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USGS reports magnitude 7.4 earthquake near San José del Palmar, Colombia
This is a U.S. Geological Survey event alert for a magnitude 7.4 earthquake located about 5 km south of San José del Palmar, Colombia. No article text accompani
Windows 11's Weather app eats 1 GB+ of RAM — because it's a WebView2 web app
Microsoft's built-in Weather app for Windows 11 consumes an outsized amount of memory for such a simple task. Testing by Windows Latest measured it at over 1.2
Zuckerberg knocks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta swings back to open models
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is positioning the company against competitors that keep their AI models proprietary, framing Meta's renewed emphasis on op
A 2011 wager on link rot: will one URL still resolve in 2022?
In 2011, two web veterans put a decade-long bet on the table at Long Bets over whether a single URL would survive. Keith argued that link rot is the web's entro
AI-Built Solver Cracks Magic Hexagons Far Past the Previous Order-9 Record
A magic hexagon fills a hexagonal grid so that every straight line of cells, in all three directions, adds to the same total. Only one non-trivial 'normal' vers
Amazon Plans 7.65GW Off-Grid Gas Plant in Texas to Power AI Data Center
Amazon has acquired land and state permits in Pecos County, Texas, to build an AI data center campus fed by its own 7.65-gigawatt natural gas power plant—initia
Chrome Extension Kills LinkedIn's Home Feed, Keeps the Rest Working
A developer frustrated by LinkedIn's algorithmic home feed built a lightweight Chrome extension that surgically removes it while leaving the platform's more uti
Designing Game Difficulty: Smooth the Curve, Don't Just Crank It Up
A common misconception in game design is that levels should get relentlessly harder as players progress. The real goal is to make players feel they're improving
Developer Pulls AI-Built Site After Discovering It Cloned an Existing Open-Source App
A developer who used Claude to spin up a stargazing web utility called Dark Hours has taken it offline after learning it closely mirrored an existing open-sourc
Ditching a VPS to Self-Host on an Old Android Phone
Frustrated by the cost of a Hetzner VPS — especially the dedicated CPU needed to run a remote browser called Surf — and unwilling to buy new hardware amid absur
Ex-NSA chief: keep water plant PLCs off the internet after suspected Iran attacks
Retired General Paul Nakasone, the former NSA director now heading Vanderbilt's Institute for National Security, argues that the programmable logic controllers
Gruber Retracts First Daring Fireball Post in 24 Years After App Store Rejection Story Unravels
John Gruber has retracted a Daring Fireball post for the first time in his 24 years writing the site, after the story he built it on turned out to be false. The