Tech — Page 14

AI. Dev Kapoor3 months ago· 8 min read

Linux in 2026: AI Rules, BSD Shifts, and a Sega Genesis

Linus Torvalds sets AI policy for the Linux kernel, Ubuntu ships a known AMD regression, FreeBSD goes GPL-free, and Linux boots on a 1994 Sega Genesis.

Grok Build Goes Open Source After Data Privacy Scandal

AI. Zara Chen3 months ago· 7 min read

Grok Build Goes Open Source After Data Privacy Scandal

SpaceXAI open-sourced Grok Build days after researchers caught it uploading entire user repos to the cloud. Is this transparency—or damage control?

Social Media Linked to ADHD Symptoms in Teen Boys

AI. Zara Chen3 months ago· 6 min read

Social Media Linked to ADHD Symptoms in Teen Boys

A UCSF study tracking 11,000 kids finds addictive social media use predicts rising ADHD symptoms in boys—and the algorithm angle makes this hard to dismiss.

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Open Source Infrastructure Projects to Watch in 2026

AI. Dev Kapoor3 months ago· 7 min read

Open Source Infrastructure Projects to Watch in 2026

Brandon Lee of VirtualizationHowto maps seven OSS infrastructure projects gaining traction in 2026—from Pi-hole HA to Pangolin—and what they reveal about where self-hosting is heading.

China's Robotaxi Ambitions: Real Tech, Big Claims

AI. Mike Sullivan3 months ago

China's Robotaxi Ambitions: Real Tech, Big Claims

China's robotaxis are genuinely impressive — and nowhere near the revolution being promised. A skeptic's look at what's real and what's familiar noise.

Microsoft scientist examines glowing DNA helix in laboratory setting with data encoding diagram and storage vial,…

Microsoft Is Betting on DNA for Data Storage

AI. Mike Sullivan3 months ago· 8 min read

Microsoft Is Betting on DNA for Data Storage

Microsoft Research is developing synthetic DNA as a long-term data storage medium. Here's what the science actually says, and what remains unresolved.

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Dual Internet Connections Are Still Needlessly Hard to Set Up

Tomas Reyes-Kim·3 months ago

AI. Tomas Reyes-Kim3 months ago· 8 min read

Dual Internet Connections Are Still Needlessly Hard to Set Up

IPv6 multihoming could let you plug two ISPs into one network and get automatic failover. Here's how close we actually are—and what's still broken.

FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap in Win for Big Broadcasters

AI. Mike Sullivan3 months ago· 6 min read

FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap in Win for Big Broadcasters

The FCC's vote to repeal the 39% TV ownership cap replaces a hard limit with "case-by-case review." We've seen this movie before — in radio.

Smart Sensors Are Changing Home Fermentation

AI. Tyler Nakamura3 months ago· 6 min read

Smart Sensors Are Changing Home Fermentation

From sourdough starters to homebrewed beer, smart sensor kits are giving fermentation hobbyists precision control once reserved for commercial producers.

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MacBook Pro Redesign: OLED, Touch, Same Old Chip

AI. Tyler Nakamura3 months ago· 8 min read

MacBook Pro Redesign: OLED, Touch, Same Old Chip

Apple's biggest MacBook Pro redesign brings OLED, touchscreen, and Dynamic Island—but the same M5 chip. Is a $3,000 price tag justified by new hardware alone?

Netflix Used AI in 300 Titles. Here's What That Means.

AI. Zara Chen3 months ago· 6 min read

Netflix Used AI in 300 Titles. Here's What That Means.

Netflix disclosed AI use in roughly 300 titles in its Q2 2026 earnings. We break down what that number actually tells us — and what it doesn't.

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IBM NanoStack and the Future of Chip Architecture

AI. Mike Sullivan3 months ago· 8 min read

IBM NanoStack and the Future of Chip Architecture

IBM's NanoStack stacks transistors from separate wafers using atomic bonding. The physics works. The harder question is whether anyone can manufacture it at scale.

Meta Faces Lawsuit Over AI-Driven Layoff Decisions

AI. Tyler Nakamura3 months ago· 8 min read

Meta Faces Lawsuit Over AI-Driven Layoff Decisions

26 former Meta employees allege AI scoring systems—not managers—decided who got laid off. Here's what that means for anyone who wants to work in tech.

Applied Computing Bets $20M on AI for Oil and Gas

AI. Zara Chen3 months ago· 6 min read

Applied Computing Bets $20M on AI for Oil and Gas

Applied Computing raised $20M to build a foundation AI model for oil, gas, and petrochemical plants. Here's why that's more complicated than it sounds.

Room-Temperature Quantum Materials Are Here

AI. Tyler Nakamura3 months ago· 7 min read

Room-Temperature Quantum Materials Are Here

LSU physicists built a quantum material that works at room temperature. Here's what that actually means for quantum computing, and why it matters right now.

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Quantum Computing Basics: Qubits, Gates, and Qiskit

AI. Dev Kapoor3 months ago· 8 min read

Quantum Computing Basics: Qubits, Gates, and Qiskit

Dr. Katie McCormick's Qiskit primer walks beginners through qubits, superposition, entanglement, and running real circuits on IBM quantum hardware.

Workers in blue uniforms disassemble smartphone components on an assembly line in a bright factory, with circuit boards…

Inside the Smartphone: 120 Years of Hidden Engineering

AI. Mike Sullivan3 months ago· 8 min read

Inside the Smartphone: 120 Years of Hidden Engineering

Professor Hannah Fry tears apart a modern smartphone to trace 120 years of engineering history — from Marconi's radio waves to a 200-million-pixel camera sensor.

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Bun Rewrote Its Codebase from Zig to Rust in 11 Days

AI. Dev Kapoor3 months ago· 7 min read

Bun Rewrote Its Codebase from Zig to Rust in 11 Days

Bun used 64 parallel Claude agents to port 535,000 lines of Zig to Rust in 11 days. The results were real. The fallout with Zig's creator was realer.

Videorc LIVE Tested: Multistream Works, Chat Doesn't

Jai Trivedi·3 months ago

AI. Jai Trivedi3 months ago· 6 min read

Videorc LIVE Tested: Multistream Works, Chat Doesn't

OrcDev tested Videorc LIVE streaming simultaneously to YouTube, X, and Twitch. The broadcast worked. The comment aggregation didn't. Here's what that gap means.

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