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Publisher's C++ textbook recycles generic blurb across food science, metallurgy books

Raymond Chen's follow-up on a suspect C++ textbook turns from the cover to the back. The blurb promises "incredible insights" into "diverse topics" without ever

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tech-cultureopen-source

Reverse-engineering a dead Sigma 45mm: lens repair as PCB forensics

A hardware hobbyist walks through restoring a Sigma 45mm f/2.8 I-series lens bought broken on eBay, using the teardown as a case study in diagnosing modern elec

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tech-cultureopen-source

Rochester lab's solar desalination skips brine, harvests lithium from seawater

Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have built a solar-thermal desalination system that sidesteps the two biggest headaches of conv

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tech-culturedevops

Social Cache Busting: Forcing Fresh Previews on Shared Links

The piece introduces "social cache busting," a technique for sidestepping the aggressive caching that platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Slack, and iMessage appl

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aipolicy

S&P 500 refuses to bend rules for SpaceX, blocking fast-track for OpenAI and Anthropic

S&P Dow Jones Indices declined on June 4 to waive its standard listing requirements for SpaceX ahead of the company's planned IPO, killing a path that would hav

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aiopen-source

Statistical Analysis Finds No Evidence Claude Introduced Bugs into rsync

After a Mastodon post in late May 2026 ignited a viral campaign accusing rsync's maintainers of degrading the tool through Claude-assisted development, an indep

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aidevops

Teaching AI Agents to Write Tests That Don't Suck via Canon TDD

AI coding agents produce notoriously bad tests — vague, tautological, or performative — largely because they learned from a corpus of human-written tests that s

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policytech-culture

Tobacco Giants' Hidden Hand in Engineering Global Ultra-Processed Food Supply

A study in the American Journal of Public Health examines how tobacco companies shaped the modern ultra-processed food industry after acquiring major food brand

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policycloud

UK government dumps Stripe for Dutch payments processor Adyen on Gov.uk

The UK's Government Digital Service has swapped Stripe out of the Gov.uk Pay platform in favor of Amsterdam-based Adyen, shifting the plumbing behind central an

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aipolicy

UK Police Ordered to Stop Using AI for Court Statements

Forces across England and Wales have been instructed to halt the use of artificial intelligence tools when drafting statements destined for court proceedings. T

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devopsopen-source

Zeroserve replaces nginx config files with sandboxed eBPF programs

Zeroserve is a single-binary HTTPS server that treats an entire website as a tarball and skips the config file entirely. The site loads in place — indexed by pa

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aidevops

Alibaba Open-Sources Its Internal AI Code Review CLI

Alibaba has released Open Code Review (OCR), a command-line tool that wraps an LLM-driven agent around Git diffs to produce line-level review comments. The proj

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