To my students

Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026

AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S.

I built a living pixel-art café in my terminal that reacts to my CPU/network/disk activity looking for art direction feedback

Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years

Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Not to “Believe the Hype” About AI

The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games

The User Doesn't Care – But you should

The AI boom is gobbling up power faster than ever

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns

Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

JWST measures mass of a dormant black hole from the early universe, 6 billion times the mass of our Sun, 10 billion light-years away

The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners

We Need VAT and UBI

Researchers examined 260 healthy women aged 18–30 for links between plant-based diets and bone density

Podman 6: machine usability improvements

Triple-action diabetes jab shown to reduce blood sugar and body weight

Microsoft is letting you kill Bing in Windows 11 Search, after years of forcing it on every PC

Brave is charging $60 for a version of its browser that removes the features you probably never wanted

Meta made its own AI-generated clickbait news feed | Meta said it would pull the feature after The Verge asked questions about it

Jeff Bezos wants the bottom half of earners to pay zero income tax—he says nurses making just $75K should save $12K a year

Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

Treatment With 9-mg Mazdutide for Weight Reduction in Chinese Adults With Obesity: The GLORY-2 Randomized Clinical Trial.

School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon

Two thirds of our customers’ fraud cases start on Meta, Lloyds says

Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job

Why Queues Don’t Fix Overload (And What To Do Instead)

ASML becomes Europe's most valuable company ever as analysts bet on higher EUV output — its market cap hit $674 billion this week

Review of 73 studies has highlighted growing evidence that diet in the early years of life may shape how well the brain develops: “A poorer diet in the first years of life was linked to lower intelligence years later…

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