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Microsoft is raising prices for its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. What’s notable here: these suites are the baseline productivity stack for most organizations, so even modest uplifts compound at scale across thousands of seats. The change arrives as Microsoft continues to emphasize higher-tier bundles and integrated security/

A new explainer revisits the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Air Vehicle C++ Coding Standards-the rulebook behind the F‑35’s flight software. What’s notable here is how aggressively the standard fences off foot‑guns to make avionics code predictable: no exceptions or RTTI, no multiple inheritance, no recursion, tightly

A new interactive guide to the Fourier transform turns a notoriously abstract topic into something you can poke, prod, and intuit. What’s notable here is the emphasis on cause-and-effect: tweak frequency, phase, or windowing and watch magnitude and phase spectra respond in real time; slide the sampling rate and

A developer’s attempt to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude didn’t land-and the miss is instructive. What’s notable here isn’t the nostalgia, but how quickly modern code generators hit a wall when asked for pixel-accurate, era-specific output. Under the hood, late-’90s sites lean

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is turning its open-source strategy into standard operating procedure, committing to migrate roughly 30,000 public-sector PCs to Linux and swapping proprietary collaboration tools for LibreOffice, Nextcloud, and other open alternatives by 2026. Under the hood, this isn’t a pilot or a single app

Z-Image is being introduced as a 6-billion-parameter image generation model positioned around performance per watt and per dollar. What’s notable here is the scale: 6B sits in a middle ground between lightweight diffusion backbones and heavyweight research prototypes. Under the hood specifics aren’t disclosed, but the parameter budget

Some advocates say GrapheneOS is the only Android OS delivering full security patches. The spirit of the claim tracks a real distinction: GrapheneOS consistently ships day‑one coverage of the Android Security Bulletin for supported Pixels, not just framework fixes but the kernel, drivers, and relevant components, aligned with Google’

Kilauea erupted and, in the process, destroyed a nearby monitoring webcam-caught on video as the feed failed. What’s notable here isn’t just the dramatic footage; it’s a reminder that visual telemetry is often the most vulnerable link in volcano monitoring stacks. Under the hood, observatory networks lean

A clever build turns an optical mouse into a compact camera, leaning on the fact that those “motion” chips are, in reality, tiny high-speed image sensors. Under the hood, the project taps the mouse sensor’s raw frame buffer-typically a tens-by-tens grayscale array-over SPI, then packages the feed via a

Netflix’s AV1 rollout has been a case study in pragmatic codec deployment: start where software can carry the load (Android), then expand as silicon catches up (TVs, dongles, and set‑tops). Under the hood, Netflix pairs AV1 Main 10 encodes with its shot‑based, content‑adaptive pipeline and film‑