Following yesterday's release of Wine 11.1 for kicking off the new post-11.0 development cycle, Wine-Staging 11.1 is now available for this experimental/testing version of Wine that present is around 254 patches over the upstream Wine state.

Manufacturers take a conservative approach and specify the life of Li-ion in most consumer products as being between 300 and 500 discharge/charge cycles.…

The FAA has created nationwide moving drone no-fly zones around ICE vehicles and convoys, with criminal penalties for violating the restricted airspace.

ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.

Learn how to use PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) for event-driven systems. Case study from Wayfair showing how to handle failures in Kafka consumers.

Learn to build safety-critical systems in C. Prove first, code second. - SpeyTech/c-from-scratch

Sixty years into the fire that left the town condemned, Centralia is now a haven for wild plants and butterflies.

Grateful acknowledgement made to the several former Apple employees who materially contributed to this entry. This article wouldn't have bee...

150,000 lines of production Elixir, written entirely by AI. Here's what worked and what didn't.

Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material. Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting, lead with that, and let the background follow…

The preliminary report into the crash that left 45 people dead finds evidence of a fracture more than two hours earlier.

I've been visiting the US a lot these days: for work, for conferences, and simply to see friends. Commensurately, I've been also thinking more about what Can...

A massive unsecured database exposed 149 million logins, raising concerns over infostealer malware and credential theft.

Lightweight, container-free sandbox for running commands with network and filesystem restrictions - Use-Tusk/fence

ollama launch is a new command which sets up and runs coding tools like Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex with local or cloud models. No environment variables or config files needed.

But George, surely you’ll still be allowed to own a car. They aren’t going to make that illegal. Of course they won’t, but they didn’t make general computation illegal either. And yet, who has root on the computer you are reading this on?

Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.