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Zig's New ELF Linker Gains Incremental Builds, Now Self-Hosts the Compiler

Zig contributor Matthew Lugg reports that the new ELF linker introduced in 0.16.0 has matured enough to build the self-hosted Zig compiler with LLVM and LLD ena

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aitech-culture

A Poet's Case Against AI: The Beauty Lives in the Imperfection

Shawn Smucker's prose poem is a sardonic argument against outsourcing human experience to AI. Framed as ironic advice to "please use AI" for meal planning, trip

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tech-culturepolicy

Danish Pension Fund AkademikerPension Blacklists SpaceX Over Governance Concerns

AkademikerPension, a $25 billion Danish pension fund, has ruled out investing in SpaceX ahead of its planned IPO. CIO Anders Schelde called the company's govern

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tech-culturepolicy

Danish Pension Fund Drops SpaceX Over Governance and Valuation Concerns

AkademikerPension, a Danish pension fund, has divested from SpaceX, pointing to weak corporate governance and an inflated private valuation as the core reasons.

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aitech-culture

EY Canada cybersecurity report riddled with AI-hallucinated citations and fake stats

A 44-page Ernst & Young Canada report on loyalty system fraud, Points of Attack, is laced with fabricated citations, contradictory statistics, and AI-generated

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tech-cultureopen-source

Framework 12 struggles to compete with cheaper, faster MacBook Neo

Jeff Geerling benchmarked Framework's new 12-inch convertible against Apple's $499 MacBook Neo and found the comparison brutal. The Framework 12 starts at $749

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aitech-culture

Frontend's Lost Decade Is Repeating Itself in the Age of Agentic AI

Mauro Bieg argues that the disruption AI is bringing to programming mirrors what JavaScript frameworks did to frontend work over the past decade: a textbook cas

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tech-cultureprivacy

Gruber Coins 'Dickover' for Modal Popups That Hijack Your Screen

John Gruber proposes a new term for the modal panels, popovers, and full-screen curtains that ambush users with cookie prompts, newsletter signups, app install

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tech-cultureopen-source

How Comanche's 1992 Voxel Space Engine Rendered Terrain Without a GPU

A walkthrough reconstructs the rendering trick behind NovaLogic's 1992 helicopter game Comanche, whose textured, shaded terrain looked years ahead of polygon-ba

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aitech-culture

Hy3's Suspicious Rise Atop OpenRouter Rankings Defies Quality and Pricing Logic

A little-known Tencent model called Hy3 preview has quietly climbed to the top of OpenRouter's usage rankings, outpacing Claude by more than 50% in token volume

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aiopen-source

Liquid AI ships LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an edge MoE built for on-device agents

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a mixture-of-experts model with 8B total and 1B active parameters aimed at running agentic workloads locally on laptops and ph

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Naphtha Shortage Ripples Through Japan's Supply Chain, From Chips to Syringes

A naphtha shortage triggered by the Iran war is rippling across Japanese manufacturing, hitting industries far removed from petrochemicals. Calbee has shifted 1

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