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Starring the Computer: A Database of Every Machine's On-Screen Cameo
Starring the Computer is a reference site that catalogs appearances of real computer hardware in film and television, indexed by machine rather than by title. B
The Art Institute of Chicago's API Flags Artworks Nobody Looks At
The Art Institute of Chicago exposes a curious boolean in its public API: has_not_been_viewed_much. Rather than tracking popularity in the abstract, the field e
The unreasonable engineering of kitchen foil — and folding it into its own tools
Kitchen aluminum foil is a deceptively high-performance material. At roughly 10 μm thick, 400 mm wide, and meters long, it reaches aspect ratios up to a million
Why great customer support failed to build loyalty for an indie podcast app
When the owner of the Castro podcast app took over, he bet that thoughtful, human-written support replies—informed by using the product daily—would be an easy c
Xbox 'Reset': 3,200 Jobs Cut, Four Studios Spun Off, Management Flattened
Xbox leadership (in a memo signed 'Asha') announced what it calls the biggest restructuring in the division's history: roughly 3,200 roles eliminated across FY2
Zuckerberg: AI Agent Development Slower Than Meta Expected
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged that progress on AI agents is lagging behind the company's own expectations. That admission stands out given Meta's ag
After 30 months with ORMs, one engineer's verdict: just learn SQL
A developer reflects on two and a half years of working with SQLAlchemy and Hibernate against Postgres and SQLite, concluding that object-relational mappers are
C&C Generals: Zero Hour gets a native Apple Silicon, iPhone, and iPad port
A developer has ported Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour to run natively on Apple Silicon Macs, iPhones, and iPads — no emulation involved. The 2003 engine
Codex telemetry shows GPT-5.5 reasoning tokens pinning to 516, 1034, 1552
A GitHub issue against OpenAI's Codex reports a statistical anomaly in reasoning-token telemetry: GPT-5.5 responses land on exactly 516 reasoning output tokens
Databricks' LTAP: Postgres and analytics on one copy of data, no CDC
Traditional databases keep their write-ahead log and data files on a single machine's disk, and Databricks argues that this monolithic design is the source of m
ESO warns 1.7M planned satellites would wreck ground-based astronomy
A new peer-reviewed European Southern Observatory study, authored by astronomer Olivier Hainaut, models what would happen if the 1.7 million satellites now prop
EU Council revives expired 'Chat Control' message scanning via pre-holiday fast-track
With mandatory scanning proposals ("Chat Control 2.0") stalled in the EU Parliament, the Council of Ministers has changed tactics to resurrect the voluntary ver