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Treason in the Futures Markets
People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets
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More Bounce to the Ounce
A love letter to the rocket that everyone is too chicken to build
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Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions
EPFL researchers have developed an implantable neural chip that tracks communication across brain regions, identifying cognitive and emotional states in real time.
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Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025
We look back at our records for 2025 to highlight specific brands and models of workstation computer components that we found to be exceptionally reliable.
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How to Train Your Robot
The enormous advance in AI capabilities over the last several years has in large part been driven by the availability of vast amounts of training data.
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Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
Behold: the Guru of GNU ! (Photo by Habib Mhenni, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.) True enlightment only comes from a truly free computi...
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Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world
All along the South African coast you find dolosse wherever coastal management is necessary to prevent tides and rough seas from eroding breakwaters, harbour walls, coastal construction. In Port El…
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Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier
阶跃星辰于2023年4月成立，以“智能阶跃，十倍每个人的可能”为使命。阶跃星辰坚定自研超级模型，积极布局算力、数据等关键资源，发挥算法和人才优势，已完成 Step-1 千亿参数语言大模型和 Step-1V 千亿多模态大模型的研发，在图像理解、多轮指令跟随、数学能力、逻辑推理、文本创作等方面性能达到业界领先水平。
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NLnet announces funding for 67 more open-source projects
We are happy to announce that 67 new projects have been awarded grants today as part of the Next Generation Internet intiative, across three different funds: NGI Zero Commons Fund , NGI TALER and NGI Fediversity . We congratulate the developers and engineers involved with these projects, and thank them for their…
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Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit
On April 29th CVE-2026-31431 was publicly disclosed at https://copy.fail/ . This vulnerability allows a local unprivileged user to obtain a root shell by running the Python script shared by the author.
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Differential Heuristics
In 2005 Google showed off Google Maps, which lets you drag the map around instead of reloading the page like MapQuest and others used. That’s the feature that got everyone’s attention. But what got my attention was a feature they added in 2007 where you could drag the start/end points on a route [1] , and it would…
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DHS Quits Granting Green Cards–Almost
This policy is illogical and will harm Americans, their employees, employers, and family members. It will drive talented people to other countries and make America a less competitive place for business.
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Books are not too expensive
Let’s Explore a Little Math
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How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025)
Public Health professor discusses how ultra-processed foods are a direct legacy of the tobacco industry, and are responsible for a dramatic rise in obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases across the country.
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The AI Productivity Gap
Why the productivity gains from AI are still small.
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Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio
Qwen3.8 27B benchmarked on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra: Ollama and llama.cpp numbers, the 1-bit quant tested, RAM math, and the hardware that actually fits.
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CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts
An ersatz CSS tutorial for people who need to style a web page, but aren't web developers. I am a wrong person to write this kind of thing, as I have neither the time, nor experience. I'd much rather read a book about this. Alas, I had to learn all this stuff from trawling MDN, so perhaps it is valuable to document…
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AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs
Thoughts on the new technical report from AMÁLIA: The Open Source LLM for European Portuguese
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Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin
From imperative chaos to nix-darwin
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Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives
New metrics of AI usage provide a rich portrait of interactions with Claude in November 2025, just prior to the release of Opus 4.5.
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Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama
Maybe you’re a Claude code/codex user diligently avoiding uploading personal data to LLM providers. Is it possible that the most valuable information isn’t your data- but the metadata about your sessions? The intuitions you apply in coming up with ways to coax the ai into solving problems might actually be special…
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Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
I made a programming language. I'm sorry.
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Amiga Screens: A Primer
One of the unwritten rules of the Internet seems to be that whenever something Amiga-related is mentioned, at least one Amiga fan (myself included) must show up and try to explain the concept of screens . Amiga screens can have different resolutions, we'll tell you, and one can drag them, we'll say, and other Amiga…
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Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises
We're announcing protobuf-py, a complete, 100% conformant Protobuf runtime for Python that feels like Python and matches the performance of Google's C engine on real workloads.
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Hypergrowth isn’t always easy
Tailscale's CEO talks about outages: what they are, why they happen, and how Tailscale is making them smaller and less frequent.
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Good Bad ISPs
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship. | Good Bad ISPs