Researchers virtually unwrap and read preserved Herculaneum scroll end to end
X-ray tomography, surface reconstruction and machine learning recovered the surviving text of PHerc. 1667 without physically opening the carbonized papyrus.
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FIRE warns age-verification mandates can become identity checks for all users
The free-expression group points to Australia’s under-16 social-media rules, data collection and a recent breach as reasons to question expanding online age gates.
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German founder documents €9,600 cost and 152-day wait to invoice
Giulio Paolino says a two-company structure, registration work and delayed VAT identification left his new business unable to bill foreign clients after five months.
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OpenAI unveils Jalapeño inference chip developed with Broadcom
The custom processor is being tested for serving AI models, with OpenAI claiming improved performance per watt and lower costs for real-time coding workloads.
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Bunny removes DNS query fees and offers hosting for 500 domains
The infrastructure provider says Bunny DNS now has no per-request charges or query caps, though accounts remain subject to a $1 monthly minimum spend.
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Baidu Repository Presents Unlimited-OCR for Long-Horizon Document Parsing
The public project outlines GPU-based inference, PDF and image workflows, and several deployment routes for a document-parsing model.
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F3 research prototype proposes extensible successor to columnar data formats
The SIGMOD 2026 project combines a redesigned storage layout with embedded WebAssembly decoders, while warning that its current implementation is not for production use.
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FUTO releases compact swipe-typing models and C++ inference library
The system combines a universal path encoder, a small context model and an English QWERTY decoder trained with a public dataset of one million volunteered swipes.
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Doctorow argues online age checks would expand surveillance rather than protect privacy
The writer says systems meant to separate children from adults require tracking everyone, potentially reinforcing the same data collection that drives harmful recommendation systems.
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Deno 2.9 adds tool for packaging web projects as desktop applications
Deno Desktop bundles application code, the runtime and a web rendering engine into platform-specific binaries with native windows, hot reload and update support.
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Campaign urges users to reject facial scans for online age checks
“Never Give Them Your Face” argues that identity-based age assurance creates persistent biometric risks, though many of its broad claims are advocacy rather than independently documented findings.
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Mitchell Hashimoto pledges another $400,000 to Zig foundation
The Ghostty developer and his family plan to provide $200,000 annually for two years, taking their total pledged support for the Zig Software Foundation to $700,000.
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Swiss AI initiative presents Apertus as an open foundation-model project
The collaboration involving EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS says its model work will publish weights, data documentation, code, methods and alignment principles.
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Engineer traces a pivotal startup job through allegations against its venture owner
A personal investigation into GenieDB and Frost VP examines how alleged excessive fees can shape the lives of employees far outside a financial dispute.
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Anthropic introduces identity checks for selected Claude access and integrity reviews
The company says some users may be asked for government identification or business records as it expands verification for safety, policy and legal requirements.
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Sandi Metz’s warning about the ‘wrong abstraction’ finds a new audience
The software-design essay argues that duplicated code can be safer than a shared component distorted by exceptions, parameters and conditional branches.
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Open-source Loupe app exposes the device signals available through Apple APIs
The iOS and iPadOS project displays raw fingerprinting-related values on-device, aiming to show how ordinary readings can combine into a recognizable profile.
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Firefox user reports Google Workspace warning to switch to Chrome
A Business Plus administrator says access still worked despite a remediation page instructing Firefox users to use Google’s browser.
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Benchmark commentary questions whether larger AI models are better calibrated
An analysis highlights a wide gap in one hallucination test, but its conclusions depend on benchmark definitions and a limited coding comparison.
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Hyundai moves to acquire SoftBank’s remaining Boston Dynamics stake
The $325 million transaction would give Hyundai full ownership as it prepares the Atlas humanoid robot for work in a Georgia vehicle plant.
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Project Valhalla value classes move toward a preview in JDK 28
The long-running OpenJDK effort is preparing its first major integration, seeking class-like programming with denser, primitive-style runtime representation.
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Borneo survey identifies horn-shaped fungus that parasitizes an ant-killing fungus
Malaysian researchers documented Pleurocordyceps cornusynnemata in Sabah, revealing another layer in the ecological chain surrounding so-called zombie fungi.
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Researcher says cloned GitHub projects formed a 10,000-repository malware network
A pattern-based scan found copied project histories paired with frequently refreshed README links to ZIP files that were detected as Trojans after download.
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Test finds new Outlook slow to open mail from Windows 11 notifications
Windows Latest measured an approximately 10-second delay in Microsoft’s WebView2-based app, while Outlook Classic displayed the selected message almost immediately.
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