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Steam P2P networking routes Israeli players through distant relays, breaking fighting games
Since mid-March, players in Israel report that any title built on Valve's GameNetworkingSockets P2P stack pushes their connections to roughly 120ms latency, eve
Stop Killing Games campaign forces EU reckoning over publisher server shutdowns
A consumer rights movement called Stop Killing Games, launched by YouTuber Ross Scott in 2024 after Ubisoft pulled the plug on online-only racer The Crew, has e
Teenage Engineering APC-2: A Real-Time Vinyl Cutter for Studios
Teenage Engineering has unveiled the APC-2, a professional disc-cutting lathe built in partnership with analog media specialist SUPERSENSE. The machine produces
What lost+found Actually Does on ext Filesystems
The /lost+found directory exists so that fsck has somewhere to put orphaned data it recovers during a filesystem check. When the kernel panics or the power cuts
A Developer's North Star: User Utility Above All Else
Loris Cro lays out a ranked hierarchy for software priorities: usefulness to the end user comes first, followed by correctness, then maintainability and efficie
A Jane Street designer ditches Figma for Claude-built prototypes
A Jane Street designer describes how Claude has displaced Figma as their primary design tool. After years of skepticism toward LLMs—which underperformed on task
Atavist longread on McCann cocaine fugitives blocked by cookie wall
The submitted URL points to an Atavist Magazine feature about fugitives tied to a cocaine case, but the fetched payload contains only the site's cookie consent
Devs press Anthropic for an official Claude Desktop Linux build
A detailed GitHub feature request argues Anthropic should ship a first-party Claude Desktop for Linux, targeting Ubuntu LTS and Debian via a signed apt reposito
Google to Rent 110K Nvidia GPUs from SpaceX in $920M/Month xAI Compute Deal
Google has agreed to pay SpaceX roughly $920 million per month for access to about 110,000 Nvidia GPUs housed in data centers SpaceX inherited through its Febru
Harness engineering: designing the scaffolding that makes coding agents reliable
OpenAI argues that as coding agents like Codex take on longer, more autonomous tasks, the bottleneck shifts from raw model capability to the harness around it —
How Bright Data Turns Smart TVs Into Proxy Nodes for AI Scrapers
Include Security's reverse engineering of Bright Data's iOS SDK reveals how the company builds its 400M-IP residential proxy network by embedding code in consum
How Windows 3.x Faked Protected-Mode Memory on the 8086
Before Windows 3.0, Microsoft had to make a multitasking GUI run on 8086 and 80286 chips that lacked paging, so Windows essentially acted as a sophisticated ove