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Atlassian has entered into an agreement to acquire The Browser Company of New York, the team behind the incredible Dia and Arc browsers.

When people talk about the value of paying attention and slowing down, they often make it sound prudish and monk-like. But we shouldn’t forget how interesting and overpoweringly pleasurable sustained attention can be.

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Data centers are driving up utility costs. As companies like Amazon and Meta pour billions into data centers across the country, it’s raising electricity bills. While they’re making record profits, the rest of us are forced to foot the bill.

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CVE-2025-7783 is a very recent vulnerability affecting a lot of applications in the Node.js ecosystem including those which use axios or the deprecated request library. In all honesty, this vulnera…

Send data, say goodbye, and move on. That's JavaScript's Beacon in one line.

Woman who was immediately sacked when she insulted her manager during a row wins unfair dismissal case

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Better transaction balancing, include improvements, auto posting account interpolation, csv data commands, import archiving, timeclock improvements, fixes
hledger 1.50
Breaking chang...

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$610 million is a pretty big number for a web browser

OpenAI and Perplexity both reportedly looked at acquiring the startup.

A new technique can reshape your vision without lasers. Learn how electricity might change future eye surgeries.

Building MVT tiles from scratch

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A little game by the name of Hollow Knight: Silksong just released, and it has thrown platforms into chaos.

Even if you can’t stop Flock’s use entirely, you can still help protect civil liberties in your community.

Five years ago, Google’s climate action ambitions were the gold standard for Big Tech. Then, with power demand spikes from AI data centres, in July it scrubbed its sustainability website of its 2030 net zero pledge.