James Governor: So giving it a name is really important. That's part of why we wrote Progressive Delivery. There was a movie in the very olden days, and I don't think it's particularly well remembered

On April 29, 2026, a GitHub search for “A Mini Shai-Hulud has Appeared” returned over 1,000 repositories. Each was a developer’s own repo, recently poisoned by a credential-stealing payload bundled in

Abstract Computational functionalism dominates current debates on AI consciousness. This is the hypothesis that subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology, regardless of the

Maryland has become the first state in the US to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores. Maryland’s law bans grocers and third-party delivery services from using a person’s personal data to set h

183054716 story Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub's frequent outages have made it "no longer a place for serious work ," prompting him to move his Ghostty terminal emulator project e

Two weeks ago, Elsevier announced that they were hiring a new Editor-in-Chief at Research in International Business and Finance (RIBAF): RIBAF’s previous Editor-in-Chief, John Goodell—a Professor of

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Computer program for understanding natural language For the letter sequence sometimes seen as a printer's error, see etaoin shrdlu SHRDLU is an early natural-language understanding computer program

HTTP reverse proxying is a minefield. Just the other week, a researcher disclosed a desync vulnerability in Discord's media proxy that allowed spying on private attachments. This is not unusual; these

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Stethoscope This project aims to create a research-validated stethoscope whose plans are available freely and openly. The goal is for the bell to cost ~USD$1-2 to produce, and the rest of the stethos

The rush to make AI chatbots more friendly has a troubling downside, researchers say. The warm personas make them prone to mistakes and sympathetic to crackpot beliefs. Chatbots trained to respond mo

Introducing the Structured Output Benchmark (SOB) copy markdown LLMs are increasingly deployed to produce structured data from unstructured and semi-structured sources, parsing invoices, medical reco

What used to be a fringe hobby in the firearms world, building or customizing your own guns, is increasingly popular. So, Wyomingites welcome a ruling by the federal 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, st

183047306 story An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Humanoid robots are getting a new gig as baggage handlers and cargo loaders at Tokyo's Haneda Airport -- part of a Japan Airlines

183047380 story Tony Isaac shares a report from NPR: Federal survey data shows that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback Abilene builder Gene Lantrip is on the front lines of Texas’ population boo

12/ Online age verification is the hill to die on. This is the fight. This is the moment. This is the infrastructure that cannot be allowed to go live. If you love freedom, stop this. If you love your

Metabase’s backend is big. We’re talking 500K lines of Clojure code spread across a query processor, permissions system, numerous database drivers, a notification pipeline, serialization layer, search

Here's one theory. According to critics, it benefits AI companies to keep you fixated on apocalypse because it distracts from the very real damage they're already doing to the world. Tech leaders say

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Coding agents have mostly lived on your laptop. Today we're moving them to the cloud, where they run on their own, in parallel, and notify you when they're done. You can start them from the Mistral Vi

☕ Welcome to The Coder Cafe! On April 3, 2026, Salvatore Dipietro, an engineer at AWS, posted a patch to the Linux kernel mailing list. The reason: on a 96-vCPU Graviton4 machine running Linux 7.0, Po

The friendlier the AI chatbot the more inaccurate it is, study suggests 15 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Liv McMahon Technology reporter Getty Images AI chatbots trained to be warm

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OpenAI could have prevented one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada’s history, a string of seven lawsuits filed Wednesday in a California court alleged. Ultimately, the AI company overruled rec

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Nathan Sobo April 29th, 2026 To create a fundamentally better editor, we had to invent a new approach to building desktop software. Our previous editor, Atom, was built as a fork of Chromium, spawnin

In 2011 I worked at a tiny Stockholm agency. We deployed by FTP. Our entire CI was a Bash script someone wrote in 2007. The hardest security problem we had was remembering to disable directory listing

Reproducible builds allow anyone to verify that a binary matches its source code. But what if the build artifact must contain a cryptographic signature? Reproducing the signature requires the private

Introduction It has been nearly a decade since seminal reports and associated research documenting the surprising frequency of accidental injury in healthcare were published in the UK and around the

GitHub seems to be crumbling the past couple of weeks. Whatever the reason, ultimately its not great for 90% of the world's OSS to depend on one provider. Centralized systems always crumble; it's the