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Atavist longread on McCann cocaine fugitives blocked by cookie wall
The submitted URL points to an Atavist Magazine feature about fugitives tied to a cocaine case, but the fetched payload contains only the site's cookie consent
Devs press Anthropic for an official Claude Desktop Linux build
A detailed GitHub feature request argues Anthropic should ship a first-party Claude Desktop for Linux, targeting Ubuntu LTS and Debian via a signed apt reposito
Google to Rent 110K Nvidia GPUs from SpaceX in $920M/Month xAI Compute Deal
Google has agreed to pay SpaceX roughly $920 million per month for access to about 110,000 Nvidia GPUs housed in data centers SpaceX inherited through its Febru
Harness engineering: designing the scaffolding that makes coding agents reliable
OpenAI argues that as coding agents like Codex take on longer, more autonomous tasks, the bottleneck shifts from raw model capability to the harness around it —
How Bright Data Turns Smart TVs Into Proxy Nodes for AI Scrapers
Include Security's reverse engineering of Bright Data's iOS SDK reveals how the company builds its 400M-IP residential proxy network by embedding code in consum
How Windows 3.x Faked Protected-Mode Memory on the 8086
Before Windows 3.0, Microsoft had to make a multitasking GUI run on 8086 and 80286 chips that lacked paging, so Windows essentially acted as a sophisticated ove
IOCCC 2025: 29th Obfuscated C Contest Crowns Winners, Triple Hat-Tricks
The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest has announced its 2025 winners, marking the second consecutive year the competition has run after a four-year h
Lathe: A CLI that turns LLMs into hands-on tutorial generators instead of code-writers
Lathe is a Go-based CLI and skill bundle that flips the usual LLM workflow on its head: instead of having Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex write code for you, it p
Meta confirms 20,000+ Instagram accounts hijacked via AI chatbot password-reset flaw
Meta has disclosed in a Maine attorney general filing that at least 20,225 Instagram users had their accounts taken over after attackers exploited the platform'
New grads now face higher unemployment than the average worker — and it started in 2019
For decades, a fresh U.S. college degree was a buffer against joblessness, with new grads consistently posting lower unemployment than the workforce overall. Th
ntsc-rs: Rust-based open-source emulator for authentic NTSC and VHS artifacts
ntsc-rs is an open-source video effect that recreates the look of analog TV broadcasts and VHS tapes by modeling the underlying signal processing, rather than f
Poincake: An Infinite Notes Canvas Built on the Poincaré Disk
A developer has released Poincake, a browser-based note-taking tool that abandons the standard flat plane in favor of the Poincaré disk model of hyperbolic geom