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Google's SIMD Quicksort sorts 10x faster than std::sort, portable across CPUs
Google has open-sourced a vectorized Quicksort that sorts arrays of numbers roughly ten times faster than C++'s std::sort while running on every modern CPU arch
Java 27 ships with post-quantum TLS and G1 as the universal default GC
Oracle has declared JDK 27, the reference implementation of Java 27, generally available, promoting build 35 straight from its second release candidate after th
Local-AI e-ink frame IDs garden birds by ear, draws them as 1800s plates
A Norwegian developer has released Fugleramme, an open-source project that turns a Raspberry Pi 5 and a 13.3-inch Inky Impression e-ink panel into a living natu
Navier-Stokes Was AI's Easy Case: Why Autonomous LLMs Still Don't Scale
Frontier labs are valued as if a drop-in replacement for most knowledge workers is imminent, but this essay argues the headline feats that fuel that valuation —
Nexus Dark Web Service Leaks 153M US and Canadian Driver's Licenses
A newly surfaced dark web operation called Nexus has been selling access to a trove of identity documents, including roughly 3 million travel documents and 153
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The source supplied only a headline ('Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary') with no article body — no quotes, named officia
Norway's Consumer Council pushes durability over throwaway goods
Forbrukerrådet, the Norwegian Consumer Council, is running a campaign arguing that too many products are built to die prematurely and that quality and longevity
Open-Source Flight Planning: Cutting Jet Fuel Bills With Wind-Optimized Routes
A single nonstop Newark-to-Rome flight on a Boeing 787-9 can burn roughly $68,000 in jet fuel over 8.5 hours, and routing around favorable winds can shave a few
Rheinmetall publishes onboardapi — but only the interface spec is open
Rheinmetall has released documentation for onboardapi, a middleware library that standardizes how sensor systems and software components exchange data across mi
Show HN: A flight simulator where all you do is ride along
A developer has launched a browser-based "flight simulator" that inverts the usual premise of the genre: there are no controls to fly the plane. Instead of pilo
Snowden Was 12 Years Ago; Post-9/11 Mass Surveillance Never Stopped
Schneier and Cindy Cohn argue that the surveillance regime built after 9/11 has outlived and outgrown its counterterrorism rationale. What began as a wartime sh
Speakers are rattled by silence — tell them their talk landed
A recap and gentle argument from the web-conference circuit: after speaking at events like SmashingConf Freiburg and MCing CSS Day, the author noticed how often