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Cisco to Cut Under 4,000 Jobs While Pivoting Investment Toward AI Infrastructure
Cisco announced a Q4 workforce reduction affecting fewer than 4,000 employees, less than 5 percent of its global headcount, with notifications beginning May 14.
Claude Design users lose project access after canceling, but export tool recovers data
A Hacker News poster reports losing access to their Claude Design projects after canceling a Claude Code Max subscription to try Codex, breaking an expectation
Dutch suicide hotline 113 leaked visitor metadata to Google and Microsoft
Stichting 113, the Netherlands' suicide prevention foundation, was caught piping sensitive visitor telemetry to Google and Microsoft without consent, according
Emacsification: When AI Agents Make All Software Personal
The author, frustrated by the lack of a decent macOS Markdown viewer, used Claude to generate a custom SwiftUI app (MDV) in roughly 30 minutes of interactive wo
Fired twin contractors allegedly wiped 96 federal databases on their way out
Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, 34-year-old brothers with prior federal convictions for wire fraud, are accused of destroying 96 databases belonging to a Washington,
How Google Built a Unified Cloud IDE After a Decade of Editor Fragmentation
For most of its history, Google left IDE choice to individual engineers, with leaders like Jeff Dean arguing that mandating a common editor would only breed res
How to claim a free *.city.state.us locality domain in 2025
Locality domains—US-geographic names like frederick.seattle.wa.us that have existed since 1992—remain available to register for free, but the process is manual
Kempelen's Impossible Board: A Century-Old Chess Puzzle Resurfaces
A hobbyist has built an interactive web version of a chess problem attributed to Wolfgang von Kempelen, the 18th-century inventor better known for the Mechanica
Lifespan Heritability Hits 50% Only After Redefining What Heritability Means
A recent Science paper claims human lifespan is roughly 50% heritable, far above the 23-35% figure that traditional twin studies produce. The dynomight author a
Linux Kernel Absorbs Windows Sync Primitives to Speed Up Proton Gaming
Linux gaming hit a milestone in March 2026, crossing 5% of Steam's user base, driven by Windows 10's end of support and the Steam Deck's quiet conversion of mil
MacBook Neo Teardown: A18 Pro Hits M3 Speeds, Then Throttles 87% Under Load
Apple's $599 MacBook Neo, launched March 2026, swaps the M-series for the iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip on TSMC N3E. Cold Geekbench 6 runs landed at 3,569 single
Meta AI account on Threads can't be blocked, sparking user backlash
Meta is testing a tagable Meta AI account on Threads in Argentina, Malaysia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, mirroring how X users summon xAI's Grok for an