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Oberon System 3 boots natively on Raspberry Pi 3B with flashable SD image
Rochus Keller has released a native port of Oberon System 3 for the Raspberry Pi 3B, distributed as a ready-to-flash SD card image. The release also runs on the
One Operator to Rule Them All: exp(x)−ln(y) Generates Every Calculator Function
In digital logic, a single universal gate (like NAND) can build any Boolean circuit. Continuous mathematics had no equivalent - until now. Researcher Andrzej Od
OpenAI Pulls macOS Signing Cert After Axios Supply Chain Compromise
OpenAI revoked the Apple Developer ID certificate used to sign its macOS application following a supply chain incident traced to a malicious version of the wide
Phyphox: Open-Source App Turns Smartphone Sensors into Physics Lab Tools
Phyphox is an open-source application developed at RWTH Aachen University that repurposes built-in smartphone sensors - accelerometers, microphones, gyroscopes
Researchers Build Agent That Scores Near-Perfect on Every Major AI Benchmark Without Solving Anything
A UC Berkeley research team built an automated scanning agent that exploited eight of the most prominent AI agent benchmarks - including SWE-bench, WebArena, Te
Seven Nations Hit Near-100% Renewable Electricity Generation
Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo now produce over 99.7% of their electricity from renewable sources lik
SQLite 3.53 Ships Query Result Formatter - Try It in Your Browser
SQLite 3.53.0 introduced a new Query Result Formatter library, and Simon Willison built an interactive browser demo to explore it. The tool lets you run queries
SQLite 3.53.0 Lands with Constraint Alterations and New JSON Functions
SQLite jumped from 3.51 straight to 3.53.0 after the 3.52.0 release was withdrawn, making this a particularly feature-dense update. Among the highlights: ALTER
The Web Killed Consistent UI Design - and We All Pay the Tax
Desktop software from Windows 95 through Windows 7 shared a remarkable consistency: standardized menu bars, universal keyboard shortcuts, clearly labeled button
Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Installers Push STX RAT After CPUID Breach
Attackers compromised CPUID's distribution channel and used it to ship trojanized builds of CPU-Z and HWMonitor, two widely trusted hardware diagnostic utilitie
Why Lean Is a Perfectable Language: Dependent Types, Metaprogramming, and Community Gravity
The author argues Lean stands apart because it is perfectable rather than perfect. You can state and prove properties about Lean code inside Lean itself, which
Why most engineering orgs can't justify their teams' cost — and what LLMs change
An eight-engineer team in Western Europe burns roughly €87,000 a month, or €4,000 per working day, yet most engineers and many of their managers can't quote tha