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StemDeck: A Free, Local, Open-Source Alternative to Cloud AI Stem Splitters
StemDeck is an open-source desktop app that breaks a song into as many as six isolated tracks—vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, and everything else—entirely o
Stop Shipping for the Metric: The Case Against Needless Software Churn
The German word Verschlimmbesserung — an improvement that only makes things worse — captures a familiar frustration: the SaaS update that relocates a button, re
Tether brings iMessage, SMS, and OTP autofill to Linux for iPhone users
A developer who moved to Linux full-time built Tether to recover the Apple "Continuity" features they missed most: sending and receiving iMessage and SMS, file
The divergence theorem turns mesh volume into a single O(n) triangle loop
Alyssa Rosenzweig derives a fast method for computing the volume of a closed, triangulated 3D mesh by applying the divergence theorem. Volume is normally a trip
The Grift Economy Ate the Internet — and LLMs Will Make It Worse
Stephen Diehl argues that online predation has shifted from a fringe abuse of the network to its core operating logic. Where a scammer once had to hunt for a vi
TurboKV: async Rust key-value store ships tunable durability and unusually candid benchmarks
TurboKV is a new embedded key-value database written in Rust, distributed as the `turbokv` crate (v0.6) and built to run on top of Tokio. It offers the feature
US designates privacy collective behind noblogs.org a 'global terrorist'
On August 26, 2026, the US State Department named Autistici/Inventati — the volunteer-run Italian collective that operates noblogs.org — a Specially Designated
vphone-cli boots a virtual iPhone on Apple Silicon using PCC research VM tech
A new open-source tool, vphone-cli, spins up a fully virtualized iPhone on Apple Silicon Macs by tapping the same Virtualization.framework path that underpins A
xkcd #3290 'Trade': a webcomic, not a news story
The source is an xkcd comic (#3290, titled "Trade"), not a reported article. The submitted text contains none of the comic's actual content — only xkcd's standa
Afterglow emulates After Dark screen savers on macOS — no ROMs, no classic Mac OS
Afterglow is a purpose-built emulator that revives Berkeley Systems' After Dark screen savers — the Flying Toasters, swimming fish, and surreal desktop antics t
AI agents now weaponize bug rumors faster than maintainers can patch
An OCaml cohttp maintainer describes patching a path-traversal flaw in version 6.3.0 and watching automated scanners probe his live server for that exact bug wi
AI-built fuzzer surfaces divide-by-zero crash in FFmpeg's VPK demuxer
Researcher Darío Clavijo used a fuzzer he assembled largely with AI assistance — a 'vibecoded' tool — to find an integer divide-by-zero in FFmpeg's VPK demuxer