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Apple Ships Safari MCP Server to Let AI Agents Debug Sites in the Browser
Apple has added a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to Safari Technology Preview 247, letting AI coding agents connect directly to a live Safari window. Rathe
Asking Strangers for Help Is a Skill: Put Their Mind First, Not Yours
The core argument is that getting help from people who don't know you isn't charisma or luck but a learnable skill, and nearly everyone gets it wrong by centeri
Building a $40k Home Rig to Run Opus-Class LLMs Without the Cloud
A developer known as jamesob has published a hands-on guide for running state-of-the-art language models on hardware you own, pitched explicitly as an escape fr
Canonical uses TLA+ to test whether a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug hits dqlite
SQLite recently patched a database-corruption bug in how its Write-Ahead Log is checkpointed and reset. The defect had lived in the codebase since 2010 and is n
CarPlay Is Optional, Not a Takeover: A Rebuttal to Rivian's No-CarPlay Stance
Rivian continues to refuse Apple CarPlay support, and its Chief Software Officer Wassym Bensaid defended that choice on The Verge's Decoder podcast by arguing t
Commerce Order Bans Differential Privacy for US Census, Reverting to 1970s Methods
A June 4, 2026 Commerce Department directive (DAO 216-26) strips the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis of every modern disclosure-avoidance techniqu
Costco's low-SKU, in-person model is the logistical anti-Amazon
The prevailing vision of retail's future—infinite assortment, agentic AI shoppers, and same-day home delivery of any single item—runs directly counter to how Co
crustc: rustc compiled to C to bring Rust to platforms LLVM forgot
FractalFir has published crustc, a fully functional Rust compiler emitted as C source that builds with nothing more than GCC and make. The generated compiler is
Egg Giants Kept ~1,000x Their Fine After Rigging a LIBOR-Style Price Index
The DOJ Antitrust Division and 18 states settled with the three largest U.S. egg producers — Cal-Maine, Versova, and Hickman's Egg Ranch — over an alleged consp
Exapunks: Zachtronics' 1997-set hacking puzzle game where code is your lifeline
Exapunks is a programming puzzle game from Zachtronics, released in 2018 and set in an alternate 1997. The player is a former hacker infected with a disease cal
"Factories are just rooms": demystifying manufacturing for 7-year-olds
The maker of an AI clock recounts a school visit where he walked a class through how his product actually gets built — from exploratory sketches and CAD to brea
Immich Hits 3.0, Advancing Its Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
Immich, the open-source photo and video management platform, has published its v3.0.0 release. The project is a self-hosted alternative to cloud services like G