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AI Ends the Fixed-Function App — and the Author Is Building a Phone for It
A longtime security engineer argues that the real disruption from AI isn't dissolved boundaries between frontend and backend or web and native — it's the collap
Appeals Court Backs Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Over Claude
A divided D.C. Circuit panel ruled 2-1 on Friday to uphold the Defense Department's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, keeping the company's Claud
Botched Samsung firmware update bricks smart fridges, spoils food before Korean holiday
A Samsung software update pushed to some of its smart refrigerators went wrong on September 22, leaving power and display systems dead and food rotting inside.
DHH's Rails World keynote pulls a flagship app off Rails and bets everything on LLMs
At Rails World 2026, Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson used the opening keynote to declare he has 'retired' from professional programming and now s
Dutch government-backed DAWO builds a NixOS workplace to break from Microsoft
DAWO is a Dutch initiative assembling an open, sovereign alternative to the Microsoft-dominated digital workplace, built around a reproducible NixOS-based opera
Excel breaks its 40-year one-value-per-cell rule with lists and nested arrays
Microsoft is rolling out three related changes to Excel that let a single cell hold more than one value for the first time in the app's history. The headline fe
Factorio devs release 247 free STL files to 3D-print your factory
Wube Software, the studio behind Factorio, is giving away a library of free downloadable 3D models so fans can print the game's machines and creatures at home.
First Principles Thinking Is the Skill That Ports to AI Agents
Riffing on Sunil Pai's "senior engineer death spiral," the author argues that the engineers who adapt best aren't the ones with the most accumulated experience
Git-bug puts your issue tracker inside the repo — distributed and offline
Git-bug is a bug tracker that lives entirely inside a Git repository, storing issues as objects in Git itself rather than as files that clutter your project tre
Go 1.27 adds experimental write-once SIMD that runs on any CPU
Go is exposing SIMD—the CPU capability that applies one operation across a vector of values at once—directly to Go code for the first time. Previously the only
How Amiga 'Screens' Let One Display Mix Resolutions, Palettes, and Copper Tricks
On the Amiga, a 'screen' is an OS-level drawing surface, and unlike modern single-resolution displays, a program could open several at once — each with its own
Ink & Switch marks a decade with 'Tenfold' and a tour of its local-first research
Research lab Ink & Switch turned its homepage into an interactive celebration of its tenth anniversary, publishing a clickable art piece called Tenfold—ten lett