Electronic fibers turn a washable sleeve into a touch-sensitive display
A National University of Singapore prototype weaves 54 light-emitting fibers into clothing and reportedly retains performance after repeated washing and bending.
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Putin says Russia is in close satellite contact with Elon Musk
The Russian president said coordination with SpaceX is intended to prevent interference between the country’s Rassvet network and Starlink satellites.
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MicroZig project adopts sweeping ban on LLM-assisted contributions
The embedded Zig community’s conduct rules prohibit generated code and prose, AI-assisted editing and translation, and even sharing chatbot-assisted brainstorming.
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Qwenputer embeds a working RISC-V processor inside a Qwen language model
An experimental modification of Qwen3.5 4B uses the model’s recurrent state as addressable memory for a compiled 32-bit processor, without calling an external tool.
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Oxfam says richest 0.1% emit more carbon than poorest 3.5 billion people
The advocacy group’s analysis links extreme emissions inequality to unequal exposure to climate damage and calls for policy action ahead of COP31.
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Tesla Semi fire closes Interstate 880 near Hayward for about 10 hours
The driver escaped without injury after the electric truck caught fire in traffic, prompting a prolonged closure while crews managed the battery blaze.
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Valve tells indie developers community and steady updates are the best defence against AI clones
At a developer event in South Korea, Valve representatives addressed clone threats, Steam discovery and the growth of low-quality AI-made games.
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How Artificial Analysis built its nine-test Intelligence Index v5
The benchmark's methodology balances four capability categories and separates text-heavy model evaluation from multilingual, visual and speech testing.
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Artificial Analysis overhauls AI model index with private tests and agent tasks
Version 5 gives equal weight to knowledge work, coding, science and general capabilities, while moving most of the composite score onto private or held-out material.
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Emacs at 50: the editor that helped shape free software
Born at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1976, Emacs paired full-screen editing with deep customization and a culture of sharing improvements.
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Interactive graphic turns US wealth inequality into stacks of $100 bills
The Climb visualizes the 2023 wealth distribution by giving each percentile a physical height, with updated Federal Reserve data for the very richest households.
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C++ perfect-hash library reports billion-per-second static-key lookups
A compile-time design replaces general-purpose collision handling with a tailored hash and vectorized comparison for fixed string sets.
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Lexifina builds Git-style history for nine titles of the US Code
The legal technology project reconstructs statutory changes so researchers can inspect text, effective dates and legislative origins together.
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Google DeepMind previews Genie 4 world-simulation model
The research system generates steerable interactive environments with native audio, simulated physics and more natural character motion.
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Apple unveils 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by M6
The updated notebook adds a 12-core CPU, upgraded on-device AI hardware, Wi-Fi 7 and a claimed 24-hour battery life.
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Apple refreshes 24-inch iMac with M6 chip and Wi-Fi 7
The all-in-one desktop keeps its 4.5K display and seven-color design while adding new AI hardware and faster connectivity.
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Wiz sees PHP2Shell probes but no successful attacks in its telemetry
Researchers report falling internet exposure after disclosure while warning that privately shared exploits can work against some systems.
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Why nostalgia understates the failures of early personal-computer software
A developer's retrospective argues that today's software problems should not erase memories of crashes, lost work and weak security.
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Senators challenge administration over withheld FISA court ruling
Two senators say a classified surveillance ruling is overdue for public review as Congress weighs the future of Section 702.
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AllModels launches multi-provider routing for abliterated AI models
The developer service says one model identifier can route requests across compatible inference providers, with automatic fallback and capability-aware handling.
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Wikipedia volunteers refine hunt for increasingly subtle AI-generated text
WikiProject AI Cleanup is shifting from obvious stylistic clues toward citation checking, editing patterns and tools that flag suspicious submissions.
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England plans £925 annual levy for each international student above university exemption
The charge is scheduled to begin in August 2028, with the first 220 overseas enrolments at each institution excluded from the calculation.
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Boston Dynamics employees press company to cancel ICE robot-dog sale
A staff petition opposes a $1.3 million agreement covering four Spot robots, while company leadership says the sale will proceed under restrictions against weaponisation and intimidation.
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Global solar generation moves decisively ahead of nuclear power
BBC analysis of Ember data found solar produced 13 percent more electricity than nuclear over the 12 months through September 2026.
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