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Cursor takes on GitHub with Origin, an agent-native code host
Cursor is moving beyond the editor into code hosting with Origin, an early-beta platform now rolling out to all paid users except opted-out enterprise orgs. The
Desktop pet fly runs a live simulation of the real Drosophila connectome
A new open-source macOS app puts a 3D fruit fly on your desktop, but the novelty is what's under the hood: its behavior is driven by a live spiking-neuron simul
Fairphone reaches the US market with the spec-bumped, still-repairable Gen 6+
Fairphone, the Dutch maker known for repairable and ethically sourced smartphones, is selling directly in the United States for the first time. American buyers
Finger: the 1971 protocol that quietly invented the social network
Long before accounts and algorithms, Finger let anyone read your status straight from a plain-text file you controlled. Born in 1971 at the Stanford AI Lab, it
Go 1.27 Lands: Generic Methods, JSON v2, and Post-Quantum Crypto
Go 1.27 delivers the language's most substantial feature additions in several releases. The spec now permits generic methods, letting a single method like Rand.
Iceland's Rowing Parable: A Send-Up of Consultant-Driven Over-Management
This is not a security story despite its 'Red team' framing — it's a satirical management fable published on UK frozen-food retailer Iceland's corporate history
Last MPEG-4 Part 2 patent expires, clearing the codec worldwide
A Brazilian patent filed by Siemens AG in 2001 (BR PI0109962-0), part of the MPEG-4 Visual portfolio once managed by MPEG LA, expired on July 19, 2026. It was t
London ULEZ tied to rapid rebound in children's pollution-stunted lung growth
A five-year study tracked more than 3,400 primary schoolchildren, comparing kids inside London's Ultra Low Emission Zone against a socioeconomically matched con
OpenLogi: a local-first, no-account Rust rewrite of Logitech Options+
OpenLogi is an open-source desktop app that replaces Logitech's Options+ for configuring MX-series mice and other Logitech peripherals. Written in Rust and dual
Ornith-1.5: Open Model Rivals Claude Opus 4.8 via Self-Improvement Loop
Ornith.ai has released Ornith-1.5, a family of foundation models built around a training loop in which the model generates its own work. Extending the self-scaf
Skipping Google Lens: geolocating an island with triangle geometry and a GPU
A solver tackled Sofia Santos's 'gralhix 004' OSINT challenge — identify a resort island from a single photo — by refusing the obvious reverse-image-search shor
SoLo lets fully static musl binaries load the host's glibc GPU drivers
Static Linux binaries are the low-drama way to ship software—one file, no runtime dependencies—until the program needs a GPU. Vulkan and OpenGL drivers ship as