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LibrePods reverse-engineers AirPods to break Apple's ecosystem lock-in
LibrePods is a GPLv3 project that reimplements Apple's proprietary AirPods protocol (AACP/ATT) so that Apple-exclusive earbud features work on Android and Linux
Michigan 'Right to Disconnect' Bill Would Curb Mandatory After-Hours Work Contact
Michigan State Sen. Erika Geiss has introduced the Workplace Employee Boundaries Act (Senate Bill 948), now before the Labor Committee, which would generally pr
Open-weight GLM 5.2 edges out Claude on Semgrep's IDOR-detection benchmark
Semgrep set out to measure how much of an AI agent's vulnerability-finding ability comes from the underlying model versus the harness that feeds it code and par
Proxy-KD: Distilling GPT-4-Class Models Without Peeking Inside Them
Knowledge distillation normally relies on access to a teacher model's internal states—logits, hidden activations—to train a smaller student. That breaks down wi
Qwen 3.6 27B makes local-first coding genuinely usable
A developer who had written off local language models reports that Qwen 3.6 has changed his mind. The dense 27B variant — slower but stronger than its mixture-o
Running OpenBSD on the Lemote Yeeloong, and the story of China's Godson MIPS chip
A retrocomputing enthusiast documents getting OpenBSD running on a Lemote Yeeloong netbook — the first 64-bit MIPS laptop in their collection — while deliberate
Stanford dataset charts memory prices from 1960 to today — DRAM, NAND, and HBM
A Stanford DAM project led by David Shim has compiled an interactive history of memory and storage pricing stretching back to 1960, building on John McCallum's
Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are Fourth Amendment searches
In a 6-3 decision in Chatrie v US, the Supreme Court held that bulk location data pulled from smartphones via 'geofence warrants' qualifies as a search under th
The 747's Last Flight: How the Queen of the Skies Outlived the Ambition That Built It
The Boeing 747, the original jumbo jet that defined commercial aviation for half a century, is reaching the end of its operational life. The author visits Pinal
The Real Goal of Age Verification Laws: Tying Your Speech to Your Identity
This opinion piece argues that the wave of age-verification mandates spreading across US states, the EU, and Australia is not really about protecting children.
WATaBoy: a Game Boy emulator that JITs to WebAssembly — and outruns a native interpreter
Apple bans runtime JIT compilation on iOS, which is why heavyweight emulators like Dolphin can't ship there. But there's a loophole: web browsers are exempt, be
Why 'tokenmaxxing' isn't dead — it's just getting a smarter incentive
Tokenmaxxing—companies pushing employees to burn through AI tokens, most infamously Meta tying performance reviews to per-person token usage—predictably led to