Website Operator Says Bots Generated More Than 99% of Page Loads
PatronView’s owner describes a year of blocking search, AI and distributed crawlers on a 1.5 million-page philanthropy database.
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Assembly ‘Hall of Shame’ Searches for the Slowest CPU Instruction
An experimental repository reverses performance tuning by combining unusual operands, microcode paths and hardware contention to maximize instruction latency.
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US agrees $1.2 billion payout as RWE abandons offshore wind projects
German utility RWE will leave planned US offshore wind developments and redirect money toward gas infrastructure after a settlement with the Interior Department.
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New Mexico court orders Meta to fund $567 million child-harm remedy
A judge directed Meta to place $567 million into a fund addressing mental-health harms after a jury found the company knowingly harmed children and concealed knowledge about exploitation risks.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash posts low-cost results on ARC-AGI tests
ARC Prize results show a high-effort reasoning configuration reaching 89.0% on ARC-AGI-1 Semi-Private and 61.4% on ARC-AGI-2 Semi-Private at only a few cents per task.
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Essay asks what AI means for faith in knowledge-work careers
A Noema commentary argues that automation may intensify a crisis of meaning among office workers who already doubt the purpose or value of their jobs.
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Pentagon releases fifth collection of declassified UAP records
The 41-file release includes military sensor footage, historical documents and artist renderings tied to reported sightings across several decades.
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AI permission game finds familiar commands can conceal overlooked threats
An analysis of more than 409,000 player decisions found that people often approved risky agent commands, especially when malicious behavior hid behind ordinary script names.
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Quake marks 30 years with free 19-map MachineGames episode
Dawn of the Machine adds a looping campaign, new enemy and weapon variants, a soundtrack, secrets and another deathmatch map for owners of the updated game.
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Essay argues AI coding speed still depends on human judgment
A software developer compares AI-assisted development to cooking: basic output is easy, but consistent quality requires requirements, testing and technical understanding.
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AMD buys Taalas to pursue model-specific inference chips
The acquisition adds technology that places neural-network weights directly into silicon, with early demonstrations reportedly producing as many as 17,000 tokens per second.
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Botany educator urges beginners to learn plants without fearing jargon
An informal guide encourages would-be botanists to use online references, ask precise questions and treat unfamiliar technical language as a solvable obstacle.
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Mario Kart guide explains multi-objective optimization with Pareto frontiers
An interactive project uses character and vehicle choices in Mario Kart 8 to show why no single build can maximize every desirable statistic.
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Essay argues taste remains central when AI lowers the cost of making software
A developer reflects on creative judgment as the scarce skill left when machines can produce large amounts of competent material, then confronts criticism that the essay itself resembled AI output.
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Hamster wheel tracker turns nightly runs into Strava activities
A Dutch MRI physicist used a Hall sensor, an ESP32 and an automated FIT-file workflow to measure his hamster Mollie's distance, pace and running time.
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Neon and Castform demonstrate task-trained 4B model for agentic search
The companies say reinforcement post-training let a small open model match a much costlier frontier system on a retrieval task using data stored in Postgres.
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Fairphone owner tests SailfishOS as frustration with Android grows
A developer's move to mobile Linux highlights both the control offered by an open phone environment and the gaps that still require a backup Android device.
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Meta introduces Muse Code beta with persistent background agents
The terminal coding tool runs on the new Muse Spark 1.2 model and records calls, tools, approvals and edits in a restart-safe local event log.
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Blade Runner title sequence shows how typography builds a product's mood
A design essay traces the film's opening to Goudy Oldstyle and argues that careful typographic choices carry lessons for products built with AI tools.
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Google DeepMind leadership changes move Hassabis to chair role
Alphabet announced new positions for Demis Hassabis and Koray Kavukcuoglu as it reorganized leadership around Google DeepMind and its wider AI stack.
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Cloudflare unveils open-source platform for internal agents and apps
Cloudflare OS is pitched as a shared layer where employees can build applications, automate work and reach company systems while carrying organizational context.
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Discovery Loop targets automation of scientific experimentation
The startup says it is building AI systems to run repeated cycles of proposing, implementing, measuring and refining experiments in science and engineering.
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Zed previews DeltaDB for continuous source control and agent review
DeltaDB records changes between commits, links edits to the conversations that produced them and allows branches to begin from intermediate points in a coding session.
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Bradbury's automated house reaches the 2026 date imagined in his story
There Will Come Soft Rains depicts domestic machines continuing their routines after nuclear destruction, a contrast between technical persistence and human absence.
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