The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic
Since late 2024, Anthropic’s models have been approved for classified US government work thanks to a partnership with Palantir and Amazon. In June, Anthropic announced Claude Gov, a special version of Claude that’s optimized for national security uses. Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the Defense Department in July. Claude Gov has fewer guardrails […]
OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
OpenAI has raised $110 billion in private funding, the company announced Friday morning, commencing one of the largest private funding rounds in history. The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion pre-money valuation. Notably, the round remains open, […]
A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures. Assembly Bill No. 1043 was approved by California governor Gavin Newsom in October of last year, and becomes active on January 1, 2027 (via The Lunduke Journal). The bill states, […]
We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript
Handling data in streams is fundamental to how we build applications. To make streaming work everywhere, the WHATWG Streams Standard (informally known as ”Web streams”) was designed to establish a common API to work across browsers and servers. It shipped in browsers, was adopted by Cloudflare Workers, Node.js, Deno, and Bun, and became the foundation […]
Chorba: A novel CRC32 implementation (2024)
Abstract:This paper describes a novel method for efficiently calculating CRC checksums without lookup tables or hardware support for polynomial multiplication. Throughput of CRC32 is increased by 100% across different platforms compared with the current state of the art. Performance is on par with or exceeds hardware-accelerated solutions on x86_64 and ARMv8 processors, and these hardware-accelerated […]
PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI
February 26, 20266 min. read The biggest thing in February for postmarketOS was of course FOSDEM and our hackathon, about which we wrote a whole blog post already. Because of this, and the new approach outlined in the last monthly post, the blog post here is compareatively short. The PMCR 0009 about defining new requirements […]
F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026
Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We are looking to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for two years each. You may nominate yourself or someone else (with their permission). Please send nominations by email to [email protected] (one email per nomination) and make sure that […]
Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last
Move over cyclopentadiene anion—there’s a new five-membered aromatic ring in town, and this one is made of silicon. Two research teams working independently report the first examples of pentasilacyclopentadienide—an all-silicon version of cyclopentadienides (Science 2026, DOI: 10.1126/science.aed1802 and 10.1126/science.aed0168). Making pentasilacyclopentadienide has been a decades-long goal for both Saarland University’s David Scheschkewitz and Tohoku […]
Breaking Free
In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide. Together with more than 70 consumer groups and other […]
Ubicloud (YC W24): Software Engineer – $95-$250K in Turkey, Netherlands, CA
Ubicloud is an open source alternative to AWS. Our cloud services include elastic compute, block storage, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), K8s, managed Postgres, and AI inference. Today, we serve 500+ customers on our managed cloud. We’re now hiring engineers to help us with our Postgres, GitHub Actions, and AI inference products. Who we are With our […]