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Dutch government blocks US firm Kyndryl from acquiring DigiD supplier Solvinity
The Netherlands has halted a planned acquisition of Solvinity, the Dutch company that operates the platform behind DigiD, the national digital identity app used
DynIP: Sub-Minute Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, and DNSSEC Built In
DynIP is a dynamic DNS service pitched at homelabbers and network operators who find typical DDNS offerings too slow and too limited. It claims end-to-end propa
Frontier LLM price hikes make offshore engineers plus open models the cheaper bet
Inference costs at the major US labs are climbing, not falling. GPT-5.5 tripled its API pricing versus GPT-5 from eight months earlier, Gemini 3.5 Flash tripled
GitHub Actions Hit by Auth Failures in Latest String of CI Outages
GitHub Actions suffered a multi-hour disruption on May 26, 2026, with authentication issues preventing the majority of workflow runs from starting and breaking
Massachusetts Uber and Lyft drivers form first US ride-share union
Drivers for Uber and Lyft in Massachusetts have organized the first ride-share union in the United States, a milestone in the long-running fight over how gig wo
Phantasy Star IV Devs on Closing the Saga and Fixing PSII's Flaws (1993)
A compiled 1993 interview with the Phantasy Star IV team — director Rieko Kodama, Toru Yoshida, Kazuyoshi Tsugawa, and Akinori Nishiyama — captures the exhauste
Researchers Propose 'Sleep' Cycles to Fix Transformer Long-Context Limits
A new arXiv paper tackles the well-known scaling problem of transformer attention over long contexts by borrowing a page from biology. The authors propose a con
Shamir's Secret Sharing: The Math Behind 'Any Two, Never One'
Shamir's Secret Sharing, published by RSA co-inventor Adi Shamir in 1979, splits a secret into shares such that a threshold number can reconstruct it while any
Spain Blocks Polymarket and Kalshi, Classifies Prediction Markets as Gambling
Spanish regulators have moved to block access to Polymarket and Kalshi, ruling that the prediction market platforms operate as unlicensed gambling services with
The case for using AI to write better code, slower
Nolan Lawson pushes back on the dominant narrative that AI coding agents exist to churn out low-quality PRs at maximum speed. He argues LLMs are equally suited
Why Coding Agents Feel Infuriating: The Conversational UX Trap
The author argues that coding agents like Claude Code provoke disproportionate frustration because their conversational interface mimics a human collaborator wi
Why Go and other 'boring' languages produce better LLM-generated code
Jacob of Sancho Studio argues that LLM coding agents perform best on languages and ecosystems with low variance in their training corpus. Fragmented stacks like