Eligible staff in four countries have until early December to consider location-based severance packages as Microsoft seeks to manage its workforce without another broad layoff.
The Blocks project has converted Switzerland’s terrain and mapped features into an early-access Minecraft world built largely from open federal datasets.
The LEGO Group has confirmed a Daft Punk partnership and moved a fan-submitted concert concept into product development after it reached 10,000 supporters.
A new visualization represents major US companies as market-cap bubbles filled with standardized employee figures, highlighting differences in value per worker.
A non-commercial research project is publishing reviewed explanations of the Löffelholz Codex, a 154-page manuscript of machines, tools and workshop ideas.
An economist's review of recent federal data argues that tax, energy, healthcare and tariff policies are intensifying the long-running concentration of US wealth.
A developer’s small test shows how modern compilers can transform code containing unreachable paths and invalid pointer operations in ways that defy a literal reading of the source.
Finnish regulators ordered work suspended at two proposed data-center locations after large-scale preparatory construction proceeded before environmental review was complete.
The open-source gpu-unlock project changes firmware speed selectors before Nvidia's driver loads, with user reports showing gains in matrix-heavy workloads.
Apple is accepting applications through October 30 for renewable one-year loans of specially configured iPhones that give approved researchers deeper access to iOS.
A developer benchmark found a pure functional Roc implementation running within single-digit median margins of libdeflate on two machines, while retaining memory-safety and purity guarantees.
Commercial terms scheduled for October 30 say customers assume risks from Meta AI features, while broader content and crawling language has drawn scrutiny from enterprise advisers.