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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

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vulnerabilityopen-source

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

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aiopen-source

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

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tech-cultureopen-source

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

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aipolicy

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

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privacypolicy

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

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cybersecuritymalware

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

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open-sourceai

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

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open-sourcetech-culture

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

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aiopen-source

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

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tech-culturedevops

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

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aitech-culture

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

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