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It's time for the Open Source Endowment
Thesis and launch of the Open Source Endowment — the world's first endowment fund dedicated to sustainably funding critical open source software maintenance.
Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs
Authors: Harshad Sane, Andrew Halaney
Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon
New details on precisely where the lines were drawn
OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw
Interview: A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platform
The NY congressional race on the frontlines of an AI industry civil war
Top artificial intelligence executives are spending big against Democratic House candidate Alex Bores. But his campaign is also raking in donations from AI experts and tech employees.
StakeSquid/dtop: A high-performance terminal UI for Docker container management with real-time monitoring, advanced log viewing, and comprehensive container operations.
A high-performance terminal UI for Docker container management with real-time monitoring, advanced log viewing, and comprehensive container operations. - StakeSquid/dtop
sudo-rs Breaks Historical Norms With Now Enabling Password Feedback By Default
On recent builds of Ubuntu 26.04 when being prompted by sudo for the password, password feedback is now enabled by default to show asterisk (*) characters when inputting your password
India disrupts access to popular developer platform Supabase with blocking order | TechCrunch
India, one of Supabase’s biggest markets, is seeing patchy access after a government block order.
Access secrets from 1Password through local `.env` files (beta) | 1Password Developer
Learn how to store and access secrets through 1Password Environments using local environment files.
Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.
At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out
It’s been a crazy 48 hours in the A.I. industry.
View: Why war in Iran won’t bring back $100 oil
The real risk is not in tallies of air strikes, but in the Strait of Hormuz.
2_News
Rumour: Sony Backtracking on PC Strategy, Shifting Towards PS5 Exclusivity Again
For single-player games, at least
5_Gaming
Anthropic's Claude hits No. 1 on Apple's top free apps list after Pentagon rejection
Claude has surpassed OpenAI's ChatGPT as the top free app in the U.S. on Apple's rankings.
Trump announces 'major combat operations' in Iran
Israel and the U.S. have launched strikes against Iran, with explosions reported in Tehran and air raid sirens sounding across Israel.
arpanghosh8453/open-dronelog: Drone Log analyzer: A high-performance universal dashboard application for organizing and analyzing DJI/Litchi flight logs privately in one place. Built with Tauri v2, DuckDB, and React.
Drone Log analyzer: A high-performance universal dashboard application for organizing and analyzing DJI/Litchi flight logs privately in one place. Built with Tauri v2, DuckDB, and React. - arpangho...
Introducing PgBeam - One Global Database
A globally distributed PostgreSQL proxy. Connection pooling, query caching, 6 regions. Zero code changes.
AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data - Ars Technica
LLMs memorize more training data than previously thought.
Anthropic joins OpenAI in flagging 'industrial-scale' distillation campaigns by Chinese AI firms
Anthropic accused three Chinese artificial intelligence enterprises of engaging in coordinated distillation campaigns, the latest American tech firm to do so.
Bill Gates reportedly apologizes, admits to two affairs in candid town hall
Bill Gates "took responsibility for his actions" in a meeting with employees of the Gates Foundation, which had held fundraising discussions with Epstein.
Nvidia’s Huang says any Pentagon–Anthropic rift is 'not the end of the world'
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang weighed in on a conflict between the Defense Department and its strategic partner on Thursday, saying it's “not the end of the world.”
Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had to Die
For seven years, she ran high-security nuclear simulations for the US government. Now, this famous supercomputer is being put to death.
Scoop: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic
The Pentagon asked at least two major defense contractors to assess their reliance on Claude.
How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives
For more than two decades, the convicted sex offender developed a network at the tech giant, making him privy to succession discussions and other business.
ing-switch: Migrate from Ingress NGINX to Traefik or Gateway API in Minutes, Not Days
If you run Kubernetes, there's a deadline you can't ignore: Ingress NGINX is being deprecated in March 2026. Roughly half of all Kubernetes clusters depend on it. That's a lot of teams who need a migr
Announcing Flux 2.8 GA
We are thrilled to announce the release of Flux v2.8.0! Here you will find highlights of new features and improvements in this release.
The Linux Foundation reveals the "ugly" secret of how open source is draining your budget
Linux Foundation’s report reveals that contributing to open source offers a 2x-5x ROI. Learn why private forks create technical debt and how to invest wisely.
“Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iPhone is now underway” | Yay, more end-to-end encryption!
My understanding is that the RCS E2EE test is available globally, except for China & France. Yes, really. Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Androi…
How we reduced the size of our Agent Go binaries by up to 77% | Datadog
Get an inside look at shrinking large Go binaries in the Datadog Agent through dependency and linker analysis.