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A Google energy executive says orbital AI data centers remain far more expensive than terrestrial ones, even as the company tests AI chips…
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“Data centers in space could cost up to 100 times as much as those on Earth, Google's head of data center energy said this week, a reality check from a company…”— The Information, Technology news outlet · Bluesky · full quotes →
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Apple's AI-assisted foldable phone hinge fails rapidly despite claims of durability innovation.
began Oct 28now
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“iPhone Duo's hinge, that can destroy the $2000 phone within days, was designed with AI. This stuff's really batting 100”— spikybaddie · full quotes →
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A detailed technical writeup dissects GCC's switch-statement optimizations, including bitset-based lowering, and gains traction on Hacker…
began Oct 30now
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“gcc considers the threshold to be around eight jump table entries per case label.”— xoranth.net (blog author), blog author · xoranth.net · full quotes →
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Three new MacBook Pro lines debut with updated displays and pricing; PROLED models cost $400 more.
began Oct 30now
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“I find it useful to organize all of the configuration options into tables on a single page, and I figured it might be useful to share this now, before I finish…”— John Gruber · full quotes →
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The biweekly Wine development release adds MESA_map_buffer_client_pointer support, a Voice Capture DSP library, and 20 bug fixes as Wine…
began Oct 27now
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“It could mean smoother gameplay and better performance, as long as your graphics driver supports it.”— GamingOnLinux · full quotes →
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple allocated roughly 80% of launch inventory to retail stores, some with as few as 50 units, explaining the…
began Oct 29now
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“most customers who bought a Duo in store on day one got one by waiting in line”— Mark Gurman · full quotes →
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The smart home hub's operating system goes live early, revealing wallpapers, interface details, and hints of a delayed development timeline.
began Oct 30now
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“Apple today released HomeView Software 27.2, which is the software that runs on the upcoming HomeView device set to launch on November 13.”— MacRumors · full quotes →
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Apple provides technicians guidance on diagnosing and repairing the foldable phone's inner display defect affecting a small number of units.
began Oct 29now
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“We are aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a small number of iPhone Duo units. If users experience issues with their iPhone Duo display, they…”— Apple · full quotes →
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An email notifying personal-account users of a Nov 29 policy change triggers accusations that OpenAI is overriding explicit opt-outs.
began Oct 30now
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“This is a dirty trick imo to steal our work.”— OpenAI community forum user · full quotes →
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After two years of patching boringtun, Firezone built a cleaner WireGuard state machine designed for parallel-friendly APIs and testability.
began Oct 30now
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“Just don't buffer in the library. It simplifies the interface and the implementation on both sides.”— Firezone · full quotes →
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The Rust microkernel project reports completion of its 'Redox Rings' async I/O API, funded by an NLnet/Horizon Europe grant.
began Oct 28now
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“This phase of the work finished up in September, as the last pieces were put in place.”— Redox OS team, Project blog · redox-os.org · full quotes →
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A programmer encoded a full Nintendo Entertainment System—CPU, RAM, and cartridge ROM—as pre-computed weights in a Qwen language model…
began Oct 30now
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“Nobody trained these weights; a compiler computed every one. When you play a game, the model predicts the CPU's execution log one token at a time.”— dbreunig, Developer · Hacker News · full quotes →
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Sources say Alphabet is negotiating with the DOD to secure data feeding into software for the Trump administration's Golden Dome program.
began Oct 30now
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“Sources: Google is in talks with the DOD on a new effort to secure the data that feeds into software being built for the Golden Dome missile defense program”— Bloomberg · Press · full quotes →
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A gallium nitride micro-LED achieves 2.75 GHz switching speed while consuming just 25 milliwatts, offering a lower-power alternative to…
began Oct 31now
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“We found that, contrary to popular belief, smaller is not always better. Our work gives a development roadmap to systematically study the tradeoffs between…”— Abdelghany Abouelnagga · full quotes →
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Amazon cuts the new flagship smartwatch by $99, matching expectations for early-season Black Friday pricing.
began Oct 26now
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“The Apple Watch Ultra 4 just got its first big price cut since launch, and it's a strong one.”— Android Authority · full quotes →
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A programmer has successfully booted Mac OS on PowerPC-based Nintendo hardware for the first time since the 1990s.
began Oct 29now
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“Nintendo just shutdown Mariokart Tour on mobile. I went back to my Nintendo Wii which was already modded, and updated it to the latest modded hacks and I was…”— unfocused · full quotes →
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A Microsoft developer recounts how a customer's all-black goth theme left them unable to see anything on screen.
began Oct 30now
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“It turned out that this customer really liked the color black, so they decided to set up a goth theme. They set the wallpaper color to black. They set the…”
— Raymond Chen, Windows developer · The Old New Thing blog · full quotes →
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New platform lets developers self-host Git repositories while collaborating across independent servers using open standards.
began Oct 30now
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№199 (page 6) · newest development 13d ago · 58 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The longevity of an open protocol, with the convenience and polish of a proper forge.”— Tangled · full quotes →
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Project Suncatcher satellite successfully runs Gemma 4 model in orbit, marking a milestone in space-based machine learning.
began Oct 30now
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“Blue marble below / Data streams in silent grace / Starlight feeds my core.”— Gemma 4 model (onboard Project Suncatcher satellite) · full quotes →
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David Pierce and Nilay Patel debate touchscreen MacBooks, iPad cannibalization, Instagram's AI crisis, and FCC spectrum wars.
began Oct 30now
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“For the first time in a long time, Apple is in a period of unabashed gadget experimentation, and while the final results aren't always perfect, it's fun to…”— David Pierce, The Vergecast host · full quotes →
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A developer integrated multiple BeOS versions into Infinite Mac, fixing emulator bugs that now make it the only system to run PowerPC BeOS.
began Oct 30now
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“I believe that, with this work, it's the only emulator that can run PowerPC versions of BeOS.”— ecliptik · full quotes →
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Google achieved first successful AI inference from a solar-powered satellite in low Earth orbit, demonstrating viability of its space data…
began Oct 30now
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“Blue marble below Data streams in silent grace Starlight feeds my core.”— Gemma 4 (Google's space-based AI model) · full quotes →
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The Verge's hands-on review finds the $2,000 folding iPhone makes a surprisingly convincing digital notebook with the USB-C Apple Pencil.
began Oct 30now
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“Apple’s $2,000 folding phone is a surprisingly good stand-in for a $20 notebook.”— Allison Johnson · full quotes →
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Discord is indexing user messages for Google search, with users able to opt out of the change.
began Oct 27now
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“How to stop Discord from putting what you say on Google”— Windows Central · Press · full quotes →
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Apple introduces its first touchscreen laptop, challenging 16 years of skepticism about the feature's utility on portable computers.
began Oct 27now
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“Am I out of touch? The last thing I want on a laptop is a touch screen. Is there a massive market for this I'm not aware of?”— @oscargws, X user · X · full quotes →
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Apple rolls out a visual overhaul matching iOS 27, including a new icon, floating bottom bar, and redesigned artist pages.
began Oct 30now
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“Edit Pins”— Apple Music 7.0 interface, App menu label · full quotes →
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A prototype data center satellite activated by Google generated a haiku about space after receiving a prompt from ground researchers.
began Oct 30now
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“Blue marble below / Data streams in silent grace / Starlight feeds my core.”— Google's Gemma 4 AI model (via satellite) · full quotes →
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Developer releases tool that generates unique Delft-blue floral page margins procedurally in LaTeX, with no images or external assets.
began Oct 30now
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“This is just delightful.”— arenamontanus.bsky.social · full quotes →
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A Signoz analysis warns that as AI automates incident response, site reliability engineers may lose the hands-on expertise needed for rare…
began Oct 30now
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“Aviation is a perfect industry to learn from, they figured out a lot of things about how to keep humans from making mistakes.”— andix, HN commenter · Hacker News · full quotes →
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A fledgling BSD distro combining the NetBSD kernel with an Alpine Linux-style userland bans any code or docs touched by LLMs as "tainted."
began Oct 30now
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“Any software whose code, documentation, binaries, or other assets include, in any part, the output of a generative AI tool such as an LLM, is considered…”— AlpineBSD project, new BSD distribution · The Register · full quotes →
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Google's C-based Android IPC driver is deleted from the kernel with its Rust successor positioned to handle future devices.
began Oct 25now
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“Google's C-written Binder driver has left the kernel with the Rust-based modern Binder driver ready to take for the role of being used by all future Android…”— Michael Larabel, Phoronix founder and author · full quotes →
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A software guide highlights Ponytail, OmniRoute, Graphify and a fourth tool that extend Anthropic's Claude Code coding assistant.
began Oct 30now
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A deep dive into why checking for whitespace isn't as simple as comparing a character to a space.
began Oct 30now
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“Yet the code looks a lot more complex than a simple c == ' ' check.”— Serce, Author · Lobsters · full quotes →
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Police seized 21 jailbreak devices, with suspects facing up to $15,000 fines and two years in prison.
began Oct 30now
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“Many of the Tesla owners involved may have purchased FSD entirely legally as an optional feature, but often they still aren't allowed to use it in South Korea.”— Heise Online · full quotes →
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OpenCode says users can again log in with a Claude Pro/Max subscription rather than per-token API billing.
began Oct 30now
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“you can now use your claude subscription in OpenCode”— @opencode, Official OpenCode account · X (Twitter) · full quotes →
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