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Tim King, Who Brought Tripos to the Amiga as AmigaDOS, Dies at End of July
Dr. Tim King, a central figure in the Amiga's software history, died in late July, his family confirmed. King built the Tripos operating system — a preemptive m
uBlock Origin Stops Blocking Facebook Ads, Citing an Unwinnable Arms Race
A uBlock Origin maintainer has announced the project will no longer maintain filters that strip ads from Facebook, ending a years-long cat-and-mouse game the vo
When Font Choice Was Culture War: Germany's Century-Long Antiqua–Fraktur Fight
For roughly a century, Germany and Austria fought over which typeface was authentically German. Blackletter styles like Fraktur had been displaced across most o
xAI ships Grok 4.6, targeting long-running coding agents and one-pass app builds
xAI has released Grok 4.6, an incremental update to Grok 4.5 aimed squarely at agentic workloads: multi-step tasks like codebase work, research, and turning a r
1991 Mars Bar surfaces at 62.5g — 56% heavier than today's 40g bar
A house clearance in Scunthorpe turned up an unopened Mars Bar with a 1991 best-before date, and it dwarfs the current product: 62.5g versus the 40g bar sold to
A digital hoarder's archive reconstructs the 2000 classified ad that landed a dream job
Photographer David set out to fact-check a story he'd told for years: that a New York Times classified listing landed him a staff job at Polo Ralph Lauren in 20
A Live Countdown-and-Webcam Tracker for the 2026 Total Solar Eclipse
Jonty Wareing (jonty.co.uk) has built a lightweight web page that tracks the 2026 total solar eclipse in real time. Hosted for free on GitHub Pages, the single-
AI's CapEx Boom Rhymes With the Railroad Bond Bust of 1873
The piece uses Jay Cooke and the Panic of 1873 as a lens on today's AI infrastructure spending. Cooke financed the Northern Pacific Railway by pioneering mass r
British Transport Police extend live facial recognition to Tube stations
British Transport Police are widening a live facial recognition (LFR) trial to cover London Underground stations, according to a force press release. LFR system
CFTC invokes emergency powers to keep prediction market Kalshi live in New York
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has used its emergency authority to order KalshiEX to keep operating under the Commodity Exchange Act, overriding an at
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 lands on OpenRouter — but the page is all dashboard, no detail
The source is not an article. It's OpenRouter's model listing for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, and the captured text is entirely boilerplate — generic explanations of
England on course to be first country to eliminate hepatitis C
England has already hit its target of treating 80% of known hepatitis C cases and has cut deaths from the liver-attacking virus by roughly 36% over the past dec