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Half-Finished Apps: When "Use Our App" Means Falling Back to the Web
A developer's attempt to subscribe to an events calendar on a Pixel running Android 17 exposed a basic gap: the updated Google Calendar app can't add a calendar
How an LG TV can push unwanted bloatware onto your PC just by plugging in HDMI
The piece argues that connecting an LG display to a Windows machine over HDMI can trigger the silent installation of software the user never requested. When any
Italian Campaign Presses Laptop Makers to Refund Unwanted Windows Licenses
A consumer-rights campaign backed by the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Italian Linux Society (refund4freedom.org) is pushing back against the practice
Judge halts Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, calling it illegal retaliation
A federal district judge, Rita Lin, has blocked the Defense Department's designation of Anthropic as a national-security supply-chain risk, ruling in a 59-page
Ninth Circuit: Commodity Law Doesn't Shield Kalshi From State Gambling Cops
A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel ruled on August 28, 2026 (KalshiEX, LLC v. Assad) that federal commodities regulation does not strip states of authority over sp
No summarizable content: 'OpenAI decision on Cursor after SpaceX acquisition' is empty and unverified
There is nothing here to summarize. The submission consists only of a headline — 'Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX' — with no article
No, the Sumerian King List Doesn't Encode Ancient Climate Disasters
The eight pre-flood kings of the Sumerian King List reign for absurd, suspiciously tidy spans — mostly integer multiples of 3,600 years, all multiples of 600, s
OpenAI's Python SDK moves to HTTPX2, quietly changing how it trusts certificates
The OpenAI Python SDK now ships HTTPX2 as the engine behind its synchronous and asynchronous HTTP clients, replacing the older httpx package, which is no longer
Samsung's LPDDR5X-PIM puts MAC units in every DRAM bank — clever silicon, hard software
At Hot Chips 2026, Samsung detailed LPDDR5X-PIM, a memory chip that embeds multiply-accumulate (MAC) units inside each of its 16 DRAM banks. The trick is bandwi
StemDeck: A Free, Local, Open-Source Alternative to Cloud AI Stem Splitters
StemDeck is an open-source desktop app that breaks a song into as many as six isolated tracks—vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, and everything else—entirely o
Stop Shipping for the Metric: The Case Against Needless Software Churn
The German word Verschlimmbesserung — an improvement that only makes things worse — captures a familiar frustration: the SaaS update that relocates a button, re
Tether brings iMessage, SMS, and OTP autofill to Linux for iPhone users
A developer who moved to Linux full-time built Tether to recover the Apple "Continuity" features they missed most: sending and receiving iMessage and SMS, file