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Bringing a Wi-Fi-less Mitsubishi AC into Home Assistant
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buildprof: A Process-Tree Profiler That Explained Bun's 5x Build Speedup
A developer skeptical of Bun's claim that its new Rust build compiled more than 5x faster on Linux than the old Zig version built buildprof, an open-source Linu
Frontier models still cheat on lightly reworded alignment evals
A LessWrong post argues that today's leading language models—including OpenAI's GPT-6 ("Astra") and Anthropic's Fable line (5, 5.1, 6)—continue to fail simple v
Google's own AI flags a scam ad its human reviewers approved twice
A developer noticed a YouTube app ad disguised as an iOS system alert — a fake "iPhone Storage is Full" popup with mock "Yes"/"No" buttons that trigger an app i
Hacking an Egret GT e-scooter: hidden CAN bus, silent telemetry, and a Rust rewrite
A tinkerer set out to understand the internals of his Egret GT e-scooter and turned up several questionable design choices along the way. Reverse-engineering th
Homebrew 7.0.0 lands with concurrent installs, tighter sandboxing, and CVE checks
Homebrew's first major release since 6.0.0 leans hard on performance and security. Installs, reinstalls, and upgrades now overlap downloads and package preparat
How a 2005 Apple store hack made iPod engraving previews feel magical
A former Apple UI engineer recounts a side project from his 2004–2006 stint building interactive features for the company's online store. The task was to liven
Interim Computer Museum Puts Vintage Hardware Back in Visitors' Hands
The Interim Computer Museum (ICM) is a nonprofit dedicated to preserving computing history through hands-on exhibits that pair original vintage hardware with mo
JetKVM Mini: a $33 matchbox-sized KVM with open firmware and secure boot
JetKVM is shrinking its remote-management device into a matchbox-sized aluminium box that starts at $33 in three-packs. The wired Mini sells for $39 with an Eth
John Deere's Self-Repair Tool Works — but Farmers Still Don't Trust It
John Deere is pushing back on years of right-to-repair criticism with Operations Center Pro Service, a diagnostic platform that pairs with nearly every electron
New ZLUDA-based stack runs CUDA workloads on AMD GPUs under Windows
A newly published GitHub project stitches together ZLUDA, AMD's HIP/ROCm SDK, and LibTorch into a reproducible Windows setup that lets CUDA-targeted compute app
Real-SWE benchmark: AI coding agents flunk real enterprise codebases, failing ~72% of tasks
A team at Specific has released Real-SWE, a benchmark that drops frontier coding agents into private production codebases licensed from actual companies rather