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wingolog: article: the last couple years in v8's garbage collector

It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual

AGI is a harmful and wasteful fantasy that runs counter to the principles of efficient and effective engineering.

Mozilla is developing a built‑in AI assistant for Firefox that will be offered as a third browsing mode alongside Normal and Private tabs. They’re calling it “Window AI.” Details are still scarce.

Read the Q3 2025 Drive Stats report to see the latest annualized failure rates, and an analysis of how we define failure in the first place.

Higher supply chain consolidation under Nvidia?

Open source framework for building robust type-safe distributed systems with declarative infrastructure - encoredev/encore

An Italian writer says he has uncovered evidence that Italians paid Bosnian Serb forces for ‘human safaris’ during the siege in the Balkan Wars

Light desktop environment for UNIX operating systems

I'm just getting started with Magit, and it works in my Emacs, but I wanted to go over some tutorials from the webpage. magit.vc does not work currently.

Larry Ellison’s software company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts

Researchers have made germanium superconducting for the first time, a feat that could transform computing and quantum technologies. Using molecular beam epitaxy to embed gallium atoms precisely, the team stabilized the crystal structure to carry current without…

The umbrella project behind Incus, LXC, LXCFS, Distrobuilder and more.