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AI now authors half of Linear's issues — yet teams ship more, not faster
Linear mined six years of its own product-development data to chart how AI has reshaped software work, and the adoption curve is steep and broad. Between Januar
AI's DRAM Land Grab Sends RAM Prices Up 500%, With 128GB DDR5 Kits at $3,399
DDR5 memory has become one of the most volatile line items in a PC build. Year-over-year prices are up nearly 500% on high-capacity kits, with 128GB DDR5 now ru
Apple Overhauls EU App Terms, Swaps Core Technology Fee for 5% Commission
Apple is consolidating its European app business terms into a single model that takes effect October 1, 2026, ending a running dispute with the European Commiss
Cerebras CS-4 debuts, claiming up to 30x faster AI inference than GPUs
Cerebras has unveiled the CS-4, a rack-scale AI system built on three WSE-3 Turbo wafer-scale chips that the company claims delivers up to 30x faster inference
Cursor takes on GitHub with Origin, an agent-native code host
Cursor is moving beyond the editor into code hosting with Origin, an early-beta platform now rolling out to all paid users except opted-out enterprise orgs. The
Desktop pet fly runs a live simulation of the real Drosophila connectome
A new open-source macOS app puts a 3D fruit fly on your desktop, but the novelty is what's under the hood: its behavior is driven by a live spiking-neuron simul
Fairphone reaches the US market with the spec-bumped, still-repairable Gen 6+
Fairphone, the Dutch maker known for repairable and ethically sourced smartphones, is selling directly in the United States for the first time. American buyers
Finger: the 1971 protocol that quietly invented the social network
Long before accounts and algorithms, Finger let anyone read your status straight from a plain-text file you controlled. Born in 1971 at the Stanford AI Lab, it
Go 1.27 Lands: Generic Methods, JSON v2, and Post-Quantum Crypto
Go 1.27 delivers the language's most substantial feature additions in several releases. The spec now permits generic methods, letting a single method like Rand.
Iceland's Rowing Parable: A Send-Up of Consultant-Driven Over-Management
This is not a security story despite its 'Red team' framing — it's a satirical management fable published on UK frozen-food retailer Iceland's corporate history
Last MPEG-4 Part 2 patent expires, clearing the codec worldwide
A Brazilian patent filed by Siemens AG in 2001 (BR PI0109962-0), part of the MPEG-4 Visual portfolio once managed by MPEG LA, expired on July 19, 2026. It was t
London ULEZ tied to rapid rebound in children's pollution-stunted lung growth
A five-year study tracked more than 3,400 primary schoolchildren, comparing kids inside London's Ultra Low Emission Zone against a socioeconomically matched con