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Quaise drills 100m into granite with millimeter-wave beam, no drill bit
Quaise Energy says it has bored 100 meters into hard granite at a Central Texas test site using a gyrotron-powered millimeter-wave beam that vaporizes rock inst
RubyLLM unifies a dozen AI providers behind one Ruby interface
RubyLLM is an open-source Ruby library that wraps the APIs of every major AI provider—OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, Bedrock, VertexAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, loca
Samsung's 3D Stacked FET wins VLSI Best Paper with triple-nanosheet channels at 42nm
Samsung's Semiconductor Research Center has built a working 3D Stacked FET at a 42nm gate pitch, stacking n-type and p-type transistors vertically instead of pl
SSH Tunnels Demystified: Local vs. Remote Port Forwarding
SSH port forwarding remains one of the most useful tricks in a developer's kit, yet the exact syntax is notoriously easy to forget. This tutorial walks through
St Andrews physicist says Python bugs sink Microsoft's Majorana quantum claims
Dr. Henry Legg, a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, published a peer-reviewed critique in Nature on 24 June 2026 arguing that Microsoft's headline topol
The Microsoft engineer who gave us Word's red squiggle dies
Tony Krueger, a longtime Microsoft developer, has died. While Wikipedia credits him mainly for porting the game Chip's Challenge to Windows—a feat he pulled off
The voicemail that jailed Kevin Mitnick — and the Porsche he left behind
In the 1990s, Shawn Nunley was a network administrator at Novell when the company's NetWare servers became a target for a persistent intruder. Late one night, N
Turning Gaussian Splats Into Physical Objects With a PolyJet 3D Printer
Artist Dany Bittel documents a collaboration with crysta.ai that takes a Gaussian splat — a point-cloud-style 3D capture, in this case of an insect — and fabric
Vitamin D Skeptics May Have Overcorrected, Argues a Closer Read of the Evidence
The fashionable view among careful thinkers is that vitamin D supplements do nothing unless you're severely deficient: blood levels correlate with nearly every
Why Agentic Loops Nail Throwaway Code but Fail at Code Meant to Last
A new pattern is taking over agentic engineering: the harness-level loop. Instead of prompting a coding agent directly, developers wrap it in an outer loop that
Why Copying a Rival's Design Pixel-by-Pixel Made a Better Product
A Kibu engineer makes the case for deliberate imitation as a working method, framed around Virgil Abloh's "3% approach": when redesigning the Air Force 1, Abloh
A Decade-Old Euler Solution Shows How Much Cleverness AI Has Quietly Replaced
Revisiting a 10-year-old Project Euler repository, the author finds a solution to Problem 15 (counting lattice paths through an n×n grid) stored not as code but