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Homer's Iliad Found in Roman-Era Egyptian Tomb as Cultural Passport to Afterlife

Archaeologists working a 1,600-year-old Roman-era tomb in Al Bahnasa, Egypt have recovered papyrus fragments of Homer's Iliad buried alongside a mummy — specifi

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How McCarthy-era paranoia handed China its rocket program

Qian Xuesen helped found Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was among the most consequential aerospace engineers in mid-century America, with deep access t

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Indexing a year of video locally with Gemma 4 31B on a 2021 MacBook

A developer splitting his year between Kenya's Maasai Mara and software work faced the same problem every videographer hits: an archive of raw footage growing f

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Inkwell iOS app stuck in App Review limbo over a dead Apple trademark

Manton Reece submitted Inkwell, the iOS companion app to Micro.blog, to Apple on April 21st and a month later is still trapped in review. He's worked through a

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Interactive Gaia-based star map plots the route from Project Hail Mary

A developer built a browser-based stellar navigation chart that traces the fictional voyage of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary against real astrometric data from

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Intuit Cuts 3,000 Jobs in AI Pivot Despite Profitable Quarter

Intuit is eliminating roughly 17% of its workforce — about 3,000 employees — as CEO Sasan Goodarzi pushes the TurboTax and QuickBooks maker to restructure aroun

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Knuth's 1980 Treatise on Designing the Letter S

Donald Knuth's 1980 paper examines one of typography's most stubborn design problems: rendering the letter S so it looks balanced to the human eye. The piece gr

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Malicious VS Code extension exfiltrates 3,800 GitHub internal repos

GitHub confirmed that an employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension, giving attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories before the company isol

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OpenAI Readies Confidential IPO Filing at $850B Valuation

OpenAI is set to confidentially file its draft IPO prospectus as early as Friday, working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on what could become one of the

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Phosphene: Open-source video wallpaper engine built on Apple's private framework

Phosphene is a macOS Tahoe menu bar app that lets users set arbitrary video files as desktop and lock-screen wallpapers, slotting them into the native System Se

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Python 3.15's quieter wins: TaskGroup.cancel, thread-safe iterators, ContextDecorator fixes

Beyond the headline features like lazy imports, Python 3.15 ships several smaller quality-of-life improvements worth knowing. asyncio.TaskGroup gains a cancel()

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Restored Trinity Test Footage Reveals the First Microseconds of the Atomic Age

A new book drawing on Los Alamos archives surfaces rarely-seen photography from the July 1945 Trinity test, the first detonation of a nuclear device. Berlyn Bri

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