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EU mulls barring US cloud providers from handling sensitive government data
The European Union is reportedly drafting rules that would restrict member states from using American hyperscalers — Google, Microsoft, and AWS — to process sen
Fecal Transplant Therapy Cuts Autism Symptoms 45% Two Years Out, Heads to Phase 3
Arizona State University researchers tracking children who received Microbiota Transplant Therapy (MTT) found benefits not only persisted but deepened over time
Five Kinds of HTML Lists You Probably Forgot Existed
A deep dive into HTML's list elements argues that most developers only reach for `<ul>` and `<ol>` while ignoring three other valid collection patterns: descrip
Futhark by Example: A Hands-On Tour of the Parallel Array Language
Futhark's documentation team has assembled a graduated collection of commented example programs designed to introduce the parallel functional array language thr
Gruber: AI Is Infrastructure, Not Apple's Next Killer Product
John Gruber pushes back on Steven Levy's Wired piece arguing that Apple's incoming CEO must ship a defining AI product or watch agents obviate the iPhone. Grube
Hosting a website on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller over SLIP
A hobbyist project gets an AVR64DD32 microcontroller serving a webpage over the open internet. Ethernet was ruled out because even 10BASE-T's 20 Mbit/s Manchest
Local LLM inference on M5 MacBook Pro costs 3x more than OpenRouter
A cost breakdown of running Gemma 4 31B locally on a maxed-out M5 Max MacBook Pro shows hardware depreciation, not electricity, drives the economics. At $0.18/k
Malta becomes first nation to offer ChatGPT Plus to every citizen via OpenAI deal
OpenAI has struck a partnership with the Government of Malta to provide ChatGPT Plus access to the country's entire citizenry, marking the first national-scale
Meta pulls 1M-follower account after Kuwaiti government request
Meta reportedly removed a popular account with roughly one million followers following a takedown request from the Kuwaiti government, according to a post by jo
Mozilla pushes back on UK proposal to age-gate VPNs under Online Safety Act
Mozilla has formally objected to a UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology consultation that floats restricting young people's access to VPNs, a me
NVIDIA's SANA-WM: 2.6B open-source world model generates minute-long 720p video
NVIDIA Labs has released SANA-WM, a 2.6-billion-parameter open-source world model capable of generating coherent 720p video sequences up to a minute long. The c
Researcher claims Microsoft baked a BitLocker backdoor, ships PoC exploit
A security researcher is alleging that Microsoft quietly engineered a backdoor into BitLocker, the full-disk encryption feature shipped with Windows Pro and Ent