| 121. | Mind-altering 'brain weapons' no longer only science fiction, say researchers | (theguardian.com) |
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UK academics say latest chemicals are ‘wake-up call’ and urge global action to stop weaponisation of neuroscience | |
| 4 points by ifh-hn 11 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 122. | Where is my von Braun Wheel? | (worksinprogress.news) |
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If we ever want to live in space, we need to work out a way of creating artificial gravity. | |
| 5 points by sien 13 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 123. | A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice | (utcc.utoronto.ca) |
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| 124. | Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud investigation | (news.mongabay.com) |
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Brazil’s Federal Police have indicted 31 suspects for fraud and land-grabbing in a massive criminal carbon credit scheme in the Brazilian Amazon, according to Brazilian national media outlet Folha de S.Paulo. It is the largest known criminal operation involving carbon credit fraud to date in the nation. The police probe, called Operation Greenwashing, was launched […] | |
| 3 points by PaulHoule 23 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 125. | Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons | (molecularist.com) |
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The maker community worried Qualcomm would kill the Arduino ethos. New T&Cs confirm the community's worst fears. Here's what's at stake, what Qualcomm got wrong, and what might still be salvaged. | |
| 12 points by felineflock 1 day ago | 1 comments |
| 126. | Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal | (theguardian.com) |
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The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal | |
| 6 points by bikenaga 1 hour ago | 0 comments |
| 127. | Google begins showing ads in AI Mode (AI answers) | (bleepingcomputer.com) |
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Google has started rolling out ads in AI mode, which is the company's | |
| 3 points by nreece 11 hours ago | 1 comments |
| 128. | I turned my PC into a Linux gaming console | (antonkuzmenko.dev) |
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When Valve announced the new Steam Machine, I was genuinely excited. I’m not an avid gamer myself. I built a solid PC thinking I would get back into gaming, ... | |
| 6 points by hotk 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 129. | Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB | (duckdb.org) |
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DuckDB v1.4 ships database encryption capabilities. In this blog post, we dive into the implementation details of the encryption, show how to use it and demonstrate its performance implications. | |
| 7 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 130. | What Killed Perl? | (entropicthoughts.com) |
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| 4 points by speckx 3 days ago | 1 comments |
| 131. | Breakthrough in Antimatter Production | (home.cern) |
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| 132. | Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens | (iranintl.com) |
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Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain. | |
| 6 points by DrierCycle 14 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 133. | Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key | (arstechnica.com) |
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Voting system required three keys. One of them has been “irretrievably lost.”… | |
| 7 points by awkwardpotato 16 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 134. | Theft of the Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria | (en.wikipedia.org) |
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| 135. | Vortex: An extensible, state of the art columnar file format | (github.com) |
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An extensible, state of the art columnar file format. Formerly at @spiraldb, now an Incubation Stage project at LFAI&Data, part of the Linux Foundation. - vortex-data/vortex | |
| 4 points by tanelpoder 7 days ago | 0 comments |
| 136. | What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? (2013) | (hasbrouck.org) |
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Edward Hasbrouck, The Practical Nomad | |
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| 137. | Apple's Problem with Bodies | (drobinin.com) |
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I tried to ship a wellbeing journal and discovered the App Store still isn’t sure whether the human body is health, lifestyle, or sin. | |
| 4 points by valzevul 18 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 138. | Android/Linux Dual Boot | (wiki.postmarketos.org) |
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| 139. | Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification | (phoronix.com) |
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A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox | |
| 29 points by bradrn 2 days ago | 6 comments |
| 140. | What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review? | (theparisreview.org) |
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November 11, 2025 – “In a funny way, it was really the fact that writing is far too solitudinous an activity that gave us The Paris Review. Along with the CIA, of course.” | |
| 3 points by frenzcan 11 days ago | 0 comments |
| 141. | How to Identify a Prime Number Without a Computer | (scientificamerican.com) |
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For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years later | |
| 7 points by beardyw 10 days ago | 0 comments |
| 142. | Loose Wire Leads to Blackout, Contact with Francis Scott Key Bridge | (ntsb.gov:443) |
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| 143. | 40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page | (text.npr.org) |
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| 144. | Measuring Political Bias in Claude | (anthropic.com) |
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Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. | |
| 9 points by gmays 2 days ago | 0 comments |
| 145. | Bret Victor the Future of Programming (2013) [video] | (youtube.com) |
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"The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing."Presented at Dropbox's DBX conference on July 9, 2013.A... | |
| 3 points by jackdoe 9 days ago | 0 comments |
| 146. | The Next Opioid Crisis | (profgalloway.com) |
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| 5 points by simonebrunozzi 6 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 147. | What AI Is Really For | (chrbutler.com) |
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After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the | |
| 7 points by delaugust 2 days ago | 0 comments |
| 148. | Apple shows how much faster the M5 runs local LLMs compared to the M4 | (9to5mac.com) |
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A new post on Apple’s Machine Learning Research blog shows how much the M5 improved over the M4 when it comes to running a local LLM. | |
| 7 points by geoffbp 14 hours ago | 1 comments |
| 149. | #!magic, details about the shebang/hash-bang mechanism on various Unix flavours | (in-ulm.de) |
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| 150. | Hyundai wants its EVs to charge as fast as petrol cars refuel | (autoexpress.co.uk) |
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Charging still needs to be supercharged, says Hyundai's tech boss | |
| 4 points by breve 6 hours ago | 6 comments |