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Slate's bare-bones electric pickup undercuts the market at $24,950
Slate is selling a deliberately stripped-down electric truck it calls the Blank Slate, starting at $24,950. The pitch is minimalism as a feature: buyers get a b
Tech giants launch Akrites to patch open-source flaws before AI weaponizes them
A coalition of nearly two dozen major companies — including AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and GitHub, OpenAI, IBM, NVIDIA, Red Hat, Cisco, and banks like Ci
The Doorman's Fallacy: When QR Codes Replace Service and Quietly Wreck the Experience
The author uses a frustrating brunch to illustrate the Doorman's Fallacy — the assumption that technology can swap out a human role without hidden costs. The re
The Garbage Collection Handbook returns: a 60-year survey of automatic memory management
The second edition of The Garbage Collection Handbook updates Richard Jones and colleagues' definitive reference on automatic memory management, succeeding the
Un-0 generates images with simulated oscillators, betting physics beats GPUs on energy
A startup called Unconventional AI has released Un-0, an image generator that swaps the usual deep-network-on-GPU stack for a simulated system of coupled Kuramo
WisdPi's 10G module for Framework laptops can't escape USB-C bandwidth chaos
Framework's expansion slots all route through USB-C, and that connector's tangle of overlapping standards is what undermines WisdPi's new $99 10G Ethernet card.
"You're the OS!" — a browser game that makes you the kernel scheduler
"You're the OS!" puts the player in the role of an operating system, tasked with juggling running processes, allocating memory, and handling I/O events in real
Zig overhauls @bitCast semantics, rethinks integer lowering for LLVM, advances SPIR-V
Zig's latest devlog covers two substantial compiler efforts. The first is a long-planned fix to how the LLVM backend lowers arbitrary-width integers (u4, i13, u
Age verification is mass surveillance dressed up as child protection
Cory Doctorow argues that there is no technical way to verify a user's age online without tracking everyone's activity in fine-grained detail. So-called age ver
AI-Generated PR Spam Is Open Source's New Email Problem
When OpenClaw became GitHub's fastest-growing repo, its pull request volume exploded from two a week to 3,400, and its merge rate collapsed from 48% to under 10
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of mass 'distillation' attack to copy Claude
Anthropic has accused Alibaba of running what it calls the largest known attempt to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities, telling U.S. lawmakers that the Chi
Cloudflare opens self-managed OAuth to all devs, surviving a live Hydra upgrade
Cloudflare has made self-managed OAuth available to every developer on its platform, letting them register and run their own OAuth clients for scoped, delegated