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Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

Qwen3.6 27B is a powerful open-source local language model that delivers impressive performance for its size, excelling…

Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.

California Strikes Deal With Anthropic to Bring Claude AI to State Agencies

Anthropic’s agreement makes Claude the first AI tool available to all state agencies and local governments, at half…

TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization

TIDAL's new policy will prevent AI-generated music from making money on its service.

In San Francisco, Even $180k Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough

In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights

The Supreme Court's decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use…

HamsterOS: A graphical desktop OS that fits on a 1.44MB floppy

Developer John Swiderski is creating HamsterOS, a full-featured 32-bit graphical multitasking operating system designed…

WhatsApp not lets you reserve usernames

WhatsApp username can be between 3 to 40 characters length

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that law enforcement's use of geofence warrants—which collect smartphone location data…

Wildwood featurette lifts the veil on building its stop-motion world

Director Travis Knight is also the creative mind behind 2016's Oscar-nominated Kubo and the Two Strings.

A native graphical shell for SSH

The author proposes a new architecture where servers and edge devices can provide browser-based graphical shells…

In a bold move, Rocket Lab acquires Iridium Communications

"We believe this will be one of the most transformative deals in the space industry."

Microsoft Needs Windows Lite

The article argues that Microsoft is losing developers and builders to macOS and Linux, threatening its software…

Rocket Lab continues buying spree by acquiring satellite company Iridium

The all-stock deal values Iridium at $8 billion, and gives Rocket Lab even more firepower to compete against Amazon and…

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

A Game Boy emulator called WATaBoy was built to demonstrate that JIT-compiling CPU instructions to WebAssembly bytecode…

Linux for the Sega MegaDrive

https://hackaday.com/2026/06/29/its-linux-on-a-sega-megadriv...

WebGL Without a GPU

Microlink reduced WebGL rendering time on GPU-less servers from 24 seconds to 6 seconds by switching from Chrome's…

Working With AI: A concrete example

The author describes investigating and fixing a parsing bug in Hyperscript, an experimental web scripting language,…

Data breach exposes up to 14.2M email logins at six ISPs

Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI Corporation disclosed a data breach affecting up to 14.2 million email logins…

A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML

Why did one day of AI cost more than a month of servers?

A SaaS application experienced a massive spike in LLM API costs on a single day—costing more than an entire month of…

You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification

RocketLab Acquires Iridium

DocumentDB – a MongoDB compatible open-source database

DocumentDB is an open-source, MIT-licensed database built on PostgreSQL that provides MongoDB compatibility with native…

Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise

The startup, Proception, is taking a unique approach to collecting training data to tackle one of the hardest problems…

CachyOS June 2026 Release

CachyOS released its June 2026 update featuring performance improvements through extended Python PGO and GCC branch…

Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Mera Glasses

Comcast is splitting its media and broadband properties

NBCUniversal and Sky will be spun off into separate companies.

Building Principia for Windows XP

The article describes efforts to rebuild the game Principia to run on Windows XP by developing a custom toolchain, as…