Linux desktop market share reaches 5.03% in the USA (June 2025) according to StatCounter. Discover why more users are choosing Linux.
Ukrainian cyber activists, with military intelligence support, paralyzed Russian drone manufacturer Gaskar Integration's operations. They stole 47 TB of data, including drone production info and employee questionnaires.
Cloudflare experienced a 62-minute outage on July 14, 2025, due to a misconfigured legacy system that caused a global withdrawal of 1.1.1.1 Resolver service routes. The issue was resolved at 22:54 UTC.
Bedrock Robotics is developing a self-driving kit for construction and worksite vehicles, led by co-founder and CEO Boris Sofman. The company is testing its technology on construction sites in several US states with four corporations.
Eric Migicovsky, a gadget enthusiast, wants a small premium Android phone and is rallying fans to pressure manufacturers like Google and Samsung to create one. He aims to gather 50,000+ interested buyers to convince a manufacturer to build the perfect small Android phone.
The user started coding in Python 6 months ago due to its popularity in AI and big money opportunities, and has found it to be a powerful language with a complete ecosystem of libraries and tools. They now use various tools and libraries such as uv, ruff, ty, pytest, Pydantic, FastAPI, and Docker to build and deploy their Python applications.
Libor Šmejkal predicted the existence of a new kind of magnetism called altermagnets, inspired by M.C. Escher's artwork. Altermagnets have unique properties that could lead to faster, more efficient computers with less energy consumption.
Firefox 141 will release WebGPU on Windows, enabling high-performance computation and rendering for web content. WebGPU will be available on Mac and Linux soon, with Android support to follow.
Database replication copies changes between instances for high availability, reduced latency, and data migration. It supports active-standby and active-active topologies, with the latter requiring application design to handle conflicts and replication lag.
Tilck is an educational monolithic kernel designed to be Linux-compatible at binary level, running on i686 and RISCV64 architectures. It has a simple design, allowing users to compare Linux and Tilck performance.
Researchers from the University of Toronto discovered a Rowhammer attack on NVIDIA A6000 GPUs, inducing bit flips in GDDR6 memory. Enabling ECC can mitigate this risk, but it may introduce up to a 10% slowdown for ML inference workloads.
Intel has eliminated at least 5,400 Oregon jobs since August, with its local workforce falling under 18,000. The company's struggles could put Oregon's knowledge economy at risk, but experts say the state's skilled workers could also spark an eventual rebound.
The user is explaining how to create a Git repository manually without using Git commands, focusing on the internal workings of Git and its design. They are covering topics such as objects, content-addressable storage, and packfiles, and explaining how to create a commit and a branch from scratch.
The House and Senate passed NASA budget bills with $24.8 billion and $24.9 billion respectively, rejecting the White House's 25% cut. The bills maintain funding for NASA's science division and core programs like the Space Launch System rocket.
A proposed "day-dreaming loop" could help large language models produce breakthroughs by continuously sampling and combining concepts in the background. This process, called the "day-dreaming tax," would be expensive but could create a moat against model distillation and offer a path around the data wall.
The Geminiprotocol.net project has been quiet, but plans are in place to finalize spec issues by Apollo 15 day. The project will discontinue size statistics reports, focusing on community contributions and patches.
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Parents are happy with Tin Can phones, which allow kids to make independent calls to friends and family without smartphones. This gives kids freedom and teaches them phone etiquette while providing parents with peace of mind.
ZeroEntropy developed a new reranker model using Elo scores to improve search accuracy. The model uses pairwise comparisons and reinforcement learning to refine the reranker and reduce inference cost.
Autism affects brain development, impacting behavior, communication, and motor skills, including gait. Research shows autistic people have more variability in stride length, speed, and balance due to differences in brain regions like the basal ganglia and cerebellum.
We're releasing an API that gives agents full-stack backends with built-in abstractions, hosted efficiently, and exposing data to make app development easier for humans and agents. This API aims to reduce friction in app hosting and deployment, making it possible for agents and humans to build and extend apps with little overhead.
Researchers recommend monitoring AI chains of thought for misbehavior, but this method is imperfect and requires further research. Frontier model developers should consider the impact of development decisions on AI thought monitorability.
PyPI has blocked the inbox.ru email domain due to a spam campaign creating over 1,500 fake projects and 250 user accounts. Users can register with other email addresses, but PyPI may reverse the decision if the provider improves abuse prevention.
Metaflow is a human-centric framework for building and managing AI and ML systems, streamlining development from prototyping to production. It provides a simple Python API for scaling, managing dependencies, and deploying to production orchestrators.
€1 house project seems to have been the brainchild of vittorio sgarbi. since the launch, some 70 houses have sold, many of them are used as vacation homes - but they're no longer empty and falling into ruin. a town is better off if half emptied? it needs people to bury its dead and have its children, says professor of urban design paolo pileri. but it also verges on the kind of
A server is created to give language models temporal awareness and time calculation abilities through human-LLM collaboration. The server can be deployed to a cloud provider for LLMs to access time-related tools and insights.
Mill is a build tool that improves upon Maven and Gradle with faster builds, less plugin fiddling, and better IDE support. It offers a rich featureset, object-oriented builds, and a scalable solution for JVM projects.
Our lead developer was forcibly conscripted into a war and we've been asking for help regularly since then and expressing that the situation was dire. Android 16 making our life harder than expected made it worse. The Android 16 changes weren't really the important part...
cppyy is a Python-C++ bindings generator for calling C++ from Python and vice versa. It provides run-time generation, lazy loading, and support for advanced C++ features.
Bitvise, a commercial SSH client developer, is criticized for using the putty.org domain to promote its product, misleading users into associating it with the open-source PuTTY project. Bitvise's responses to criticism have been defensive and dismissive, raising concerns about its conduct and treatment of individuals.
A fancy wrapper around dnf --installroot, apt, pacman and zypper that generates customized disk images with a number of bells and whistles.
KX has released KDB-X, a free Community Edition of its time-series engine, available for commercial use with up to 16GB RAM and 8 IPC connections. This move lowers the entry barrier and may attract more developers, sparking greater interest in the KDB community.
The writer discovered Opal, an app that blocks distracting apps during set times, and found it helpful in managing phone addiction. Opal's flexibility and gentle approach allowed the writer to reduce daily screen time by over 35% and feel more productive.
Your official U.S. government weather forecasts, warnings, meteorological products for forecasting the weather, tsunami hazards, and information about seismology.
Nextflow is a workflow system for creating scalable, reproducible workflows based on the dataflow model. It supports various execution platforms and software dependencies, enabling parallel and distributed pipelines.
We experienced a series of incidents due to a sudden 5x increase in database creation and 50x increase in branch creation, causing strain on our Neon platform and impacting customers. We've since implemented a horizontally-scaled architecture called "Cells" and made changes to prevent similar incidents, and are committed to improving the product with better communication, transparency, and ...
Avocado sales are rising but the industry is linked to deforestation, water shortages, and land grabs in Mexico. Consumer groups are suing major avocado importers for falsely portraying their products as sustainable.
A cozy web GUI for MySQL and PostgreSQL — made for developers who like to move fast and stay focused. DataRamen runs locally using Node.js. If you don’t have it yet, download the latest version (v22 or above) from the NodeJS website.
Clippy is a terminal tool that copies files as references for pasting into GUI apps, unlike pbcopy which copies file contents. It also provides a high-level API for smart detection and temp file management, as well as a low-level API for direct clipboard operations.
The US deported 5 immigrants to Eswatini, citing crimes including murder and child rape. Eswatini says they are being held in isolated units and will be sent back to their home countries.
The US is experiencing a severe labor shortage with 1 million workers missing, forcing companies to seek locations with attractive quality of life. States with poor quality of life, such as Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Utah, Indiana, Texas, and Tennessee, are struggling to attract skilled workers.
Italian authorities raided and sued retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd over pre-loaded ROMs on gaming handhelds. He faces possible jail time and channel shutdown under Italy's outdated copyright law.
Clemens Sämann and Michael Kunzinger developed a new method to estimate curvature in non-smooth space-time settings. Their approach uses triangle comparisons to provide good curvature estimates, allowing them to prove singularity theorems without assuming smooth space-time.
Nvidia is recommending a performance-degrading mitigation to protect users from Rowhammer attacks that can sabotage work projects. The attack, called GPUhammer, exploits physical weaknesses in DRAM chip modules to change or corrupt data stored in memory.