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The Microsoft engineer who gave us Word's red squiggle dies
Tony Krueger, a longtime Microsoft developer, has died. While Wikipedia credits him mainly for porting the game Chip's Challenge to Windows—a feat he pulled off
The voicemail that jailed Kevin Mitnick — and the Porsche he left behind
In the 1990s, Shawn Nunley was a network administrator at Novell when the company's NetWare servers became a target for a persistent intruder. Late one night, N
Turning Gaussian Splats Into Physical Objects With a PolyJet 3D Printer
Artist Dany Bittel documents a collaboration with crysta.ai that takes a Gaussian splat — a point-cloud-style 3D capture, in this case of an insect — and fabric
Vitamin D Skeptics May Have Overcorrected, Argues a Closer Read of the Evidence
The fashionable view among careful thinkers is that vitamin D supplements do nothing unless you're severely deficient: blood levels correlate with nearly every
Why Agentic Loops Nail Throwaway Code but Fail at Code Meant to Last
A new pattern is taking over agentic engineering: the harness-level loop. Instead of prompting a coding agent directly, developers wrap it in an outer loop that
Why Copying a Rival's Design Pixel-by-Pixel Made a Better Product
A Kibu engineer makes the case for deliberate imitation as a working method, framed around Virgil Abloh's "3% approach": when redesigning the Air Force 1, Abloh
A Decade-Old Euler Solution Shows How Much Cleverness AI Has Quietly Replaced
Revisiting a 10-year-old Project Euler repository, the author finds a solution to Problem 15 (counting lattice paths through an n×n grid) stored not as code but
A Laid-Off Engineer's Lament on the AI-Wrecked Tech Job Market
A software engineer with roughly a decade of experience—seven years of it at Blizzard before a June 2025 layoff—vents about six months of fruitless job hunting
Age Verification Is Identity Surveillance in Disguise — Refuse the Face Scan
A wave of "age assurance" laws now advancing across three continents is, in practice, a mandate for universal identity verification. The argument is straightfor
Benchmarking Anthropic's Secretive 'Mythos' Bug-Finder Against Rival Models
Anthropic has restricted access to Mythos, a model it claims is exceptionally good at finding security vulnerabilities, ostensibly because the capability is too
Canada bets on nuclear: up to 10 new reactors and doubled uranium exports by 2040
Canada's energy minister Tim Hodgson unveiled a national strategy to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over 15 years, expand exports of Canadian-made Candu re
Chevron locks in 20-year power deal to fuel Microsoft's West Texas data center
Chevron has agreed to supply power to a Microsoft data center in West Texas under a 20-year contract. The length of the commitment signals how long-term and cap