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A Four-Year Hey Customer Quits Over DHH's Anti-Roma Blog Post
Blogger Chad Nauseam explains why he canceled his $99/year subscription to Hey, the email service from 37signals, after four years as a customer. The trigger wa
ACM Leaders Argue It's Time to License the Digital Library for LLM Training
In a Communications of the ACM opinion piece, ACM leadership makes the case that the organization should stop holding the line and start letting large language
AI Labs Outspend the Old Guard in Washington as Lobbying Hits Records
Fresh second-quarter disclosures show AI developers pouring unprecedented money into federal lobbying. OpenAI and Anthropic together reported roughly $3.2M for
Andrew Ng launches LearnVector to build one-to-one AI tutors, backed by $100M from Coursera
Andrew Ng — co-founder of Coursera and Google Brain, and founder of DeepLearning.AI — has started a new AI company called LearnVector, funded by a $100 million
Anthropic's Claude cracks new attacks on post-quantum HAWK and reduced AES
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team used a research build called Claude Mythos Preview to find genuine mathematical flaws in cryptographic algorithms, not just implem
Apple Kills the iPhone Upgrade Program, Swaps It for a Lease Model
Apple is winding down its iPhone Upgrade Program, the annual-upgrade financing plan that bundled a device installment loan with AppleCare+. Existing members kee
Ed Zitron: Apple Rides Out the AI Bubble While Everyone Else Burns
Critic Ed Zitron argues the generative-AI buildout is economically unsound and headed for a costly unwind. His core claim: large language models break the softw
EU Citizens' Initiative Launches to Block Mandatory Digital ID and Age Checks
A registered European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) titled "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification" is collecting signatures to oppose EU
Half-Life Runs Again on Mac OS 9 via Xash3D PowerPC Port
A developer known as doctashay has brought Half-Life to Mac OS 9 by building on a fork of Xash3D FWGS, the open-source reimplementation of Valve's GoldSrc engin
Hubble: open-source markdown notes app built to be edited by humans and AI agents
Hubble is a self-hostable, open-source notetaking tool that stores everything as plain markdown files, positioned explicitly for a workflow shared between a per
Inside the Wonderfully Weird Toolchain of the Demo Scene
A tour through the software the Amiga demo scene built to make its art, most of it homegrown and none of it concerned with usability conventions. Because a 7 MH
Jailbroken Kindles get proxy and TUN modes for Tailscale via community code
Open-source developers have significantly expanded what Tailscale can do on jailbroken Kindles. Earlier community builds got a Kindle onto your tailnet and let