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A step-by-step tutorial on building a database from scratch uses append-only files, tombstones, segments, and in-memory indexes to show why durable storage is harder than it looks.
Read report »A retrospective on IDEs from roughly 30 years ago argues that many of the ideas developers now take for granted were already present, even if the surrounding software ecosystem changed.
Read report »A migration note from Digital Society says it moved from AWS to Hetzner, offering a concrete example of how cloud cost and control pressures push teams toward different hosting strategies.
Read report »A reverse-engineering write-up argues that the Kindle web reader can be bypassed, showing how product design, DRM, and user frustration collide in browser-based reading tools.
Read report »Apple’s announcement of the M5 frames the chip as a bigger leap in AI performance for Apple silicon, signaling that the company’s performance story is now tightly tied to on-device intelligence.
Read report »The Free Software Foundation says it is launching Librephone, a project that revives a long-running question in free software: what would a genuinely free phone need to look like?
Read report »The operating system will continue to run, but standard technical assistance, feature updates and security updates are no longer available after the end-of-support deadline.
Read report »The nanochat project presents itself as a minimal, hackable training harness that can take a small team from tokenization through pretraining, finetuning, evaluation, and inference on a single GPU node.
Read report »A short complaint about Windows Backup and OneDrive captures a recurring frustration in consumer software: interfaces that offer dismissal options while still pushing the same prompt back onto the user.
Read report »A report in Bluewin says Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman chose a self-determined death in Switzerland and spent his last days in Paris.
Read report »Anthropic, with the UK AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, says as few as 250 malicious documents were enough to create a backdoor in models from 600M to 13B parameters.
Read report »Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi were honoured for molecular structures that can capture, store or separate gases and other chemicals.
Read report »Three physicists based at American universities have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments that made quantum behaviour visible in an electrical circuit.
Read report »The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has gone to three scientists whose work helped explain how the immune system is kept under control.
Read report »A deep-dive post says several leading models insist a seahorse emoji exists, then spiral when they try to complete the answer.
Read report »Officials say a blaze at NIRS in Daejeon destroyed the G-Drive system used by hundreds of thousands of civil servants.
Read report »Windscribe’s relationship map argues that many familiar VPN names sit inside a tangle of common ownership.
Read report »Fox Business reports Apple pulled ICEBlock and similar apps after federal officials raised safety concerns.
Read report »A Mars rover photo of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS went viral after users mistook a bright streak for something artificial.
Read report »CNN visualized a warning that more than half a million people in Gaza face famine conditions after months of war and blocked recovery.
Read report »The Los Angeles Times obituary says the pioneering naturalist died after a career that reshaped how humans studied chimpanzees.
Read report »New research into Saturn's moon Enceladus reveals complex carbon-based substances, increasing the likelihood that the moon could support life.
Read report »Internet and telephone services remained largely unavailable after Taliban authorities disconnected fibre-optic infrastructure across the country.
Read report »The Android app repository argues that Google’s developer registration requirement could undermine how independent software is built, verified and shared.
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