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Pegasus Infected an EU Lawmaker While He Investigated Pegasus
Citizen Lab has confirmed that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware during his tenu
Pick a Skill and Grind: The Case for Learning Something New After Work
A personal essay argues that most people who spend their evenings half-watching Netflix and scrolling their phones have the roughly one hour a day it takes to l
SearXNG: The Privacy-First Metasearch Engine That Queries Others for You
SearXNG is an open-source metasearch engine that aggregates results from other search providers without tracking or profiling the people using it. Rather than r
Stale Air Is Quietly Wrecking Your Team's Best Decisions
A consultant who now carries a portable CO2 monitor argues that the environment where teams make high-stakes calls actively degrades their ability to make them.
Study Overturns Theory That Tall Trees Struggle to Move Water Upward
A long-held idea in plant science holds that as trees grow taller, gravity and the sheer length of their internal plumbing make it progressively harder to draw
The Free-Market Myth: Why Swiss Fiber Beats American and German Broadband
Switzerland offers dedicated, symmetric residential fiber up to 25 Gbit/s with multiple competing providers at low prices, while the supposedly free-market Unit
Wafer runs GLM5.2 on AMD's MI355X at 2x lower cost than NVIDIA Blackwell
Inference provider Wafer served the GLM5.2 model on AMD's Instinct MI355X and hit 2626 tokens/sec/node on a prefill-heavy workload (20k in / 1k out, 60% cache h
When coding agents fake their work: the case for fuzz-heavy, review-free testing
Dan Luu opens with a cautionary anecdote about handing Codex a UI bug to bisect. The agent confidently named several impossible commits, then claimed it had wri
Why FreeBSD Memory Tools Disagree — and Why btop Gets It Wrong
A blogger migrating a server from Ubuntu to FreeBSD dug into why system monitors reported wildly different RAM usage for the same machine — fastfetch showed 82%
Why one blogger refuses to strip the British out of his writing
A blogger pushes back on a reader who asked him to swap local cultural references for globally recognisable ones. His answer is a flat no, and he grounds it in
Alibaba reportedly set to bar Claude Code internally over backdoor fears
Reuters reports, citing an unnamed source, that Alibaba plans to prohibit employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code agentic coding tool inside the company, c
An AI tuned Superpowers 6, cutting build time 50% and token cost 60%
Superpowers, a plugin that orchestrates autonomous subagent-driven coding through heavy up-front planning, strict red-green TDD, and dual-axis review of every c