 11, 2026, affecting essentially all non-ancient versions of the widely deployed DNS/

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Six Typographic Tricks That Instantly Make Text Look Like the Future

A tongue-in-cheek breakdown of the visual conventions sci-fi movies rely on to signal that text belongs to the future. Starting from plain Eurostile Bold, the p

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tech-culture

SpaceX Unveils Starship V3 With Major Design Overhaul

SpaceX has published an update on Starship V3, the next major iteration of its fully reusable super-heavy launch system. The page positions V3 as a substantial

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open-sourcetech-culture

uBlock Origin fork swaps hidden ads for 'They Live' OBEY tiles

A new hobby fork of uBlock Origin Lite, called they_live_adblocker, replaces cosmetically-filtered ads with white tiles bearing slogans from John Carpenter's 19

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