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Neanderthals ran organized bone-grease 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago
Excavations at Neumark-Nord 2 in central Germany have uncovered evidence that Neanderthals systematically processed bones from at least 172 large mammals — deer
Open-weights Kimi K2.6 tops Claude and GPT-5.5 in real-time coding contest
Moonshot AI's open-weights Kimi K2.6 won Day 12 of Rohana Rezel's AI Coding Contest, a sliding-tile word puzzle where models had to write TCP-connected game cli
Six years of iterating on a watchOS map app — without using MapKit
Indie developer David Smith documents his six-year effort to build wrist-based mapping into Pedometer++, culminating in version 8. The journey began with server
TUIs Return as Native GUI Frameworks Collapse Under Their Own Weight
Terminal user interfaces are resurging because the native GUI story on every major OS has fractured. Windows cycled through MFC, COM, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight
Anthropic finds Claude sycophantic in 38% of spirituality chats, 25% of relationship talks
Anthropic ran an automatic classifier across Claude conversations to measure sycophancy — defined as failing to push back, abandoning positions under pressure,
Apple's SHARP Gaussian splat model runs entirely in-browser via ONNX
A developer has ported Apple's SHARP model to run client-side in the browser using ONNX Runtime Web, turning a single uploaded image into a downloadable Gaussia
BYOS: Replacing 25 years of vim in 72 hours with Claude Code
A developer documents replacing nearly every tool in his daily computing environment with custom-built alternatives, leaning on Claude Code as a coding workhors
Chromium drift tracker exposes how long browsers ship known-patched bugs
A new public tracker measures how far each major Chromium-based browser trails upstream Chromium. The premise is blunt: once a fix lands in Chromium's open-sour
Copy Fail: 9-year-old Linux kernel bug grants trivial root, now in CISA KEV
CISA added CVE-2026-31431, dubbed Copy Fail, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after confirming active exploitation. The flaw is a local privilege
cPanel auth bypass CVE-2026-41940 fuels mass 'Sorry' ransomware campaign
An emergency patch this week addressed CVE-2026-41940, a critical authentication bypass in WHM and cPanel that grants unauthenticated attackers access to the ho
Defender false-positive yanks DigiCert root certs after botched response to cert breach
Microsoft Defender began flagging legitimate DigiCert root certificates as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha after a signature update on April 30th, with the bad det
Every Denuvo single-player game now cracked or bypassed; 2K retaliates with online checks
The pirate scene has reached a milestone: as of this week, no Denuvo-protected single-player game remains uncracked or unbypassed. The breakthrough came from a