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Emacs Bedrock 2.0 Requires Emacs 31, Trades Add-ons for Built-ins

Bedrock, a minimal Emacs starter kit that ships as nothing more than an early-init.el and init.el you copy into ~/.emacs.d/ and then edit directly, has reached

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cybersecuritymalware

GitHub repo claims to reconstruct Stuxnet's source from the 2010 binaries

A newly surfaced GitHub project, posted to Hacker News as a Show HN, offers what its author calls a reconstructed source tree for Stuxnet — the 2010 worm genera

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aicloud

Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 delivers hourly global forecasts from raw satellite data

Google DeepMind has released WeatherNext 3, which it bills as the first global weather AI model capable of producing forecasts every hour rather than at coarser

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tech-culturepolicy

How Three Space Probes Turned the Outer Solar System into a Map of Hidden Oceans

Just as paleontology rewrote the dinosaurs of textbook memory, planetary science has quietly overhauled our picture of the outer solar system's frozen moons. On

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tech-cultureopen-source

Interactive map animates every surviving LA building by the year it was built

Parcelscope is a browser-based visualization that renders Los Angeles as a stack of blocks, one per building still standing today, each appearing in the decade

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open-sourcedevops

Jellyfin 12.0 Drops the '10', Rebuilds the Database, and Finally Fixes Books

Jellyfin's new stable release abandons the confusing '10.x' version scheme—what would have been 10.12 is simply 12.0—because the leading '10' never changed and

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aiopen-source

Mistral lands €21B valuation on €3B Series D, Samsung leads

Mistral has closed a €3 billion Series D at a post-money valuation above €21 billion — the largest equity raise ever by a European tech company, coming just thr

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tech-culture

Off-topic: math research statement on the Navier–Stokes equations (no article body)

No article text was supplied for this item — only a Hacker News headline and a link to a PDF (statement.pdf) hosted on Tristan Buckmaster's NYU Courant page. Th

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open-sourceai

Terrastruct Open-Sources TALA, Its Diagram Autolayout Engine, Under MPL-2.0

Terrastruct has released TALA, the autolayout algorithm behind its D2 diagramming language, as open source under MPL-2.0. Unlike the DAG-oriented engines D2 alr

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Trusting-Trust Attack Escapes the Compiler: GNU strip Backdoors All of NixOS

Ken Thompson's classic trusting-trust attack — where a compromised compiler injects a backdoor into everything it builds, including future copies of itself — ha

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policytech-culture

80% of phones flout EU repairability rules, and no one's checking

Since June 2025, EU rules require smartphones and tablets sold in the bloc to carry a repairability score and publish information that helps owners fix their de

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tech-cultureopen-source

A 1024-byte C program that runs Python-flavored code, loops and all

As a weekend exercise, Austin Henley set out to write a Python interpreter in just 1024 bytes of dependency-free C — no macros, no library tricks. The goal was

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