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391. Ethiopian Volcano Erupts for First Time in Nearly 12K Years of Records
The plume from the Hayli Gubbi volcano drifted east over the Arabian Sea and extended roughly 2,200 miles
392. Judge Signals Win for Software Freedom Conservancy in Vizio GPL Case
A California judge has tentatively sided with SFC in its GPL case over Vizio’s SmartCast TVs, but the final outcome is still pending.
393. 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises
394. Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model
395. Atlas Obscura founders removed from board
The relationship between the company’s founders and some of its investors appears to have soured.
396. Building a Copying GC for the Plush Programming Language
397. Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025
See how AWS Lambda arm64 stacks up against x86_64 in real-world benchmarks across CPU, memory, and I/O workloads using Node.js, Python, and Rust.
398. Prompt Injection via Poetry
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
399. Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers
400. Sam Altman's Dirty DRAM Deal
401. Writing a Good Claude.md
`CLAUDE.md` is a high-leverage configuration point for Claude Code. Learning how to write a good `CLAUDE.md` (or `AGENTS.md`) is a key skill for agent-enabled software engineering.
402. Checked-size array parameters in C
403. Noninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for measuring blood glucose
A noninvasive method for measuring blood glucose levels, developed at MIT, could save diabetes patients from having to prick their fingers several times a day. The device uses Raman spectroscopy to measure blood glucose levels without any needles.
404. Preserving Snow Crystals
405. Migrating Burningboard.net Mastodon Instance to a Multi-Jail FreeBSD Setup
406. Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years
Apple will ship about 243 million phones this year, compared to Samsung’s 235 million, according to CNBC....
407. Locks in PostgreSQL
We've already discussed some object-level locks (specifically, relation-level locks), as well as row-level locks with their connection to object-level locks and also explored wait queues, which are...
408. Why Leftover Pizza Might Be Healthier
Researchers have discovered that cooling starchy foods—from pizza to rice—creates “resistant starch,” a carb that behaves like fiber and alters your blood sugar response
409. Japanese Four-Cylinder Engine Is So Reliable Still in Production After 25 Years
410. Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB
The newly released beta version of Helldivers 2 delivers the same gameplay with far less disk usage, offering PC players a much leaner install without sacrificing performance or progression.
411. F Prime
412. New 3D scan reveals a hidden network of moai carvers on Easter Island
A high-resolution 3D model of Rano Raraku shows that the moai were created in many distinct carving zones. Instead of a top-down system, the statues appear to have been produced by separate family groups working independently while sharing techniques. Evidence of varied carving styles and multiple transport routes supports this decentralized picture. The results challenge old assumptions about how large-scale monument building worked on Rapa Nui.
413. Why xor eax, eax?
Why do compilers love xor-ing registers so much?
414. How many hours should employees work?
415. Brussels writes so many laws
Explaining Europe’s extraordinary legal productivity
416. What Folk Can Do
417. Israel's biggest defence company suspended by NATO amid corruption probe
Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons firm, is implicated in a widening NATO corruption scandal. The military alliance’s procurement agency (NSPA) has suspended the company from bidding on new contracts. Meanwhile, a man closely linked to Elbit is the subject of an international arrest warrant over his alleged role in bribing NSPA employees.
418. What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones?
CT scans reveal severe battery defects inside Haribo’s 20,000 mAh power bank and earbuds, explaining their quiet removal from Amazon.
419. An open seat on the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board
420. Chernobyl protective shield can no longer confine radiation after drone strike
The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, according to the IAEA.