[$] The troubles with Boolean inversion in Python
The Python bitwise-inversion (or complement) operator, “~“, behaves pretty much as expected when it is applied to integers—it toggles every bit, from one to zero and...
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And the award for the most improved EV goes to… the 2026 Toyota bZ
The world’s largest automaker has had a somewhat difficult relationship with battery-electric vehicles. Toyota was an early pioneer of hybrid powertrains, and it remains a fan today,...
Read moreWall Street Has AI Psychosis
A “thought experiment” about the impacts of AI sent stocks tumbling earlier this week. It’s probably going to keep happening.
Read moreSilverStone RM4A: 4U Rackmount Server/Workstation Chassis That’s Great For Liquid Cooling
For those looking to build a rackmount-ready server or workstation that can handle up to an SSI-EEB motherboard and capable of fitting a large liquid cooling...
Read moreBreak It To Make It: How Fracturing Sculpts Tissues and Organs
There’s a moment, just before the tight mass of cells that is a developing mouse embryo implants itself in the womb, that it all comes apart....
Read moreBefore You Migrate: Five Surprising Ingress-NGINX Behaviors You Need to Know
As announced November 2025, Kubernetes will retire Ingress-NGINX in March 2026. Despite its widespread usage, Ingress-NGINX is full of surprising defaults and side effects that are...
Read moreNetflix cedes Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount: “No longer financially attractive”
Netflix backed out of its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD’s) streaming and movie studios businesses on Thursday night. After increasing its bid for all...
Read moreNASA shakes up its Artemis program to speed up lunar return
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced sweeping changes to the Artemis program on Friday morning, including an increased cadence of missions and cancellation of an expensive rocket...
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Behind the Winter Update: The team that made it work
A look behind the scenes at the people who turned product releases into real impact.
Read moreYet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element
TL;DR: We can center absolute-positioned elements in three lines of CSS. And it works on all browsers! .element { position: absolute; place-self: center; inset: 0; }...
Read moreTwo new stable kernels, possible regression
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 6.19.4 and 6.18.14 stable kernels. Shortly after 6.19.4 was released Kris Karas reported “getting a repeatable Oops right when networking is...
Read moreHow to downgrade from macOS 26 Tahoe on a new Mac
An Ars Technica colleague recently bought a new M4 MacBook Air. I have essentially nothing bad to say about this hardware, except to point out that...
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