F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix
From Pascal and ex tapes to a VAX system: Bill Joy handles BSD distribution and debugging, then joins Ozalp Babaoglu to bring virtual…
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The Electrek added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months
Electrek battery storage set a quarterly record in Q2 2026, adding 20.2 GWh as utility-scale projects surged in Arizona, Texas, and California.
Theranos.world
An interactive simulation of Elizabeth Holmes' desk. Open her MacBook, scroll her iPhone, run the Edison machine. Every text and email is real,…
Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra says memory and storage supply will likely be much tighter in 2027 and 2028 than it was in 2026.…
Grok 4.7
SpaceXSI's most powerful model for coding and knowledge work. Twice as fast, at half the price of comparable models.
Saving another 100TB of RAM
Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As Cloudflare look for small ways to trim Cloudflare’s resource usage, Cloudflare sometimes get lucky…
LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
An investigation by Gamers Nexus found LG smart TVs sweep local networks to map phones and nearby devices. Tests also showed the sets…
The browser’s main thread is expensive
What comes to mind when you hear "frontend optimisation"? For most of Kciter it's things like reducing network requests, shrinking the bundle,…
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
an adventure in image processing and taking very wide photographs (blog post; 4,600 words)
A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
DuckDB 2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, Duckdb preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous…