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151. Head of Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in OSS
The head of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in open source to achieve technological independence
152. Response to Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language
The question Sheon Han poses — “Is Ruby a serious programming language?” — says a lot about what someone thinks programming is supposed to feel like. For som...
153. MarathonOS: A spiritual successor to BlackBerry10 using Qt6 and PostmarketOS
Marathon OS is a gesture-first mobile operating system built on Linux. Inspired by BlackBerry 10's brilliant interaction model, reimagined for modern hardware with PostmarketOS and Qt6.
154. 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.
155. Zhuque-3 reaches orbit on test flight, first stage lost during landing attempt
Zhuque-3 reaches orbit on test flight, first stage lost during landing attempt China’s Landspace carried out the first launch of its reusable Zhuque-3 rocket late Tuesday, successfully achieving orbit, but failing with a first stage landing attempt.
156. A vector graphics workstation from the 70s
157. Stride Game Engine 4.3 with .NET 10 Support
Stride 4.3 brings .NET 10 and C# 14, Bepu Physics, Vulkan compute shaders, custom assets, cross-platform build strides, mesh buffer helpers, Rider/VSCode sup...
158. Engineers repurpose a mosquito proboscis to create a 3D printing nozzle
159. Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera
It’s often repeated how most of the cameras that landed on the moon stayed on the moon. Gene Cernan had been telling the story of how he left his camera on the lunar rover for years, recounting the tale in interviews. Looking closer, however, you being to unravel a space-age mystery.
160. Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
161. Langjam Gamejam: Build a programming language then make a game with it
A 7-day challenge to create a programming language and then use it to build a game.
162. China's first orbital booster landing attempt
163. Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was…
164. Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years
165. Steam on Linux Use Easily Hits an All-Time High in November
The Steam Survey results are out for November 2025 and continue to be very positive for the growing adoption of Linux gaming thanks to the success of the Steam Deck, the underlying Steam Play (Proton) software, and now further excitement thanks to the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame.
166. FreeBSD 15.0-Release Announcement
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.
167. Amazon faces FAA probe after delivery drone snaps internet cable in Texas
The probe comes as Amazon faces stiffer competition from Walmart, which has also begun drone deliveries.
168. Fallout 2's Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy
Avellone recaps his journey from learning on a TRS-80 to today.
169. Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford
170. Kroger's Surveillance Pricing Harms Consumers and Raises Prices
171. React and Remix Choose Different Futures
172. YouTube Set to Comply with Australia's Under-16s Ban
173. AI Is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
174. Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027
Intel could supply Apple’s lowest-end M-series chips by 2027, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts.
175. Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome
A lesson in X11, networking, and design.
176. Cloth Simulation
177. Advent of Sysadmin 2025
Linux Troubleshooting Interview DevOps SRE
178. Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC Is Not at Fault)
Today I’m going to talk about a recent journey as a HotSpot Java Virtual Machine developer working on the OpenJDK project. While running tests for a new feature, I realized my Java objects and classes were arbitrarily disappearing! What followed was probably the most interesting debugging and fixing experience of my life (so far), which I wanted to share with the world.
179. Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
If you want €:\, you can have it, sort of
180. Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending