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ECB shortlists 10 studios in first euro banknote redesign since the currency launched
The European Central Bank has narrowed its long-running effort to redesign euro banknotes down to ten shortlisted proposals, now published for public viewing. A
Faking Print Halftones on the Web with a Single ImageMagick Command
A blogger walks through the technique they use to give website images a printed, halftone look, freely admitting up front that they're not an authority on dithe
Firefox 153 Bakes Multi-Account Containers Into the Browser as a Native Feature
Mozilla is previewing native Containers in Firefox 153, promoting a capability that has lived in the Multi-Account Containers extension for nearly a decade into
Google Weighs Restricting Android's On-Device ADB, Threatening Shizuku Ecosystem
A comment from a core ADB maintainer on Google's IssueTracker has raised alarm that Android may soon curtail on-device ADB — the practice of running an ADB clie
How DBOS pushed Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY to 60K writes/sec by batching notifies
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY is often dismissed as unscalable, but DBOS argues the real problem is a narrow, poorly documented bottleneck rather than a fundamental li
India orders GitHub to pull Jack Dorsey's Bitchat mesh messenger
India's Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), the Home Ministry's cybercrime unit, has directed GitHub to take down Bitchat, a Bluetooth mesh messaging a
Inside Fedora 45's Build Pipeline: From a Git Push to Installable Images
A packager's commit to a per-package Git repo on src.fedoraproject.org is the starting point for every Fedora artifact. The fedpkg tool wraps the routine work,
Interactive model stress-tests a Strait of Hormuz closure on real crude-trade data
A Show HN project called the SCN Global Flow Monitor lets users simulate what happens to global crude oil markets if the Strait of Hormuz — the chokepoint throu
IRGC claims cruise-missile strike destroyed AWS's Bahrain data center
Iran's Revolutionary Guard says its Aerospace Force hit and destroyed Amazon Web Services' Bahrain data center with cruise missiles on July 21, framing it as re
Marimo brings reactive Python notebooks natively into PyCharm
Marimo has released an early plugin that embeds its reactive notebooks directly inside PyCharm and other JetBrains IDEs, addressing one of its most-requested fe
MIT revives a 1985 patent into the "Y-zipper," a 3D-printed shape-shifting fastener
In 1985, electrical engineer William Freeman — now an MIT professor — sketched a triangular, three-sided zipper meant to flip objects between soft and rigid sta
Namecheap handed over a domain account to a stranger who just asked nicely
A 13-year Namecheap customer describes losing control of a domain registered in his name after an incoming leader of a college club — the domain's real-world us