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The dramatic history of Moscow's Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya metro line, built during the collapse of the Soviet Union amid economic crisis, material shortages, and worker heroism that brought the line to completion on New Year's Eve 1995.
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A detailed build log of a miniature IBM PC-shaped Christmas ornament powered by an ESP32-C3 microcontroller that plays Doom with sound and wireless BLE controller support.
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A deep dive into the rise and fall of BASE as a database philosophy, how ACID evolved to support distributed systems through Google Spanner and NewSQL, and why strict consistency has become the engineering default once again.
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A maker builds a PCB snowflake ornament with 60 LEDs powered by an ATmega microcontroller and a CR1220 coin cell, complete with power optimization, epoxy resin coating, and multiple blinking modes that run for days on a tiny battery.
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The story of the rare Sogdiana-1 personal computer, created in the late 1980s at the Tashkent 'Algorithm' factory -- the only serial computer production facility in Uzbekistan, built on the Soviet clone of the Intel 8080 processor.
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Tiny Core Linux is a fully functional Linux distribution that takes up just 23 MB after installation. Built on a modular architecture with Linux kernel 6.12 and BusyBox, it targets embedded devices, thin clients, and enthusiasts who want complete control over their system.
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Russia's Supreme Court ruled that the real estate transaction was lawful, protecting buyer Polina Lurye's rights and overturning all previous court decisions that had sided with singer Larisa Dolina in a high-profile apartment fraud dispute.
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A university instructor recounts building an Android exam grading app through 'vibe coding' with Claude AI, discovering that while AI handles simple tasks well, it produces architecturally flawed code and cannot replace genuine programming understanding.
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A security researcher tears down the affordable NanoKVM hardware KVM switch and discovers an undocumented microphone, hardcoded encryption keys, pre-installed hacking tools, and communication with Chinese servers — raising serious questions about supply chain trust.
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A deep look at why Firefox for Android stands out as the best mobile browser, thanks to its extension support, privacy features, and sync capabilities that no Chromium-based competitor can match.
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A hands-on demonstration of the infamous Intel Pentium FDIV bug on original hardware, showing how a lookup table error in the SRT-4 division algorithm cost Intel $475 million.
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A veteran computer science coach sounds the alarm about widespread cheating in Russian school olympiads, arguing the crisis is organizational rather than technological and threatens one of the Soviet education system's finest achievements.