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Why Your Screen Has Never Shown You a True Cyan — and Where to See One

Human color vision runs on just three types of cone cells, and the brain reconstructs every shade from the relative intensity of their signals. That biological

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tech-cultureopen-source

Windows 11's New Media Player Eats 3.5x the RAM and Paywalls HEVC Playback

Microsoft's modern Media Player, now the default on Windows 11 in place of Groove Music and the classic Windows Media Player, is far heavier than the app it rep

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open-sourcetech-culture

After a Decade, Java's Project Valhalla Lands in JDK 28 — But Only Halfway

Oracle engineer Lois Foltan confirmed on June 15 that JEP 401, the long-promised Value Classes and Objects work at the heart of Project Valhalla, is merging int

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open-sourcedevops

ClickHouse at 10: the analytics database that built itself in the open

ClickHouse marked a decade as open source on June 15, 2026, having grown into the most widely used open-source analytical database with over 2,000 contributors.

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open-sourceai

Datasette Apps sandbox untrusted HTML inside your database tool

Simon Willison has released datasette-apps, a plugin that lets self-contained HTML and JavaScript applications run directly inside a Datasette instance. The app

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open-sourcetech-culture

Gribouille 0.3.0 adds one-argument guide control to Typst's ggplot-style plotting

Gribouille, a spare-time, unfunded port of the grammar-of-graphics idea to the Typst typesetting system, has shipped version 0.3.0. The release is smaller in sc

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tech-cultureprivacy

How Always-On Earbuds Are Quietly Eroding Everyday Conversation

Ubiquitous wireless earbuds have crept far beyond the gym and the commute into offices, checkout lines, and even social settings like a round of golf, turning a

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tech-culturepolicy

How seven rival rail companies kept one logo when Japan broke up JNR

Japan's JR mark looks like the badge of a single national railway, but it actually fronts seven legally separate companies — six regional passenger operators an

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cybersecurityidentity

Let's Encrypt renewals fail as ACME API hits multi-day incident

Let's Encrypt's certificate authority experienced renewal failures tied to its production ACME endpoint (acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org) and the operator portal.

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REJECTED — off-topic medical case report, no content supplied

This item is a JACC cardiology case report on surviving cold-water drowning, not a cybersecurity or technology story. No article body was provided — only the he

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aitech-culture

Temperament Beats Talent: A Zen Field Guide to Doing AI Research

You become an AI researcher by pairing reading with building—neither alone is enough—and then showing up with the discipline to keep working when insight refuse

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tech-culturepolicy

The value markets can't price: why unpaid social goods keep disappearing

Using a grant-funded gaming clubhouse in Stockholm as a starting point, this essay argues that some of the most valuable things in society are precisely the one

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