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Meta faces $200bn child-safety trial as states allege 'hook, hold, harvest, hide'
California and 28 other US states have taken Meta to trial in Oakland, accusing the company of building deliberately addictive products that harm children and o
Munder Difflin: an open-source harness that clones your team into always-on agents
Munder Difflin is an MIT-licensed multi-agent harness that wraps whatever coding-agent CLI you already run — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot and others
Ohio grand jury clears man who dismantled a Flock license plate camera
A Clermont County grand jury declined to indict Cody Morelock, whom Union Township police had charged with felony vandalism for allegedly taking apart a Flock a
Open-source Qwen3-TTS serving hits sub-50 ms latency at 1/25th the cost
Nari Labs rebuilt the serving stack around the open-weight Qwen3-TTS 1.7B CustomVoice model and pushed p95 time-to-first-audio below 50 ms while sustaining 10 r
People of ACM – Russ Cox
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Running Photoshop on a 60p chip: a case for minimal, low-power computing
A hobbyist emulated a late-1980s Apple Macintosh on a Raspberry Pi RP2350 — a microcontroller that costs roughly 60 pence — and got Photoshop, along with WordPe
Rust Glancer: a memory-frugal alternative LSP targeting under 100MB
A developer with roughly seven years of Rust experience has spent four months building Rust Glancer, an alternative language server that trades rust-analyzer's
The cyberpunk future arrived — and it's mostly mundane
A personal essay argues that the science-fiction future imagined by J.G. Ballard and William Gibson is already here, just without the flying cars. The author as
The '____Labs' Naming Craze: One Developer Maps AI Startups by Number
Starting from ElevenLabs (audio synthesis) and TwelveLabs (video AI), a developer went down a rabbit hole testing whether the numeric '[number]Labs' naming patt
The Productivity Paradox: How AI Slop Trained One Engineer to Tune It Out
An engineer describes a new cognitive reflex: when a document at work carries the telltale fingerprints of a large language model, his brain simply refuses to e
US Brings First-Known Criminal Case Over a Phone 'Duress Password' at the Border
Federal prosecutors have charged Atlanta activist Samuel Tunick under 18 U.S.C. § 2232 — destroying property to prevent its lawful seizure — after he allegedly
Waymo reveals its self-driving compute: a custom 5nm ASIC and 1,000+ TOPS
Waymo has pulled back the curtain on the computing platform that runs its autonomous vehicles, disclosing for the first time that it has designed custom silicon