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Val Town's founder: code is worth learning even when LLMs write it for you
Steve Krouse, founder of the coding startup Val Town, concedes the point that "learn to code" has vanished as Silicon Valley's go-to advice — knowing a bit of J
Windows' hidden Global Device ID helped the FBI unmask a Scattered Spider suspect
An unsealed U.S. cybercrime complaint has exposed a little-known Windows tracking mechanism called the Global Device Identifier (GDID) — a unique number Microso
21 years into tech, an Aussie engineer finally earns a CS degree — online, after hours
A software engineer and ML practitioner with roughly 21 years of experience and no formal qualifications describes finishing a University of London Bachelor's i
AMD's $4k Ryzen AI Halo Mini-PC Bets on Bundled Software, Not New Silicon
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo is a compact mini-PC aimed at local AI development, built on the Zen 5 Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (16 cores, 32 threads) with Radeon 8060S integrated
Canada touts 'sovereign AI' while quietly running Palantir inside defence and policing
Ottawa's new 'AI for All' strategy casts the federal government as the 'strategic anchor customer' for homegrown Canadian AI, aiming to lift AI adoption among C
Cannabis Tied to Sharply Higher Heart-Attack Risk, Even in Healthy Under-50s
Two new analyses presented around the American College of Cardiology's 2025 meeting strengthen the case that cannabis use raises cardiovascular risk. A retrospe
Clean Code Won't Help Your AI Agent Pass — But It'll Burn Fewer Tokens
A controlled study tested whether code cleanliness changes how well autonomous coding agents perform, using a minimal-pair design: repositories matched on archi
Dartmouth's AI-graded quiz platform lifts stats final scores 0.71–1.30 SD
Phosphor, a web learning platform built by Dartmouth researcher Jonah Bard, embeds LLM-graded practice quizzes directly into course readings so that active reca
Firework strikes Delta jet on July 4 landing at Chicago Midway; no damage found
Delta Flight 1076, arriving at Chicago's Midway International Airport from Atlanta on the evening of July 4, made contact with a firework as it came in to land.
Flipper Zero team reverses course, pledges renewed firmware maintenance
After community backlash over the perception that Flipper Devices had abandoned its firmware, the team says it will resume active maintenance under a new, more
Google's AI era gutted the blog economy: 79 of 100 top blogs lost most of their traffic
A cohort study tracked 100 blogs that were held up around 2022 as proof the "start a blog, rank on Google, monetize with ads and affiliates" model worked—the si
Homegames: An 8-year solo-built, GPLv3 platform for making browser games
Homegames is a free, open-source platform for creating and playing multiplayer games entirely in the browser. Players need no account to jump in, and creators g