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Kanbots: Open-source kanban desktop app dispatches parallel AI coding agents per card

Kanbots is an MIT-licensed Electron desktop app that reframes AI coding assistants around a kanban board instead of a chat window. Each card on the board can di

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Microsoft pulls Claude Code licenses, pushes engineers to Copilot CLI

Microsoft is winding down internal access to Anthropic's Claude Code by the end of June, redirecting thousands of developers to its own GitHub Copilot CLI. The

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New U.S. Rules Curb Research Publishing With Foreign Co-Authors

U.S. researchers are encountering fresh federal restrictions on co-authoring and publishing scientific work with collaborators based abroad, particularly those

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Oura admits to government data requests but won't say how many

Health wearable maker Oura confirms it receives government demands for user data but refuses to publish a transparency report disclosing the volume, scope, or f

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open-sourcesupply-chain

Prusa: Bambu's Closed Networking Blob Violates PrusaSlicer's AGPL License

Josef Prusa argues that Bambu Lab's BambuStudio slicer, a fork of the AGPL-3.0 licensed PrusaSlicer, has been out of compliance since launch. While Bambu publis

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tech-culture

P.T. Barnum's 1880 Rules for Making Money, Distilled

A Cool Tools newsletter revisits The Art of Money Getting, the book P.T. Barnum published at 70 after a career that included building a famous New York museum,

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Reverse-engineered 80386 microcode reveals 40-year-old IO permission flaw

A team of hardware researchers has fully disassembled the microcode ROM of Intel's 80386, a 94,720-bit black box that had resisted analysis for decades. Working

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Rubish: A Bash-Compatible Unix Shell Built Entirely in Ruby

Rubish is a Unix shell written in pure Ruby that parses shell syntax, compiles it to Ruby code, and runs it on the Ruby VM. It aims for full bash compatibility

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SpaceX Flies Starship V3 for First Time, Loses Engines but Hits Trajectory

SpaceX launched the debut flight of Starship Version 3 on May 22 from a new second pad at its Starbase facility in South Texas, marking the rocket's first missi

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SpaceX Launches Starship V3 Prototype After Scrubbed Attempt

SpaceX got its Starship V3 prototype off the pad on May 22, 2026, one day after scrubbing the originally scheduled launch over unspecified technical issues. The

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sp.h: A 15K-line single-header C library that ditches libc and null-terminated strings

A developer has spent the past year building sp.h, a single-header C99 library that aims to replace libc rather than wrap it. The library talks directly to roug

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Texas town jails resident over Facebook post about contaminated water it later confirmed

Trinidad, Texas police arrested Jennifer Combs on a state jail felony charge after she posted on her community Facebook page that residents had reportedly been

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