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A classic essay by physicist Eugene Wigner discussing the remarkable and unexpected effectiveness of mathematics in describing natural phenomena.

An open-source interactive map designed to help users explore the total solar eclipse on Aug 12, providing visualization of the eclipse path and related data.

Denmark introduces mandatory oral defenses for high school students' written assignments to counter AI cheating, along with recommendations for screen monitoring and firewalls. Education groups welcome the measures but call for long-term solutions as AI tools evolve.

TinySol is a tiny Klondike Solitaire game for DOS, designed for vintage computers with monochrome screens. It is written in x86 Assembly, fits in 3KB, and supports various video modes.

Amazon is reportedly building a massive 7.65-gigawatt gas power plant in Texas to power an AI data center, which would become the largest pollution source in the U.S., contradicting its net-zero climate pledge.

A minimal Chrome extension that hides LinkedIn's home feed while keeping jobs, profiles, messaging, and search usable. Pending Chrome Web Store approval, with manual installation available.

Andree Toonk releases Wireblast, a 100 Gbps packet generator written in Go using AF_XDP for line-rate packet transmission.

Fastmail launches an EU data region, letting users choose to store their data on company-owned servers in Amsterdam, with details on data flow, redundancy, and fallback options.

Jeff Geerling's benchmarks show Intel's Core 5 320 in a Dell XPS 13 matching or beating Apple Silicon on performance per watt, suggesting x86 can compete with ARM on efficiency.

Claude Code now supports cross-session messaging, allowing Claude agents to send messages between independent sessions to coordinate work, share findings, and warn about breaking changes.

A blog post argues that the common saying "code was never the hard part" insults programmers, defending the difficulty of coding and questioning the overemphasis on requirements gathering.

Gentoo has temporarily closed its Bugzilla instance due to overload caused by AI bot scrapers, highlighting the growing burden of automated scraping on community infrastructure.

Triton is a new Windows driver for QEMU that, together with the Neptune layer, brings full DirectX 11 graphics acceleration to Windows virtual machines by implementing the DirectX DDI instead of API interception.

An open-source emulator for the Voyager 1 Flight Data Subsystem, recreating the 806.4 kHz computer with 8K memory, and includes scanned original JPL documentation.

A new DNS TXT record convention, defined by RFC 10023, allows domain owners to signal that their domain is for sale without disrupting their live site, with support for price and contact tags.

A nostalgic look at Gateway 2000's intentionally goofy print ads from the 1990s, chronicling the company's quirky marketing style and founder Ted Waitt's larger-than-life persona.

Apple announces a new leasing program that allows customers to lease iPhones and other Apple devices, offering an alternative to outright purchases or installment plans.

Amazon's new data center is set to be powered by what would become one of the most polluting power plants in the U.S., raising significant environmental concerns.

The US Military's Cyber Command unit is dealing with a cluster of suicides among its personnel, raising concerns about stress and mental health in the cyber warfare community.

Security researcher Domas reveals rosenbridge, a hardware backdoor in VIA C3 x86 CPUs that allows unprivileged code to bypass processor protections and access kernel memory. The repository provides tools to check for and mitigate the vulnerability.