Why SSL became TLS: the name change that reflected a browser war
A retrospective on the mid-1990s shows the renaming was not just technical housekeeping but part of a much uglier standards fight.
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Jemalloc's active upstream development ends after about 20 years
Jason Evans says the allocator will remain available, but the long-running open-source project has reached the end of active development.
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A receipt printer becomes a productivity system for procrastination
One developer says turning tasks into tiny, physical wins helped him keep moving when motivation alone did not.
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A new cosmology paper argues the Big Bang may have bounced out of a black hole
Researchers writing in Physical Review D say the universe could have formed inside a massive black hole, then rebounded rather than beginning from a singularity.
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Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign stretches across every platform
Apple previewed a broad software redesign that ties iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch and TV closer together while trying to keep the interfaces familiar.
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Simon Willison says the last six months have been enough to redraw the LLM map
An invited keynote in San Francisco reviewed how quickly the model landscape changed, from local open-weight releases to expensive frontier systems and a viral image launch.
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Australian Warship Radar Disrupts New Zealand Wireless Services
HMAS Canberra changed frequencies after its navigation system interfered with internet and radio links from Taranaki to Marlborough.
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Chile and Google sign deal for trans-Pacific Humboldt data cable
The planned 14,800-kilometre link would connect Valparaíso with Sydney through French Polynesia by 2027, creating a new digital route between South America, Asia and Oceania.
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Quarkdown tries to turn Markdown into a full publishing system
The GitHub project wraps layout, logic and output formats into a single Markdown-based workflow for books, papers, slides and knowledge bases.
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A Fly.io essay says coding agents explain why LLM skeptics are missing the point
The post argues that modern AI-assisted development is not chat prompting, but agents that inspect code, run tools and iterate against real tests.
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Progressive JSON argues that streaming should arrive in pieces
A long essay says the web should treat JSON more like a progressive image, with useful partial data arriving before the last byte has loaded.
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A personal website manifesto says ugly can be the point
The author of a deliberately messy site argues that a page should feel handmade, personal and alive rather than generic and over-polished.
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Crossword fans turn a double-doubles thread into a theory of the square
An essay about a crossword Discord says the real pleasure of wordplay comes from relations that complete a neat square.
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Anthropic publishes Claude 4 system card as its latest safety disclosure
A new system card for Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 outlines how Anthropic frames the models, their capabilities and the guardrails attached to them.
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Security researcher says o3 found a Linux SMB zero-day during benchmarking
A write-up on Sean Heelan’s site says OpenAI’s o3 model helped identify CVE-2025-37899 in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation.
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Microsoft previews PostgreSQL development tools inside VS Code
The extension combined database management, query editing, Azure integration and a PostgreSQL-focused GitHub Copilot agent in a single editor-based workflow.
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DDoSecrets releases 410GB of TeleMessage heap dumps
A blog post says Distributed Denial of Secrets published 410GB of data hacked from TeleMessage's archive server and limited access because the material contains sensitive personal information.
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Microsoft opens the Windows Subsystem for Linux codebase
Microsoft says the Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source, with the code on GitHub and a multi-year path from WSL 1 to the separately shipped WSL package now complete.
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A new scheduler is reshaping spaced repetition
Domenic Denicola argues that spaced-repetition software has become much better, largely because newer scheduling algorithms such as FSRS are reducing wasted reviews and making learning less frustrating.
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matklad argues for pushing conditionals upward
A short note by matklad says code is often easier to reason about when precondition checks move to the caller and batch processing becomes the natural base case.
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Vates says a customer kept trialing XOA for a decade
Vates alleges that a space company repeatedly abused Xen Orchestra Appliance trials, and says it may tighten limits to stop the pattern.
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Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEvolve for algorithm design
DeepMind says AlphaEvolve combines Gemini models with automated evaluators and an evolutionary loop to improve code, math and compute systems across Google.
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Soviet Venus probe Kosmos 482 falls from orbit after 53 years
The titanium-encased lander made an uncontrolled re-entry, with Russian authorities placing its descent over the Indian Ocean.
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