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The big American tech firms known as the “Silicon Six” have been accused of paying almost $278bn (£211bn) less corporate income tax in the past decade compared with the statutory rate for US companies

For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day. In 2026, the music is out of phase with the work. Someone on the Phish Facebook group reposted a TikTok overdub. Vanessa Bayer and Paul Rudd at

For the first time in twenty-five years I’m sitting in front of a computer where almost every program I touch was designed by me. One tool at a time, the off-the-shelf option got swapped out for somet

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At round four of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship on May 3rd at Laguna Seca, the Porsche works team will show a historic Apple Computer-inspired livery. The special wrap is based on the Por

Escaping the crowded echo chamber I was recently reading a post by a user on a web development forum. This user, whom we’ll call Mini, was asking the community whether it was worth using JavaScript o

183107122 story " Ransomware activity jumped again in Q1 2026 ," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli , "with 2,638 victim posts on leak sites, up 22% year over year," according to a report from cybers

183107582 story An official in South Africa withdrew a draft of the country's national AI policy, reports a local newspaper , "after it was found the draft policy was compiled using AI, which cited ac

HTTP caching never quite made sense, until AI tools made it legible enough to actually implement. And the reason it finally mattered: the audience had quietly changed. I have a jar of screws on my wo

Every time I happen to use the trace tab in SigNoz (an observability platform), I’m met with the same question, and I put it in the “I’ll deal with this later” folder in my brain. Until today, when I

Using Claude, I analyzed our shared inbox and email history dating back to 2010 to identify patterns in client terminations. For context, I run a digital marketing agency and clients are generally B2B

The UAE’s decision to leave OPEC+ is not just another Gulf oil story. It is an early signal of what happens when a producer with low-cost barrels, spare capacity ambitions, and a long view of electrif

news Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons Another brand backflips and admits that touch-sensitive buttons for frequently used controls were a mistake, but only after the nudge from

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Around Black Friday last November, I moved my website from SiteGround to Bluehost. This was not some ambitious infrastructure decision. SiteGround wanted roughly five times more at renewal, and both p

Utah's Online Age Verification Amendments, formally Senate Bill 73, take effect on May 6, making the state the first in the U.S. to explicitly target VPN use as part of age verification legislation.

Teams usually associate the idea of infrastructure monitoring as a project to “hook up metrics” and “build dashboards”. In fact, in almost every monitoring platform, dashboards are the first-class ci

“We are going to create—and we think we have every right to do so—an environment that is Jesus-centric, that is void of pornography, void of LGBT, void of trans,” Radiant Mobile’s founder, Paul Fisher

About this project This is a non-commercial, hobbyist research project. The author has no business relationship with any vendor referenced here, accepts no payment for this work, and is not available

Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar mission is now operating at full capacity. The fourth and final satellite in the constellation, Sentinel-1D, has completed its in-orbit commissioning phase and ent

Amazon’s data centers in Bahrain and the UAE have been hit multiple times by drone and missile strikes from Iran since the U.S. started bombing the country in February 2026. This left the company’s ME

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the company's market share of AI accelerators in China has now dropped to 0%. The drop is staggering, given that the company owned a lion's share of China's AI accele

Utilyze Utilyze measures how efficiently your GPU is doing useful work, not just whether it's busy. It runs live against your workload with negligible overhead. Standard tools like nvidia-smi and nv

183109170 story An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC : "If even one extra person is able to access the internet, I think it's successful and it's worth it," says Sahand. The Iranian ma

We’re all coding with agents now, but delivering high quality software at 10x velocity remains an open problem. Code review bots are an important start, but a lot of bugs are still landing in producti

???? Thoth — Personal AI Sovereignty Thoth is a local-first AI assistant for personal AI sovereignty: a desktop agent with memory, tools, workflows, design creation, messaging, plugins, and optional

NPS Log Viewer A lightweight application for viewing and decoding Microsoft Network Policy Server (NPS) / Internet Authentication Service (IAS) log files. Download v0.21 Why This Exists Microsoft

Systemd manager tui A TUI application for managing systemd services. This tool allows you to manage systemd services with ease. You can view logs, list services, view properties, edit unit files, an

A browser-based Gaussian splat generator built on top of Apple SHARP. ✨ This project lets you: upload one image generate Gaussian splats in the browser preview the result download a .ply file Li

Studying cognition by averaging data from many people’s brain scans hides how individuals use their brains, new Stanford Medicine research has shown. In particular, children who struggle with goal-or

TL;DR The DiskANN paper explained the Vamana algorithm, but implementing it made the missing engineering details obvious. My first version used the right algorithm with the wrong data structures, so

Python install manager 26.1 Release date: March 31, 2026 The Python install manager for Windows is our tool for installing and managing runtimes. The traditional executable installer will stop being

Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me. I grabbed a hammer and prepared for war 7 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Stephanie Hegarty Population correspondent, BBC World Service

Commitment Issues: Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK We found a critical soundness vulnerability in dusk-plonk, the PLONK implementation powering Dusk Network's ~$60M market cap. By exploiting a