SpaceX schedules Starship’s first orbital attempt for Flight 14
The mission plan calls for six Earth orbits, deployment of 26 Starlink V3 satellites and a Pacific splashdown nearly 10 hours after launch.
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Developer argues AI coding shifts engineering work toward verification
A new essay says coding agents remove some implementation friction while making testing, judgment and responsibility more important.
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Minecraft simulation finds a world where the Ender Dragon eventually falls without a player
A seed search and statistical simulation produced an estimated 1.975-billion-year path to victory through mob attacks and environmental interactions.
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Developer builds schema language to cut JSON payload size
A new experimental serializer combines variable-length headers, typed fields and generated codecs, with its creator reporting reductions of roughly 80% on tested payloads.
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Microsoft leaves Copilot+ label off new Surface hardware
A Surface executive says the latest machines still meet the former technical threshold, even as Microsoft moves away from the two-year-old PC badge.
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Early Nvidia adviser says old option paperwork left millions of shares out of reach
A former technical adviser says a vesting discrepancy discovered decades later could not be pursued because the potential claim was time-barred.
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postmarketOS adopts Nura name after community selection process
The mobile operating-system project says the shorter name will be easier to pronounce, protect and carry beyond its hacker-community roots.
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A decade-old bike light returns to service after a battery repair
A hands-on repair account shows how a failed rechargeable light was opened, diagnosed and revived with a replacement cell.
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Rust examples revive the case for parsing data into stronger types
A programming essay applies the 'parse, don't validate' pattern to Rust, arguing that types can preserve invariants and simplify downstream code.
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Ten tiny programs trace one developer's path through computing
A front-end developer's retrospective uses memorable snippets to connect early programming, low-level machines, web experiments and debugging habits.
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Researchers map a Cascadia plate breaking apart beneath the seafloor
Seismic images off Vancouver Island suggest a subduction system is ending in stages as sections of an oceanic plate separate.
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Study finds text watermarking can alter AI agent tool calls
Lasso Research says generation-time watermarking produced measurable changes in tool-call accuracy and refusal behavior across its controlled tests.
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Apple Cards’ elaborate print operation revisited 15 years after launch
A new account from a former production partner describes the demanding physical infrastructure behind Apple’s short-lived Cards app.
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New Surface systems retain the hardware capabilities associated with Copilot+ PCs, but Microsoft is no longer using the label in their product names.
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Malicious Google ads used browser lock screens to push tech-support scams
A campaign observed across hundreds of publisher sites imitated device infections on Windows and Mac systems and urged victims to call bogus support numbers.
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Dead rat found in Bowden prompts Alberta control-team investigation
The discovery does not by itself end Alberta's rat-free designation, which means the province has no established resident population rather than no occasional incursions.
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Distributor says major social platforms rejected paid ads for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' documentary
Bleecker Street is appealing decisions by YouTube, TikTok and Meta that it says classified the film's trailer as political content, while X has not engaged with the distributor.
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TiddlyInstall proposes self-contained installers for Python, Node.js and Ruby projects
The single-file browser tool builds platform-specific packages that place a project's runtime and dependencies in isolated folders, with an emphasis on inspectable installation choices.
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New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for misleading users over Cambridge Analytica privacy protections
Jurors found more than two million violations after a trial focused on Facebook's representations about user data; a judge will determine the financial penalty.
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Wrongly accused Florida woman tells Congress how license-plate data led to 13 days in jail
Lindsey Isaacs said investigators tied her undamaged black SUV to a fatal crash involving a maroon vehicle, exposing the danger of treating an automated camera match as conclusive evidence.
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Go 1.27 experiments with a portable SIMD programming interface
A new platform-agnostic package aims to let Go developers write vectorized code once while targeting x86, Arm and WebAssembly hardware.
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ASML executive warns European demand for lithography tools has fallen to zero
ASML’s European revenue share was reported at zero for the first half of 2026, prompting a call for policies that stimulate local chip demand as well as factory investment.
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Git-bug puts an offline-first issue tracker inside Git
The open-source project stores issue data with repositories, supports peer-to-peer synchronization and offers bridges to established tracking services.
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M6 Mac Mini sustains 600MHz Pentium II emulation in 86Box test
A tightly controlled retro-computing test found the M6 Mac Mini could keep a modified 86Box setup running at its target speed with Windows 98, Voodoo 3 graphics and concurrent audio playback.
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