I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
2026-08-18 - A sourced update on the reported technology development, based only on the supplied evidence.
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Google wins auction for deidentified data from failed airline Spirit
Court records described Google as the winning bidder for a large trove of deidentified Spirit Airlines data, subject to judicial approval.
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Cursor Begins Origin Code-Hosting Beta for Paid Plans
The early release combines repositories, pull requests, code browsing and two-way GitHub synchronization, with AI-agent features and more integrations planned.
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Bluesky Uses an iOS Privacy Behavior to Place Its Logo in Screenshots
The app hides a Follow button inside a secure text field during screen capture, revealing a logo beneath without changing the normal on-screen interface.
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DDR5 Memory Prices Rise Nearly 500% for Some High-Capacity Kits
Historical tracking cited by Tom’s Hardware shows a 64GB kit above $1,100 and pressure spreading to DDR4, storage and markets outside the United States.
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Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots.
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Yale-led model projects $1.04tn annual saving from US universal health plan
A preprint estimates that a national single-payer programme could reduce spending and avert 114,174 deaths a year, though key effects were modelled and transition costs were excluded.
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DuckDB previews version 2.0 with server mode, triggers and storage changes
The DuckDB project outlined a fall release for DuckDB v2.0, code-named “Cyanoptera,” highlighting client/server operation, SQL additions and engine-level upgrades.
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Smaller AI Models Trade Factual Recall for More Efficient Reasoning, Essay Argues
A developer’s analysis says benchmark gains and falling active parameter counts reflect a deliberate shift toward tools and retrieval for current knowledge.
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A Secondary Market Is Emerging for Unused AI Computing Credits
A Vectoral investigation describes brokers, marketplaces and proxy services offering discounted access to cloud and model-provider capacity.
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Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing.
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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things.
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A Fictional Name on a US Trade List Keeps Flagging a Real Sean Byrne
Sean Joseph Byrne says Apple, Nasdaq and delivery companies have repeatedly confused him with an apparent alias left on an export-control list since 2009.
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Waist Measurements Improve Heart-Risk Assessment Beyond BMI, Study Finds
An analysis of more than 260,000 people linked elevated waist circumference or waist-to-hip ratio with higher cardiovascular risk across BMI categories.
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Codex-Guided Kernel Experiment Reaches 232-Fold Speedup in GPU Contest
A contest participant describes using more than 1,500 submissions and an automated feedback loop to optimize batched Householder QR decomposition.
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AI Coding Tools Raise the Value of Software Engineering Fundamentals
A developer’s essay argues that producing working code is only the start; maintainability, interfaces, testing and security still require experienced judgment.
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Forecast Analysis Projects 2026 El Niño Toward Exceptional Strength
A Severe Weather Europe assessment points to Pacific warming, strong westerly winds and a subsurface Kelvin wave, while seasonal outcomes remain forecasts.
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Working With AI Rewards Leadership Skills, Developer Argues
A practitioner’s essay says context, clear outcomes, boundaries and iterative feedback matter more than treating generative systems like deterministic software.
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AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them.
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Count Binface Takes 26.9% and Second Place in Clacton By-Election
The satirical candidate won 9,455 votes in his strongest result, finishing behind Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the Essex constituency.
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AI Bug-Finding Could Revive Pressure for Encryption Backdoors, Expert Warns
Cryptographer Matthew Green argues that stronger automated vulnerability discovery may shrink the exploit market used for lawful access and intelligence operations.
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