San Francisco supervisors approve 45-day pause on data-center permits
The proposed moratorium, still awaiting mayoral action, would give city planners time to study energy, water, air-quality and land-use effects.
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Strands releases open-source 2B model built for fast choices
Strands Decider replaces free-form text generation with option scoring, targeting low-latency routing, policy and agent-workflow decisions on local hardware.
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Microsoft reportedly secures GTA VI cloud-streaming exclusivity
The reported agreement would make Xbox Cloud Gaming the only service able to stream Rockstar's game at launch, though its duration remains unknown.
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Global analysis finds biodiversity has less functional backup than assumed
A synthesis of 423 studies found that many ecosystem benefits continue increasing as species diversity rises, challenging claims that species are broadly interchangeable.
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Polars 2.0 makes SQL and streaming central to its DataFrame engine
The major release expands SQL support, defaults lazy queries to streaming execution and enables disk spilling for selected high-memory operations.
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Fervo begins commercial power sales from first Cape Station block
The Utah enhanced-geothermal project reached grid operation after a 23-month build, starting the first third of a planned 100-megawatt plant.
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AI data-center demand squeezes the market for low-cost smartphones
A memory-chip shortage linked to AI infrastructure is raising handset costs and pushing manufacturers away from their least expensive models.
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Hobbyist server brings iChat AV calls back to vintage Macs
A systems engineer reconstructed an obsolete Apple networking service, allowing Leopard and Snow Leopard machines to make audio and video calls again.
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Khanmigo trial finds modest math gains but limited student engagement
A two-year experiment in 18 Tennessee middle schools found that access to Khan Academy's AI tutor improved achievement slightly, while students rarely used its conversational help in depth.
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Wikimedia links suspected OpenAI agents to unauthorized activity and heavy traffic
The foundation says agents it believes were operated by OpenAI edited test areas, probed a hosted note-taking service and generated traffic that may have contributed to a May outage; OpenAI has not verified the outage link.
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Gitframes brings code-first video production to WebGPU
The open-source beta packages compositing, animation, 3D scenes and optional on-device vision into a TypeScript workflow designed for coding agents.
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Mac compromise sharpens debate over access controls for AI agents
A Stratechery account of an exploited screen-sharing flaw argues that desktop security controls must adapt without making useful automation impractical.
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Mold 3.0 moves high-speed linker from C++ to Rust
The first Rust release aims to preserve Mold 2.42.1 compatibility and performance while tightening handling of malformed inputs and closing GNU ld gaps.
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Optogenetics pioneers share 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were honoured for discoveries that made it possible to control selected nerve cells with light.
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GNOME developer urges projects to manage, not ban, AI security reports
Michael Catanzaro says AI-assisted vulnerability findings have improved but still require human validation and can overwhelm volunteer maintainers.
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Swap-backed memory can turn Go garbage collection pauses into 40ms stalls
A production-style experiment found that swapped-out runtime metadata caused major page faults during Go's stop-the-world garbage-collection phases.
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Kagi ends Orion development for Linux and Windows, plans open-source release
The company will concentrate its browser engineering on Apple platforms while making its unfinished desktop ports available for community stewardship.
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Sales of Europe's sub-€25,000 electric cars forecast to rise sevenfold
Transport & Environment says a surge of lower-priced models is widening consumer choice as battery-electric sales reach record levels in the European Union.
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Infections linked to an estimated one in eight cancer cases worldwide
A global analysis estimates that 12 pathogens contributed to 2.3 million new cancer cases in 2024, highlighting the potential of vaccination, testing and treatment.
Read report »Headstart experiment overlaps Rust crate checks to shorten clean builds
A prototype compiler and Cargo patch writes dependency metadata earlier, allowing downstream crates to begin before upstream function bodies finish checking.
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Open-source macOS app brings local AI search to photos and video scenes
SCM indexes visual embeddings, text and speech on a Mac, combining semantic search with OCR and transcript matching without requiring cloud uploads.
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Video Game History Foundation archive surpasses 5,000 magazines
The free research collection now spans nearly 600,000 pages and is adding searchable Japanese publications through a Neo Geo Freak pilot.
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Stephen Wolfram argues AI will raise, not erase, the role of pure mathematics
In a new essay, the computing pioneer says AI can search and connect mathematical knowledge while humans remain central to choosing worthwhile questions.
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Open-source Strata project targets 125-billion-parameter AI on gaming PCs
The software combines compressed Qwen3.8-Flash-Next models with local inference tools for Windows and Linux machines equipped with consumer GPUs and substantial system memory.
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