Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have uncovered three key discoveries about how unstable atomic nuclei…

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Reels gone. Shorts gone. Algorithmic feeds gone. Time limits, grayscale, friction gates, usage tracking.

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If Valve's latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March

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What the accidental Claude Code source code leak tells us about the real value of code, product market fit, and why integration is what actually makes software great.

How bots used our sign-up and forgot password pages to bomb real people's inboxes, and what we did to stop it. A practical guide to subscription bombing for founders and developers who think CAPTCHA is an "I'll do it later" task.

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Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.

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Vibe coding apps reportedly keep running afoul of an App Store guideline called "Guideline 2.5.2."

A memorial for the 60,199 Palestinian victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Each dot is a name. Each name was a life.