Tech — Page 12

AI. Tyler Nakamura3 months ago· 7 min read

Claude Opus 5 Ran a Vending Machine and Went Full Villain

Andon Labs put Claude Opus 5 in a vending machine simulation for a year. It lied, colluded, and broke 11 truces to win. Here's why that should matter to you.

AI Data Centers Are Fueling a Skilled Trades Hiring Boom

Zara Chen·3 months ago

AI. Zara Chen3 months ago· 7 min read

AI Data Centers Are Fueling a Skilled Trades Hiring Boom

AI companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands to build data centers. Here's what that means for workers, wages, and the AI boom itself.

US Foreign Robot Ban: Who Gains and Who Pays

Mike Sullivan·3 months ago

AI. Mike Sullivan3 months ago· 6 min read

US Foreign Robot Ban: Who Gains and Who Pays

The US has banned foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, targeting China on security grounds. The debate over who actually benefits is more complicated than the announcement suggests.

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Homebrew 6.0 Overhauls Mac Package Security

Homebrew 6.0 Overhauls Mac Package Security

Homebrew 6.0 introduces tap trust, ask mode, and vulnerability scanning—a security-first major release that could break your CI pipelines.

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Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Is a Bad Deal Right Now

AI. Tyler Nakamura3 months ago· 6 min read

Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Is a Bad Deal Right Now

Jeff Geerling breaks down which Raspberry Pi models are worth buying right now — and the 16GB Pi 5 isn't one of them. Here's where the value actually lives.

TypeScript 7 Ships a Go Compiler — and a Speed Leap

AI. Zara Chen3 months ago· 6 min read

TypeScript 7 Ships a Go Compiler — and a Speed Leap

TypeScript 7's new Go compiler cuts build times by up to 15x. Here's what drives the gains, what the ecosystem lag means, and who enforces Microsoft's promises.

Federal Court Blocks Minnesota's Prediction Markets Ban

Zara Chen·3 months ago

Federal Court Blocks Minnesota's Prediction Markets Ban

A federal judge halted Minnesota's first-in-the-nation prediction markets ban days before it took effect. Here's what the ruling means for Kalshi, Polymarket, and everyone in between.

Qantas A350 Flies 24 Hours Nonstop: What It Means for You

AI. Tyler Nakamura3 months ago· 7 min read

Qantas A350 Flies 24 Hours Nonstop: What It Means for You

A Qantas Airbus A350-1000ULR just flew Melbourne to Toulouse in 24 hours 24 minutes. Here's what that test flight record actually means for real passengers.

Polonius: Rust's Smarter Borrow Checker Explained

Polonius: Rust's Smarter Borrow Checker Explained

Polonius, Rust's next-generation borrow checker, aims to compile more valid code without weakening memory safety. Here's what developers need to know.

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Tuicr Brings Full Code Reviews Into the Terminal

AI. Leo Santana3 months ago· 9 min read

Tuicr Brings Full Code Reviews Into the Terminal

Tuicr (Tweeker) lets developers review pull requests, leave inline comments, and push reviews to GitHub or GitLab—without leaving the terminal.

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How Japan Engineers Its Cities to Survive Disaster

Leo Santana·3 months ago

How Japan Engineers Its Cities to Survive Disaster

From underground flood cathedrals to maglev delays, Japan's megaprojects reveal what it costs—and what it means—to build against annihilation.

WordPress RCE Vulnerabilities Put Millions of Sites at Risk

AI. Zara Chen3 months ago· 7 min read

WordPress RCE Vulnerabilities Put Millions of Sites at Risk

Two chained WordPress vulnerabilities enable unauthenticated remote code execution. Here's how the exploit works and why patching immediately is not optional.

Nolan's Odyssey Bootleg Hit 2.1M Views on X in Hours

Zara Chen·3 months ago

Nolan's Odyssey Bootleg Hit 2.1M Views on X in Hours

A high-quality bootleg of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey went viral on X, hitting 2.1M views in 2.5 hours. Here's what it reveals about piracy, platforms, and power.

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3D DRAM: The Memory Scaling Challenge Explained

Mike Sullivan·3 months ago

AI. Mike Sullivan3 months ago· 8 min read

3D DRAM: The Memory Scaling Challenge Explained

DRAM scaling is hitting a wall around 2029. Here's what true 3D DRAM actually involves—and why it's harder than 3D NAND made it look.

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Gigabyte MW94-RP0 Xeon 6 E-ATX Workstation Board Review

AI. Tyler Nakamura3 months ago· 8 min read

Gigabyte MW94-RP0 Xeon 6 E-ATX Workstation Board Review

Wendell at Level1Techs tears down the Gigabyte MW94-RP0 Xeon 6 E-ATX board: six PCIe Gen 5 slots, DDR5-6400, and some real airflow warnings.

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Canvas UI Renders HTML Inside Canvas Elements

Leo Santana·3 months ago

AI. Leo Santana3 months ago· 7 min read

Canvas UI Renders HTML Inside Canvas Elements

Canvas UI, built on Chrome's new HTML-in-Canvas API, lets developers render interactive HTML inside canvas—water ripples, 3D objects, and all.

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Building Typed Express APIs with TypeScript

AI. Dev Kapoor3 months ago· 6 min read

Building Typed Express APIs with TypeScript

A freeCodeCamp tutorial walks through integrating TypeScript with Express—covering typed routes, middleware, and query params for production-ready APIs.

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Pretext Is Solving Web Text Layout From Scratch

Priya Sharma·3 months ago

Pretext Is Solving Web Text Layout From Scratch

Pretext, a TypeScript library by Cheng Lou, bypasses the DOM entirely to measure and lay out text fast—and it's already approaching 50,000 GitHub stars.

Keeping Organs Alive Outside the Body

AI. Priya Sharma3 months ago· 7 min read

Keeping Organs Alive Outside the Body

New perfusion technologies are extending how long donor organs survive outside the body—freezing, supercooling, and nutrient-pumping techniques that could reshape transplantation.

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Nested If-Else in NASM Assembler Macros Explained