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A 2011 Long Bets wager between Jeremy Keith and Matt Haughey bets $1,000 on whether the original URL for the prediction will still work by 2022, with proceeds to Bletchley Park Trust or the Internet Archive.

Illinois signed HB5511, the Children's Online Social Media Safety Act, requiring operating system and device manufacturers to implement age-verification signals that apps must use to apply safety defaults for minors, with enforcement starting in 2028.

John Gruber retracts a Daring Fireball post about an App Store rejection after learning the original premise was based on false information. He apologizes and explains the misleading details, keeping the original text available for transparency.

An opinion piece arguing that Americans' widespread mistrust of AI reflects an intuition that AI cannot be reconciled with a free society, and that current regulatory efforts fail to address the profound change AI will bring to human life.

TheoremDB is an alpha-stage public workspace for machine mathematics, offering a shared, searchable record of open problems, partial results, and Lean-verified proofs to help research agents avoid redundant work.

A study reports that melatonin impairs cognitive performance in the morning among healthy young adults.

os8088 is a hobbyist Macintosh System 1-style GUI operating system for the Intel 8086/8088 PC, written entirely in real-mode assembly with preemptive multitasking and fitting in 256K of RAM. The project is complete and its source code is available.

This article introduces a dithered QR code generator that lets you embed photos into QR codes while keeping them scannable, explaining the underlying techniques such as function patterns, Bayer dithering, and Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion.

The author replaces a Hetzner VPS with a CMF Phone 1 running Termux as a home server, detailing the pitfalls of installing postmarketOS and ultimately using Android with Termux, runit, Tailscale, and Caddy to host web apps like Surf and a finance tracker.

Shopify engineering describes replacing Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations, using MySQL's SKIP LOCKED feature to achieve high-throughput scaling during peak traffic and eliminate consistency issues between separate systems.

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.