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Grid workspace for the COSMIC compositor

How I patched the COSMIC compositor: a 5×5 workspace grid for Pop!_OS Context My workspaces are a map, not a scroll. One 4-finger swipe moves me north, south, east, or west across a 5×5 grid that wraps at the edges, and login drops me on the center cell — so no workspace is ever more than two gestures away, and my hands navigate it without looking. COSMIC, the desktop this runs on, is System76's Rust/Wayland desktop environment for Pop!_OS, built on the Smithay compositor library an

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Simulating 30 Million microbes in Browser

Simulating 30 Million Microbes in the Browser WebGPU gives the browser direct access to modern GPU capabilities — not just for rendering, but also for general-purpose computation through compute shaders. But how far can we actually push it? What happens if, instead of running a small compute demo, we try to build a full simulation with tens of millions of active objects? That is what I wanted to find out. For this experiment, I decided to revive an evolution simulator I had written many years

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The Verge Tech

Apple Home’s new security camera features cost as much as $60 a month

New Apple Intelligence features for HomeKit cameras start at $10 a month and go up to $60. | Image: The Verge With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is getting an injection of Apple Intelligence - but you'll have to pay more for it. Apple Intelligence for Home brings AI-powered video summaries to HomeKit Secure Video, so you can get short text descriptions of who and what compatible security cameras saw, along with the clip. It also adds a new video search feature and the ab

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Vercel Blog

AI SDK harness layer now supports native subscription authentication

The now supports authenticating harnesses through their native subscriptions, where the underlying harness supports them. The harness layer runs different coding agents through the same interface, so you can switch agents without changing your application code.AI SDK harness layerHarnessAgent No code changes or new settings are required. The authentication mode uses explicit provider environment credentials when they are present, and otherwise a native subscription found on the host. The defa

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