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Squatting on the internet's infrastructure TLD via reverse-DNS loopholes
The .arpa top-level domain is reserved for critical internet infrastructure and closed to public registration, but a chain of loosely-verified free services let
"Unusual Suspects" — no article to summarize (neal.fun interactive toy, not news)
No summarizable article was supplied. The source URL (neal.fun/unusual-suspects) points to an interactive browser experience from Neal Agarwal's site, not a wri
Virginia Mom Convicted for Letting Her 5-Year-Old Walk Half a Mile Alone
Karyann Parkinson, a Williamsburg mother of five and a William & Mary law student, was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after she let her
Zed bets AI agents finally make Ted Nelson's Xanadu vision buildable
Zed argues that Project Xanadu — Ted Nelson's 1960s hypertext dream of a system that references instead of copies, versions instead of overwrites, and never for
A Cracked Oil Pipe Nearly Downed an A380: Inside Qantas Flight 32
On 4 November 2010, Qantas Flight 32 — an Airbus A380 carrying 440 passengers and 29 crew — suffered an uncontained failure of its No. 2 Rolls-Royce Trent 900 e
A Web Toy Draws One Random Life From the 100 Billion Humans Who Ever Lived
Any Human Ever is an interactive site built on a simple premise: more than 100 billion people have ever been born, so it invites you to pick exactly one at rand
AI agent swarms rebuild SF's Union Square as a browser-native Three.js world
PhiloLabs has released fable51-worlds, an open-source project that reconstructs real-world places as explorable 3D scenes running entirely in the browser. Rathe
Antigravity's TOS lets Google ban your entire account for third-party use
Google's Antigravity carries terms of service stating that if Google suspects the tool is being used in ways it deems unauthorized third-party usage — for examp
Audacity 4.0 Rebuilds Its UI on Qt With a Clip-Centric Editing Model
The long-running open-source audio editor ships its biggest overhaul in years, moving the entire interface to the Qt framework with native high-DPI rendering, d
Bridson's One-Page Algorithm for Poisson Disk Sampling, Made Faster
Poisson disk sampling solves a recurring problem in computer graphics and simulation: scattering points randomly while guaranteeing a minimum distance between a
Cerebras Publishes Model Compression Policy: Unpruned Weights, Storage-Only Quantization
Cerebras has documented how it handles model compression across its public inference endpoints, and the short version is a pitch for transparency. Every model o
Cloudflare prototype compresses cache with Zstandard, reclaiming petabytes
Facing steep RAM and disk price hikes, Cloudflare built a prototype called Cache Transcoding that compresses eligible assets with Zstandard (zstd) as they enter