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Cloudflare Cuts 100TB of RAM From 1.1.1.1's DNS Cache — and Made It Faster
Cloudflare's DNS platform, internally called Big Pineapple, holds more than 250 billion cache entries at any moment across services like 1.1.1.1, Gateway DNS, a
Content Negotiation for Bots: Serving Markdown to AI Agents via Accept Headers
The pitch behind acceptmarkdown.com is that websites should treat AI agents as a distinct client class and hand them a stripped-down Markdown variant instead of
Devs Replaced by AI Answer Back With an Open-Source AI CEO
Open Executive, released by Sente Labs, is a tongue-in-cheek rejoinder to executives who cut engineering headcount in favor of AI: an open-source system that pl
FDA clears Rasonque, first RAS inhibitor for metastatic pancreatic cancer
The FDA has approved Rasonque (daraxonrasib), a once-daily tablet from Revolution Medicines, for adults with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma who have alrea
Gates Warns There's 'No Plan' for AI's Coming Economic Upheaval
In a roughly 6,000-word essay published August 26, 2026, Bill Gates argues the shift into the AI era will be one of the most turbulent stretches in human histor
Google ships Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash with production-grade video controls
Google has released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, an update to its generative-video model aimed at developers building creative and media-editing tools, now available
Himalayan Glacial-Lake Floods Could Be 15x Bigger Than Models Assume
Researchers modeling a transboundary basin on the Tibet–Nepal border found that worst-case glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) could be catastrophically larger
IBM's next mainframe chip runs Arm and IBM Z code natively on the same cores
IBM used the Hot Chips conference to unveil a mainframe processor that can execute both Arm and IBM Z (or LinuxONE) instruction sets natively, the first silicon
Mold Linker Hits Up to 112x Faster Than GNU ld by Parallelizing Every Pass
Linking—the build step that stitches compiled object files into a final executable or shared library—remains a stubborn bottleneck in the edit-compile-debug loo
Nvidia in $13B talks to buy Hugging Face, testing open-source neutrality
Despite framing suggesting a done deal, Nvidia and Hugging Face have only held acquisition talks in recent weeks, with a potential valuation north of $13 billio
Offline OpenStreetMap App CoMaps Guided Earthquake Rescuers in Signal-Dead Venezuela
CoMaps, a non-commercial, fully open-source navigation app built on OpenStreetMap data, proved its worth during the Venezuela earthquake response by working ent
Stripe acquires Clerky, the legal-paperwork platform behind 23% of SV seed rounds
Stripe has agreed to acquire Clerky, an online service that handles routine legal paperwork for startups — incorporation documents, equity issuance, and financi