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Europe's central banks pull gold from North America, citing geopolitical risk
The Dutch central bank has relocated 86 of the roughly 313 tonnes of gold it held in the US and Canada to London, framing the move as resilience-building for a
Flip Your .gitignore: Block Everything, Then Whitelist What Belongs
The conventional .gitignore is a blocklist — commit everything by default, then scramble to exclude junk like .DS_Store, node_modules, IDE configs, or worse, le
How 3M Buried the Truth About PFAS in Human Blood for Decades
PFAS — the so-called 'forever chemicals' now detectable in the blood of nearly every person and animal on Earth — were pioneered by 3M, which used them in produ
IBM's 'Bob' Enters the Agentic Coding Race, Betting on Legacy Modernization
IBM is pitching Bob as an agentic development assistant that goes beyond autocomplete, positioning it against tools like Copilot and Cursor. Its headline featur
Mullvad Kills Its Public Encrypted DNS, Redirects Funding to Quad9
Mullvad is retiring the public DNS-over-HTTPS servers it has run since 2022, arguing it makes little sense to duplicate work that the Quad9 Foundation already d
Nitter Rebounds: More Live Instances Now Than Before the Takedowns
Nitter, the privacy-focused alternative front-end for Twitter/X, has quietly recovered from the wave of shutdowns that gutted its public instance network. A com
Open-Source eInk Bike Computer Trades Sensors for Sunlight-Readable Simplicity
A new open-source cycling computer, OpenTrailPaper, pairs a 4.7-inch e-paper display with a single board carrying GPS, capacitive touch, a front light, USB-C, a
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hits OpenRouter at $10/$50 per million tokens
OpenAI's new flagship model, GPT-6 Astra, went live on OpenRouter shortly after its September 4, 2026 release. OpenAI positions it for heavy end-to-end work—adv
Pushin pitches EU-only Git hosting: no CLOUD Act, no AI training on your code
Pushin (pushin.eu) is a Git hosting service that keeps all repositories inside the EU and pitches itself explicitly against US-based rivals like GitHub. Its cor
Reverse-Engineering a Jane Street ASIC, One Rabbit Hole at a Time
Jane Street's reverse-engineering puzzle hands you a GDS file describing a custom chip and asks you to figure out what it does—with a warmup round that includes
Rust React Compiler Lands Natively in Vite, Cutting Compile Time ~17×
The oxc team shipped official Rust-based React Compiler support on August 4, 2026, and it's now wired into Vite directly rather than routed through Babel. The d
Salvaged PS5 Silicon Turns AMD's BC-250 Mining Board Into a Cheap Gaming PC
The AMD BC-250 is a single-board machine built from PlayStation 5 APUs that failed console binning, then repurposed onto crypto-mining boards — ASRock originall