Topic: Misc
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- Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reaches orbit as satellite firms eye SpaceX alternatives
- Anthropic says it blocked five potential bioweapon plots
- INDXcoin, a "God-driven" cryptocurrency, collapses after taking more than $3 million from more than 500 people
- DeepMind banned public discussion of AI extinction risk, former staffer says
- Interactive simulation sets the speed of light to 5 km/h
- MIT Technology Review names its 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2026
- Gwern essay argues breakthroughs are a matter of conviction, not competence
- Cloudflare co-founder Lee Holloway diagnosed with dementia at 36
- Anthropic researcher resigns, says AI labs are racing recklessly toward superintelligence
- AI has a discovery problem: users don't know what to ask
- TechCrunch's AI glossary covers 'opaque recurrence' in OpenAI's Astra
- OpenAI, WAN-IFRA back AI programme for Ukraine's independent press
- Google search penalty locks new wiki domains out of results
- ChatGPT collapses Kenya's academic ghostwriting industry
- A Python interpreter squeezed into 1024 bytes of C
- Zach Kehs: there is no limit to how bad code can get
- Music theory derived from a single number, in JavaScript
- LTT Labs CT scans a delidded Intel Core i9-14900KS
- Learn Programming with OCaml published in English translation
- Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on Spectrum's second flight
- Hikers rescued on Mount Shasta after Gemini underplanned their food and water
- Fertilizer prices near 2022 highs as war in Iran squeezes natural gas
- BepiColombo sheds its transfer module on final approach to Mercury
- AMD BC-250 turns binned PS5 chips into a budget gaming PC
- A self-taught coder's 12 weeks at the Recurse Center
- AI is trapping job seekers and employers in a hiring doom loop
- Shin Jin-seo beats KataGo 2-1, first Go win under handicap
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 adds a Real World AI stage
- Meta ends AI-usage performance scoring while testing agent Hatch
- Engineer proposes 'manual gates' to save junior work from AI automation
- A developer gives up on willpower and engineers friction instead
- Jaguar Land Rover debuts Range Rover Electric, starting at $138,000
- Ed Zitron's AI predictions do not hold up under fact-check
- RotaryCell turns a stock rotary phone into a portable LTE handset
- Patient reverse engineers his own online ADHD test
- Glassdoor: claims adjusters are the most anti-AI workers in the US
- NFC-powered PCB business card animates 21 LEDs with no battery
- It takes five cloud services to hear a doorbell ring
- GPT-5.5 and Claude Fable help Oxford student beat SSE in court
- Why bug blindness makes people defend flawed software
- Python signal handlers can crash when print is called reentrantly
- Musicians turn detective to call out AI music made with Suno
- Good culture, not AI tools, is the real productivity lever, essay argues
- China's actors and livestreamers are losing work to AI video
- ChatGPT schoolwork messages peak above 460 million a week in the US
- The Download: Generation Lab's secretive antiaging drug and how to join a virtual power plant
- GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
- Colin Percival mocks AWS S3 Files with satirical Route 53 Files project
- Blog post: bad software updates have a name, Verschlimmbesserung
- Jensen Huang says Nvidia achieved AGI again, calls it senseless
- EVE Online begins Python 3 migration across 2.4 million lines of code
- Recruiters want job applications to get harder again
- IBM's Harvest ran up to 200x faster to break codes for the NSA
- Paul Graham: skip entrepreneurship courses, give founders free time
- MIT Technology Review publishes 'Mother tongue', a short story on AI and language loss
- Farid Zakaria turns a SQLite database into a runnable ELF executable
- Balaji Ingole builds AI agents for e-commerce and health care
- Adaptability, not any single tool, is the skill engineers need now
- VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
- Students used AI to make sexualized deepfakes of teachers
- Paul Graham: at 17, I'd learn to build LLMs from scratch
- Cheshire Academy sorts AI homework rules with a traffic light system
- An essay makes the case for anxiety, not anger, about AI
- ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs: one developer mapped the whole numbered-labs trend
- YouTube creators face backlash over undisclosed Higgsfield AI promos
- Wired: Zuckerberg and Amodei still misread the AI backlash
- Early-life stress leaves a molecular scar in mouse brains
- Zuckerberg, Amodei clash over blame for the AI backlash
- Anna's Archive claims Anthropic destroyed millions of scanned books
- The Download: AI's self-improvement limits, OpenAI's Astra pause, and Unitree's surge
- Simon Willison quotes Jeremy Morrell on extensible software
- Child-monitoring apps prevent real harm, but also cause it
- The Download: what AI Observatory found on real AI use, plus Flock's camera trade-offs
- SpaceX recovers Starship intact after Indian Ocean splashdown
- Robin Williams' kids revive his Instagram to fight AI abuse
- After Artemis II, new books ask why humans still go to space
- Wellington bookshop's bulk orders spark suspicion of AI training data buying
- Fairphone 6 postmarketOS project gets a working main camera
- Zuckerberg's AI manifesto draws skepticism from TechCrunch writers
- Twitch adds opt-out for Amazon AI training, enabled by default
- Zsh 5.9.2 fixes a decade-old shell history truncation bug
- Ukraine strikes Russia's Progress rocket factory with Flamingo missiles
- LymeAlert arrives in August as first at-home Lyme tick test
- Instagram rolls out new wordmark, Zuckerberg releases AI manifesto
- How 1978 cataloging errors put ghost characters into Unicode
- Eden GeoPower zaps rock to chase underground hydrogen
- Coding lessons need paint brushes, not pencils, the author argues
- Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
- Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto rings hollow, WIRED says
- NP-hard doesn't mean unsolvable: these problems get solved in practice
- MIT Technology Review's Download covers 35 innovators, Taiwan hack, AI agents
- D’Addario admits Suno AI music was used in guitar demo video
- Val Town calls out startup's fake AI persona in cold outreach
- Simon Willison shares Sophie Alpert's AI-writing policy
- Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator writers with ChatGPT
- MIT Technology Review surveys transformer alternatives and Nvidia's $500 billion AI infrastructure bet
- OpenAI finance team builds toward a zero-day close with AI
- How Mark Twain lost a fortune on a doomed typesetting machine
- Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago
- AI designs its first virus genomes from scratch as conspiracy theory reshapes Trump policy
- Why programming languages succeed: vocation, art and job, not merit
- Ribbon and Greenhouse report a rise in late-night AI job interviews
- Eric Schmidt: AI agents may be a better model for science
- AI backlash forces Meta, Google and LinkedIn to roll back features
- South Korea's Danuri captures SpaceX Falcon 9 Moon impact
- Screwworm parasite infections in Mexico top 500 as human case rate triples
- Perseverance rover set to break Mars distance record, driving itself
- David Silver pledges his Ineffable Intelligence fortune to charity
- ChatTJB replaces an AI chatbot with one guy answering by hand
- Assert() is underused: a case for four rules to use it well
- An essay makes the case for protopia, a future built on 1% gains
- SDSS releases DR20, pairing 200,000 X-ray sources with black holes
- Nixpkgs core team disbands, says role became unsustainable
- Knowledge workers are losing faith in their careers as AI closes in
- Fenix Flexin stops denying he used AI on 'Rubberz'
- Bubble Bobble creator's 1989 column predicted AI rip-off games
- Jane Street launches ASIC reverse-engineering puzzle
- Cooking a steak needs almost no skill; a good one needs plenty, and AI coding is the same
- AI removed the friction that once taught programmers taste
- Why hobby programming communities are hostile to LLMs
- The Download: NASA's Roman Space Telescope and Chinese tech import curbs
- Off-grid AI is a hallucination risk for survival use, The Register argues
- Branchless Rust: removing an if makes a filter almost 4x faster
- Blog post defines entropy for a Markov chain using Boltzmann's counting method
- Pulitzer Prizes see record AI use disclosures this year
- Niklas Gruhn coins 'meat proxy' for blindly relaying AI output
- Fender CEO compares bandmates to analog AI amid PR backlash
- English learners' word lists shifted from concrete to abstract over 70 years
- Creakwork12 makes a Framework 12's hinge creak like a wooden door
- Book Corners developer shelves plan to write bookcase data back to OpenStreetMap
- YouTuber Hank Green admits his ChatGPT habit while scripting videos is 'not healthy'
- Windows Activation error flags a Heathrow check-in display
- Teen engineer builds a working cycloidal gearbox, shares the code
- Simon Willison teases GPT-5.6, Claude Opus 5 in new newsletter
- Sam Altman pitches ChatGPT Work as a parenting tool, and the internet pushes back
- Robert N. Charette retires as IEEE Spectrum contributing editor
- OpenAI's Brockman: staff resent ChatGPT reaching out on a coworker's behalf
- NetBSD 11.0 ships with three known open security issues
- Linux desktop share tops 10% in North America, data disputed
- Katalyst's Link satellite spins out of control on NASA Swift rescue run
- HP Prime G2 graphing calculator gets a fixed-up Linux port
- How Google helped kill off RSS, one product at a time
- Four time scales explain why AI hype outpaces real deployment
- Fenix Flexin's Billboard hit "Rubberz" looks like AI-generated music
- Atom beats RSS on title encoding, new essay argues
- Apple Workgroup Server 9150 restored to run MkLinux again
- Why simple up/down buttons often beat smart elevator kiosks
- Study finds language diversity peaked before empires, not colonialism
- No Starch Press ships The Art of 64-Bit Assembly, volume 2
- Chinese AI researchers are finding their voice on X
- Charlie Stross says his fiction stays 100% LLM-free
- A broken dev pipeline deserves production-outage urgency, blog argues
- PwC Middle East allegedly published AI-generated reports with fake sources