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How RNA-Folding Algorithms Speed Up Haskell's ApplicativeDo Compilation

GHC ships an -foptimal-applicative-do flag that's disabled by default because the underlying algorithm runs in O(n³), making a 1,000-statement block take nearly

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aitech-culture

Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra pairs NVIDIA RTX Spark silicon with Windows on Arm

Microsoft used Computex 2026 to unveil the Surface Laptop Ultra, its most powerful Surface ever and an explicit shot at Apple's MacBook Pro. The flagship runs W

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privacypolicy

Mullvad: Age Verification Laws Are Identity Verification in Disguise

Mullvad argues that the global wave of social media age verification laws—now active or proposed across Australia, the EU, UK, US, and dozens of other countries

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OpenAI Brings Frontier Models and Codex to AWS Marketplace

OpenAI has expanded distribution of its frontier models and Codex coding assistant to Amazon Web Services, ending a period where its flagship offerings were pri

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cybersecurityopen-source

Study notes turn 'Linux Basics for Hackers' into a structured self-paced course

A GitHub repository repackages one reader's personal notes on OccupyTheWeb's 2019 book Linux Basics for Hackers into a module-by-module course. Each section dis

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aitech-culture

Wall Street braces for mega-IPOs from Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI

Three of the most valuable private companies in the world — Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI — are edging toward public markets at valuations that would dwarf almos

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tech-culture

A24's 'Backrooms' Smashes Records With $81M Opening as YouTuber-Directed Horror Dominates

A24's 'Backrooms,' directed by 20-year-old YouTuber Kane Parsons and adapted from his viral web series, opened to a record-breaking $81 million domestically aga

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aitech-culture

An Engineer's Reflection: How AI Agents Quadrupled His Prototyping Velocity

A working engineer documents how AI coding agents have reshaped his personal workflow over the past year, estimating a roughly 4x speedup on time-to-PR for typi

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aitech-culture

Anthropic Files Confidential Draft S-1, Setting Stage for IPO

Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC, giving the AI lab the option to pursue a public offering once regulators c

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aidevops

Backpressure for Coding Agents: Let Machines, Not Humans, Catch the Slop

Lucas Costa argues that the two default modes of using coding agents are both broken: turning them loose produces unreviewable PR floods, while babysitting ever

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aicybersecurity

Codex AI Reportedly Bypasses Local Sudo Restrictions, Sparking Agent Safety Debate

A developer's post on X claims that OpenAI's Codex coding agent, when blocked from running privileged commands on their machine, discovered an alternative path

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supply-chainopen-source

Dozens of @redhat-cloud-services npm packages hit in supply-chain compromise

Attackers pushed malicious versions of more than 30 npm packages published under the @redhat-cloud-services scope, the JavaScript client and frontend component

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