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Why Passkeys Aren't Ready for Personal Use — Yet
Passkeys solve a real problem: because the credential is cryptographically bound to a specific site and stored as an asymmetric key pair, phishing pages can't c
A Year of Donation-Funded Servo Maintenance: 1,150 PRs Reviewed, 8 New Maintainers
A year after the Servo project began paying long-time maintainer Josh Bowman-Matthews (jdm) to work part-time on contributor experience — funded entirely by rec
Amazon's Verus brings mathematical proof to Rust — beyond memory safety
Rust's type system eliminates whole classes of bugs, but "safer" isn't the same as "correct." Rust will halt a program on an out-of-bounds access rather than le
An AI Designed a Working Circuit Board From One Plain-English Prompt
A hobbyist set out to design a printed circuit board without learning any PCB tools, relying entirely on Anthropic's models to do the work. An earlier attempt w
AWS: Some Data Unrecoverable After Iranian Strikes Hit Middle East Facilities
Amazon Web Services has acknowledged that a portion of customer data cannot be recovered after physical attacks by Iran damaged facilities in the Middle East. T
Cargo Shipping Rediscovers the Wind as Rotor Sails Go Mainstream
After a century of abandoning sail power, commercial shipping is bolting it back on. More than 100 large merchant vessels—over 5 million deadweight tons—now car
CCC opens Call for Participation for 40C3, its 'Model Citizens' congress in Hamburg
The Chaos Computer Club has announced the 40th Chaos Communication Congress (40C3), running December 27–30, 2026 at the Hamburg Exhibition halls, and has opened
Dev deprecates a 2014 'temporary' PHP polyfill still pulling 400K installs a month
In 2014, Jake Smith wrote 174 lines of PHP to reimplement `http_build_url()` while AOL's CMS migrated from PHP 5.2 to 5.3 and dropped the pecl_http extension th
Dirac, 1939: Let Mathematical Beauty — Not Just Experiment — Steer Physics
In his James Scott Prize Lecture to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Paul Dirac argues that the link between mathematics and physics runs far deeper than mathema
Fujitsu Debuts FUJITSU-MONAKA, Its Domestically Built Next-Gen CPU
Fujitsu has announced the launch of FUJITSU-MONAKA, a next-generation processor the company is positioning as a domestically developed and manufactured Japanese
GitLab.com Ties API Rate Limits to Subscription Tier Starting Oct 19
GitLab is restructuring how it throttles traffic to GitLab.com, moving from flat limits to caps that scale with your subscription. The shift lands in two waves:
Gowers breaks with Fields medallists' AI warning, but agrees math faces a crisis
Mathematician Tim Gowers explains why he declined to sign an open letter, endorsed by 25 Fields medallists, that warns AI could harm mathematics. The letter's c