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Microsoft scraps 244-acre Caledonia data center after resident revolt
Microsoft has abandoned plans for a 244-acre data center in the Village of Caledonia, Wisconsin, after sustained opposition from residents. More than 2,000 peop
Mullvad rolls out exit-IP mitigations across its VPN fleet
Mullvad is deploying a fleet-wide mitigation aimed at the exit IPs of its VPN servers, the addresses that public services see when traffic leaves the tunnel. Th
Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Frames AI as Moral Test for Human Dignity
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas extends Catholic social doctrine into the AI era, treating digitalization, artificial intelligence, and robotics a
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical calls to 'disarm AI' from Big Tech control
Pope Leo XIV used his inaugural encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas,' to frame artificial intelligence as a fourth industrial revolution that risks concentrating p
Ronacher: AI-generated bug reports are poisoning open source issue trackers
Armin Ronacher reflects on dogfooding Pi — Earendil's coding agent — to build Pi itself, and finds that the issue tracker has become the weakest link. Because i
Six Google Search Alternatives as AI Overviews Take Over
Google used its I/O 2026 keynote to announce the largest overhaul of Search in 25 years, pushing users toward a conversational, AI-driven experience. Every resu
Sorting Messy Commits Into Clean History with Jujutsu
A developer outlines a workflow in Jujutsu (jj) for producing reviewable, well-scoped commits without enforcing discipline throughout feature development. Rathe
The bytecode VMs hiding inside SQLite, eBPF, GDB, and even WinRAR
Bytecode interpreters aren't just for languages like Python and JavaScript — they show up in surprising corners of the software stack. SQLite compiles SQL to by
The Messy Reality of Writing a C Compiler That Isn't GCC or Clang
A developer building an independent C compiler documents the practical obstacles to interoperating with system headers that nominally support multiple compilers
Tohoku team shows micro-rough surfaces cut aerodynamic drag by 43.6%
An 80-year-old assumption in aeronautics — that smoother is always better for reducing drag — has been overturned by researchers at Tohoku University's Institut
White Rabbit: CERN's Open-Hardware Protocol for Sub-Nanosecond Network Sync
White Rabbit is an open hardware, firmware, and software project originating at CERN that extends Ethernet to deliver sub-nanosecond synchronization accuracy an
Why Gnutella Quietly Outlived the File-Sharing Era That Birthed It
Gnutella, the decentralized peer-to-peer protocol best known as the engine behind LimeWire and BearShare, leaked out of AOL as a canceled internal demo and prov