As a follow-up to the similar milestone reached for our WSL image a few months ago, I’m happy to share that Arch Linux now has a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image!
This bit-for-bit reproducible image is distributed under a new “repro” tag.
The reason…

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How Ars Technica uses, and doesn't use, generative AI.

Once a Liverpool institution, Sayers has been driven out of its own city centre by Greggs. What went wrong?

 

The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.

SQLite extension + bindings for Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics with durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and scheduler - russellromney/honker

The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

Pillbugs, sowbugs, roly-polies and woodlice, collectively referred to as isopods, are land-dwelling crustaceans that feed on decaying organic matter.

A new class of AI startups say they are taking money that would normally be used to hire people and are spending it on AI compute instead.

I'm grateful that my blog posts attract lots of engaged, funny, and challenging comments. But any popular post also attracts spammers. I use Antispam Bee to automatically eradicate a couple of hundred crappy comments per day. Nevertheless, some get through.…

First foray into the Zig programming language

Sanjiva Wijesinha wrote Sri Lanka, Serendib and the Silk Road of the Sea. These are their favorite books on Silk Road.

raylib 6.0 release notes
A new raylib release is finally ready and, again, this is the biggest raylib release ever! Thanks to the support of many amazing contributors this release comes packed with...

holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer

- polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded…

Medical marijuana was moved into a lower category of drugs in order to increase research and access.

Although the notion of area is intuitive, its mathematical treatment requires a rigorous definition. This post introduces the Riemann integral, and proves the …

Bitwarden CLI 2026.4.0 was compromised in the Checkmarx supply chain campaign after attackers abused a GitHub Action in Bitwarden’s CI/CD pipeline.