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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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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