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Cloudflare launches Flagship, a feature flag service for Workers
Cloudflare has introduced Flagship, a feature flag platform that lets developers toggle functionality in production without redeploying. Flags are evaluated ins
Coding agents finally give Anthropic and OpenAI a business model that pays
Simon Willison argues that the recent surge in enterprise AI spending isn't a sign of waste — it's the long-awaited product-market fit for OpenAI and Anthropic.
DuckDuckGo's AI-free search jumps 28% as users revolt against Google AI Mode
Traffic to noai.duckduckgo.com climbed an average of 22.7% week-over-week between May 20 and May 25, peaking at 27.7% on May 24. The DuckDuckGo mobile app saw U
Epicure: Skip-gram embeddings map the latent geometry of 1,790 cooking ingredients
Researchers built Epicure, three sibling ingredient embedding models trained from scratch on 4.14 million recipes pulled from 11 sources across nine languages.
Erin Brockovich Launches Crowdsourced Map of US Data Centers and Their Impacts
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has published an interactive map tracking data center development across the United States, paired with a public reportin
FBI Arrests Senior CIA Official After Finding $40M in Gold Bars at His Home
Federal agents arrested a CIA official after a search of his residence turned up roughly $40 million worth of gold bars, according to a New York Times report. T
Getting SimCity 3000 to run at 4K on modern Windows
A walkthrough for coaxing SimCity 3000 Unlimited into a playable state on contemporary hardware, specifically Windows 10 LTSC with a Ryzen 5 3600, Radeon RX 760
GitHub Outage Disrupts PRs, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests
GitHub's status page logged an incident affecting core developer workflows, including pull requests, issues, git operations, and API requests. The disruption hi
Go Proposes Generic Methods, Breaking Long-Held Stance Against Them
A new Go language proposal would allow concrete methods to declare their own type parameters, reversing a position the Go team has held since generics landed. T
Google security engineer charged with $1.2M Polymarket bet using internal search data
Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged Michele Spagnuolo, a staff information security engineer at Google, with wire fraud, commo
Hallucinate: A Browser-Based Massively Multiplayer Online Rave
Hallucinate bills itself as a massively multiplayer online rave, a web-native social experience that swaps the usual game-world framing for a virtual dance floo
If AI Really 10x's Productivity, Where's Our Four-Day Week?
A pointed satirical argument turns the AI productivity narrative back on the people selling it. If artificial intelligence is genuinely about to revolutionize w