Google releases Gemma 4 open models

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Build autonomous agents that plan, navigate apps, and complete tasks on your behalf, with native support for function calling.

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

LinkedIn scans users' computers for installed software without consent, collecting data on job search activity, religious beliefs, and competitor products. BrowserGate is a campaign to expose this corporate espionage and data breach scandal, seeking funds and public support to hold LinkedIn accountable.

Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own

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Delve team allegedly used Sim.ai's open source tool SimStudio without permission, violating Apache software license. Delve's founders deny allegations, but Sim.ai's CEO confirms no license agreement was in place.

Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents

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Qwen3.6-Plus is a significant upgrade to the Qwen series, offering enhanced agentic coding capabilities, improved multimodal reasoning, and a more stable and reliable foundation for developers. The model is now generally available through the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API and supports various coding assistants, including OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Qwen Code, to streamline development ...

Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU

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Using --no-mmap and increasing context size can speed up load times. Lemonade offers a unified API with various features like chat and image gen.

EmDash: A Fresh Take on CMS

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Cloudflare's EmDash is a new open source CMS built on Astro and TypeScript, aiming to be a modern WordPress alternative. It features a secure sandboxed plugin model, AI-first design, and a solid database structure, but may not address the main frustrations with WordPress.

Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket

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Nepal's fake rescue scam involves staging medical emergencies to claim insurance, with guides and hospitals involved in the scheme. The scam has been ongoing since 2018, with investigators finding 171 confirmed fake rescues between 2022 and 2025, resulting in millions of dollars in insurance claims.

IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm

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IBM and Arm collaborate to develop dual-architecture hardware for AI and data-intensive workloads. The collaboration aims to create flexible and scalable computing platforms for the future with greater reliability, security, and scalability.

Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps

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NASA's Artemis II mission used a laser-based communications system to beam 4K moon footage to Earth at 260 Mbps. The system, called O2O, will also be used for fast transmission of procedures and data.

Significant Raise of Reports

The kernel security list has seen a huge increase in bug reports, from 2-3 per week to 5-10 per day, with most being correct and leading to faster bug fixes. This shift is expected to change the approach to security fixes, making embargoes obsolete and encouraging periodic updates.

'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic

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Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

The Swedish government is reintroducing physical textbooks and reducing digital devices in schools to improve reading and writing skills. They aim for every student to have a physical textbook for each subject, citing concerns about screen time and distraction.

Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why

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right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year

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Renewable energy expanded by 15.5% in 2025, with solar accounting for nearly three-quarters of new capacity additions. However, the world is still behind pace to meet its renewable energy commitments by 2030.

An Example of Statistical Investigation of the Text Eugene Onegin – Markov, 1913 [pdf]

This study investigates a text excerpt containing 20,000 Russian letters of the alphabet, ,2 from Pushkin’s novel Eugene Onegin – the entire first chapter and and excluding sixteen stanzas of the second. Accordingly, we assume the existence of an unknown constant probability p that the observed letter is a vowel. We determine the approximate value of p by observation, by counting all the ...

The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes

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SpaceX's IPO is unlikely to mirror Amazon or Google's returns due to changed IPO landscape. The company's valuation is overpriced due to scarcity value fallacy and narrative overpowering financials.

Gone (Almost) Phishin'

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A scammer targeted the user's Apple account by sending fake password reset prompts and contacting Apple Support, pretending to be the user. The scammer's convincing tactics included a fake Apple Support call and a pixel-perfect replica website to steal the user's password.

Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?

Techniques to protect email addresses from spammers include HTML entities, CSS, JavaScript, and encryption, with varying levels of effectiveness. Most harvesters are unsophisticated, making even simple techniques effective, but no method is foolproof.

Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data

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User analyzed 10GB Hacker News dataset with Codex and Modolap to compare Rust and Go mentions and MySQL vs Postgres. Initial findings suggest a gradual decline in comment length over time.

Snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists

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Snowpack in the American west is at record-low levels due to a historically warm winter and searing March temperatures. Experts warn that even with potential for more snow, it will be too little too late to mitigate the effects of the dry season.

Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt

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A terminal emulator for Emacs built on libghostty-vt offers ANSI colors, full key handling, and scrollback, but has character width mismatches and no mouse support. It requires Zig and Git installed, and can be customized with settings like shell and TERM variable.

Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM

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Mercor AI startup was affected by a cyberattack linked to TeamPCP and Lapsus$ hacking groups. Mercor is investigating the incident with third-party experts and communicating with customers and contractors.

On the trail of ancient art, deep in the Sahara

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Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)

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The user designed a reference data system for manufacturing using Clojure, a dynamic functional programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, due to its benefits in data manipulation and prototyping. The user found Clojure's REPL environment, code-as-data semantic, and macro system particularly useful for rapid development and prototyping, and recommends considering it for ...

Telli (YC F24) is hiring engineers, designers, and more (on-site, Berlin)

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Businesses will increasingly use AI voice agents to interact with customers, improving the experience. AI advancements will make voice agents a no-brainer for B2C companies in the coming years.

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

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Caltech and Google announced quantum computing breakthroughs, lowering overhead for fault-tolerance and Shor's algorithm. This may make Bitcoin signatures vulnerable to quantum attack sooner than expected.

EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

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Cloudflare's EmDash is a new, open-source CMS built on Astro, aiming to replace WordPress with a more secure, serverless, and AI-friendly platform. EmDash offers improved security, scalability, and ease of use, with features like plugin sandboxing, dynamic workers, and AI-driven content management.

Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had

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SQLite ships with a JSON extension that lets you store and query JSON documents directly in tables. You can keep your schema flexible while still using SQL to slice and dice structured data. You can also create indexes on JSON expressions, making queries over semi-structured data surprisingly fast. SQLite’s FTS5 extension turns it into a capable full-text search engine. Instead of bolting on ...

Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

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Steam on Linux reached an all-time high of 5.33% market share in March 2026, a 3.1% increase from February. Windows lost 4.28% to 92.33% while macOS gained 1.19% to 2.35%.

Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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The Artemis II mission has successfully deployed the Orion spacecraft's solar array wings, completing a key configuration step for the mission. The spacecraft is now preparing for the perigee raise maneuver and apogee raise burn to increase its orbit and prepare for deep-space operations.