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Starting July 2026, large EU companies can no longer destroy unsold clothes and shoes. The regulation mandates reuse, donation, or recycling, with fines for non-compliance.
A developer mines 3 million Instacart orders to find the rarest product pairings, then builds a humor index to surface the truly bizarre combos.
Waldi is a multi-tenant blogging platform built with Go and Postgres that guarantees every post an audience and replaces public comments with private letters, all while avoiding the usual engagement bait.
Stenchill is a free web tool that converts Gerber files into 3D-printable stencils for SMD soldering, targeting prototyping and small-batch runs.
A deep dive into building S+ trees that achieve 40x throughput improvement over binary search by optimizing memory layout, SIMD, and batching.
Cloudflare has deployed WAF rules to block a critical unauthenticated RCE and a high-severity SQL injection in WordPress. Patch now—versions 6.8 through 7.0.2 are affected.
The restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's first home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois, offers lessons in preserving complex architectural systems and historical data.
Capital One released VulnHunter, an open-source agentic AI tool that simulates attacker workflows to find and fix vulnerabilities in source code before they can be exploited.
Scientists have identified a new species of Colobus monkey, Likweli, in the Congo Basin, marking only the fifth new African monkey species discovered in 75 years.
Bandeira, Singer, and Strohmer have released a comprehensive textbook covering the mathematical foundations of data science, from high-dimensional geometry to deep learning theory.
Mozilla's latest audit of six popular period trackers reveals that some apps share intimate health data—including pregnancy status and symptoms—with third-party analytics and advertising companies, often without clear consent.
Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, adds a secure cloud computer for native code execution and deeper data analysis, and expands integration across the Gemini app and Search.