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Qualcomm to bring official Linux support to Snapdragon X2 PC chips
Qualcomm is extending official Linux support to its second-generation Snapdragon X2 Series, the Arm-based processors that power Windows-on-Arm PCs. The move, ti
Radicle Discloses Two Critical Flaws: Its P2P Protocol Has No Encryption or Real Auth
Radicle, a Git-based peer-to-peer code collaboration stack, has disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in the network protocol its nodes use to sync — and every
The economics of LLM inference are collapsing — and local frontier AI is coming
The cost of running machine-learning inference is dropping by orders of magnitude per year, and the author argues this trend has enough independent tailwinds be
The scroll bar's best shortcuts arrived just as Win32 scroll bars died out
Windows scroll bars stayed minimal for their first two decades: line-scrolling arrows, page-scrolling gutters, and a draggable thumb. Windows 7 finally expanded
Trump DOJ Frames AI Data-Center Critics as Foreign Agents Despite No Evidence
The Trump administration has begun treating public opposition to AI and data centers as a foreign-influence operation rather than genuine domestic sentiment. A
UK Encryption Order Splits iCloud Users Into Two Security Tiers
A quiet consequence of the UK's push against Apple is that two people with identical iPhones now get different protection. Anyone who enabled Advanced Data Prot
VSCode's Remote SSH Agent Behaves an Awful Lot Like a RAT
Fly.io wanted to plug into VSCode's remote-editing-over-SSH flow, largely because so many developers—and the LLM-powered VSCode forks now common in agentic codi
Whiteboard: an open-source VS Code fork built for reviewing AI-written code
Whiteboard, a YC W26 project, is an MIT-licensed desktop app that turns a fork of Code OSS into a shared canvas where developers and coding agents design and re
Z80 REPL: A Browser-Based Playground for Retro Assembly Tinkering
The linked page is not an article but an interactive tool: a Read-Eval-Print Loop for Z80 assembly that runs entirely in the browser. Published in 2018 by abaga
AI's Buzzy 'Jev' Is Just 25 Lines Reading Logits From a Local LLM
A tongue-in-cheek post from the team behind NobodyWho deflates the hype around 'Jev,' a supposedly revolutionary LLM paradigm, by reimplementing it in 25 lines
AMD Ryzen's 50% Speedup in Two Years Came From Wider Cores, Not Faster Clocks
Daniel Lemire pushes back on the common claim that CPU progress has stalled, using AMD's 3D V-Cache Ryzen line as a counterexample. Comparing Geekbench 6 scores
Anthropic's Claude autonomously flags a new CRISPR-like enzyme system in bacteriophages
Anthropic has stood up a life-sciences research group and a wet lab in the Bay Area, and its first notable result is a genomics find made largely by AI. Given o