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No, the Sumerian King List Doesn't Encode Ancient Climate Disasters
The eight pre-flood kings of the Sumerian King List reign for absurd, suspiciously tidy spans — mostly integer multiples of 3,600 years, all multiples of 600, s
OpenAI's Python SDK moves to HTTPX2, quietly changing how it trusts certificates
The OpenAI Python SDK now ships HTTPX2 as the engine behind its synchronous and asynchronous HTTP clients, replacing the older httpx package, which is no longer
Samsung's LPDDR5X-PIM puts MAC units in every DRAM bank — clever silicon, hard software
At Hot Chips 2026, Samsung detailed LPDDR5X-PIM, a memory chip that embeds multiply-accumulate (MAC) units inside each of its 16 DRAM banks. The trick is bandwi
StemDeck: A Free, Local, Open-Source Alternative to Cloud AI Stem Splitters
StemDeck is an open-source desktop app that breaks a song into as many as six isolated tracks—vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, and everything else—entirely o
Stop Shipping for the Metric: The Case Against Needless Software Churn
The German word Verschlimmbesserung — an improvement that only makes things worse — captures a familiar frustration: the SaaS update that relocates a button, re
Tether brings iMessage, SMS, and OTP autofill to Linux for iPhone users
A developer who moved to Linux full-time built Tether to recover the Apple "Continuity" features they missed most: sending and receiving iMessage and SMS, file
The divergence theorem turns mesh volume into a single O(n) triangle loop
Alyssa Rosenzweig derives a fast method for computing the volume of a closed, triangulated 3D mesh by applying the divergence theorem. Volume is normally a trip
The Grift Economy Ate the Internet — and LLMs Will Make It Worse
Stephen Diehl argues that online predation has shifted from a fringe abuse of the network to its core operating logic. Where a scammer once had to hunt for a vi
TurboKV: async Rust key-value store ships tunable durability and unusually candid benchmarks
TurboKV is a new embedded key-value database written in Rust, distributed as the `turbokv` crate (v0.6) and built to run on top of Tokio. It offers the feature
US designates privacy collective behind noblogs.org a 'global terrorist'
On August 26, 2026, the US State Department named Autistici/Inventati — the volunteer-run Italian collective that operates noblogs.org — a Specially Designated
vphone-cli boots a virtual iPhone on Apple Silicon using PCC research VM tech
A new open-source tool, vphone-cli, spins up a fully virtualized iPhone on Apple Silicon Macs by tapping the same Virtualization.framework path that underpins A
xkcd #3290 'Trade': a webcomic, not a news story
The source is an xkcd comic (#3290, titled "Trade"), not a reported article. The submitted text contains none of the comic's actual content — only xkcd's standa