How Is Kalshi Not Gambling?

How Is Kalshi Not Gambling?

On Kalshi, people have placed bets on everything from football games to foreign affairs. The prediction market’s CEO, Tarek Mansour, says this doesn’t count as gambling—and is actually good for society.

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Old Desk Phone Gets DOOM Port

Old desk phones are fairly useless these days unless you’re building a corporate PBX in your house. However, they can be fun to hack on, as...

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Countdown to IEEE’s Annual Election

This year’s annual election, which begins on 17 August, will include candidates for IEEE president-elect and other officer positions up for election. To see who is...

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Free Books

Spinning a lot of plates this week so skipping the newsletter. As an apology, have ten free copies of Logic for Programmers. These five are available...

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[$] Free software needs free tools

One of the contradictions of the modern open-source movement is that projects which respect user freedoms often rely on proprietary tools that do not: communities often...

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Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (containernetworking-plugins, gnutls, kernel, libpng, and skopeo), Debian (firefox-esr, php8.2, and spip), Fedora (erlang and python-pillow), Red Hat (go-toolset:rhel8, golang,...

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pkill Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core pkill command forms. Command Description pkill process_name Send SIGTERM to matching process names pkill -f "pattern" Match against full command line pkill...

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What Does Python’s __init__.py Do?

Python’s special __init__.py file marks a directory as a regular Python package and allows you to import its modules. This file runs automatically the first time...

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Introducing the 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report

Today’s threat landscape is more varied and chilling than ever: Sophisticated nation-state actors. Hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. Deepfakes and fraudsters interviewing at your company. Even stealth attacks...

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On Moltbook

The MIT Technology Review has a good article on Moltbook, the supposed AI-only social network: Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral...

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ln Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core ln command forms. Command Description ln TARGET LINK_NAME Create a hard link ln -s TARGET LINK_NAME Create a symbolic (soft) link ln...

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Design-First Collaboration

Rahul Garg continues his series of Patterns for Reducing Friction in AI-Assisted Development. This pattern describes a structured conversation that mirrors whiteboarding with a human pair:...

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RLC Pro is an enterprise Linux for the AI era

CIQ, the company building the popular Rocky Linux distribution, has launched RLC Pro, a new commercially supported enterprise Linux distribution that bundles compliance, long-term support, and...

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Finale & Friends

Adam and Jerod get into the news, Jerod officially retires from the pod (and Changelog), plus a bonus for our Changelog++ subs! Join the discussion Changelog++...

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Texinfo 7.3 released

Version 7.3 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation-formatting system, has been released. It contains a number of new features, performance improvements, and enhancements.

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Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in February 2026

Debian packages: firmware-free: Bugs: closed #890601: firmware-linux-free uses prebuilt blobs instead of building from source Uploads: uploaded version 20241210-3 to unstable firmware-nonfree: Bugs: closed #481234: firmware-nonfree:...

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Gram 1.0 released

Version 1.0 of Gram, an “opinionated fork of the Zed code editor“, has been released. Gram removes telemetry, AI features, collaboration features, and more. It adds...

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Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (lxd, orthanc, and thunderbird), Fedora (cef, chromium, gimp, nextcloud, pgadmin4, python-django4.2, python-django5, python3-docs, python3.12, python3.13, and python3.9), Oracle (container-tools:rhel8...

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Apple announces the iPhone 17E

Apple has taken the wraps off the iPhone 17E, its latest entry-level smartphone. The iPhone 17E starts at $599 with a higher 256GB of storage, and...

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How Electrical Engineers Fight a War

Every time Russia attacks Ukraine’s power infrastructure, Ukrainian engineers risk their lives in the scramble to get electricity flowing again. It’s a dangerous job at best,...

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