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Ford rehires veteran engineers after AI fails to fix quality woes
Ford spent three years and billions of dollars chasing persistent quality defects, and its fix turned out to be people rather than software. The automaker broug
IBM claims first sub-1nm chip, packing 100B transistors with 3D 'nanostack'
IBM has announced what it calls the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, built around a new transistor architecture at the 0.7nm (7 angstrom) node. Th
Inkeep ships OpenKnowledge, a GPL'd local-first wiki built around AI agents
Inkeep has released OpenKnowledge, an open-source markdown editor and personal wiki pitched as an AI-first answer to Obsidian and Notion. The core idea is a loc
Inside 'Bank Python': the secret in-house Python forks running investment banks
At many of the largest investment banks, Python doesn't look like the Python everyone else uses. Cal Paterson describes a class of internal systems he calls 'Ba
LastPass hit again — third-party vendor breach exposes customer contact data
LastPass is notifying customers that their personal information was exposed through a breach at Klue, a market-research vendor whose platform integrates with th
Libre Barcode: Open-Source Fonts That Turn Text into Scannable Barcodes
The Libre Barcode Project distributes free fonts that render text strings as scannable barcodes, with variants that optionally print human-readable text beneath
Mullvad: States Race to Out-Surveil Each Other, and the NSA Still Leads
VPN provider Mullvad argues that democratic and authoritarian governments alike are locked in a competition over who can conduct the most sweeping mass surveill
Om Malik reported dead — source page carries only the announcement
The page at om.co consists of a single-line announcement that Om Malik has died, with the URL slug "1966–2026" indicating his birth and death years. The supplie
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol — gated to ~20 partners at the US government's request
OpenAI is opening a limited preview of its GPT-5.6 family: Sol, the new flagship; Terra, a mid-tier model for everyday work; and Luna, a cheaper, faster option.
OS9Map brings live OpenStreetMap browsing to Mac OS 9 PowerPC machines
Developer yllan has shipped OS9Map, a native mapping client that lets vintage Apple hardware running Mac OS 9 pull live data from OpenStreetMap. The app handles
Oxide's interactive 3D explorer walks you through its cloud computer rack
Oxide Computer has published a browser-based 3D guided tour of its rack-scale 'cloud computer,' the company's integrated alternative to buying servers piecemeal
Papermark accuses YC founder of stealing its licensed code, not 'vibe coding' it
Marc Froehlich, founder of the open-source document-sharing platform Papermark, publicly accused a builder named Nico of passing off Papermark's code as his own