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C&C Generals: Zero Hour gets a native Apple Silicon, iPhone, and iPad port
A developer has ported Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour to run natively on Apple Silicon Macs, iPhones, and iPads — no emulation involved. The 2003 engine
Codex telemetry shows GPT-5.5 reasoning tokens pinning to 516, 1034, 1552
A GitHub issue against OpenAI's Codex reports a statistical anomaly in reasoning-token telemetry: GPT-5.5 responses land on exactly 516 reasoning output tokens
Databricks' LTAP: Postgres and analytics on one copy of data, no CDC
Traditional databases keep their write-ahead log and data files on a single machine's disk, and Databricks argues that this monolithic design is the source of m
ESO warns 1.7M planned satellites would wreck ground-based astronomy
A new peer-reviewed European Southern Observatory study, authored by astronomer Olivier Hainaut, models what would happen if the 1.7 million satellites now prop
EU Council revives expired 'Chat Control' message scanning via pre-holiday fast-track
With mandatory scanning proposals ("Chat Control 2.0") stalled in the EU Parliament, the Council of Ministers has changed tactics to resurrect the voluntary ver
Inside Emacs: Why the 40-Year-Old Editor Still Can't Shed Its Single Thread
This Uppsala University bachelor's thesis by Erik J. Karlsson sets out to fill a real documentation gap: while Emacs Lisp is heavily documented, the internal C
Jellyfish close wounds in minutes — and their repair mechanics may map to human skin
Researchers led by Jocelyn Malamy at the University of Chicago and the Marine Biological Laboratory are studying Clytia hemisphaerica, a transparent hydrozoan j
JWST's Early Universe Breaks the Rules: Red Dots, Impossible Black Holes
Since the James Webb Space Telescope came online in 2022, it has surfaced a set of early-universe objects that don't fit established astrophysics, and researche
New Proof Ties Market Competition to P vs NP — and Warns AI May Kill It
A newly posted arXiv paper argues that competition in markets depends on a hard computational limit. The core claim: sustaining collusion requires firms to dete
Newer Claude models fumble tool schemas their predecessors handled cleanly
Armin Ronacher traced a two-day debugging rabbit hole to a counterintuitive finding: Anthropic's newest models are worse at conforming to non-standard tool sche
Notre Dame's Free Compiler Textbook Walks You from C-Like Syntax to X86 Assembly
Douglas Thain, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, offers his compiler-construction textbook as a free set of chapter PDFs, with optional hardcover and
Odin's Wikipedia Deletion and the Engagement Economy of Performative Disinterest
Wikipedia editors recently deleted the article on Odin, a well-known systems programming language positioned as a C alternative, through the standard Articles f