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Decoding htop: What Load Average, Uptime, and Task Counts Actually Mean
A deep walkthrough of every field in htop and top, aimed at demystifying metrics that even experienced Linux users misread. The author traces each value back to
FIDE bans Kramnik one year over unverified cheating accusations
FIDE's Ethics and Disciplinary Commission has ruled against former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, acting on complaints from the federation's Management Board
Meta contractor's cooling-water flush contaminates Cheyenne's reuse water system
Cheyenne, Wyoming has stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data center cooling operations after tracing a rare, metal-resistant bacterium in its reclaim
Mistral's Leanstral 1.5: an open formal-proof model that finds real-world bugs
Mistral has released Leanstral 1.5, an Apache-2.0 model for automated theorem proving in Lean 4. It uses a mixture-of-experts design with 119B total parameters
MSI Center flaw let any logged-in user run code as SYSTEM in seconds
A security researcher decompiled MSI Center — the management suite preinstalled on MSI laptops and pre-built desktops — and found a privilege-escalation flaw in
Pegasus Infected an EU Lawmaker While He Investigated Pegasus
Citizen Lab has confirmed that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware during his tenu
Pick a Skill and Grind: The Case for Learning Something New After Work
A personal essay argues that most people who spend their evenings half-watching Netflix and scrolling their phones have the roughly one hour a day it takes to l
SearXNG: The Privacy-First Metasearch Engine That Queries Others for You
SearXNG is an open-source metasearch engine that aggregates results from other search providers without tracking or profiling the people using it. Rather than r
Stale Air Is Quietly Wrecking Your Team's Best Decisions
A consultant who now carries a portable CO2 monitor argues that the environment where teams make high-stakes calls actively degrades their ability to make them.
Study Overturns Theory That Tall Trees Struggle to Move Water Upward
A long-held idea in plant science holds that as trees grow taller, gravity and the sheer length of their internal plumbing make it progressively harder to draw
The Free-Market Myth: Why Swiss Fiber Beats American and German Broadband
Switzerland offers dedicated, symmetric residential fiber up to 25 Gbit/s with multiple competing providers at low prices, while the supposedly free-market Unit
Wafer runs GLM5.2 on AMD's MI355X at 2x lower cost than NVIDIA Blackwell
Inference provider Wafer served the GLM5.2 model on AMD's Instinct MI355X and hit 2626 tokens/sec/node on a prefill-heavy workload (20k in / 1k out, 60% cache h