Jon Pena

A new class action lawsuit alleges Visa, Mastercard, and major banks conspired to artificially inflate credit card transaction fees for merchants since 2019.

This open-source project provides desktop and web fonts reconstructed from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycap lettering and PETSCII graphics.

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.

Bigwords.page is a client-side web tool that generates full-screen text signs, timers, and slides directly from URL parameters without requiring user accounts or server storage.

This site provides animated ASCII art designed to be embedded in web pages.

A new study shows that AI autoformalization into Lean does not guarantee that mechanically verified proofs match the original natural language mathematical arguments.

This guide catalogs common anti-patterns in software blogging, such as meandering introductions, overreliance on external links, and assuming too much reader background knowledge.

Meta and Microsoft have restricted employee access and reduced internal spending budgets for Anthropic's Claude AI to encourage adoption of their own proprietary coding tools.

OpenAI released hundreds of automated mathematical proofs, including a resolution to the Unique Games Conjecture, leaving researchers to parse the machine-generated papers.

A house in Reading featuring a four-level subterranean network of tunnels and rooms hand-dug by its owner over twenty years is listed for sale at £300,000.

Docker has released an open-source CLI plugin and runtime for building, orchestrating, and sharing containerized AI agents using declarative YAML configurations and OCI registries.

A GitHub repository provides a Lean formalization and verification of the optimality proof for packing 11 squares using native numerical certificates.

Google launched Playground, an experimental browser-based platform that lets users create, play, and share custom games using text prompts without coding.

Jordanian authorities detained a suspected ShinyHunters leader who was actively extorting a former Boeing aviation unit using stolen data.

An interactive historical overview explains how mechanical workshops transitioned from crude, hand-guided techniques to high-precision machining and measurement over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The programming heuristic of pushing conditional logic upward and loops downward improves performance and clarity by centralizing branching and enabling batch processing.

OpenTPU is an open-source, AI-developed hardware accelerator that includes RTL, an ISA, a simulator, a compiler, and a profiler to run language models on an FPGA card.

Penguin Mail is a new open-source, Rust-based email and calendar client for Linux that supports IMAP, POP3, Gmail, and Microsoft accounts with local data storage.

A two-year trial in Tennessee middle schools found that using the Khanmigo AI math tutor yielded modest achievement gains, limited primarily by low student engagement.

Junior developers must actively cultivate curiosity, critical review skills, and deep code understanding to progress to senior roles in an AI-driven workflow.

This post catalogs common anti-patterns in software blogging, such as meandering introductions, excessive preamble, and poor reader assumptions, offering practical tips to fix them.

Software developers and students are experiencing widespread burnout and leaving the tech industry due to toxic workplace incentives, layoffs, and the negative impact of AI tools.

This blog post highlights key differences for Rust programmers learning C, focusing on booleans, null-terminated strings, platform-dependent integer widths, and error handling.

The Chimera Linux developer details the design and workflow of the cbuild tool used for community-driven package management and distribution building.

Experiments with compiling the Janet programming language for 32-bit targets show memory reductions around 20% to 25%, but with noticeable performance overheads.

PhotoCraft is an open-source, native image editing application written in Rust designed as a clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop with PSD support.

Starting with version 155, Google Chrome is adding decoding support for the JPEG XL image format using a memory-safe Rust implementation called jxl-rs.

To bypass a static analysis check blocking the `execve` symbol in a grading environment, students compute the memory offset from an allowed function.

An interim IT manager discovers an IT contractor was stealing and reselling company laptops by exploiting asset inventory gaps and filing fraudulent repair claims.

The author replaced a linear scan register allocator in their compiler backend with a simpler priority bin-packing allocator.

A KDE developer compares System76's COSMIC desktop environment with KDE Plasma, highlighting COSMIC's superior instant theming, unified corner radius controls, and simpler color customization.

An examination of common criticisms against AI-generated code suggests that opposition stems more from artistic, economic, and philosophical objections than technical limitations.

A study of 2,179 popular websites in Taiwan shows that nearly 90% rely heavily on foreign-hosted resources or multinational cloud providers, leaving them vulnerable to submarine cable outages.

Blindly adding zeroization calls to clear secrets from memory can force compilers to create stack copies, leaving more residual data than the original code.

A reverse-engineering analysis of Skyrim's code explains why casting Magelight at a specific mountain near Solitude grants massive amounts of Alteration experience.