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A Software Engineer's Case Against Winning Arguments

A software engineer reflects on abandoning his long habit of arguing for technical correctness in code reviews, design meetings, and online threads. His core re

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Anthropic's @claudeai Account Announces "Fable 5 Is Back"

A post from Anthropic's official @claudeai account on X states simply that "Fable 5 is Back." Fable 5 is one of Anthropic's current-generation Claude models (mo

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Box2D creator ships Box3D, an open-source 3D physics engine

Erin Catto, the author of the widely used Box2D physics library, has released Box3D, a 3D physics engine now available on GitHub. It began as a fork of Dirk Gre

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Cloudflare will let sites charge AI agents per request via x402 micropayments

Cloudflare is building a Monetization Gateway that lets its customers put a price on any resource behind its edge — web pages, APIs, datasets, or MCP tool calls

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F-Droid Frames Google's Mandatory Android Developer Verification as 'Malware'

F-Droid, the open-source Android app repository, has published a polemic recasting Google's upcoming Android Developer Verification (ADV) program as malware. Th

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Frog-gut bacterium wipes out tumors in mice — but it's one preclinical study

A peer-reviewed paper in Gut Microbes reports that Ewingella americana, a naturally occurring bacterium isolated from amphibian and reptile gut microbiomes, eli

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GitHub Copilot adds Kimi K2.7 Code, its first open-weight model option

GitHub Copilot now offers Kimi K2.7 Code, marking the first time an open-weight model has appeared as a selectable choice in Copilot's model picker. GitHub host

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Google open-sources its Zero-Knowledge Proof libraries for private age checks

Google has released its Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptographic libraries under an open-source license, publishing the code as 'longfellow-zk' on GitHub. The m

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How an Internal Combustion Engine Works, Built Up From First Principles

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive explainer reconstructs the internal combustion engine from scratch, starting with the simplest way to produce rotational moti

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IPFS Cuts Content Publishing From 20 Seconds to Under 1 With Optimistic Provide

IPFS has long suffered from slow content publishing on its Amino DHT, where announcing a new piece of content to the network could take dozens of seconds and oc

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Lancet Review of Billions of Doses Finds mRNA Vaccines Safe and Effective

A University of British Columbia–led review published in The Lancet pulls together lab research, clinical trials, and real-world data from billions of administe

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Linux 6.9 silently broke LUKS suspend's in-memory key wiping

The whole point of cryptsetup's luksSuspend is to flush a LUKS volume and scrub its master key out of kernel RAM while the machine is locked or asleep — the def

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