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Zig overhauls @bitCast semantics, rethinks integer lowering for LLVM, advances SPIR-V
Zig's latest devlog covers two substantial compiler efforts. The first is a long-planned fix to how the LLVM backend lowers arbitrary-width integers (u4, i13, u
Age verification is mass surveillance dressed up as child protection
Cory Doctorow argues that there is no technical way to verify a user's age online without tracking everyone's activity in fine-grained detail. So-called age ver
AI-Generated PR Spam Is Open Source's New Email Problem
When OpenClaw became GitHub's fastest-growing repo, its pull request volume exploded from two a week to 3,400, and its merge rate collapsed from 48% to under 10
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of mass 'distillation' attack to copy Claude
Anthropic has accused Alibaba of running what it calls the largest known attempt to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities, telling U.S. lawmakers that the Chi
Cloudflare opens self-managed OAuth to all devs, surviving a live Hydra upgrade
Cloudflare has made self-managed OAuth available to every developer on its platform, letting them register and run their own OAuth clients for scoped, delegated
F3: A Wasm-Powered Columnar File Format Built to Outlast Parquet
F3 (Future-proof File Format) is a research prototype columnar storage format from a team spanning Carnegie Mellon, the University of Wisconsin, and Wes McKinne
Five months and €9,600 to start a German company — and still no invoice sent
A founder chronicles the cost of incorporating his second German business: roughly €7,600 in fees plus €2,000 in share capital locked in an untouchable account,
GLM-5.2 becomes the first open-weight model that holds up as a coding agent
Z.ai's GLM-5.2, released mid-June 2026 under an MIT license, is being framed as the open-weight ecosystem's most significant moment since DeepSeek R1. On paper
Google bakes computer-use agents into Gemini 3.5 Flash, adds prompt-injection guards
Google has folded its computer-use capability directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, moving it out of the standalone Gemini 2.5 model and into the mainline Flash relea
Half-Life 2 Now Runs Inside a Web Browser
A developer has published a browser-playable build of Half-Life 2, Valve's landmark 2004 first-person shooter, hosted at hl2.slqnt.dev and surfaced on Hacker Ne
Intercept: a $500M philanthropic bet to make colds and flu history
Intercept is a new $500 million philanthropic initiative aiming to drastically cut—and eventually eliminate—common respiratory infections like colds and influen
LuaJIT 3.0 opens the floor on syntax extensions — with guardrails
LuaJIT's maintainer has opened an umbrella GitHub issue to coordinate the syntax extensions planned for the 3.0 release, inviting structured discussion on their