You're frustrated with AI responses that don't address your questions and people forwarding AI answers instead of engaging in real conversations. You want to interact with humans who can provide thoughtful and relevant responses.
DuckDuckGo's AI-free search page saw a 22.7% increase in visits between May 20-25, with the mobile app installs spiking by 18.1% in the US. Users are seeking alternatives to Google's AI-heavy search, prioritizing choice and privacy.
Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit with their coding agents, leading to increased revenue from enterprise customers. Companies are spending heavily on these tools, with some experiencing budget overruns due to their high usage costs.
Last.fm's focus remains on building listening insights and community features for music fans with steady improvements. Data and privacy settings remain unchanged under new ownership.
Tech CEOs are prone to AI psychosis due to their distance from the last mile of work, leading them to overestimate AI's capabilities. This can result in organizational chaos as they implement AI without understanding its limitations.
YouTube is making AI disclosure labels more prominent and intuitive for creators and viewers. Labels will now appear directly below the video player for photorealistic AI content and in the description for less altered content.
Private equity firms acquire and consolidate essential services, loading them with debt and cutting costs to maximize profits, often at the expense of workers, communities, and service quality. This business model, exemplified by the fire truck industry, prioritizes returns over public needs, leading to delayed services, increased costs, and even loss of life.
Canada will buy early warning planes from Sweden's Saab to reduce reliance on US defense firms. The deal includes plans for Saab to invest in research and development in Canada.
Claude Code is a programmable agent that needs guardrails to produce high-quality output, and its workflow shifts when treated as an autonomous agent with verification. The key to Claude's success lies in setting up a CLAUDE.md file, skills, subagents, and plugins to create a compounding infrastructure that improves over time.
Epicure is a family of skip-gram ingredient embeddings retrained from a multilingual recipe corpus with 4.14M recipes. It uses three Metapath2Vec variants to model ingredient relationships.
A customer committed friendly fraud by disputing a legitimate order for Ciglue, a cigar glue product, and was granted the dispute despite evidence of delivery. Stripe did not take action against the customer despite being provided with evidence of chargeback abuse.
SimCity 3000 can be played on modern systems with tweaks. A patched EXE and D3d Wrapper enable widescreen support and fix graphical issues.
Erin Brockovich created a map to track data centers across the US, showing 33 operational, 44 under construction, and 27 proposed. The map reveals growth, conflict, and uncertainty as data center demand rapidly increases.
GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests.
Valve increased Steam Deck prices due to rising memory and storage costs. The 512GB model now costs $789 and the 1TB model costs $949.
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AI maximalists celebrate its potential to replace human work, but this may be a class issue, as those who benefit from AI have a cushion of wealth and safety. The true cost of AI is the loss of human bargaining power, creativity, and joy, as people become nodes in a system that prioritizes profit over people.
PostHog plans to build proactive, self-driving products that surface answers and solutions, and improve over time, starting with PostHog Code in beta. They will use AI models trained on user data to automate tasks like session replay analysis and synthetic user testing.
We propose adding generic concrete methods to Go, allowing methods to have type parameters like functions, which will increase the language's expressiveness and simplify code in certain situations. This change is fully backward-compatible and does not preclude the implementation of generic interface methods at a later time.
Email and push notifications are being edited by platforms to protect user attention, with control shifting from senders to platforms and users. Senders have limited mechanisms to influence this editing, which is driven by machine learning models that prioritize user experience over sender intent.
The just-say-no engineer, who values quality and blocks code changes by default, is struggling in the post-ZIRP era where companies are focused on delivering value and making money. This shift is not due to AI, but rather the end of the zero-interest rate policy that allowed companies to hire engineers for low-risk projects.
Lombardy approved a law to discourage data centre construction by increasing charges in agricultural and park areas. The law aims to control the phenomenon and favour the use of disused industrial areas, with no additional burdens.
A Delaware judge allowed corporations and other entities to vote in local elections, citing the principle of one person/entity/one vote. The ruling dismissed an ACLU challenge to a charter permitting voting by property owners in the Town of Fenwick Island.
Sonny Rollins, the legendary jazz saxophonist known as the Saxophone Colossus, died at 95 in Woodstock, NY. He left a lasting legacy in jazz with his improvisational skills and iconic albums like Saxophone Colossus and Way Out West.
The user jailbroke their 7th generation Kindle Paperwhite to use it as a clock and then wanted to explore more possibilities with Rust. They successfully cross-compiled Rust for the Kindle using cargo-zigbuild and created a Slint GUI library backend for the device.
You're discussing alternative Internets and protocols like finger://, gopher://, and gemini:// that allow for decentralized and simple Internet access. These protocols can be accessed through the terminal and don't require a GUI or JavaScript.
Engineers should use AI to sharpen judgment, not replace it. Adversarial use of AI involves treating its output as a first draft, interrogating it, and revising it to stay sharp.
Acute stress impairs memory inference by reducing reactivation of past memories during new learning and leading to their differentiation rather than integration in the hippocampus. This impairment is associated with reduced ability to infer relationships between events that have not been experienced together.
TSDuck is a digital television and video streaming tool for test, monitoring, and integration, supporting various standards and formats. It is an open-source, cross-platform C++ library and command-line tool with a modular architecture and plugin system.
Posthorn is a unified outbound mail layer for self-hosted projects, simplifying mail integration with transactional providers like Postmark, Resend, Mailgun, and AWS SES. It acts as a bridge between apps and providers, reducing duplication and complexity.
TinyCld is a self-hosted cloud service offering email, calendar, contacts, and file storage with native push and open source code. It connects to any IMAP or SMTP client and allows real-time co-editing and collaboration.
Labubu, a plush toy, has become a cultural phenomenon, symbolizing comfort, nostalgia, and social connection, especially among Gen Z. Its success is fueled by social media, where owners share images and videos of Labubu, creating a cycle of addiction and reinforcing its value.
Researchers at Texas A&M developed a nasal spray that reverses brain aging by calming inflammation and restoring energy systems. The treatment improved memory and cognitive function for months after just two doses, raising hopes for future treatments targeting dementia and brain fog.
There is a demo instance serving Classical Music Mix (CC Public Domain Mark 1.0) for #chat on a very chaotic IRC network. Consider openssl req -x509 -new -newkey ed25519 -sha256 -nodes -out tunecat.pem -keyout tunecat.pem and registering a NickServ account with CertFP. Use the provided opusify script to pre-transcode all your songs to Opus 128 kbps.
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The CIA produced detailed maps during the Cold War era to provide policymakers with crucial insights on strategic and operational use, highlighting transportation networks, government buildings, and important public facilities. These maps focused on various regions, including Moscow, Yugoslavia, the Middle East, Pakistan, Vatican City, the Korean Peninsula, Tanzania, and Indonesia, showcasing ...
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XLIDE is a VS Code extension for editing Excel VBA code with syntax highlighting and symbol navigation. It works on multiple platforms without Office installation and supports Live Share for host-only VBA editing.
The author is a mesh networking enthusiast who has tried various solutions, including Meshtastic and MeshCore, but finds them limited and unsuitable for large-scale public mesh networks. They recommend Reticulum, a more capable and scalable solution that enables seamless connectivity across different types of networks and devices.
Vibe coding, a practice using generative AI tools, accelerates software prototyping but creates systemic security exposure due to AI agents prioritizing the path of least resistance. To combat this, teams must write security context files, be cautious with AI permission requests, and provide builders with secure-by-default harnesses and templates to ensure safe AI-assisted development.
A senior C.I.A. official, David Rush, was arrested for stealing public money and inflating his academic credentials. He is being held in jail after investigators found over $40 million in gold bars and luxury watches at his Virginia residence.
Researchers developed a method to build precise carbon structures on a silicon surface with control over atomic placement and chemical bonding. This technique uses a scanning tunneling microscope to assemble polyyne structures through stepwise carbon-carbon bond formation.
NVIDIA's Vera CPU with Olympus cores shows competitiveness to Intel/AMD x86_64 CPUs in early benchmarks. Vera features 88 Olympus cores, 2MB L2 cache, and LPDDR5X memory for delivering high performance and energy efficiency.
Apple is testing a feature in iOS 26 to pause video calls if nudity is detected, with a pop-up message offering options to hang up or resume. The feature is currently active on adult accounts despite a toggle to turn it off, suggesting a bug in the iOS 26 developer beta.
Unicode 18.0 adds 13,047 characters, superseding all previous versions, with 4 new scripts and updated Unicode Technical Standards.
Current LLMs can assist with code generation but cannot safely modify real software systems due to lack of causal understanding. They can only perform additive tasks, not transformative ones, which require understanding dependencies and consequences.
To quickly warm up a laptop, run the command 'yes yes > /dev/null' in Terminal to repeatedly send the word 'yes' and use 100% CPU. Alternatively, use the stress utility with 'stress -c 6 -m 2 --timeout 300' to peg the CPU and memory to 100%.
Webflow is restructuring its team and operating model to focus on building an agentic web marketing platform for serious digital teams. This change requires honest decisions about company size and investment to deliver on the vision.
Germany's state media regulators plan to force social media platforms to boost government-approved news outlets. Politicians appoint regulators who decide what counts as "reliable" news, creating a biased system.
Agent memory libraries handle user data, but most focus on semantic memory, forgetting episodic and procedural aspects. The field's central problem is narrower than "memory" and clearer when named as autobiographical content held on the user's behalf.
FuzzingBrain V2 addresses software vulnerability detection challenges with a multi-agent system. It achieves high detection rates and precise localization through automated analysis, novel abstraction, and logic-driven hierarchical function analysis.
Google detected unusual traffic from your network possibly due to malicious software or automated requests. Solving the CAPTCHA will let you continue using Google services.
The software development industry has shifted from a culture of "always be fully patched" to a culture of "just update everything" due to the complexity and scale of modern software ecosystems, leading to a rise in supply chain vulnerabilities. A new approach is needed to address this issue, one that involves treating dependencies as untrusted contributions and using AI-powered tools to ...
Packagist.org and Composer are enhancing supply chain security with features like MFA, immutable releases, and build provenance to prevent attacks and improve trust. The updates include a public transparency log, dependency policy framework, and new security features in Private Packagist to protect the PHP ecosystem.
An analysis suggests parts of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas may have been written by AI. AI detector Pangram estimated 46% of the document was AI-generated, but some sections were deemed 100% human.
Aging comes with small, gradual changes in the body, such as slower kidney function, rising blood sugar, and declining lymphocyte counts, which can be slowed or reversed with lifestyle changes. Certain biomarkers, like eGFR, HbA1c, and lymphocyte counts, can indicate biological age, and a subset of people can maintain youthful levels of these markers by controlling blood pressure, blood ...
Filemat is a self-hosted web-based file manager that allows remote access to local files. It requires Linux and Java 17, and can be run with a JAR file or Docker image.
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang and Google DeepMind's CEO Demis Hassabis say companies are misusing AI as an excuse for layoffs, not a technology problem but a leadership issue. They claim companies are using AI to cut costs, not transform their workforce.
The Elodin team is open-sourcing a practice rig for the AI Grand Prix, a $500K autonomous drone-race competition, allowing contestants to start writing autopilot code against a working stack. The practice rig combines Elodin's Rust ECS with Betaflight's SITL build, providing a realistic simulation environment with deterministic replay and GPU acceleration.