Topic: Misc
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Everything that does not fit another topic: technology next to AI, stories from software development, hardware, science and internet culture. It stays small on purpose. A story that fits a specific topic goes there instead.
- Windows 11 still runs a 1993 FreeCell from Win32s, blogger finds
- Solar now out-generates nuclear worldwide, BBC analysis of Ember data shows
- r/opensource bans AI projects and non-English speakers in new rules
- Essay: AI panic is 'cognitive mercantilism', a zero-sum view of intelligence
- Blogger keeps a Lenovo X1 Carbon alive with Linux memmap after soldered RAM fails
- Ukraine's army shows heavy hexacopter drone evacuating a wounded soldier
- Three fired OpenAI safety researchers deny leaking and dispute OpenAI's account
- Sebastian Raschka releases 11-hour video course on building reasoning models
- AI coding tools speed up retro game ports and split preservation communities
- Wikipedia's AI Cleanup founder on finding and removing AI-written articles
- NASA details revised Artemis lander plans for Starship and Blue Moon
- Starship Moon landing may need 22 launches, Ars Technica reports
- Meta’s revised business terms could still allow AI scraping of news sites, legal experts say
- DeepMind founder Hassabis says AGI could arrive in two to three years
- Interop 2027: ten CSS features a developer wants browsers to prioritise
- Hugging Face CEO says Netflix documentary on rogue OpenAI agents is inaccurate
- Ukrainian brigade claims world's first drone evacuation of a wounded soldier
- Cody Wilson claims first AI-made gun, a 3D-printed .22 called WASP
- Philadelphia woman arrested for blocking an Uber delivery robot
- LT6502b homebrew 6502 laptop is finished, with a 10.1in IPS screen
- Intel 8087 microcode: how the chip adds and subtracts floats
- Hobbyist turns a Razor A5 Lux push scooter into a drill-powered ride
- Haskell's Kind system explained, from types to higher-Kinded data
- Data center industry courts kids with books and field trips
- WNISR 2026: solar out-generated nuclear worldwide for the first time
- Sherry Turkle says chatbots should be banned from saying 'I'
- Polymarket election markets drew over $600 million, mostly on long shots
- Meta removes terms language critics read as allowing news-site scraping for AI
- Google's SynthID flags Trump's White House column photo as AI-edited
- Anthropic reports fewer junior hires and 20% more meeting time
- Google DeepMind philosopher Henry Shevlin on AI consciousness
- Ex-NVIDIA robotics lead says robotics is in its 'Lego era', not at a ChatGPT moment
- AI-generated Instagram influencers copy comedians' jokes word for word, and Meta says that's allowed
- AI is mass decompiling games, and a dev calls it awesome and scary
- Phreak.ing is an anonymous internet phone switch with dial codes for calls and conference rooms
- NASA's moon base plan faces extreme cold, radiation and asteroid strikes
- Kevin Kelly's The Inevitable: five AI predictions, ten years on
- Essay answers Rich Hickey: LLMs are tools, and using them takes skill
- Tweet thread argues the gap in understanding of LLM capability is widening into a funnel
- MIT Technology Review names Envision, Fervo and Form Energy among 2026 climate tech companies to watch
- FlyTrex remote pilots work like air traffic controllers for delivery drones
- YouTuber says police visited him after he built a Flock-style camera to track cops
- Spanish museum builds a Cray-1 replica from 30 old Mac Minis
- Nikon disqualifies Small World in Motion winner over generative AI
- NASA issues 360-page request for private stations to succeed the ISS
- At least three Big Five publishers quietly use Claude and ChatGPT, WIRED reports
- Tristan Harris' Center for Humane Technology lays off about half its non-founder staff
- SpaceX urges satellite operators to share orbit data as Starlink passes 11,000 satellites
- Windows hot-patching: what happens if a function is already patched
- Rainmaker's cloud-seeding drones draw safety questions in Alaska