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DeepSeek Reasonix: Native coding agent built around aggressive caching
Reasonix is a coding agent built specifically for DeepSeek models, pitching itself on cost efficiency through heavy use of prompt caching. Unlike general-purpos
Didgeridoo Practice Cuts Sleep Apnoea Severity in Randomised Trial
A 2006 randomised controlled trial out of Switzerland tested whether learning to play the didgeridoo could treat moderate obstructive sleep apnoea. Twenty-five
Dutch Police Seize 800 Servers, Arrest Two Tied to Russian Cyberattack Infrastructure
Dutch financial crime investigators arrested Andrey Nesterenko, the Russian-born founder of MIRhosting, and 57-year-old Youssef Zinad of Amsterdam on May 18, ch
Firefox patches zlib-rs to dodge Raptor Lake CPU crash
Mozilla developer Mike Hommey landed a workaround in Firefox's vendored zlib-rs deflate code to stop crashes seen on Intel Raptor Lake processors. The fix sits
Four Years at AWS: An Open Source Advocate on Burnout, Layoffs, and the GenAI Pivot
A departing AWS open source strategist reflects on why being fired feels like a relief after four years at the company. Two forces drove his disillusionment: th
Geohot: AI Coding Agents Are a Slop Machine That Will Hurt Big Orgs Most
George Hotz argues that the rush to adopt AI agents for software development is shaping up to be one of the costliest blunders in the field's history. After six
Go to Rust: When the Migration Is Actually Worth the Cost
A Rust consultant lays out an honest framework for Go teams considering Rust, focused squarely on backend services where Go is strongest. The core argument: thi
HBM Now 63% of AI Chip Component Costs as Memory Spend Doubles
Epoch AI's component-level breakdown of AI accelerators from Nvidia, AMD, Google, and Amazon shows high-bandwidth memory eating an ever-larger share of the bill
IBM Spins Out Anderon as First Pure-Play 300mm Quantum Foundry, Anchors $2B CHIPS Bet
IBM and the U.S. Commerce Department announced a Letter of Intent to create Anderon, a standalone 300mm quantum wafer fabrication facility in Albany, NY, funded
Jira Automation Is Turing-Complete: A Minsky Machine Built from Epics and Bugs
A researcher delivers what previous folklore only gestured at: a formal proof that Jira's automation engine is Turing-complete, complete with a working reductio
Leave Me Behind: An Android Dev's Case Against AI-Assisted Coding
A veteran Android developer pushes back on the ultimatum that engineers must adopt LLM-based coding tools or be rendered obsolete. Tracing a decade-long career
LLM Coding Agents Buckle Under Structural Constraints in Backend Tasks
A new arXiv study introduces "constraint decay" to describe how LLM coding agents lose accuracy as structural requirements pile up. Across 100 backend generatio