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Cantrill: LLM-Written Posts Are Obvious, and They're Killing Your Credibility
Bryan Cantrill argues that the flood of AI-generated posts on LinkedIn is easy to spot and actively counterproductive. The stylistic fingerprints of LLM prose —
Chrome keeps Google's cookies alive despite 'delete on close' setting
Researcher Jeff Johnson (Lapcat Software) reports that Chrome 152.0.7977.83 preserves site data for www.google.com even when the browser is configured to wipe a
Cloud in a Bottle pitches a 'personal cloud' to make self-hosting mainstream
Imbue has launched Cloud in a Bottle, an open-source platform that tries to make self-hosting feel like using a smartphone rather than moonlighting as a sysadmi
Cracking Open Rust's dyn Trait: A Hands-On Tour of Vtables and Wide Pointers
A developer coming to Rust from C++ dissects how the language implements polymorphism, contrasting static dispatch (generics/monomorphization) with dynamic disp
Deriving Music Theory From Scratch With a Web Audio Oscillator
A programmer who never grasped music theory through conventional lessons rebuilds it from physics and arithmetic instead of convention, using JavaScript and the
Fifth Circuit Rules There's No Constitutional Right to Safe Drinking Water
A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against Jackson, Mississippi, brought by residents who say the city knowingly let them drink lead-
Free OCaml Programming Book Gets English Translation Under CC BY-SA
An introductory book on programming with OCaml is now available in English, translated by Urmila Nair from the original French edition. The translation was fund
GPT-6 Astra dominates block-in-bowl robotics test, but stalls on the puzzle like Fable
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra took control of the same YAM robot arms used in an earlier Claude Fable comparison, running under the Inspect Robots agent policy on two ma
Isar Aerospace becomes first European firm to reach orbit on just its second flight
German launch startup Isar Aerospace put satellites into orbit on 5 September 2026, becoming the first commercial European company to do so — and pulling it off
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum becomes first rocket to reach orbit from Western Europe
German startup Isar Aerospace put its two-stage Spectrum rocket into orbit on September 5, 2025, launching from Andøya Space Center in northern Norway. It's the
LTT Labs CT-Scans a Delidded Core i9-14900KS to Map Its Silicon Layout
LTT Labs put a delidded Intel Core i9-14900KS through a Lumafield Neptune industrial CT scanner, following up on a similar scan of the i9-13900K two years earli
Nitter Lives: Project Defies X Corp Takedown Demand, Repo Restored
The privacy-focused Twitter/X front-end Nitter is back from the brink. After X Corp. sent cease-and-desist letters on 24 August 2026 demanding a permanent shutd