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Racket 9.3 ships Markdown docs, faster DrRacket checks, and finer package controls
The Racket team has released version 9.3 of the language-oriented programming language, a maintenance-and-tooling update that sharpens the developer workflow ra
RISC-V's ISA Sins: Slow Interrupts and Broken Compressed Encoding
A longtime RISC-V critic lays out a technical case that the architecture's much-praised ISA is mediocre where it matters most. The central argument is that no s
Study: Semaglutide tied to 26% lower predicted 5-year dementia risk
A study published in an Alzheimer's & Dementia diagnostic journal reports an association between semaglutide (the GLP-1 receptor agonist sold as Ozempic and Weg
The Real Math Edge for AI Isn't Smarter Reasoning — It's a Bigger Notebook
When an AI cracks a hard math problem, the reflex is to credit better reasoning, more training data, or emerging intuition. This piece argues for a plainer expl
The Same Code Fix Can Cost Wildly Different Token Bills — Here's Why
Agentic coding tools flip a long-standing assumption: your editor used to cost the same whether you fixed one test or fifty, but with Claude Code each task carr
USGS: Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
This is a raw USGS earthquake event alert, not an article. The only information provided is the headline: a magnitude 7.7 quake located 68 km north-northwest of
UV Bird Photography Reveals Colors Hidden From Human Eyes
This is not a cybersecurity or technology-industry story — it's a photography project by Nathan Chronister that images birds in ultraviolet alongside visible li
77% of a URL shortener's 2009–2014 links are already dead
The team behind 0.mk, Macedonia's first URL shortener, recovered a database backup of 657,607 links created between 2009 and 2014 and re-crawled every destinati
A Developer Breaks a 14-Year Silence to Argue for Actual Silence
After more than a decade away from his blog, the author returns not with a technical post but with a reflection on a habit he barely noticed forming: filling ev
Benchmark-Chasing May Be Making Coding Agents Worse at Asking Questions
A developer argues that Opus 5, despite topping its predecessors on benchmarks, is more frustrating to use as a coding assistant than Opus 4.7, 4.8, or Fable. T
Bluesky launches Protocol Services and Jetstream v2 with network replay
Bluesky has consolidated the public AT Protocol infrastructure it operates — relays, Jetstream instances, and API endpoints — under a new brand and site, Bluesk
ChatGPT's Codex desktop app lands on Linux in preview — with a Wayland IME catch
OpenAI has pushed its ChatGPT/Codex desktop app to Linux as a preview, distributed as an official x64 RPM. Early testing on Fedora 44 running KDE Plasma under W