Ilya Lichtenstein credits Trump’s First Step Act for his early prison release
TL;DR Ilya Lichtenstein, described in reporting as a hacker convicted over the theft of billions in Bitcoin, says he has…
Grok’s image edit tool is producing nonconsensual bikini and sexualized edits
TL;DR xAI’s chatbot Grok has been used to alter photos on X without the original posters’ permission, producing sexualized images…
Apple Watch data shows many users beat ‘Quitter’s Day’ on fitness goals
TL;DR Apple published findings from roughly 100,000 participants in its Apple Heart and Movement Study showing Apple Watch users tend…
The rsync Algorithm (1996) — PDF Listing and Availability Notes
TL;DR A PDF titled 'The rsync algorithm (1996)' is listed but the full article text is not available in the…
Accounting for Computer Scientists — a graph-based introduction
TL;DR Martin Kleppmann reframes basic accounting as a graph problem to make financial statements intuitive for programmers. He maps accounts…
TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit on Basys3
TL;DR TinyTinyTPU is an educational, open-source 2×2 systolic-array implementation of a TPU-style matrix-multiply unit written in SystemVerilog and deployed on…
UNIX v4: Run the 1973 Fourth Edition of UNIX in Your Web Browser
TL;DR A web-based emulation exposes the 1973 Fourth Edition of UNIX (UNIX v4) running on a simulated PDP-11/45. The service…
POSSE: Publish on Your Own Site, Syndicate Copies to Other Services
TL;DR POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) is a content-syndication approach that prioritizes posting the canonical copy on…
iOS 26.2 brings three new ways to personalize iPhone appearance and alerts
TL;DR Apple's iOS 26.2 update introduces three customization options: an expanded Liquid Glass opacity slider for the Lock Screen clock,…
Round and Round: A Logic Puzzle About Circling, Perspective, and Definitions
TL;DR A short dialogue from Yakov Perelman's 1927 book describes a man who walks around a circular glade while a…