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DevYouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator
If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have
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16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows
It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?
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Canonical begins pushing Resolute Raccoon
Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed
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Cursor Uses S3 WAL to Scale Git Storage to More than 300 Pushes per Second
Cursor has introduced Continuity, a Git storage architecture that uses an S3 backed write ahead log as the source of truth. The design turns local NVMe repositories into warm caches and separates replica coordination from consistency. Cursor reports linear read scaling with up…
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Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*
Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin
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AI Coding Agents Exposed 13,000 Internal Images, Including Billing Records, on GitHub
AI coding agents asked to share screenshots of code changes for review have put internal company images in public GitHub repositories, security company Glow said. Its researchers found more than 13,000 internal images from developers at over 300 organizations, including customer…
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Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates
A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption
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KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited
Plus, Klassik recreates the KDE 3 desktop experience on Qt 6
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Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time
The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers
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SvelteKit 3 Reaches Release Candidate, Moving Config to Vite and Retiring the $lib Alias
The Svelte team has entered the release candidate phase for SvelteKit 3, which focuses on code refinement and prepares for future updates. Notable changes include moving configuration to vite.config.ts, replacing the $lib alias with #lib for improved compatibility. SvelteKit 3…
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Microsoft is rolling out Linux container support to WSL
Microsoft is taking Windows Subsystem for Linux beyond just running Linux distributions, as WSL Containers is now generally available. [...]
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AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrified
Regular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap
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Open source tool distills Jev so you can run it locally
Jevstiller targets 98% agreement by learning familiar requests on your hardware while sending uncertain and audited queries upstream
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Why Control Resonant Developer Remedy Avoided Using Yellow Paint to Guide Players
Control Resonant's director has explained how the team chose to handle exploration in a way that doesn't feel like it is holding the player's hand with things like yellow paint.
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Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business
Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well
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Microsoft sends PDFs to strange new worlds instead of SharePoint
Use SharePoint Online? Keen on PDFs? Then you won't be keen on the latest Word bug
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Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatment
Equinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself
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Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead
Explore GitHub’s latest transparency data and learn more about policy updates affecting developers and open source.
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Cloudflare Adds Configurable HTTP Vary Header Support to Prevent Cache Thrashing
Cloudflare has implemented native support for the HTTP Vary header across its edge network, enhancing cache management for all customer plans. This feature allows for better negotiation of content representations while minimizing cache fragmentation. Operators can define…
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101 Malicious npm Packages Add Developers' WhatsApp Accounts to Groups Without Consent
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a cluster of 101 npm packages that are used to trap developers into a WhatsApp group subscriber campaign dubbed PhantomSub. "The malicious packages abuse the 'Baileys' WhatsApp open source project to add the victims to groups without…
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The Witcher 3: Developers talk remastering a classic and creating Songs of the Past
Witcher 3 developers discuss Songs of the Past, the remaster's combat overhaul, and why Dandelion's story deserved more
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Starship finally makes orbit but engine trouble cuts the victory lap short
SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three
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Kubernetes Teams Get a Safer Way to See Their Own GPU Metrics
Adobe engineers have described an open-source approach for giving teams self-service access to their own Prometheus metrics in multi-tenant Kubernetes environments, without exposing the shared metrics of other teams. By Craig Risi
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Spring News Roundup: Second Milestone Releases of Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Integration
There was a flurry of activity during the week of September 21st, 2026, highlighting: second milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring AMQP, Spring Integration, Spring Data, Spring Framework, Spring for GraphQL and Spring for Apache Kafka. There…
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Craig Federighi on how Apple helps developers make the most of the iPhone Duo [Video]
Apple software chief Craig Federighi said in an interview that he is excited to see what developers will do with the hinge mechanism in the iPhone Duo. He said an API lets developers read the angle of the hinge with an accuracy of around five degrees, and the ability to read…