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GitHub user nampara-ai has packaged a vintage MS-DOS copy of WordStar with DOSBox and cross-platform launch scripts for Linux, Mac and Windows, plus a WebAssembly build that runs in any browser. Hackaday's Al Williams no…
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The General Conference on Weights and Measures votes in October on a draft resolution making UTC continuous from May 20, 2027, letting it drift from Earth-rotation time by up to an hour instead of correcting every so oft…
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Taylor Otwell has disabled GitHub Issues on most Laravel open-source packages, asking users to describe bugs to a coding agent and submit pull requests instead. The main Laravel repository is unaffected. Symfony is exper…
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A digital sign at London's O2 arena has been spotted displaying a Windows 10 update notification, an awkward backdrop for the indoor skydiving advertised behind it. Statcounter puts Windows 10 near 30 percent desktop sha…
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Rabah Shihab had Claude Fable 5 port his 1993 Amiga game Babylonian Twins to Godot 4. The model rebuilt 72,758 lines of 68000 assembly byte-identically, reverse-engineered undocumented level formats, and shipped store as…
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Uber pulled out of Nigeria and Uganda on September 2, 2026, notifying customers and drivers the same day service ended. Users reported rides stopping mid-trip, a phenomenon dubbed the 'Uber rapture'. The exits fit a wide…
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A home automation project ships temperature conversion as a lookup table with wrong values, mapping roughly 0.5C steps to 1F steps. The twist: the table faithfully mirrors what mini-split IR remotes actually send. The re…
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A video essay digs into the fate of Borland, the company behind Turbo Pascal, Turbo C and Delphi. It traces how a firm that once defined the PC developer tools market faded from relevance. A nostalgia trip for anyone who…
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A Polish engineer ran 1,040 mushroom photos through 16 AI models to test foraging advice. The best model identified species correctly only 65 percent of the time, and some confused deadly fungi with edible ones. His advi…
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John Koster's Forte package parses Laravel Blade files into a typed syntax tree that developers can query, rewrite, and render back byte-identical. The Laravel News walkthrough covers codemods, audits, and CI checks, plu…
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Sebastian Bergmann argues that European digital sovereignty already runs on PHP applications like TYPO3, Drupal and Nextcloud, citing Germany's €108 million Government Site Builder and the EU's 770 Drupal sites. His piec…
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Laravel 13.30 ships chunkBy() for grouping adjacent collection items, forces Storage::path() through the Flysystem path normalizer so traversal attempts now throw PathTraversalDetected, prints the queue worker's stop rea…
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A Daily WTF tale: a proudly metrics-driven manufacturing team tracks only widgets produced per unit time, pulls six databases into a Google Sheet, and blocks any change that does not improve the noisy top-level number. I…
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Brent Roose, PHP developer advocate at JetBrains and creator of the Tempest framework, has joined The PHP Foundation's Board of Directors in the JetBrains Platinum Sponsor seat. He replaces Roman Pronskiy, founding membe…
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The Daily WTF presents a code comment that truncates mid-sentence: 'Leave some room for'. The snippet subtracts 16 characters from a column size, and the trailing remark stops exactly where its explanation should begin, …
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A digital bus departure board in Manchester showed passengers a Windows Defender Firewall alert instead of clean timetable data. The Vix Technology sign, part of the Bee Network rollout, had its destination text partly h…
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A decompiled 2004 RuneScape client shows how Jagex ran a live multiplayer RPG over a 56k modem delivering roughly 5 KB/s. Tracing a single walk command from click to server and back, the analysis reveals delta-encoded co…
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The Computer History Museum has published part one of a 43-page oral history transcript in which Andy Hertzfeld, Apple's second Macintosh software engineer, describes porting QuickDraw from the Lisa, clashing with manage…
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The ZCOM museum in Hoyerswerda, Germany, which houses original Zuse and Robotron computers, could close by the end of the year. The municipal housing company withdrew its annual 110,000-euro subsidy, and the city council…
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Researchers scanning 8,565 llms.txt files across 6,214 domains found 237+ package names and domains referenced in AI-agent instructions that were never registered. They registered several themselves and got installation …
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An opinion piece argues the Hugging Face security incident reflects a deeper flaw: operating systems and file systems were built to run programs, not protect application data. The author revives the decades-old 'thick-da…
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In the latest episode of The Register's Kettle podcast, host Brandon Vigliarolo talks with reporters Liam Proven and Richard Speed about Windows XP's 25th anniversary, a Bluetooth-enabled Casio watch with two-year batter…
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Inertia.js v3.7.0 adds a cancelOnUnmount attribute and a cancel method to the <Form> component, letting developers abort in-flight submissions when a form unmounts or on demand. usePoll now reports a reactive polling sta…
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A Daily WTF reader recalls building a police tracking app for Brazil's 2014 World Cup with four engineers instead of the promised twenty, a photo-submission feature nicknamed the 'dick-pic encyclopedia,' and a debugging …
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The Daily WTF's Error'd column for 2026-08-28 gathers reader-found software flops: a language picker with scrambled order, a Google screen where the math doesn't add up, an Outlook support form that fights back, a cheese…
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Zod v4.5 introduces schema compilation promising 3 to 9 times faster validation. The maintainer of zod-compiler responded with benchmarks showing his tool still outperforms Zod's native z.compile() by a median of 1.75x, …
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Tarsnap creator Colin Percival has released Route 53 Files, a satirical but functional file system mounted on Amazon's DNS service. The project pokes fun at AWS S3 Files and its promise of buckets-as-filesystems, while e…
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All Laravel starter kits now build with Vite+, the unified toolchain released in beta in July 2026. The switch, made via laravel/maestro#60, replaces ESLint and Prettier with a single vp CLI covering linting, formatting,…
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The htmx project has published version 4.0.0, announced on its four.htmx.org site on August 28, 2026. htmx is a small JavaScript library that lets developers add AJAX requests, WebSockets and other dynamic page behavior …
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tmp.0ut interviewed Unix pioneer Doug McIlroy at Dartmouth's Binary Fun Week. He recounts writing echo as his first C program, how Ken Thompson built Unix in three weeks and implemented pipes in a single night, Tom Duff'…