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  1. General Tech The Register

    C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability

    The 2025 International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC29) returned after a four‑year break, awarding 23 winning entries across 14 quirky categories, including three “hat‑trick” winners (Yusuke Endoh, Nick Craig‑Wood, and Don Yang). Highlights include Adrian Cable’s 366‑byte Subleq emulator that runs a full‑color Mandelbrot set, Pong, and even a Linux port on a tiny virtual architecture designed for software preservation; Craig‑Wood’s 66‑line Game Boy emulator and a FRACTRAN‑based Commodore 64 emulator

  2. AI The Register

    Companies that add more AI also add more people

  3. General Tech The Verge

    NASA launched an emergency mission to stop the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth

    NASA has called on Katalyst Space Technologies to save the Swift Observatory—launched in 2004 to study gamma

  4. General Tech Ars Technica

    Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech

  5. General Tech Ars Technica

    Google loses long-running appeal of record EU fine, will have to cough up $4.7 billion

    Google’s record‑setting €4.34 billion fine for abusing its Android

  6. General Tech Ars Technica

    Bentley teases its first EV, the Torcal

    Bentley is set to launch its fourth model, the Torcal, which marks the marque’s first all‑electric vehicle. The car has already been tested in the Arctic Circle and at the Nürburgring, while trademark filings of “Torcal” in Europe and the UK—

  7. General Tech Ars Technica

    The Czinger 21C might be the wildest car we drive all year

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