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Better Auth is an open source TypeScript authentication framework built by self-taught Ethiopian developer Bereket Engida

The startup raised $5 million in seed funding from Peak XV, Y Combinator, P1 Ventures, and Chapter One

Better Auth keeps user data on premise, supports common permissions use cases out of the box, and allows enterprise features via plug-ins

The Offline Club organizes in-person community events to help people unplug from screens and connect through shared hobbies.

Customers rate the service highly, with a 4.7 out of 5 Trustpilot score based on 251 reviews.

Users can join nearby events, sign up for a city waitlist, or apply to start a local chapter.

The U.S. prison population peaked at over 1.6 million in 2009, fell to about 1.2 million by end of 2023, and could decline roughly 60% to 600,000 by 2035.

Prison numbers lag crime trends by decades: mass incarceration reflects high crime and draconian sentencing from the late 20th century.

A steep drop in juvenile arrests and youth crime since the 1990s means far fewer offenders entering the prison pipeline today.

Hims & Hers uses FDA compounding loopholes to mass-produce knockoff drugs, adding vitamin B12 to claim personalization and evade patents.

They launched a Super Bowl ad criticizing Big Pharma’s pricing for semaglutide then partnered with Novo Nordisk, only to be dropped for continuing to sell unapproved Chinese-sourced compounded injections.

They repackaged dangerous, gas-station style erectile dysfunction pills combining sildenafil and tadalafil as “Hard Mints,” despite known medical risks.

The libxml2 maintainer announced a policy to treat security issues like normal bugs, making reports public immediately and fixing them when time permits rather than honoring secrecy or embargo deadlines.

This change stems from the unsustainable volunteer burden of handling security embargoes without funding or support from major corporate users.

The maintainer criticizes big tech companies for relying on libxml2 in their products but not contributing fixes, funding, or maintenance support.

QEMU will decline any code contributions believed to include or derive from AI content generators such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, or Llama.

The policy is driven by legal and licensing uncertainties around large language model–generated content and DCO compliance requirements.

Contributors may still use AI tools for research, static analysis, or debugging, provided outputs are not included in submissions.

Measuring software progress by lines of code can encourage bloated, inefficient code.

Bill Atkinson rewrote Quickdraw’s region engine with a simpler algorithm, making operations about six times faster and removing around 2,000 lines of code.

When asked to report his weekly lines of code, he entered “-2000” to highlight the flaw in that productivity metric, causing managers to abandon the form for him.

Researchers proved and built a tetrahedron that always rests on one specific face regardless of how it is placed.

They used computer algorithms to identify tetrahedron shapes with obtuse edge angles and defined four small ‘‘loading zones’’ for the center of mass to achieve monostability.

The physical model is made of a hollow carbon fiber frame with a dense tungsten carbide insert, engineered to within 0.1 gram and 0.1 millimeter precision.

Ars tests on the Lenovo Legion Go S show four of five recent games run at higher frame rates on SteamOS 3.7 than on Windows 11.

Frame rate improvements on SteamOS range from minor gains up to 36% higher FPS, with only Borderlands 3 showing near parity.

Windows performance suffers from outdated Lenovo graphics drivers; sideloading newer Asus ROG Ally drivers improves Windows results but generally remains 8–36% slower than SteamOS.

Foreign crime syndicates open or rent U.S. bank accounts—often using fake business details—to launder proceeds from pig-butchering scams worth tens of billions annually.

Scammers use Telegram channels to advertise and acquire control of legitimate bank accounts, which they use to collect victims’ wire transfers and convert funds into cryptocurrency.

Inconsistent know-your-customer checks, voluntary information sharing among banks, and banks’ reluctance to slow business enable fraudsters to bypass safeguards.