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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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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