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Switzerland pilots open-source swap for Microsoft 365 on 3,000 workstations
Switzerland's Federal Chancellery is spending CHF 9 million to move 3,000 federal employees — roughly 7% of the workforce — off Microsoft 365 and onto openDesk,
The New Dark Ages: How Screens Broke Our Reading Brains
A review of James Marriott's new book The New Dark Ages, framed by a parent's mounting dread over children who no longer read—teenage boys in particular, whose
TiVo to paywall one-button ad-skipping on DVRs starting November 2026
TiVo is turning its most distinctive DVR feature into a paid upgrade. As of November 2, 2026, the version of SkipMode that jumps past commercial breaks with a s
vLLM Tests Speculative Decoding on AMD MI300X/MI355X GPUs
vLLM has benchmarked speculative decoding across AMD Instinct MI300X and MI355X GPUs running the ROCm software stack. The technique attacks a core bottleneck in
Why LLM assistants still can't debug robots by sight
A robotics developer recounts trying to offload one of the field's most tedious tasks—visual debugging—to an LLM coding assistant. Robot code is validated by wa
Yale Publishes Cookable Babylonian Recipes Decoded from 3,700-Year-Old Tablets
Yale's Babylonian Collection has turned cuneiform tablets from roughly 1750–1730 BCE into recipes anyone can cook today. The centerpiece is a lamb-and-beet stew
A Map That Keeps Only the Borders: One Reddit User's Topological World
In 2020, a Reddit user (xilefakamot) built a "topologist's map of the world" that throws away every geographic property cartographers usually preserve — country
Autistici/Inventati shuts down after 25 years, citing 'terrorist' designation
Autistici/Inventati (A/I), an Italian collective that spent 25 years running non-commercial email, blog, and website hosting built around privacy and political
Cantrill: LLM-Written Posts Are Obvious, and They're Killing Your Credibility
Bryan Cantrill argues that the flood of AI-generated posts on LinkedIn is easy to spot and actively counterproductive. The stylistic fingerprints of LLM prose —
Chrome keeps Google's cookies alive despite 'delete on close' setting
Researcher Jeff Johnson (Lapcat Software) reports that Chrome 152.0.7977.83 preserves site data for www.google.com even when the browser is configured to wipe a
Cloud in a Bottle pitches a 'personal cloud' to make self-hosting mainstream
Imbue has launched Cloud in a Bottle, an open-source platform that tries to make self-hosting feel like using a smartphone rather than moonlighting as a sysadmi
Cracking Open Rust's dyn Trait: A Hands-On Tour of Vtables and Wide Pointers
A developer coming to Rust from C++ dissects how the language implements polymorphism, contrasting static dispatch (generics/monomorphization) with dynamic disp