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A Software Engineer's Vacation Cure for AI-Era Brain Fog: Books and Calculus

A developer with about eight years of experience describes a creeping cognitive decline he attributes to modern working life: problems that once felt novel now

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aicybersecurity

Anubis's Own Bot Wall Blocks the Scrape of Its WebAssembly Post

The linked page was supposed to be a Techaro blog post on the year-long effort to ship WebAssembly in Anubis, but the retrieved content is instead Anubis's own

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open-sourcetech-culture

Asahi Linux Lands Official Support for Apple M3 Macs

The Asahi Linux project has merged M3-series support into its installer, bringing near-parity with what already worked on M1 and M2 hardware. On MacBooks and iM

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open-sourcedevops

bzip3: A BZip2 Successor Trading Memory for Much Tighter Text and Code Compression

bzip3 is a new general-purpose compressor positioned as the spiritual heir to bzip2, built by Kamila Szewczyk and released under LGPLv3. It pairs a Burrows-Whee

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aitech-culture

Caltech to Host First Hackathon Aimed at Solving Open Math Problems with AI

Caltech is convening what organizers bill as the first hackathon built around research-level mathematics. From October 30 to November 1, roughly 100 teams of to

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privacyopen-source

GrapheneOS Rebuilds Default Apps, Tightens Secure Clipboard Handling

GrapheneOS, the security- and privacy-hardened Android distribution, has announced an overhaul of its bundled default applications alongside changes to its secu

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tech-cultureprivacy

Internet Archive Launches 3x Match to Fund Its 210-Petabyte Infrastructure

The Internet Archive is running a September fundraising drive in which recurring donations are tripled through matching support—a $25 monthly pledge becomes $75

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tech-cultureopen-source

Joke Fediverse post anthropomorphizes qBittorrent — no actual story behind it

There is no article here to summarize. The "source" is a single-line post on the beige.party Mastodon instance, and the supplied body is just the headline repea

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tech-cultureopen-source

Live map tracks Belgium's public transport in real time

A submission on Hacker News points to a web-based map that visualizes Belgium's public transport network in real time, showing the live positions of buses, tram

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tech-culturepolicy

M-DISC's 1,000-Year Promise Meets a Bankrupt Vendor and a Quieter Reality

M-DISC is a write-once optical format launched in 2009 to solve archival storage's core problem: organic-dye DVDs and Blu-rays degrade within years to decades.

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tech-culturepolicy

Nathan Fielder's 174-Minute Theranos Doc Probes What Made Elizabeth Holmes Tick

Comedian Nathan Fielder and documentarian Lance Oppenheim surprised the Telluride Film Festival with 'You Can See Everything,' a nearly three-hour A24 documenta

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open-sourcecybersecurity

NetBSD 9.5 ships as the final 9.x release, ending support for the branch

The NetBSD Project has released NetBSD 9.5, the last update to the aging NetBSD 9 stable branch. Rather than a feature release, it bundles a curated set of secu

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