Microsoft Comic Chat Turned IRC Into Live Comic Strips, and Microsoft Just Open-Sourced the 1996 Code
Microsoft Comic Chat was a 1996 Microsoft Research-built IRC client that automatically rendered live chat conversations as comic strips instead…
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Chatto Is Now Open Source With a Self-hostable 0.4 Release
Chatto is now open source, with creator Hendrik Mans announcing the public release on July 8, 2026 and shipping a…
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Katalyst Space Launched a Bid to Save NASA’s Falling Swift Telescope
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is now being targeted for an orbital rescue after Katalyst Space’s LINK spacecraft launched on…
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Cloudflare Is Blocking Many AI Crawlers by Default on Ad-Supported Pages, Not Charging Them Automatically
Cloudflare is not automatically making AI companies pay publishers for content; starting September 15, 2026, it will default many ad-supported…
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Ford Brought Back 350 Veteran Engineers After Its AI Quality Systems Missed Real-world Problems
Ford brought back about 350 veteran “gray beard” engineers over the last three years after its automated quality systems and…
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ByteDance Eyes Inference Silicon; Cloudflare Automates First-Pass Reviews; SQLite Creeps Into Agent Runtime
ByteDance chips are the clearest signal today, even if the clearest fact is still that the company has not confirmed…
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383 Grams, 50N, and ROS 2: Revo2 Bionic Hand
BrainCo has launched its revo2 bionic hand for humanoid robotics, positioning it as a developer-ready end effector rather than just…
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They Rejected It. It’s Building Anyway: OpenAI Oracle Data Center
The OpenAI Oracle data center project in Saline Township, Michigan moved into construction after local officials voted down the rezoning…
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Datacenter Emissions Secrecy: EU Built Transparency, Hid it
A transparency system is only useful if someone can see through it. The EU built one for the opposite of…
