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Tobacco Giants' Hidden Hand in Engineering Global Ultra-Processed Food Supply
A study in the American Journal of Public Health examines how tobacco companies shaped the modern ultra-processed food industry after acquiring major food brand
UK government dumps Stripe for Dutch payments processor Adyen on Gov.uk
The UK's Government Digital Service has swapped Stripe out of the Gov.uk Pay platform in favor of Amsterdam-based Adyen, shifting the plumbing behind central an
UK Police Ordered to Stop Using AI for Court Statements
Forces across England and Wales have been instructed to halt the use of artificial intelligence tools when drafting statements destined for court proceedings. T
Zeroserve replaces nginx config files with sandboxed eBPF programs
Zeroserve is a single-binary HTTPS server that treats an entire website as a tarball and skips the config file entirely. The site loads in place — indexed by pa
Alibaba Open-Sources Its Internal AI Code Review CLI
Alibaba has released Open Code Review (OCR), a command-line tool that wraps an LLM-driven agent around Git diffs to produce line-level review comments. The proj
Anthropic: AI Now Writes 80% of Our Code, Pushing Toward Self-Improving Systems
Anthropic is publishing internal data showing how much of its own AI development is now being done by AI. As of May 2026, Claude authored more than 80% of code
Anthropic releases open-source reference pipeline for Claude-driven vuln discovery
Anthropic published a reference implementation showing how to wire Claude into an autonomous vulnerability discovery loop: recon, find, verify, report, and patc
Branchless Quicksort beats std::sort and pdqsort by dodging mispredictions
A new sorting library called blqsort claims to outperform std::sort and pdqsort on both Apple M1 and AMD Ryzen hardware when sorting 50 million doubles, with mu
C++: The Documentary Charts 40 Years of Bjarne Stroustrup's Language
A new documentary tracing the 40-year history of C++ premiered on YouTube, featuring Bjarne Stroustrup alongside figures including Alexander Stepanov (STL), And
Conventional Commits gets it backwards: scope matters more than type
Conventional Commits prioritizes the type of change (fix, feat, chore) over the scope, but that ordering is exactly wrong. Contributors scanning history, debugg
Edo: How Tokugawa Japan Engineered a City to Imprison Its Own Elite
From 1600 to 1868, the Tokugawa Shogunate maintained three centuries of peace in Japan through a uniquely structured social system, with the city of Edo at its
Google ships Gemma 4 QAT checkpoints, shrinking E2B to under 1GB for mobile
Google released Quantization-Aware Training checkpoints for Gemma 4, trading the usual post-training quantization penalty for models trained with quantization s