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Sheila Dixon is recreating a period terminal for the RC2014 retrocomputer with an Alphacom thermal printer, a keyboard and a ROM-based driver. The printer connects to the Z80 bus, while an 8255 I/O card scans the keys. I…
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In 1996, Bill Venners asked comp.lang.java why every Java class file begins with 0xCAFEBABE. Patrick Naughton later supplied the answer: the team had selected a distinctive, memorable value before the language was called…
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Difflock 1.0.0 is a Laravel package from Rati Rukhadze that inspects migration source without executing it and checks it against a live database. It flags destructive changes, schema drift and configuration problems, the…
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Laravel 14 is targeted for Q1 2027 and will raise the minimum PHP version to 8.4. Laravel News maps proposed routing, authorization, queue, cache, query-builder, and pruning changes from the framework’s master branch. Th…
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A YouTube video asks how computers acquired their familiar forms. The available listing provides no speaker, runtime, or technical outline, so the premise is the full report here. Its subject is an old design lesson: com…
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TruStage’s July 10, 2026 cybersecurity incident left major functions unavailable for months and put insurance policies at risk of lapsing when customers could not make payments. The disruption spread through partners suc…
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An Android display in a Mövenpick hotel elevator in Amsterdam stopped running last week, during rain and a 24-hour public transport strike. The screen identified the failing software as LOTA and offered a “Close app” con…
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An unofficial community project is bringing Commodore’s Amix, the System V Release 4 variant shipped for the A2500UX and A3000UX in 1990 to 1992, to 68040 and 68060 Amigas and modern accelerators. Amigaux.org combines a …
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ZXdesk, an assembly-language project by mindbox77, gives the 48K Sinclair ZX Spectrum a GEM-like desktop with menus, windows, and built-in applications. The machine has no disk drive, so it cannot load independent progra…
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A vintage computer T-shirt is more than a piece of nostalgia; it can be a warning about business execution. Bryan Cantrill uses an Oxide shirt to revisit Sun’s failure. Although Sun made Solaris open source and attracted…
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Sony’s SMC-70 entered the 1982 desktop market with a 4 MHz Z80, CP/M and an unusual expansion system. Modules were stacked and fixed with metal rods, while 16-color graphics, sound and optional video hardware gave the ma…
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In 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp used a FreeBSD dispute over fractional arguments for sleep(1) to explain why small technical choices attract disproportionate debate. His email turned “bikeshed” into FOSS vocabulary. Kamp late…
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Freek Van der Herten shows how the 1.x branch of Laravel AI SDK uses TypeSafe’s Jev to classify incoming mail with calibrated probabilities. His There There example combines header rules with three Boolean questions for …
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Phoronix reports that Mojo 1.1 accepts community contributions to its compiler. The release signals a shift toward collaborative development for the emerging programming language.
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On September 17, 2026, Remy Porter’s CodeSOD column showed a GPL header from Oracle code with “2013” repeated across a massive block. The page notes that its line breaks were added to reveal the full extent. A featured c…
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Published on 17 September 2026, the Rust Blog addresses targeted attacks against prominent Rust contributors and calls for greater vigilance in the community. The warning matters to developers involved in open-source pro…
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Laravel Scalpel adds filesystem-oriented intrusion checks to Laravel applications. Its Artisan commands inspect suspicious PHP files, obfuscated code, server directives, environment settings, and differences from a trust…
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George Coulouris records how QMC became the UK's first UNIX site and how his 1975 editor em reached Berkeley in 1976. Bill Joy used the code as a starting point for ex and vi. The account also traces UNIX V4's 1973 arriv…
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Laravel 13.32.0, released on September 16, 2026, adds Mercure broadcasting over Server-Sent Events, new FilesystemAdapter helpers for copying and moving files between disks, and enum arguments for queue pausing. The rele…
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NativePHP has published Super Stack, an MIT-licensed Laravel starter kit that combines a browser application, Filament administration, NativePHP mobile support, Sanctum tokens, and an MCP endpoint. It targets Laravel 13 …
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nand2mario has built zSST, a SystemVerilog recreation of 3dfx's Voodoo Graphics, and paired it with the z486 CPU in a DOS PC for the Xilinx KV260. The design runs at 100 MHz, boots Tomb Raider's original 3dfx renderer, a…
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A Reddit discussion highlights the platform’s long upgrade cycles and modern features. Participants point to structured concurrency, currently discussed through OpenJDK JEP 533, while others mention systems still tied to…
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Nusano has joined the US Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Launch Pad Program with a proposed metal-based process for producing HALEU fuel. The Utah company says one unit could make 5.9 metric tons annually from 2031…
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Laravel MCP 1.0 is the first stable release of Laravel's package for building Model Context Protocol servers. It supports MCP 2026-07-28, searchable tool catalogs, cache hints, stateless requests, updated OAuth with PKCE…
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Usenet-Rewind makes more than one billion messages from 1981 onward searchable through a modern web interface. Ernie Smith finds posts about music charts, online spam and forgotten celebrity chats, while also confronting…
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Laravel Vet is a beta Composer plugin from the Laravel team that records trusted package files and pauses updates when hashes change. It can send diffs to local agents such as Claude Code or Codex, then report PASS, FAIL…
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The report uses PowerShell to produce an alphabetical Active Directory listing through a long detour. A letter loop feeds a second lookup for every name, and the script requests data it never outputs. It also calls FindA…
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PHP 8.6 is in beta and is scheduled for general availability on November 19, 2026. The release adds partial function application, clamp(), Time\Duration, a polling API, structured stream errors, URI builders, parameter d…
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IEEE Spectrum revisits an IBM supercomputer built for the U.S. National Security Agency during the Cold War. The machine had one narrow assignment: codebreaking. According to the feature, it processed its jobs 200 times …
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Britain abandoned its national Digital ID project in July. On Tuesday, England and Wales began allowing businesses to accept digital proof of age for alcohol sales through certified Digital Verification Services. The opt…