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Raspberry Pi Pico Revives Old Cash Register Display With a Modern Panel
A hobbyist replaced a failed monochrome STN display in an old Samsung cash register using a low-cost microcontroller instead of expensive parts.
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Bryan Cantrill Reflects on Rust in the Age of LLMs
A Rust NYC talk by Bryan Cantrill, titled “Reflections on Rust in the LLM Age,” is available on YouTube. The page we reviewed did not include the talk’s content.
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KoaOS: A Headless Operating System for the ESP32-S3
A new open-source project brings a UNIX-like operating system to the Heltec WiFi LoRa 32 V4, controlled entirely through a serial terminal.
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Google Shuts Down Firebase Studio in Favor of Antigravity and AI Studio
Google is retiring its Firebase Studio coding environment and steering developers toward its newer AI-focused tools. Users have until March 2027 to export their work.
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Apple Reportedly Cuts Daily AI Spending Caps for Its Engineers
Apple is reportedly reducing how much its engineering teams can spend on AI each day, as companies rethink costly AI usage.
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DreamHost Confirms Months-Long Hack Exposed Customer Emails and Credentials
Web host DreamHost says attackers stole customer emails and login credentials during a cyberattack that began in August.
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Apple Reportedly Plans a $1,000 Home Robot for 2027
Apple is reportedly developing an AI-driven home robot that could cost $1,000 or more when it launches in 2027.
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ETH Zurich’s FlexiQuad Drone Bends Instead of Breaking After Collisions
Researchers at ETH Zurich have built a flexible quadcopter that can hit obstacles and keep flying. The design aims to make drones more robust where avoiding every obstacle is hard.
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Go Introduces a New JSON API with encoding/json/v2 and jsontext
The Go team has announced that the encoding/json/v2 and encoding/json/jsontext packages are now stable and will be generally available in Go 1.27.
