Meta’s new AI chips are set to enter production in September
Meta plans to start production of its latest AI-specific chips in September, according to Reuters. The company is using …
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Saturday, July 18, 2026 · 7
The Cursed Pre-NFS Era of SunOS Diskless Workstations
Before NFS arrived in SunOS 2.0, diskless workstations used nd, short for network disk. It bypassed standard transport p…
Lobsters /t/historicalPHP 8.6 array_map gets a faster path for first-class callables
A Tideways video featured on Freek Van der Herten’s blog shows that PHP 8.6 will make array_map faster when the callback…
freek.devOpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot
OpenAI says its GPT 5.6 model will power Microsoft 365 Copilot as the “preferred model,” following reports that Microsof…
TechCrunch (AI)Backwards C Error-Check Becomes an Unwritten Team Convention
In a mostly C project, a veteran developer inverted the usual Boolean convention: functions that return TRUE on success …
The Daily WTFK&R C: a pre-ANSI bestiary of missing keywords, mutable strings, and octal 9s
Sebastian's deep dive into K&R C — the 1978 dialect that preceded ANSI standardization — uncovers a language without voi…
Lobsters /t/historicalPHP RFC proposes parameterized array types for keys and values
Wendell Adriel has posted a draft RFC for typed array declarations, suggesting `array<TValue>` and `array<TKey, TValue>`…
PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE])Friday, July 17, 2026 · 2
Laravel 13.20 Adds Native Image Processing, Middleware Attribute, and Redis Session Prefix
Laravel 13.20.0 ships a first-party Illuminate\Image component for transforming images from uploads, URLs, storage disks…
Laravel NewsPHP 8.6 deprecation RFC gains usage data from Packagist scans
PHP internals is discussing a bundled RFC of proposed PHP 8.6 deprecations. Juliette Reinders Folmer added PHPCompatibil…
PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE])Monday, July 13, 2026 · 3
The Calcumator 2000: Floating Point with Voltmeters
Developer lcamtuf built a retro-style calculator that uses voltmeter dials instead of modern digital displays. It looks …
Hackaday RetrocomputingThe Easy No
A tech support engineer investigates a printer issue in HR, only to discover an IP address conflict with a decommissione…
The Daily WTFSolar Panels Survive a Year Under Swiss Trains
Sun-Ways' pilot project in Switzerland proves that installing photovoltaics between railway tracks is technically viable…
The Register (Offbeat)Sunday, July 12, 2026 · 7
Postgres Is Enough for More Than We Admit
This short piece argues that many teams add extra databases, queues, caches, and services before they actually need them…
r/programming (Top)China recovers its first reusable rocket using a sea-based net
China’s Long March 10B completed its first flight and recovered its booster in the South China Sea using a net mounted o…
Ars TechnicaPasswordless Sign-In with Fortify Two-Factor Support in Laravel
This piece looks at a Laravel package that adds passwordless authentication through magic links and one-time codes, with…
Laravel NewsHTTP Query Method Support in Laravel 13.19
Laravel 13.19.0 adds support for the HTTP QUERY verb with a new Http::query() client method and query/queryJson testing …
Laravel NewsApple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
Apple has filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing hardware trade secrets and breaching contracts, alleging that form…
XatakaCan AI answer the $3 trillion question?
TechCrunch revisits the AI ROI debate as infrastructure spending keeps climbing. A Sequoia partner’s updated estimate pu…
TechCrunch (AI)Microsoft formalizes heavy use of AI for vulnerability discovery
Microsoft says generative AI is now part of its vulnerability management process, especially for Windows and other produ…
Next (FR)Saturday, July 11, 2026 · 3
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser plans continue
OpenAI is ending Atlas, its AI-powered browser launched in October, after less than a year. The company is not backing a…
TechCrunch (AI)Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade-secret theft
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in federal court in Northern California, accusing the company and its hardware …
Next (FR)Django releases 6.0.7 and 5.2.16 to fix security issues
Django has released versions 6.0.7 and 5.2.16 to address three low-severity security issues across supported branches. T…
heise DeveloperFriday, July 10, 2026 · 5
Flushed Out
A Daily WTF tale about a project manager with an MBA, a stack of certifications, and very little practical experience. P…
The Daily WTFIBM Home Director: Home Automation in 1996
A look back at IBM’s Home Director, a 1996 home-automation setup that rode along with the company’s Aptiva PC era. It’s …
Hackaday RetrocomputingGoogle pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
This short item is worth reading because it flags a serious Linux vulnerability affecting virtualized environments and n…
r/programming (Top)Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
OpenAI says a new analysis points to reliability and accuracy issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a widely used coding benchmark. T…
OpenAI NewsRewriting Bun in Rust
Jarred Sumner explains why the Bun team is moving parts of the runtime from Zig to Rust after repeated memory-safety pro…
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