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A technical blog post lists concrete cases where GCC and Clang do not conform to the ISO C standard by default, including treatment of the asm keyword as a reserved extension and GCC's hardcoded FLT_ROUNDS macro that ignores runtime rounding-mode changes via fesetround. The author also flags unfinished coverage of the standard's five floating-point pragmas as an area of ongoing non-conformance.
Companies have been rapidly appointing chief AI officers as a top executive priority in recent years. Observers now question whether the role will remain a permanent fixture or prove to be a temporary position tied to the current phase of AI adoption.
Scientists report a new technique that selectively converts methylene units on polyethylene's surface into ketones using a trace iron catalyst (0.001 mol%) and inexpensive oxidants at under 80°C. The process occurs at the solid-liquid interface, modifying only the plastic's surface chemistry while preserving bulk characteristics like melting point and tensile strength.
Kcgi, an open source minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C and C++, has released version 1.0.1 dated 2025-11-17. The update is described as a hot-fix to 1.0.0 that corrects the naming of shared libraries on Mac OS X, which follows a different versioning suffix convention than other Unix-like systems. The library remains available via system package managers or as a source archive with SHA-512 verification.
Workers cleared more than 500 trees from a federally owned Washington, D.C. golf course over a weekend, as part of a remodeling effort connected to President Trump. The removal reportedly occurred abruptly and without the required permissions.
In an opinion piece for Entrepreneur, a dual-role executive — owner of ÉLITER Packaging Machinery and Head of Digital Marketing at ActionPower — argues that SEO and branding efforts often fail to convert into revenue because of internal organizational silos rather than marketing shortcomings. The author contends that inconsistent customer experience across departments, not weak digital tactics, is the real bottleneck to growth.
Corey Prophitt shipped a commercial product, marketyour.games, built with the BCHS stack: OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite. The app includes user accounts, a search dashboard, folder organization, Stripe payments and Postmark emails, served through CGI binaries rather than a modern framework. Deployment consists of replacing a single statically linked binary, relying on only three external libraries: libcurl, libsodium and libcjson.
Apple's new foldable iPhone, the Duo, has distinct dimensions—164.6 by 117.8 by 5.2 mm unfolded and 84.1 by 117.8 by 11.3 mm folded—that make most existing cases, screen protectors, car mounts and lens attachments incompatible. USB-C peripherals and most wireless chargers still work with the device, and Apple has released dimensional drawings to manufacturers so new accessories can be built to fit.
Microsoft introduced Magnetic Connect, a magnetic charging solution for its new Surface Laptop Ultra that pairs a Power Delivery USB-C port with a magnetic cable using a funnel-shaped tip for easy alignment. Unlike Apple's proprietary MagSafe port, the underlying port remains standard USB-C, meaning it can be used for monitors, keyboards, phones or other peripherals when not charging. The Surface Laptop Ultra also includes two more USB-C ports, HDMI, USB-A, an SD card reader and a headphone jack.
A developer has released ClickHouse C, a header-only client library written in C11 that decodes the ClickHouse Native wire format, including both the TCP-based Native Protocol and standalone Native Format blocks. The core header works as a pure block decoder with no TCP or compression dependencies, with optional add-on headers providing TCP, compression, codec, and I/O backend support.
A developer-focused article walks through arena allocators as an alternative to standard malloc/free memory management in C. It explains how typical manual allocation leads to problems like forgotten frees, memory leaks, and slow performance from many small allocations, before introducing arena allocators as a solution and detailing their implementation.
APSW (Another Python SQLite Wrapper) is an open-source library that exposes the complete SQLite C API to Python, including features like full text search, sessions, virtual tables, VFS, JSON, and CArray. It supports CPython 3.10 and later, works with synchronous code and async frameworks, and is distributed via PyPI and GitHub under an OSI-approved open source license.