Open Access
We are pleased to share an important milestone for our field. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, more discoverable, and more reusable.
After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up – Yale E360
Iran is looking to relocate the nation’s capital because of severe water shortages that make Tehran unsustainable. Experts say the crisis was caused by years of ill-conceived dam projects and overpumping that destroyed a centuries-old system for tapping underground reserves.
Finland Gave Two Groups Identical Payments. One Experienced 33% Better Mental Health.
New research from Finland’s basic income experiment proves that simply trusting people with money—not just the money itself—significantly improves mental health
Masonry Techniques of the Inca’s Master Builders – Earth As We Know It
The Inca civilization is often depicted as being shrouded in mystery, where how they achieved their incredible stonework is treated like an impenetrable enigma. But the Inca Empire, or Tahuantinsuyu, was still dominant throughout South American at the time of the European conquest. It stretched from Colombia down into Chile and Argentina, with a peak population of over ten million people before the arrival of European pathogens. Much of their culture was witnessed and documented by various early Spanish chroniclers in the 1500s. Over the last decade, I’ve combed through many of these early colonial-period writings. Not only do they detail the Inca’s history and way of life, but to my surprise, they also included many references to their stonemasons’ ingenious building methods. This collection of early Spanish references presents a detailed picture of how their impressive stonework was accomplished.
Valve: The Reverse Apple – by Bharath Mohan
In November 2025, Valve “unveiled” the Steam Machine – a living room PC designed to bring your Steam library to the TV. Gaming press covered it as news, but what was missing from the headlines was that this is actually Steam Machine 2.0. Valve already tried this a decade ago, and it flopped. So why try again?
Canvas Roots plugin: Genealogical Family Trees for Obsidian – Share & showcase – Obsidian Forum
Canvas Roots transforms your Obsidian vault into a powerful genealogy workspace. Import GEDCOM files, manage relationships through native Canvas visualizations, and export back to standard formats—all while keeping your …
I won the Excel World Championship by folding Origami in a spreadsheet
This is a walkthrough of how to solve the final challenge from this year’s Microsoft Excel World Championship, which happened in Las Vegas last week.
Introducing CSS Grid Lanes | WebKit
It’s here, the future of masonry layouts on the web! After the groundwork laid by Mozilla, years of effort by Apple’s WebKit team, and many rounds debate at the CSS Working Group with all the browsers, it’s now clear how it works.
The product we should not have killed | Dries Buytaert
Too little, too late. Allemaal goed en wel om te zeggen dat “Looking back, shutting down Drupal Gardens feels like one of the biggest business mistakes we made” en dat het verdedigbaar was dat Acquia voor “enterprise” koos — als tegenwoordig zo iemand die “enterprise” is op het werk, kreeg ik in mijn gesprekken vooral de indruk “gho ja het zal wellicht te duur zijn voor u, laat maar zitten”.