The CDC Has a Leadership Crisis
A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it’s had only acting directors—and the White...
Read moreCategory: General
Controversial NIH director now in charge of CDC, too, in RFK Jr. shake-up
Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, is now also the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an unusual...
Read morePorting Super Mario 64 To the Original Nintendo DS
Considering that the Nintendo DS already has its own remake of Super Mario 64, one might be tempted to think that porting the original Nintendo 64 version...
Read moreNanoClaw’s answer to OpenClaw is minimal code, maximum isolation
Gavriel Cohen built NanoClaw, a lightweight alternative to OpenClaw, in a weekend after learning about security flaws in the popular agentic framework. On this edition of The New...
Read moreIEEE Plays a Pivotal Role In Climate Mitigation Talks
IEEE has enhanced its standing as a trusted, neutral authority on the role of technology in climate change mitigation and adaption. Last year it became the...
Read moreIntel Hiring More Linux Developers – Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack
As some good news out of Intel today on the Linux/open-source side following last year’s layoffs, they’re hiring for some new Linux software development roles —...
Read moreExclusive eBook: The great Al hype correction of 2025
2025 was a year of reckoning, including how the heads of the top AI companies made promises they couldn’t keep. In this exclusive subscriber-only eBook, you’ll...
Read moreWikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a...
Read moreMetadata Exposes Authors of ICE’s ‘Mega’ Detention Center Plans
Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.
Read moreThe Best Chairs and Desks From Branch Are On Sale (We’ve Tested Them All)
Branch makes excellent office essentials, and our top picks are discounted.
Read moreDrgn v0.1 Released For Very Versatile Programmable Debugger
Drgn is the programmable debugger developed by Meta engineer Omar Sandoval that has proven quite versatile and popular with Linux kernel developers and others. After nearly...
Read more96% of developers don’t trust AI code: Here’s a step toward the fix
The narrative surrounding software development has shifted dramatically over the last six months. The industry has moved past the initial awe of Large Language Models (LLMs)...
Read more