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Shirt Pocket's SuperDuper 4 is a complete rewrite of the classic macOS backup utility, promising up to 40x faster Smart Updates, background execution, and support for any file system.
A physicist rigged his hamster's wheel with a hall sensor and ESP32, auto-uploading nightly runs to Strava. The hamster logs 6-mile nights, and the build is a neat lesson in DIY fitness tracking.
A landmark LSE study across 18 countries and 50 years finds that tax cuts for the wealthy increase inequality without improving growth or employment. The authors explain why the idea persists despite the evidence.
Cloudflare revamps its community program with two tracks: Ambassadors for community builders and Community Engineers for open-source maintainers, backed by an additional $1M in funding.
Cloudflare is unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single control plane, bringing automatic observability, unified billing, and a path to model-first routing.
A developer recompiled the Pokémon Emerald decompilation from ARMv4T to Cortex-M33 and reimplemented the GBA's video hardware in software on the second core of an RP2350. Full game, 60 fps HDMI output, saves to flash.
One DISTINCT keyword switches off parallel query for the entire statement in PostgreSQL, forcing a serial sort of the whole table. A GROUP BY rewrite restores parallelism.
Cloudflare's AI Search now automates the crawl-ingest-embed-retrieve pipeline, adds public /search and /mcp endpoints, and previews predictable pricing with free embedding and reranking.
The Model Context Protocol drops its stateful session requirement, letting MCP servers run on plain serverless infrastructure. Cloudflare explains the breaking changes and what it means for agent deployments.
Cloudflare introduces Kitesurf, an agent-first browser that runs entirely on Workers, promising significant efficiency gains over Chromium for AI-driven tasks like HTML extraction and screenshots.
Cloudflare outlines a future where AI agents are first-class web citizens, proposing open standards for identity, payments, and tool invocation to keep the internet open.
Cloudflare rolls out Agent Readiness diagnostics and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) to help site owners measure and improve how AI agents discover, read, and recommend their sites.