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Booting Linux on the Atari Jaguar, a 68000 console with no MMU

A developer has coaxed a modern Linux kernel into booting on the Atari Jaguar, the commercially doomed 1993 console built around Motorola's 68000 CPU. The port

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open-sourcedevops

Clojure 1.13 alpha adds checked destructuring keys that fail fast on missing values

Clojure 1.13.0-alpha1 introduces checked variants of the map destructuring directives — `:keys!`, `:syms!`, and `:strs!` — that throw an exception when a requir

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clouddevops

Cloudflare's Workers Cache puts a tiered cache in front of every Worker

Cloudflare has launched Workers Cache, which places a tiered, network-wide cache in front of a Worker and is turned on with a single Wrangler config line. Cachi

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open-sourceprivacy

CoMaps: A Privacy-First Offline Maps App Forked from Organic Maps

CoMaps is a free, open-source navigation app built for offline use, letting hikers, cyclists, and drivers search waypoints and plan routes using only GPS—no mob

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policytech-culture

EU battery law forces Nintendo hardware redesign, ends original Switch sales in 2027

To comply with EU battery regulations taking effect in mid-February 2027, Nintendo will begin rolling out revised versions of selected products in Europe with u

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privacypolicy

EU Parliament Revives Chat Control 1.0 Through Procedural Trick Before Recess

The European Parliament narrowly cleared the path to reinstate the so-called "Chat Control" transitional regulation, voting 331 to 304 (with eleven abstentions)

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aiopen-source

GLM 5.2 signals the inference-margin squeeze coming for frontier AI labs

The author argues that the market misread the DeepSeek scare: training a model is a large one-time fixed cost, but inference carries real per-token marginal cos

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open-sourcedevops

Kani: Formal verification for Rust reaches production CI and the standard library

Rust's ownership model eliminates memory errors in safe code, but it says nothing about the correctness of unsafe blocks, whether functions actually behave as i

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aidevops

Kapa cuts RAG context 68% with a cheap LLM pruner, keeping 96% recall

Kapa, which builds AI assistants over large product knowledge bases, inserted a third stage into its RAG pipeline to attack a specific cost problem: the generat

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aiopen-source

OfficeCLI gives AI agents a dependency-free way to edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

OfficeCLI is an open-source, single-binary command-line tool that lets AI agents create, read, and edit Microsoft Office documents without a local Office instal

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open-sourcedevops

pon: A Rust-based Python 3.14 compiler that skips the interpreter entirely

pon is a native compiler and runtime for Python 3.14 written in Rust, built on the premise that Python doesn't need an interpreter or bytecode at all. Source is

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aiopen-source

reMarkable tablet becomes Tom Riddle's diary: write in ink, an LLM writes back

A developer has built Riddle, an open-source hack that turns a reMarkable Paper Pro e-ink tablet into the enchanted diary from Harry Potter. You handwrite on th

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