IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
Collaboration aims to advance new technologies that expand infrastructure choice while preserving mission-critical environments Apr 2, 2026 ARMONK, N.Y., April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a strategic collaboration with Arm to develop new dual‑architecture hardware that helps enterprises run future AI and data intensive workloads with greater flexibility, reliability, and security. […]
Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
A couple of weeks ago, we noticed something odd on Suga. New users were signing up but not doing anything, they weren’t creating an org, a project, or a deployment, they just left an account sitting there. Most new users interact with the product pretty quickly, and we report on activity stats to try and […]
Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?
Last updated: January 30, 2026 Here are some of the best techniques for keeping email addresses hidden from spammers—along with the statistics on how likely they are to be broken. 1 Plain text These techniques protect an email address written out in plain text (e.g. “[email protected]”). Ideally, you should be using multiple techniques in combination, […]
Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
If Valve’s latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and more than twice the size of the Steam on macOS marketshare. Steam on Linux ended 2025 at around a 3.5% marketshare, dipped a bit in January, […]
Artemis II’s toilet is a moon mission milestone
April 1, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm On their voyages to the moon, NASA’s astronauts are finally getting some creature comforts of terrestrial toilets—such as having a door and being able to pee and poop simultaneously By K. R. Callaway edited by Lee Billings The lunar-bound astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II […]
The Claude Code Leak
Apr 1, 2026 | 6 min read Much of the tech world is gushing about the accidental leak of Claude Code’s source code yesterday, but for different reasons than I find it interesting. I began jotting down my thoughts and came up with five distinct observations that had little to do with the leak itself, […]
Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
For those of you who haven’t seen, there were actually two “bombshell” QC announcements this week. One, from Caltech, including friend-of-the-blog John Preskill, showed how to do quantum fault-tolerance with lower overhead than was previously known, by using high-rate codes, which could work for example in neutral-atom architectures (or possibly other architectures that allow nonlocal […]
A new C++ back end for ocamlc
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Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission
Nasa launched Artemis II on a historic crewed mission to the moon. The 10-day test flight, which will not land on the moon, is a mission packed with milestones. The mission includes the first woman and first person of color to fly into cislunar space, the area between Earth’s orbit and the moon. Artemis II’s […]
Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away
I’m writing this as a PSA to anyone who is thinking about getting a used phone for GrapheneOS. I tried purchasing three used phones from Swappa.com. The first seller, Buyback Surgeon, listed a Google Pixel 9 Pro XL for $404 titled ”Unlocked”. After receiving the device, OEM unlocking was not possible. I requested a return […]