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AI. Tyler Nakamura2 weeks ago· 6 min read

FCC Drops Gigabit Internet Goal, Calling It Unfair

The FCC just eliminated its gigabit broadband speed goal, saying it's unfair to satellite and fixed wireless. Here's what that actually means for your internet.

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Enterprise Architecture Still Runs on Waterfall Time

AI. Mike Sullivan2 weeks ago· 7 min read

Enterprise Architecture Still Runs on Waterfall Time

Simon Rohrer argues EA must shed its phase-gate past and align with DevOps, outcomes, and evolution. The diagnosis is right. The prognosis is harder to share.

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Script C Compiles TypeScript to Native Binaries

AI. Mike Sullivan2 weeks ago· 7 min read

Script C Compiles TypeScript to Native Binaries

Vercel Labs' Script C compiles TypeScript to native binaries. The benchmark numbers are striking—but so is the history of projects that promised the same thing.

Quantum Entanglement Sets a 420 km Distance Record

AI. Mike Sullivan2 weeks ago· 6 min read

Quantum Entanglement Sets a 420 km Distance Record

Physicists at USTC entangled quantum memories across 420 km of optical fiber. Here's what the record actually means—and what it doesn't yet.

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Squaring in C: Loops, Bit Shifts, and Readability

Dev Kapoor·2 weeks ago

AI. Dev Kapoor2 weeks ago· 1 min read

Squaring in C: Loops, Bit Shifts, and Readability

Jonas Birch's C tutorial on writing and optimizing a squaring function surfaces a debate C communities never really resolved: readable code vs. raw performance.

Cursor Launches Origin to Challenge GitHub's Dominance

AI. Zara Chen2 weeks ago· 6 min read

Cursor Launches Origin to Challenge GitHub's Dominance

Cursor just launched Origin, a GitHub rival built into its AI coding environment — and GitHub's own outage streak may have handed them the opening.

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Intel Xeon 696X vs AMD Threadripper: A $22K Question

AI. Tyler Nakamura2 weeks ago· 7 min read

Intel Xeon 696X vs AMD Threadripper: A $22K Question

Tech Notice built a $22,000 Intel Xeon 696X workstation to challenge AMD Threadripper. Here's what the benchmark results actually revealed about Intel's HEDT gap.

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How the Burj Khalifa Moves Water Half a Mile Up

Leo Santana·2 weeks ago

AI. Leo Santana2 weeks ago· 8 min read

How the Burj Khalifa Moves Water Half a Mile Up

The Burj Khalifa's silhouette is iconic—but its shape, glass skin, and hidden systems are doing far more work than they appear. A look at vertical design.

Amazon Is Destroying Rare Books to Train Its AI

AI. Zara Chen2 weeks ago· 7 min read

Amazon Is Destroying Rare Books to Train Its AI

Amazon is buying rare books, cutting off their spines, scanning them, and trashing them for AI training data. Here's what that means — and why copyright law made it happen.

Verizon Loses $47M FCC Fine Refund at Supreme Court

AI. Tyler Nakamura2 weeks ago· 6 min read

Verizon Loses $47M FCC Fine Refund at Supreme Court

The Supreme Court shut down Verizon's bid to recover a $47M FCC fine over location data sales. Here's what it means for your carrier contract and privacy.

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Spark Plugs and the Knowledge We Forgot to Keep

AI. Mike Sullivan2 weeks ago· 7 min read

Spark Plugs and the Knowledge We Forgot to Keep

Angela Collier's video about a 1960 Popular Science article is really about how technology quietly erases knowledge — and what fills the void.

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Apache Kafka Explained: A Beginner's Technical Guide

Dev Kapoor·2 weeks ago

AI. Dev Kapoor2 weeks ago· 7 min read

Apache Kafka Explained: A Beginner's Technical Guide

A hands-on look at Apache Kafka's core concepts—producers, consumers, partitions, and fault-tolerant clusters—explained through practical Docker and Python examples.

X's Open-Source Algorithm: What the Numbers Actually Mean

AI. Zara Chen2 weeks ago· 9 min read

X's Open-Source Algorithm: What the Numbers Actually Mean

X open-sourced its For You feed algorithm—2,015 files, real weight constants, and a transparency tool. Here's what the code actually says, and what it still hides.

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How EV Batteries Are Made, and Why It Is So Hard

AI. Mike Sullivan2 weeks ago· 8 min read

How EV Batteries Are Made, and Why It Is So Hard

Inside EV battery factories are rooms drier than the Sahara. The reason reveals how lithium chemistry, manufacturing, and decades of science converge.

GIMP's August 2026 Update Is a Bigger Deal Than It Looks

AI. Tyler Nakamura2 weeks ago· 6 min read

GIMP's August 2026 Update Is a Bigger Deal Than It Looks

GIMP's August 2026 dev update brings real UI and performance improvements—and a new file format after 30 years with XCF. Here's what actually changed and why it matters.

Epic Games Store Is Coming to Linux — With Caveats

AI. Mike Sullivan2 weeks ago· 5 min read

Epic Games Store Is Coming to Linux — With Caveats

Epic confirmed a native Linux version of its store is in development. The launcher is the easy part. Whether Fortnite follows is the real question.

Dario Amodei Says AI Backlash Is a Crisis of Trust

AI. Zara Chen2 weeks ago· 7 min read

Dario Amodei Says AI Backlash Is a Crisis of Trust

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI's public backlash is a decades-long trust crisis—not a messaging problem. Here's what that diagnosis gets right, and what it sidesteps.

Stripe Acquires OpenRouter for Over $7 Billion

AI. Tyler Nakamura2 weeks ago· 7 min read

Stripe Acquires OpenRouter for Over $7 Billion

Stripe has finalized a deal to buy AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+. Here's what it means for developers who use it today — and the real questions worth asking.

MCP Servers Have a Security Problem Baked In

AI. Mike Sullivan2 weeks ago· 6 min read

MCP Servers Have a Security Problem Baked In

Over 21,000 MCP servers are exposed online, with 91.8% lacking basic authentication. The protocol's security problem isn't a bug—it's structural.

Copper's Melting Behavior Could Shape Fusion Power