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Lotte Reiniger's silhouette epic beat Disney to feature animation by a decade
A century after its 1926 premiere, Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed stands as the oldest surviving animated feature film — predating Disney's Sn
Mercedes-Benz begins mass production of axial flux EV motors
Mercedes-Benz has moved its axial flux electric motor from development into large-scale production, a milestone in the company's push to bring the technology in
Molly Guards Everywhere: A Field Guide to Buttons That Save You From Yourself
A follow-up to an earlier post on molly guards — the covers, flaps, and interlocks that keep people from triggering destructive actions by accident — catalogs a
npm v12 will block install scripts and Git dependencies by default
npm's next major release, v12, expected in July 2026, flips three install-time behaviors from automatic to opt-in, all aimed at shrinking the package manager's
PgDog raises $5.5M to make Postgres horizontally scalable via proxy
PgDog, a three-person startup building an open-source sharding proxy for Postgres, has raised $5.5M from Basis Set, Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, and others. The
Stop validating email addresses with regex — just send the verification email
A developer at gitpush--force.com dismantles persistent myths about email address handling, arguing that the only reliable check is the one nearly every system
Sutton: Generative AI Can Be Novel or Good — Never Both at Once
Reinforcement learning pioneer Rich Sutton argues that generative AI trained purely by supervised learning is structurally incapable of genuine discovery. Borro
Test-case reducers: the dumb-but-brilliant debugging tool most devs skip
Laurence Tratt makes the case that test-case reducers — tools that automatically shrink a failing input while preserving the bug it triggers — deserve far wider
WWDC's Origami Demo Was a Wink: Apple Is Prepping Developers for a Foldable iPhone
Apple never said the word 'foldable' at WWDC 2026, but the evidence is stacking up that iOS 27 is built for one. Developers digging through the beta found new f
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5 and Restricted Mythos 5 for Cyber Defenders
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, its most capable general-purpose model to date, alongside Claude Mythos 5, a sibling model with safeguards lifted in sele
Apple Rebuilds Apple Intelligence on Google Gemini Foundation Models
Apple has overhauled Apple Intelligence around a new set of foundation models co-developed with Google using Gemini technology. The models run across on-device
Apple ships Core AI: a unified on-device framework for model execution
Apple has published documentation for Core AI, a new framework positioned as the foundation layer for running machine learning and generative models across its