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IMAGE PREVIEWA 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.
Oracle 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 canno
IMAGE PREVIEWHardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge development by creating an account on GitHub.
IMAGE PREVIEWA global constellation of neutrino detectors is creating a never-before-seen view of the radioactive elements that power Earth’s tectonic heat engine. The post Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
IMAGE PREVIEWNeuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior. The post How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
IMAGE PREVIEWNew research is helping biologists understand how an overlooked aspect of coral physiology may affect their fate under climate change. The post Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot first appeared on Quanta Magazine
IMAGE PREVIEWSPOKE is a well-designed RP2040-powered touch controller that can also act as a MIDI input or HID.
IMAGE PREVIEWWe 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
IMAGE PREVIEWWe all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we are totally gonna do something with. …
This image was tweeted out by the NASA Europa Mission account the other day: One of these images is of Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, and the other eight are frying pans. Can you pick Europa out? Hint: frying pans tend not to have impact craters. Update: The photos of the frying pans were taken by Christopher Jonassen , whose work I featured back in 2011
The capital of North Macedonia is characterized by its pompous, classically styled buildings that line both sides of the Vardar River, further enhanced by numerous statues, some of them enormous. All of this has been built in recent years following independence from the former Yugoslavia. But just behind these grand buildings lies the typical city of the Com
IMAGE PREVIEWThere was a particular treat at the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, as [Tim Hunkin] delivered a talk on the history of arcade machines. Given that he’s something …
IMAGE PREVIEWThe 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.
IMAGE PREVIEWOpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information …
IMAGE PREVIEWKnown for her lush assemblages of flameworked glass, Amber Cowan reimagines a ubiquitous medium. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Under Glass Cloches, Amber Cowan Nests Enchanting Flameworked Scenes appeared first on Colossal .
IMAGE PREVIEWApproval-first Agent OS for solo founders
The video rental store as “third place” . “Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.”
IMAGE PREVIEWOpen-source GTM skills for technical founders
Copper, of course, has been known since antiquity, but it only became an important industrial metal in the latter 19th century with the rise of large-scale electrical technology. Previously copper deposits were worked only if cheap and accessible. When the Grand Gulch deposit, then called Adam's Lode and marked by brilliant blue and green copper-bearing pebb
IMAGE PREVIEWCenturies before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne Lawrence-Mathers investigates the *Ars notoria*, its supposed powers, and the demonic influence it had upon some users.
IMAGE PREVIEWWith a title like “Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.“, the latest video from [Jeff Geerling] makes some pretty bold claims. But as we’d expect from [Jeff], he’s got the …
Git-backed skills, tools & context for AI agents
IMAGE PREVIEWPowerhouse Arts asks, will we care for the future of our planet the way we care for the animals we love? Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A Menagerie of Animal Sculptures by 50+ Artists Populate ‘The Ark’ appeared first
The End of Google Search . The internet giant is “changing the formula” of its products and media folks are beginning to assume that there will be no search traffic in the future…and fretting about their survival.
IMAGE PREVIEWA 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.
IMAGE PREVIEWThe fact that you, or I, or any living creature, is here at all is a series of astonishing strokes of luck stretching back more than 4 billion years. One of the biggest hurdles was the very first one: How did life emerge from a primordial s
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 reasoning variants across ARC-AGI-1, ARC-AGI-2, and ARC-AGI-3.