Tech News

The land value tax, Henry George’s old idea, is experiencing its biggest legislative push in decades in 2026. Virginia and Kentucky enabled it, the UK and South Korea elected favorable leaders, and the AI-driven rise in land prices is reviving the debate.

DeepSeek published the DSec paper, the infrastructure that sustains 380,000 concurrent sandboxes to train agents with reinforcement learning. The system creates more than 5,000 environments per second and loads images on demand from 3FS, its distributed file system.

PipePipe is an independent NewPipe fork that adds SponsorBlock, restored dislikes, and danmaku-style live chats. The project already has 6,200 stars on GitHub and is distributed outside Google Play under the GPL-3.0 license.

Ayman Nadeem shut down his app Nuanced and published an essay explaining why plan mode, as we know it in tools like Claude Code, no longer solves the problem of keeping humans in the loop on what AI is building. The failure leaves concrete lessons about persistent documents versus ephemeral chat plans.

Go 1.27 adds an experimental simd package, portable across amd64, arm64, and wasm, that removes the need to write assembly to access vector instructions. The API abstracts away the huge differences in vector size and masking models between architectures and is enabled with the GOEXPERIMENT=simd variable. It’s designed to speed up tasks like cryptography, data processing, and AI without sacrificing portability.

DAWO is the Dutch community that brings together government, industry, and civil society to build, in open and replaceable blocks, a digital workplace that public administration can fully audit. The project covers AI, operating system (DAWO-NixOS), cloud, and collaboration, organized in a member portal with a public calendar, news, blog, and forum.

F-Droid 2.0 arrives after more than a year of work and 14 test versions, with an interface rebuilt in Kotlin Compose. The open source app repository for Android renews navigation, search, and filters to make discovery easier among thousands of apps.

Aalto University published the Nokia Design Archive, a site that reconstructs the design process behind Nokia phones through three views: network, timeline, and keyword search. All the material is distributed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, with no commercial use or derivative works allowed. The project connects Finland’s design tradition with the industrial history of one of the world’s most influential phone brands.

In Portobello, Scotland, a group of volunteers repaired the 1877 clock at the old police station and had to decode, without any documentation, a control box built around a PIC 16F628. Reconstructing that logic reveals how legacy physical infrastructure stays alive when nobody who designed it is around anymore.

An essay published on alicegg.tech compares the Tetris effect to the attention hijacking caused by the algorithmic feeds of YouTube, Spotify, and LinkedIn. We go over the argument and show how to set up your own RSS reader with Miniflux to take back control.