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Microsoft will convert Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac to view-only on July 13, 2026 when a licensing certificate expires, breaking an earlier promise that apps would continue functioning.
Agentic AI makes code generation cheap, raising the value of domain expertise over software engineering skill.
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OpenBSD team releases openrsync, a BSD-licensed rsync reimplementation compatible with modern rsync protocol.
OpenRouter raises $113M Series B led by CapitalG, with backing from infrastructure and platform companies including NVIDIA Ventures, ServiceNow, MongoDB, Snowflake, and Databricks.
pandoc-templates.org catalogs community-contributed templates for converting Markdown to PDFs, Word docs, presentations, and other formats via Pandoc.
Anthropic's $65 billion Series H funding round values it near $1 trillion, surpassing OpenAI's $852 billion valuation.
Rsync maintainer incorporated AI-generated code changes, sparking criticism over instability in a mature foundational tool.
Zig's build system separated configuration from execution, reducing build times by 90 percent for simple commands.
Artist Shantell Martin created a free, open-source variable font inspired by Comic Sans, designed for readability and accessibility.
Platform-agnostic checklist of 128 technical features websites should implement, organized across ten categories from SEO to accessibility.
OMB proposes federal rules allowing cancellation of any grant at any time, replacing peer review with political appointee discretion.
GPTZero investigation found that over 60% of citations in EY Canada's 2025 loyalty fraud cybersecurity report were hallucinated.
Accenture to acquire Ookla, operator of Speedtest and other network intelligence platforms, for undisclosed terms.
AV2 video codec specification reaches final v1.0 release from the Alliance for Open Media.
Explanation and web demo of the Voxel Space rendering technique used in 1992's Comanche, with algorithm implementation details.
VideoLAN releases dav2d, a fast open-source decoder for AV2, the new royalty-free video codec succeeding AV1.
Canceling an AI subscription may be the solution to regaining focus after building 50+ abandoned projects.
Pope Leo's first encyclical warns against unregulated AI development and replacing humans with technology.
Zig's new ELF linker now supports fast incremental compilation with external libraries on x86_64 Linux.