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YESTERDAY

·jdhodges.com

ThinkPad retrospective traces IBM’s 1992 design roots through Lenovo’s 2026 AI-focused mobile workstations

The article reviews ThinkPad’s continuous run since 1992, from IBM’s original 700C and iconic bento-box-inspired design to Lenovo’s current business laptops and workstations. It ar...

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·gencad.github.io

MIT researchers introduce GenCAD, an AI model that turns images into editable parametric CAD programs and 3D solids

GenCAD is an image-conditioned generative model for computer-aided design that produces both a 3D solid and its full CAD command sequence. The system combines transformer-based rep...

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·metalevel.at

Prolog guide warns against impure constructs and global state that silently drop solutions or create hidden dependencies

The article argues that Prolog programs can be defective not only by returning wrong answers, but also by failing to return intended solutions. It warns against impure, non-monoton...

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Saturday

·hybridlogic.co.uk

Developer reduces MCP server onboarding confusion by serving a browser-friendly help page instead of raw 401 errors

A developer offering an MCP server found that users visiting the endpoint in a browser saw a 401 JSON error and assumed the service was broken. By detecting browser requests to GET...

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·blocksandfiles.com

Dell and Kioxia pack nearly 10PB of QLC flash into a 2U PowerEdge server for AI and data lake workloads

Dell is using Kioxia’s LC9 245.76TB NVMe SSDs to build a 2U PowerEdge R7725xd server with 9.8PB of all-flash capacity. The AMD EPYC-powered system supports up to five 400Gbps NICs,...

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Friday

·twitter.com

Developer argues some companies are succumbing to AI hype and making distorted strategic decisions around automation

A social post from Mitchell Hashimoto warns that some organizations may be operating under what he calls AI psychosis, treating AI as an all-consuming mandate rather than a tool. T...

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·blog.zulip.com

Zulip launches nonprofit foundation as founder Tim Abbott and senior teammates depart Kandra Labs for Anthropic

Zulip founder Tim Abbott says he is stepping back from full-time leadership to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members. Kandra Labs, the company behind the open-source...

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·gutenberg.org

Project Gutenberg highlights its 75,000-plus free ebook library, volunteer digitization, and expanding catalog of public-domain classics

Project Gutenberg offers more than 75,000 free ebooks, including epub and Kindle formats, with no fees, registration, or app requirements. The catalog focuses on older works in the...

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Thursday

·bbc.com

UK housing ministry says replacing Palantir’s Homes for Ukraine refugee-matching system saved millions of pounds

The UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government says it saved millions by replacing a Palantir-built IT system for the Homes for Ukraine scheme with an internally deve...

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·news.vt.edu

Over 60% of the U.S. is in drought as atypical La Niña and warming intensify dry conditions

More than 60% of the United States is experiencing drought, with over 20% in extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Virginia Tech climatologist Andrew Ellis says a...

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·arkadiyt.com

Security researcher removes modem and GPS from a 2024 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid to curb connected-car tracking

Arkadiy Tetelman argues that modern cars collect extensive telemetry, including location, driving behavior, camera footage, and driver-monitoring data, often with weak or confusing...

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Wednesday

·fredchan.org

Guide explains how US residents can register free locality domains like somename.city.state.us using delegated .US managers

The article explains that many US locality domains, such as somename.city.state.us, can still be registered for free through delegated managers under the long-running .US locality...

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Tuesday

·bbc.com

Kraftwerk’s 1976 single “Radioactivity” is revisited as a pioneering electronic track that evolved into an anti-nuclear anthem

The article traces how Kraftwerk’s “Radioactivity,” first released from the 1975 album “Radio-Activity,” fused Geiger-counter pulses, synths, morse code, and deadpan vocals into a...

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·github.com

OrcaSlicer fork restores full internet-based BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab 3D printers beyond LAN-only access

A GitHub project from FULU-Foundation offers a version of OrcaSlicer that restores full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers. The build claims users can print and manage dev...

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·googlebook.google

Reddit post pitches “Googlebook” as a potential new laptop category tied to Google’s Android ecosystem

A Reddit post in r/Android appears to introduce or discuss “Googlebook,” framed as a new category of laptops. The source material is limited to a link, so details such as specs, av...

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ON THE FEED

·github.com

TanStack says several latest npm package releases were compromised in a broader self-spreading supply-chain attack

TanStack disclosed that several of its latest npm package releases were compromised and opened a GitHub issue to track the incident. The project pointed users to StepSecurity’s ana...

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·github.com

TypedMemory Java library maps records to off-heap native memory using the Foreign Function and Memory API

TypedMemory is a Java 25library that provides strongly typed views over contiguous off-heap memory. It lets developers map Java records onto native memory while retaining control o...

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ON THE FEED

·xda-developers.com

Linux gaming performance rises as Windows compatibility features move from Wine and Proton into the Linux kernel

Linux surpassed 5% of Steam users in March 2026, helped by Windows 10 end-of-support concerns and the Steam Deck’s mainstreaming of Linux gaming. The article says performance gains...

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·nesbitt.io

Satirical incident report depicts a cascading open-source supply-chain breach across JavaScript, Rust, and Python ecosystems

The fictional report describes a compromised JavaScript dependency that steals maintainer credentials, enabling a cascading supply-chain attack involving Rust and Python tooling. M...

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·unix.foo

Developer argues apps should favor on-device AI over cloud APIs to improve privacy, reliability, and user experience

The article criticizes the growing habit of adding AI features through cloud APIs from providers like OpenAI or Anthropic, arguing it makes apps fragile, costly, and privacy-invasi...

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