Here's how to spot the disease—and what to do about it.

USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman and CEO Mike Reed told investors he expects the partnership…

Dear new developer, When I was starting out, I thought that software development was all about code. After all, that was the main thing I was working on. Well, maybe not the main thing, as I needed…

San Francisco is blanketed in AI ads that make no sense – and most of us have stopped reading them. But others are fighting back.

Canada added 75,000 jobs in July, up 0.4 per cent, as the unemployment rate fell to 6.4 per cent, its lowest level in two years.

Oracle has banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions, citing safety, security, and intellectual property risks. The open-source Java project steward said developers can use LLMs privately for debugging and reviewing code but cannot submit AI-generated…

Racing to the bottom of CPU performance. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Calling all defenders

Right to Repair–for Your Body. The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchist collective dedicated to enabling access to medicines and medical technologies to those who need them but don’t have them. DIY Pharmaceuticals DIY Dental Care Abortion Defense…

Autonomous hacking is here. Governments are not ready

The Nixpkgs core team has unfortunately decided to disband. We’re proud to have had the opportunity to lead by example in bottom‐up, consensus‐focused governance for Nixpkgs, and of our achievements over the past 10 months, including reforming the committer…

Voyager 2 would have had to shut down one of its last remaining instruments later this year, until NASA made some power changes.

Fixes #2 - discovery hangs when multiple default via routes exist.
What changed

defaultRoute() now parses all default routes and picks the lowest metric (ties: first seen) instead of concatenating...

Six measured collapses — Stack Overflow, Chegg, Shutterstock, Fiverr, Quora, Getty — as AI answers the questions, makes the images, and does the work. Every number from a public source.

Hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge development by creating an account on GitHub.

The US military’s cyberwarfare unit is scrutinizing an unusually high number of deaths by suicide among personnel over a month-long period this summer, according to government officials and other people familiar with the matter.

The program is an effort to make products more affordable as artificial intelligence sends some component prices soaring.

OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information …

Why agentic AI is driving the shift back to CPU inference.