Software
Five takeaways from the renewed Iran conflict, from tech infrastructure to shipping risk
It has been 10 days since President Donald Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was “over.” The latest round of hostilities is now hitting data infrastructure, commercial shipping, and oil markets.
Flock’s Trust Problem Deepens After Public Reversals Over ALPR Claims
An ACLU account says Flock Safety has repeatedly given inaccurate or misleading answers about its license-plate readers, data access, and privacy controls — including in a Wisconsin city council meeting that approved and then reversed a contract in one day.
Cursor’s agent swarms point to a new cost curve for AI software work
Cursor says its latest swarm system outperformed an earlier version on a Rust rewrite of SQLite, while using different planner-worker mixes to sharply reduce cost and coordination overhead.
Larry Ellison once struggled to keep the lights on while building software. Now he owns most of a Hawaiian island
The Oracle co-founder’s early days involved payment trouble, investor rejection and a CIA code name that became a company brand. Decades later, he bought nearly all of Lānaʻi and tied it to a renewable-energy vision.
AI tools are turning up mathematical counterexamples faster than humans can check them
A mathematician’s account describes Lean-based autoformalization systems finding and verifying counterexamples in real time, from geometry to algebraic geometry.
How one MikroTik router became the center of a home lab network
A home-lab build log shows how a MikroTik L009UiGS-RM can handle WAN setup, Wi‑Fi control, PoE, and bufferbloat mitigation in a single small router.
Orion Browser by Kagi puts privacy, extensions, and platform coverage in one browser
Kagi’s Orion browser positions itself as a privacy-first alternative built around WebKit speed, broad extension support, and native apps across macOS, iOS, Linux, and Windows.
This Itanium emulator can boot Windows Server 2003 and XP 64-bit
A newly released IA-64 emulator from Yufeng Gao, with help from gdwnldsKSC, can already start Windows for Itanium — though performance is slow and other operating systems do not boot yet.
Moonshine turns a PC into a Linux game-streaming host for Moonlight clients
The open source project focuses on isolated streaming sessions, headless operation, and GPU-accelerated encoding for users already on the Moonlight ecosystem.
Hardcore IndieWeb argues for a simpler, cheaper way to publish your own site
A new IndieWeb guide makes the case for keeping your content on your own drive, publishing static HTML directly, and running a personal website for about a penny a day.