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SpaceNASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another yearVoyager 2 would have had to shut down one of its last remaining instruments later this year, until NASA made some power changes.

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NixOS DiscourseThe Nixpkgs core team has disbandedThe Nixpkgs core team has unfortunately decided to disband. We’re proud to have had the opportunity to lead by example in bottom‐up, consensus‐focused governance for Nixpkgs, and of our achievements over the past 10 months, including reforming the committer delegation process and onboarding 19 new committers, empowering maintainers by extending the merge bot, re‐establishing contact with GitHub and securing the sponsored Enterprise Cloud upgrade, helping triage GHSA-67f2-674w-6g63 and track the...

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theregisterWater system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacksCalling all defenders

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GitHubGitHub - xoreaxeaxeax/REpsych: Psychological warfare in reverse engineeringPsychological warfare in reverse engineering. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/REpsych development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ancient LibraryAncient Library — Read the Greek & Latin Classics in the OriginalRead the Greek and Latin classics in the original — 1,060 works with every word parsed, every form defined, and full dictionary entries from Lewis & Short and LSJ.

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DatabricksManaging AI Coding Costs at ScaleAI coding tools deli

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AP NewsICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy saysImmigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the public should not expect to quickly see footage of every critical incident.

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GitHubGitHub - xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame: Racing to the bottom of CPU performanceRacing to the bottom of CPU performance. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame development by creating an account on GitHub.

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exe.devThe End of No Code - exe.dev blogWriting custom software used to be expensive. Coding agents changed the math.

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ARC PrizeDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 - ARC-AGI ResultsDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 reasoning variants across ARC-AGI-1, ARC-AGI-2, and ARC-AGI-3.

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Dealroom.coDealroom.co | Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK despite Ellison's claim 'Oracle isn't writing' its own codeOracle has banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions, citing safety, security, and intellectual property risks. The open-source Java project steward said developers can use LLMs privately for debugging and reviewing code but cannot submit AI-generated material to repositories, pull requests, or other project channels. The policy contrasts sharply with Oracle's internal practices. Co-founder Larry Ellison recently declared that AI models now write Oracle's code, whilst co-CEO Mike Sicilia credited AI tools with enabling smaller engineering teams to deliver faster. Oracle is investing $70 billion this year in datacentre expansion. The spending spree prompted credit agency S&P to downgrade Oracle's rating to BBB-, one notch above junk status, citing uncertain returns on investment.

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The London School of Economics and Political ScienceTax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich | LSE ResearchTrickle-down economic policies are destined to fail, research suggests. David Hope explains why the issue is so controversial.

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Daring FireballApp Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hourshttps://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/07/browsers-have-standards-the-app.html

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SDSS - Mapping the UniverseMapping Monsters: SDSS-V Data Release 20 Unveils All-Sky Views of Supermassive Black Holes - SDSSThe Black Hole Mapper reaches a milestone with its first southern hemisphere optical observations, coordinated eROSITA X-ray identification, and multi-epoch tracking of accreting black holes across the universe.

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Letters To A New DeveloperSoftware is about people, not codeDear new developer, When I was starting out, I thought that software development was all about code. After all, that was the main thing I was working on. Well, maybe not the main thing, as I needed…

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PatronView99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots | PatronViewA year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what's working now.

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NBC NewsJob losses in July and negative revisions reveal a weakening U.S. labor marketIn a troubling sign for the economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that it revised down the prior two months’ jobs by a combined 103,000.

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NOEMAWhy Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? | NOEMAA lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

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GitHubGitHub - Wyzer-Lang/wyzer: The Wyzer Programming LanguageThe Wyzer Programming Language. Contribute to Wyzer-Lang/wyzer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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www.currentaffairs.orgThe Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s ClimateThinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperature record.

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malisper.meRebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD - malisper.meLast week we released version 0.2 of pgrust. This release was all about performance. It’s 10x faster than the previous version of pgrust. On OLTP benchmarks, pgrust is 30% faster than Postgres, and on Clickbench, Clickhouse’s benchmark for analytical databases, pgrust is 300x faster than Postgres. It’s even ahead of Clickhouse! The query engine is […]

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Cloudflare BlogIntroducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare WorkersWe should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.

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www.bbc.comUS strikes $1.2bn deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projectsThe RWE payout is the latest in a string of deals cancelling wind energy projects, a power source long derided by Trump.

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WhateverGenerative “AI”: The Guitar Hero of CreativitySo, you’re a person who has decided to embark on a creative journey of self-expression — to make art, in other words. First off, this is awesome! The universe needs more people making a…

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IGNNow That 2027 RAM Manufacturing Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold Through, It's Hard To Imagine the RAMageddon Ending Any Time SoonA new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to AI companies.

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Framework CommunityFramework Data Breach DiscussionI just received an email about a limited data breach, leaking customer information (no billing info though). Do you guys think Framework is handling this well? The email looked very detailed and transparent to me.

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Yahoo FinanceAnthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money — while hiring an event planner for 6x the going rateThe comments may be seen as ironic coming from Dario Amodei, considering Anthropic offers some eye-watering salaries for jobs that typically pay much less.

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GitHubGitHub - Kayvan-Zahiri/asr-age-gap: Speech recognition does not degrade with speaker age. Voice-agent turn-taking does, by 2-5x.Speech recognition does not degrade with speaker age. Voice-agent turn-taking does, by 2-5x. - Kayvan-Zahiri/asr-age-gap

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the GuardianNew Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental healthRuling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against users

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WIREDHackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for KidsSecurity researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.

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Troy HuntWelcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been PwnedToday, we welcome the 47th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Nepal. Their National Cyber Security Centre now has access to monitor Nepalese government domains against the data in HIBP. This gives the NCSC the ability to identify exposure across government email addresses and respond

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GitHubGitHub - mattdeeds/pokeemerald-rp2350: Pokémon Emerald ported to the RP2350. No emulator, 60 fps HDMI output. Recompiled for Cortex-M33.Pokémon Emerald ported to the RP2350. No emulator, 60 fps HDMI output. Recompiled for Cortex-M33. - mattdeeds/pokeemerald-rp2350

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www.aleksagordic.comInside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System - Aleksa GordićFrom paged attention, continuous batching, prefix caching, specdec, etc. to multi-GPU, multi-node dynamic serving at scale.

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ScienceDailyCancer-fighting chewing gum cuts HPV levels by up to 93%A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a safer and more affordable therapy.

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One more thingWhat is a product? - One more thingIt is far too easy to create software these days, but what is the difference between a side project and a real product?

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theregisterAMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into siliconEarly tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second

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