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Tohoku team shows micro-rough surfaces cut aerodynamic drag by 43.6%
An 80-year-old assumption in aeronautics — that smoother is always better for reducing drag — has been overturned by researchers at Tohoku University's Institut
White Rabbit: CERN's Open-Hardware Protocol for Sub-Nanosecond Network Sync
White Rabbit is an open hardware, firmware, and software project originating at CERN that extends Ethernet to deliver sub-nanosecond synchronization accuracy an
Why Gnutella Quietly Outlived the File-Sharing Era That Birthed It
Gnutella, the decentralized peer-to-peer protocol best known as the engine behind LimeWire and BearShare, leaked out of AOL as a canceled internal demo and prov
16 Bytes of x86 Assembly That Sing Sierpinski and Render Matrix Rain
Demoscener HellMood released a 16-byte DOS intro at the Outline Demoparty in May 2026 that simultaneously generates a Sierpinski triangle fractal on screen and
AI Amplifies Skilled Developers Rather Than Replacing Them
Josh Comeau pushes back on the assumption that capable LLMs spell the end of professional development work. The evidence he sees points the other way: the devel
Amazon Sunsets Older Kindles, Leaving Longtime Readers Hunting for Workarounds
Amazon is pulling support for a swath of older Kindle e-readers, cutting off cloud sync, store access, and over-the-air updates for devices that many owners had
AMD drops Linux support from free-tier Vivado 2026.1, angering FPGA hobbyists
AMD's upcoming Vivado 2026.1 release removes Linux support from the free Standard Edition, leaving the no-cost FPGA design suite as a Windows-only product. Paid
C# 15 adds first-class union types via new 'union' keyword in .NET 11
After years of community requests, C# 15 (shipping with .NET 11) introduces native union types through a new `union` keyword. A declaration like `public union S
California declares emergency over volatile chemical tank at GKN Aerospace plant
Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in Orange County after a 7,000-gallon tank of methyl methacrylate began heating uncontrollably at a GKN
Five Years of PHP: Where Arrays and Type Declarations Still Bite
A developer reflects on half a decade maintaining a PHP backend and zeroes in on two recurring sources of bugs. The first is PHP's array, which is really an ord
Hengefinder: The Spherical Geometry Behind Predicting Manhattanhenge Anywhere
A Recurse Center project called Hengefinder calculates when the sun will align with any street on Earth, generalizing the twice-yearly Manhattanhenge phenomenon
ICE Hands Bi2 a $25M No-Bid Deal for 1,570 Iris Scanners by Late June
ICE has finalized a $25.1 million sole-source award to Massachusetts firm Bi2 Technologies for iris-recognition hardware and access to a biometric database of m