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GrapheneOS–Motorola partnership to launch first on a standard, non-folding phone

GrapheneOS has confirmed that the opening target of its newly announced collaboration with Motorola will be a conventional non-folding handset rather than one o

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Halvar Flake on three ideas that reshaped his thinking: incentives, determinism, emotion

Security researcher Thomas Dullien (Halvar Flake), prompted by his father's death and joining a company younger than himself, catalogs three realizations that c

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How the internet turned 'selling out' from career suicide into strategy

In 1992, Pearl Jam reacted to sudden superstardom by refusing to make music videos, declining interviews, and cutting a guaranteed hit single from their second

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HTMLCat: A Sticky-Note Reference for Native HTML, CSS, and JS Tricks

HTMLCat is a browsable collection of "post-it" notes, each pairing a single native web-platform feature with a minimal example and the one caveat that actually

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LLMs Collapse the Cost of Performance Engineering

Dan Luu argues that AI coding agents have turned performance optimization from specialized, expensive work into something almost anyone can commission in minute

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MCP roadmap bets on agent identity, unified HTTP transport, long-running tasks

The Model Context Protocol's maintainers have published a refreshed roadmap organizing near-term work into five priority areas, several of which graduate from t

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Meta faces $200bn child-safety trial as states allege 'hook, hold, harvest, hide'

California and 28 other US states have taken Meta to trial in Oakland, accusing the company of building deliberately addictive products that harm children and o

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Munder Difflin: an open-source harness that clones your team into always-on agents

Munder Difflin is an MIT-licensed multi-agent harness that wraps whatever coding-agent CLI you already run — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot and others

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Ohio grand jury clears man who dismantled a Flock license plate camera

A Clermont County grand jury declined to indict Cody Morelock, whom Union Township police had charged with felony vandalism for allegedly taking apart a Flock a

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Open-source Qwen3-TTS serving hits sub-50 ms latency at 1/25th the cost

Nari Labs rebuilt the serving stack around the open-weight Qwen3-TTS 1.7B CustomVoice model and pushed p95 time-to-first-audio below 50 ms while sustaining 10 r

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People of ACM – Russ Cox

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Running Photoshop on a 60p chip: a case for minimal, low-power computing

A hobbyist emulated a late-1980s Apple Macintosh on a Raspberry Pi RP2350 — a microcontroller that costs roughly 60 pence — and got Photoshop, along with WordPe

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