Looting in Barcelona on October 2024 was spurred by the anonymous ‘Blocus’ platform.

How Opus 5.5 changes the game of interactive media in 2026.

A repair-bench story about televisions that shut themselves down over a single failed LED, and what it teaches about the most important decision in error handling: which failures are exceptional, and which belong on an ordinary branch.

Video. At least 10 people died when a high-speed train struck another near Toledo, Spain. Two carriages derailed, leaving rescuers searching through the wreckage as authorities warned the death toll could rise.

ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.

Apple is blocking the compromised certificates automatically. Mac administrators can take optional steps for some command-line tools.

Open NASSCAD and start modeling: parametric solids and generators, boolean CSG, STEP and IFC import/export, STL and 3MF for 3D printing. Free, no login.

(RNS) — David Durman, an administrator at the University of Kentucky, said using AI would cause him to offload his thinking and decision making, which would violate his humanist views. He hopes other Americans will rethink their views on AI, too.

How the MIT AI Lab’s text editor gave birth to the free software movement.

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The Agent SDK is the framework we use to build our own managed agents like Bugbot, Security Reviewer, and Rollouts. Define agents in code and deploy them with one command.

An architectural comparison of Obsidian Canvas and Heptabase: how file-centric vs. card-centric data models shape spatial thinking, graph indexing, and data portability.

CNC Stone Carving In a form of architecture so ancient, CNC machines may seem a little out of place.  However, when one considers that the medieval builders were always on the forefront of the technology of their day, it no longer seems so strange.  To build…

The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

DAYJOB: Tax evaluates AI agents across 50 realistic tax environments, testing their ability to navigate messy records, exercise professional judgment, and deliver reliable tax work.

Valve has advised developers concerned about AI clone games to focus on community building and consistent updates.

Endlessen Horrorwitz, the venture firm whose manifesto lists risk management as an enemy but whose ad budget is the most carefully risk-managed thing it owns, argues that $293 million in ads is a tax, and a generous one.

A Tesla Semi caught fire on I-880 in Hayward with no crash involved, closing the freeway for 10 hours. Truck fires are common, but this one needs answers.

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