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Pushin pitches EU-only Git hosting: no CLOUD Act, no AI training on your code
Pushin (pushin.eu) is a Git hosting service that keeps all repositories inside the EU and pitches itself explicitly against US-based rivals like GitHub. Its cor
Reverse-Engineering a Jane Street ASIC, One Rabbit Hole at a Time
Jane Street's reverse-engineering puzzle hands you a GDS file describing a custom chip and asks you to figure out what it does—with a warmup round that includes
Rust React Compiler Lands Natively in Vite, Cutting Compile Time ~17×
The oxc team shipped official Rust-based React Compiler support on August 4, 2026, and it's now wired into Vite directly rather than routed through Babel. The d
Salvaged PS5 Silicon Turns AMD's BC-250 Mining Board Into a Cheap Gaming PC
The AMD BC-250 is a single-board machine built from PlayStation 5 APUs that failed console binning, then repurposed onto crypto-mining boards — ASRock originall
Spotify's Portal offloads Claude Code grunt work to cheap models, cutting tokens 90%
A Spotify engineer argues that most of what an AI coding agent does is I/O, not reasoning — reading files to answer a single question, scaffolding tests that mi
Statichost.eu bets on full European stack for static site hosting
A Stockholm-based one-person company, statichost.eu, is pitching static website hosting where every layer of the stack runs on infrastructure owned by European
Study: Google AI Mode Serves the Same Products 21.6% Pricier Than Classic Search
A 23-day analysis by Productrise tracked more than 2 million product listings across over 100,000 shopping results, running identical queries through Google's A
TERMy ditches LLMs for a rule-based NLU pipeline in ~1000 lines
The creator of the PJON networking protocol set out to build a natural-language terminal assistant so he could stop paying a monthly LLM bill for trivial chores
The Irony of AI SREs: Automating Incidents Erodes the Skills Needed for the Hard Ones
AI incident-response tools—so-called "AI SREs"—can now triage alerts, form hypotheses, query telemetry, tie failures to recent deploys, and even ship fixes on t
Unverifiable: claimed Chromium sandbox RCE has no source or valid CVE record
A submission headlined "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions" arrived with no article body and no supporting details. The cited identifier, C
U.S. Perceptions of Government Corruption Hit Record 89%, Now Highest in OECD
Gallup's latest polling finds 89% of American adults believe corruption is widespread in their government — the highest reading in two decades and a 10-point ju
Wikimedia Foundation's U.S. Staff Vote to Unionize Under CWA
U.S.-based employees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia and its sister projects, have voted decisively to join Communications Workers o