The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0

Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux

AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts

An ersatz CSS tutorial for people who need to style a web page, but aren't web developers. I am a wrong person to write this kind of thing, as I have neither the time, nor experience. I'd much rather read a book about this. Alas, I had to learn all this stuff from trawling MDN, so perhaps it is valuable to document what I have so far.

Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee

Sequoyah’s syllabary faced suspicion initially, but after a demonstration, his version of “talking leaves” was widely embraced. And then the word spread

Are insecure code completions in PyCharm a vulnerability?

Python, open source, and the internet

PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you

PgDog is a connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL. Scale Postgres horizontally without rewriting your application.

What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]

GeoLibre 1.0

A lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data across desktop and web environments, with a responsive layout for mobile screens.

Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C

Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos

Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable

Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.

Vacuum-Form Signage

Branding Main Street America and a rabbit hole into the history behind the vacuum-formed signage found in our daily lives

How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science

Relentless engineering keeps the Curiosity rover rolling despite brutal terrain, inspiring mission design choices for future Mars rovers.

Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps

React components for PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and CSV viewers, with bounding box citations, file upload, e-signing, and more.

L'Affaire Siloxane

How antiperspirant fumes nearly got NASA to evacuate the space station

πFS

πfs - the data-free filesystem! Contribute to philipl/pifs development by creating an account on GitHub.

OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users

OpenAI is reportedly mulling drastic price cuts to its AI models, as it looks to woo consumers from rival AI company Anthropic, the WSJ reported on Wednesday.,OpenAI is reportedly mulling drastic price cuts to its AI models, as it looks to woo consumers from rival AI company Anthropic, the WSJ reported on Wednesday.

Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)