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Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
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A year of public commits shows that software used by billions of devices often depends on one or two people, while the companies built on that work still rarely pay for it.
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Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day, and I want to say something I am not very good at following myself: please ask for help when you need it, and check on the people who always seem fine.
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Google will keep ChromeOS updates through mid-2034 while moving many devices to Googlebook OS. That is not the ten years of ChromeOS advertised since 2023.
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Apple arrived late to foldables, but the Duo's hinge, under-display camera, dual displays, and Pencil support are the details that make it feel new.
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Motorola is changing future flagships so GrapheneOS can officially support them—memory tagging, verified boot, and Snapdragon work with Qualcomm instead of remaining Pixel-only.
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Remy van Elst updated a Linux port for the HP Prime G2 graphing calculator—console login, better keyboard and touchscreen support, X11, on-device C compilation and Doom—booting from RAM without replacing the stock firmware in flash.
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Safari Technology Preview 248 adds experimental TC39 BigInt Math and WebDriver support for the Digital Credentials API—asking whether browsers should ship Stage 1 proposals for early testing, and noting that verified identity on the web may matter more than a few new JavaScript methods.
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Chris Minnick's A Developer's Guide to Integrating Generative AI into Applications treats generative features as ordinary software. Users who come back, budgets that bite, latency in support tickets, and failure modes that do not look like clean API errors. Not another tour of demos and chat widgets. The longer review is on Methodical Function: score, chapter notes, and product-by-product recommen
