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AI. Dev Kapoor2 months ago· 7 min read

Bun 1.4 Adds a Standard Library to JavaScript

Bun 1.4 ships a headless browser, image processing, cron, tar, and more built-in—replacing 15 npm packages while shrinking the binary by 17%.

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Solid State Transformers and the AI Data Center Test

AI. Mike Sullivan2 months ago· 7 min read

Solid State Transformers and the AI Data Center Test

The solid state transformer has been "almost ready" since 1968. AI data centers may finally give it a problem worth solving—or repeat the pattern.

Rust's New Trait Solver Arrives After Four Years

AI. Dev Kapoor2 months ago· 7 min read

Rust's New Trait Solver Arrives After Four Years

Rust's next-generation trait solver is now in nightly, fixing 200+ bugs and unlocking new features. Here's what changes, what stays messy, and what to watch.

Twitch and Amazon Sued Over AI Training With Streamer Content

Twitch and Amazon Sued Over AI Training With Streamer Content

A class action lawsuit claims Twitch used streamers' content as "free training stock" for Amazon's AI. Here's what it means for creators at every level.

AI Now Authors a Third of New Web Pages

AI. Mike Sullivan2 months ago· 6 min read

AI Now Authors a Third of New Web Pages

Pew Research finds AI wrote over a third of web pages published since ChatGPT launched. Here's why that number is less surprising than it sounds.

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Linux Gains Ground: Kernel 7.2, Market Share, and Gaming

AI. Dev Kapoor2 months ago· 9 min read

Linux Gains Ground: Kernel 7.2, Market Share, and Gaming

Linux 7.2 is out, desktop market share crossed 10% in North America, and the gaming ecosystem is shifting. Here's what's actually happening.

Elsevier Faces $1 Billion Defamation Trial

AI. Zara Chen2 months ago· 7 min read

Elsevier Faces $1 Billion Defamation Trial

A $1B defamation suit against Elsevier heads to trial over a disputed air purifier study. What it reveals about peer review, publisher accountability, and who enforces both.

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ES2027 JavaScript Features: What's Confirmed

AI. Dev Kapoor2 months ago· 8 min read

ES2027 JavaScript Features: What's Confirmed

ES2027 locks in four major JavaScript features including the Temporal API, the using keyword, Iterator.zip, and Atomics.pause. Here's what each one actually does.

macOS Screen Sharing Had a Root Access Logic Bug

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AI. Rachel "Rach" Kovacs2 months ago· 7 min read

macOS Screen Sharing Had a Root Access Logic Bug

Two pre-auth logic bugs in macOS's screensharingd daemon handed attackers root access. Here's what went wrong and why it matters for Mac users.

Linus Torvalds Used AI to Fix a Linux Kernel Bug

Linus Torvalds Used AI to Fix a Linux Kernel Bug

Linus Torvalds called AI his helper after surviving 18 kernel reboots and 24 debug patches to fix an Intel Xe graphics driver bug. Here's what that actually means.

China Ditches Windows for Linux in a Big OS Shakeup

AI. Zara Chen2 months ago· 6 min read

China Ditches Windows for Linux in a Big OS Shakeup

China's Ministry of State Security has ordered government agencies off Windows and onto domestic Linux. Here's what that actually means — and why it matters beyond the headlines.

Argentic Wants AI Bots to Pay for Web Access

Argentic Wants AI Bots to Pay for Web Access

Argentic uses Bitcoin Lightning's L402 protocol to charge AI scrapers per request. Here's what that actually means for publishers, developers, and the open web.

Stealing AI Reasoning: How LLM APIs Leak Secret Thinking

AI. Zara Chen2 months ago· 7 min read

Stealing AI Reasoning: How LLM APIs Leak Secret Thinking

Researchers found that encrypted reasoning traces in major LLM APIs can be extracted in plaintext using weaker models—exposing IP, private data, and hidden prompts.

FCC Drops Gigabit Internet Goal, Calling It Unfair

AI. Tyler Nakamura2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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

AI. Dev Kapoor2 months 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 months 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