2026-05-25
U.S. Export Controls May Be Training China’s AI Stack to Survive Without Nvidia
This article argues that U.S. export controls on advanced AI chips are not simply restricting China’s progress but also accelerating the development of a domestic AI sovereignty stack built around...
datasette 1.0a30
Release: datasette 1.0a30 The big new feature in this alpha is a new customizable "Jump to..." menu, described in detail in The extensible "Jump to" menu in Datasette 1.0a30 on...
Linus Torvalds to ‘start being more hardnosed’ about ‘pointless pull requests’ – some of which come from AIs
Warns large release candidates ‘are *not* conducive to long-term stability’
datasette-agent 0.1a4
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a4 Taking advantage of the new makeJumpSections() JavaScript plugin hook added in Datasette 1.0a30, datasette-agent now presents this "Start a new agent chat" interface as part of the...
Hackaday Links: May 24, 2026
If your first-generation Chromecast was acting a little wonky this week, don’t worry. Contrary to fears online, the 2014 device hasn’t been excommunicated by Google. In a statement to Ars...
Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately
Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire?
Tekken 8's Baki crossover and all the other fighting game news from Combo Breaker 2026
Tekken 8, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game, and 2XKO all revealed new fighters at Combo Breaker 2026
2026-05-24
PC gaming's very own indie-themed Smash Bros. just added the guy from Spelunky, who I now know is named Guy Spelunky
You know, Guy Spelunky. The guy… from Spelunky.
Taxing Small Cars To Improve MPG
Cars and trucks are getting bigger, and I had a vague sense that fuel economy regulations were partly to blame. Looking into it, it's hard to say how much is...
Deus Ex, Marathon actor Elias Toufexis doesn't get why people root for games to fail: 'Life is so short, man'
"Just stop tweeting memes under things for six hours."
datasette-fixtures 0.1a0
Release: datasette-fixtures 0.1a0 One of the smaller features in Datasette 1.0a30 is this: New documented datasette.fixtures.populate_fixture_database(conn) helper for creating the fixture database tables used by Datasette's own tests, intended for...
Poltergeist II was a huge step down, but it's still worth watching
Poltergeist II isn't Poltergeist, but it's a pretty solid attempt at following up on some of its ideas
Pixel Art Action Platformer Dark Scrolls Leaping To Later Launch Date
Dark Scrolls is a new pixel art action adventure title from developer Doinksoft and publisher Devolver Digital that was originally planned to release on Steam and Nintendo Switch on May...
Every Microsoft 365 AI Agent Solves a Different Problem
Agents in Microsoft vary by use: SPO for site Q&A, M365 Copilot for in-app productivity, Copilot Studio for custom integrations, and AI Foundry for code-first, custom LLM
Swimming and the Meaning of Life
One of my earliest and most vivid childhood memories is of swimming in a cool pool bounded by boulders in the middle of a river in the mountains of Bulgaria,...
Is AI Really Delivering the ROI Companies Were Promised?
This article questions the assumption that replacing human labor with AI automatically produces better business returns. Drawing on recent survey data and broader social concerns, it argues that many organizations...
Spider-Noir's Nic Cage turned down a role in beloved Christopher Nolan movie Insomnia
When discussing Spider-Noir and Madden, Nic Cage revealed Christopher Nolan has not called him back since he turned down a role in Insomnia
6 Open-Source Frameworks Built for High-Load Applications
Here are 6 production-ready frameworks designed for high-concurrency, large-scale workloads. If your priority is raw CPU efficiency and avoiding garbage-collection latency spikes, look at Actix-web or userver. If you need...
The Governance Deficit in Autonomous Agents
A three-layer architecture for DeFi agents that enforces typed rules, state-machine execution gating, and immutable on-chain audit trails so agents can't violate their own constitution.
How to Build Production ML Systems That Detect Failure Early
This article explores why production machine learning systems often fail silently even while infrastructure metrics appear healthy. Using a real-world e-commerce LTV prediction failure as a case study, it walks...
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