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Chuwi Minibook X: A $350 Linux Playground With One Sideways-Screen Catch
The Chuwi Minibook X is a 10.5-inch sub-ultrabook running an Intel N150, 16GB of soldered LPDDR5, and a 512GB NVMe for $350. It weighs 912g, idles at 3.8W, sust
Debug Project Fights Disease by Releasing Sterile Mosquitoes at Scale
Debug is an engineering and science effort aimed at suppressing Aedes aegypti, the mosquito species responsible for dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and chikungunya
Divide by 255 or 256? The Quiet Debate Behind Image Float Conversion
When converting 8-bit color values to floating point, programmers face a subtle choice: divide by 255 (mapping 0→0.0 and 255→1.0) or add a 0.5 bias and divide b
Florida AG sues OpenAI and Altman, alleging consumer harm from AI risks
Florida has filed suit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, escalating state-level legal pressure on frontier AI developers. The complaint centers on risks the st
GitHub's Decay: AI Push, Broken SLAs, and a Frontend Falling Apart
Efron Licht, a distributed systems engineer, argues that GitHub's recent reliability collapse is symptomatic of deeper rot rather than a passing capacity crunch
GridLion brings 2D virtual desktop grids back to macOS, 15 years after Lion killed them
An indie developer fed up with macOS Mission Control's single-row layout of virtual desktops has built GridLion, an app that restores the 2D grid arrangement Ap
How RNA-Folding Algorithms Speed Up Haskell's ApplicativeDo Compilation
GHC ships an -foptimal-applicative-do flag that's disabled by default because the underlying algorithm runs in O(n³), making a 1,000-statement block take nearly
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra pairs NVIDIA RTX Spark silicon with Windows on Arm
Microsoft used Computex 2026 to unveil the Surface Laptop Ultra, its most powerful Surface ever and an explicit shot at Apple's MacBook Pro. The flagship runs W
Mullvad: Age Verification Laws Are Identity Verification in Disguise
Mullvad argues that the global wave of social media age verification laws—now active or proposed across Australia, the EU, UK, US, and dozens of other countries
OpenAI Brings Frontier Models and Codex to AWS Marketplace
OpenAI has expanded distribution of its frontier models and Codex coding assistant to Amazon Web Services, ending a period where its flagship offerings were pri
Study notes turn 'Linux Basics for Hackers' into a structured self-paced course
A GitHub repository repackages one reader's personal notes on OccupyTheWeb's 2019 book Linux Basics for Hackers into a module-by-module course. Each section dis
Wall Street braces for mega-IPOs from Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI
Three of the most valuable private companies in the world — Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI — are edging toward public markets at valuations that would dwarf almos