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Word 1.1a Reborn: Original 1990 Source Ported to Native 64-bit Windows
A developer has taken the source code Microsoft released for Word for Windows 1.1a — the 1990 release once codenamed Opus — and gotten it building and running a
AI Firms Reportedly Buy Up All 2027 DRAM and HBM Capacity, Deepening RAM Crunch
A Digitimes report, surfaced by TweakTown, claims Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have collectively pre-sold their entire 2027 DRAM and HBM output to AI companies
AI scraper bots overwhelm Gentoo's Bugzilla, forcing it offline
Gentoo has taken its Bugzilla bug tracker offline after a flood of AI scraper traffic overwhelmed the service. The announcement, posted by a Gentoo developer, p
An Engineering Leader's 'Required Reading' List for Better Software
Carl Kolon, an engineering leader, has published the curated list of technical essays he sends his team as "required reading." The collection spans coding pract
Ancient Library puts 1,060 classical texts online with click-to-parse for every word
Ancient Library is a web-based reader for the classical canon that turns close reading of Greek and Latin into a point-and-click exercise. Clicking any word in
Apple's App Store Rejects Astronomy App as 'Astrology,' Then Invents a Tarot Feature
Developer Terry Godier submitted Dark Hours, a polished native iOS app built around his astronomy website for casual stargazers. Apple's App Review rejected it
Cyber Command Investigates Suicide Cluster Amid Surging Hacker Workloads
US Cyber Command is examining an abnormally high number of suicides among its personnel over a roughly month-long span this summer, according to government offi
Denmark Mandates Oral Defenses for Take-Home Assignments to Curb AI Cheating
Denmark's Ministry of Education has made oral defenses mandatory for all written assignments completed at home by upper-secondary students, a measure aimed squa
DOE's Genesis Initiative Opens a Shared Pipeline for Scientific AI Models
The Department of Energy has stood up the Genesis Open Models Initiative, a portal hosted by Argonne National Laboratory that solicits open contributions — data
Fastmail adds EU data region — but won't promise your data never leaves it
Fastmail now lets customers choose the European Union as the primary home for their email, storing the live copy on company-owned servers co-located in Amsterda
Google DeepMind open-sources WeatherNext, an AI that forecasts cyclones a day earlier
Google DeepMind and Google Research have published a Nature paper on WeatherNext, an AI model that predicts a tropical cyclone's track, intensity, and wind stru
How Databricks and Peers Keep AI Coding Bills From Outrunning the Gains
Agentic coding tools have measurably boosted developer velocity at Databricks, but like most large-scale adopters the company hit a wall: spend that grows expon