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Danish Pension Fund Drops SpaceX Over Governance and Valuation Concerns
AkademikerPension, a Danish pension fund, has divested from SpaceX, pointing to weak corporate governance and an inflated private valuation as the core reasons.
EY Canada cybersecurity report riddled with AI-hallucinated citations and fake stats
A 44-page Ernst & Young Canada report on loyalty system fraud, Points of Attack, is laced with fabricated citations, contradictory statistics, and AI-generated
Framework 12 struggles to compete with cheaper, faster MacBook Neo
Jeff Geerling benchmarked Framework's new 12-inch convertible against Apple's $499 MacBook Neo and found the comparison brutal. The Framework 12 starts at $749
Frontend's Lost Decade Is Repeating Itself in the Age of Agentic AI
Mauro Bieg argues that the disruption AI is bringing to programming mirrors what JavaScript frameworks did to frontend work over the past decade: a textbook cas
Gruber Coins 'Dickover' for Modal Popups That Hijack Your Screen
John Gruber proposes a new term for the modal panels, popovers, and full-screen curtains that ambush users with cookie prompts, newsletter signups, app install
How Comanche's 1992 Voxel Space Engine Rendered Terrain Without a GPU
A walkthrough reconstructs the rendering trick behind NovaLogic's 1992 helicopter game Comanche, whose textured, shaded terrain looked years ahead of polygon-ba
Hy3's Suspicious Rise Atop OpenRouter Rankings Defies Quality and Pricing Logic
A little-known Tencent model called Hy3 preview has quietly climbed to the top of OpenRouter's usage rankings, outpacing Claude by more than 50% in token volume
Liquid AI ships LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an edge MoE built for on-device agents
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a mixture-of-experts model with 8B total and 1B active parameters aimed at running agentic workloads locally on laptops and ph
Naphtha Shortage Ripples Through Japan's Supply Chain, From Chips to Syringes
A naphtha shortage triggered by the Iran war is rippling across Japanese manufacturing, hitting industries far removed from petrochemicals. Calbee has shifted 1
OpenBSD's openrsync merges into base, ships ISC-licensed rsync alternative
OpenBSD has merged openrsync into its base system, providing an ISC-licensed reimplementation of rsync that speaks protocol 27 and interoperates with mainline r
OpenRouter Lands $113M Series B as Multi-Model AI Routing Goes Mainstream
OpenRouter has closed a $113M Series B led by Alphabet's CapitalG, with strategic checks from NVIDIA, ServiceNow, MongoDB, Snowflake, and Databricks venture arm
Pandoc Templates: A Curated Directory for Markdown-to-Anything Publishing
Pandoc-templates.org catalogs community-built templates that turn plain Markdown into polished output across dozens of document types. The collection spans acad